Natasha Bogojevic has been named a competitive Fulbright Scholar award recipient for the 2024-2025 academic year. She will spend the year sharing her expertise internationally, teaching and researching at the University of Arts, Serbia.
Natasha, an award-winning and internationally acclaimed composer and pianist, has earned global recognition for her highly original, passionate, and imaginative pieces. Her music, which spans symphony orchestras, various chamber ensembles, choral and vocal pieces, multimedia works, ballet, and scores for theatre and film, has captivated audiences worldwide. Notably, she showcased her versatility by appearing as an actress and composer in the recent film Gray in White and Black (Amazon Prime Video).
She has received numerous awards, including the National Public Radio, International Rostrum of Composers, Festival Expresiones Contemporaneas, Opera Contempo, Joseph Jefferson, and New Music Chicago, and received honorable mentions at the prestigious USA MACRO Competition, American Prize Competition, and NYC Contemporary Music Symposium at Columbia University.
Not only a prolific composer and pianist, Natasha has also dedicated herself to educating generations of musicians in Europe and the U.S. She has been a part of the musicianship faculty at the DePaul University School of Music since 2003.
Born and educated in the former Yugoslavia, she started her teaching career as a professor of composition at the University of Arts in Belgrade. In 1995, during the brutal civil war and break up of Yugoslavia, she immigrated to the U.S. where she continued to pursue her musical journey.
Her music has been commissioned and presented at major festivals and concerts on four continents. Notable recent performances include ISCM World New Music Days 2024 in Faroe Islands (Lapland Orchestra), "Ex/Odus of Joy" - chamber opera commissioned by SKGG (Slovenian Chamber Musical Theatre), based on the story "Diary of a Migrant" (Ljubljana, Slovenia), European Festival of Experimental Music (led by Pierre Schaeffer), IRC (International Rostrum of Composers, Paris, France), Beyond Biography, Gaudeamus, New Music in Middleburg, STIFT (Netherlands); International New Music Festivals (Slovakia), Concerts for Peace (Japan); Music Forum (Ukraine); Arrai Music Festival (Canada); Versicherungskammer Bayernin (Germany), Mikhail Shemiakin Foundation in St. Petersburg, DOM in Moscow, (Russia), International Festival of Music & Visual Arts «BLACK BOX» in Tashkent, (Uzbekistan), Electroacoustic Festival in Athens (Greece), Music and Silent Film Festival and Composers Concordance in New York, The Chicago AIDS Quilt Songbook, Annual International Women's Electroacoustic Project, Portland Chamber Music Festival and Princeton Symphony.
Her biography appeared in several books, including "European Musical Heritage" by Jim Samson, "Parallel Histories" by Dr. Ivana Medic, "And the World of Woman in Classical Music" by Dr. Anne K. Gray.