Nenad Marković
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Nenad Marković, born in 1983 in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia (now Serbia), is a trumpeter and educator active in the fields of classical, contemporary, and improvised music.
As a member of numerous ensembles and orchestras, Marković has collaborated with some of the most renowned conductors and composers of our time, including Claudio Abbado, Pierre Boulez, Kent Nagano, Dennis Russell Davies, Peter Eötvös, Helmut Lachenmann, Wolfgang Rihm, Beat Furrer, Heiner Goebbels, and Mauricio Kagel, among others. He regularly appears at major music festivals around the world, such as the Lucerne Festival, Salzburger Festspiele, Wiener Festwochen, Festival Cervantino, Biennale di Venezia, TransArt, Festival d’Automne Paris, MusikFest Berlin, Brisbane Festival, Sacrum Profanum Kraków, June in Buffalo, Holland Festival, Roskilde Festival, Ruhrtriennale, Bregenzer Festspiele, and Macau Arts Festival.
For nearly two decades, he has been a regular guest performer with Ensemble Modern Frankfurt and Klangforum Wien, two of the world’s leading ensembles specializing in contemporary music, and a full member of Ensemble Phoenix Basel. Over the years, Nenad Marković has premiered more than 200 compositions, including several solo works dedicated to him. Alongside his work in composed music, Nenad Marković is also an active improviser, performing regularly in various settings. He has shared the stage with distinguished performers such as Mats Gustafsson, Michel Doneda, Eugene Chadbourne, Agustí Fernandez, Nate Wooley, Ken Vandermark, Jaap Blonk, eRikm, Oren Ambarchi, Chris Cutler, Thomas Lehn, Franz Hautzinger, Burkhard Stangl, Jérôme Noetinger, and Z’ev, among others.
He has pursued his passion for repertoire research, music outreach, and creative concert-program development through executive roles in several music ensembles, such as Ensemble Laboratorium (2004–2018) and Ensemble Studio 6 (2012–2017). Additionally, he has served as a programming advisor for “2K+”, Serbia’s only regular concert series for contemporary music. In addition to this, he has conceived numerous trumpet recital programs and other solo projects intersecting the performance practice with musicological research methods, such as the “Songbook for Our Times vol. 1 & 2” (2020/21), “Haydn cadenza every day” (2022), “The Curse of the Virtuoso” (2023), and others.
Marković is a tenured professor of trumpet at the Novi Sad Academy of Arts. He is also a regular jury member at several international trumpet competitions and has held masterclasses in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Japan, China, Nepal, the USA, Slovenia, Croatia, and Montenegro.