Marko Vesić (1999), composer and researcher, is a student of the master’s program on Department of composition at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade (class of assistant professor Vladimir Korać), who creates in the domain of contemporary music, poetry and post-conceptual artistic practices. Before studying composition, he attended Music High School “Josip Slavenski” in the Department of music theory, achieving notable results in competitions in theoretical subjects and composition, along with the XIV Belgrade Gymnasium, which, as a student of the Mathematics department, he finished as valedictorian – for the second time. In addition to creative activities, he directed his research to the field of applied aesthetics, art theory and contemporary philosophical-theoretical practices with the aim of investigating issues of musical creativity and culture in general from a socio-cultural and neurocognitive perspective.
Marko improved his skills at the masterclasses of composers Nikita Koshkin, Vanessa Lahn and Martijn Pedding, and collaborated with visual artists, poets (at whose evenings he performs his performative poetry – Orphists, Mladi i Zeleni), as well as architecture students. Also, he is a participant in several projects (Instant Carousel, FDU; international project of MOTO, Opera: Past, Present, Perfect!; international project of contemporary music (Hungary, God), Hangzavart?; project Visual Music – Lazar Aleksandra, FLU; independent project Composer is [not] present: currents of the Belgrade scene). He is also part of the winning team of the Ode Beethoven art hackathon organized by the Austrian Cultural Center and the Laboratory of Interactive Arts (FDU), whose work was shown in the form of a 3D mapping-multimedia projection at the Austrian Embassy. He is the winner of several prizes for composition (Konstantin the Great, 1st prize of ULJUS) and essay writing in the field of philosophy and theory (1st prize at the competition of the Lazar Vrkatić Foundation – 208 participants).
So far, he has presented at the International Symposium “Days of Vlade S. Milošević” in Banja Luka (2019, 2021), the international conference Research of Young Musicologists, Moscow (online, 2020*), the Festival of Performing Arts Students within the Pedagogical Forum (2020*, 2022**), the multidisciplinary student conference of the Faculty of Philosophy UUB, Stimuluskup (2022), the national student conference Contemporary currents in the study of language, literature and culture organized by the Faculty of Philology UUB (2022**) and the webinar of the Sarajevo Academy of Arts, Share knowledge (2020 , 2022), while at the international meeting Psychology & Music he shared authorship with professor Sanela Nikolić (2022, FMU).
When it comes to extra-academic programs, he attended the Summer School for Engaged Democracy – ANDEM organized by the Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory (2020), and he was accepted to the two-semester program of the Academy of Liberal Politics within the Libertarian Club – LIBEK (2020/21). Along with it, he was a participant in the educational program of the Center for Emancipation Policies (CPE) – Studies of Socialism: How to Overcome Capital (2020) with the aim of establishing a metapolitical position and a more thorough understanding of contemporary democracy, politics and their implementation within artistic and theoretical practices.
Marko’s works were performed in several concert halls in Belgrade (Belgrade Philharmonic, UK “Palilula”, SKC, National Museum, Kvaka 22, Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade) and at the festivals KoMa and FESTUM, and the composition Day Off was included in the compilation Pop Depression “Piano Heaven #4” which promotes the alternative scene of indie classical music of the Balkans. He also tried his hand as a composer of applied music in the experimental film The Madness of My Reality (2021) directed by Veronika Milić and the electro-acoustic radio work Abel-tone (“edgy“) in collaboration with the Hungarian artist Čaba Velági (2022). His piano suite was included in the collection Imaginations – pianistic creativity of young Serbian authors edited by professor Miloš Pavlović, a prominent pedagogue and pianist from Belgrade. He works as moderator of art evenings, writes for the student magazines Musicum Impressum and KuŠ! and plays in the band Much Ado About Nothing, with which he performs in the country and abroad. He is a member of SOKOJ and the Association of Jazz, Fun and Rock Musicians of Serbia.