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Donata Premeru


Donata Premeru (born June 4, 1934 in Yugoslavia) is a musicologist, broadcaster, music writer, journalist, lecturer and historian of Arts.

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Biography and career

After graduation at Musicology and History of Arts in Zagreb (Croatia), she did postgraduate studies of Early and Contemporary Music at London University (UK). Donata started as student lecturer and broadcaster at Radio Zagreb and continued as Music Editor of Stereorama programme on Radio Belgrade. In 1965 she was invited to start the Radio Beograd Third Programme (music section) as its first musicologist, and in 1983 its first stereo weekend Music Programme Stereorama, which was closed down in November 2015, while celebrating the 50th anniversary of its III Programme.

One of the most acclaimed broadcasts of her Music Matters (Muzika s povodom), often thematically or in cycles: "European Cities of Culture 1985-2012"; "Early Music Centers in the 17th and 18th-century – from Venice to Mannheim"; "Entartete Musik series"; "Tragically Ended Careers of Young Musicians"; "Contemporary Music Scene Worldwide; Women Composers 2000-2012 (more than 200 names)"; "Unknown/Forgotten Composers of the 20th Century"; "Romantic Piano Concertos"; "Composers of the 21st Century"; "Dialogues – between Early and Contemporary Music"; "Notable Anniversaries"; "Writers in Music"; "Accordion on the classical music scene XIX-XXI century"; "Music written for film"; etc.

The composer, writer and artist Dušan Radić (1929-2010) in his book Tragovi balkanske vrleti-vreme-život-muzika (2007) dedicated a whole section (p. 107-114) to Donata Premeru and her broadcast programme Music Matters. For after 20 years of his absence from the musical scene, she interrupted this silence and invited him in her radio programme regarding his 75th birthday on April 10, 2004. In 2016, book Film and Music – Temptations of great composers – based on 14 radio programmes – was published with her guest, Borislav Stojkov.

Other Biographical Listings

Numerous appearances on Radio and TV Stations (Zagreb, Belgrade, Novi Sad, BBC, Rome); Lecturer: Zagreb/Belgrade (Jeunesses musicales) and Rome, Italy (on Operas and RTV Musical Archives in former Yugoslavia). She is a member of the International Jury Torneo Internazionale di musica (TIM), (honorary president Zubin Mehta) finals in Rome 1990-1999. In 2006 she was chairman of the Jury for Vasilije Mokranjac Piano Music Competition in Novi Sad.

Honours and awards

Ist Prize on Radio Belgrade 1965; The Journalistic Golden Microphone of Radio Belgrade in 1990 for 25 Years of Highest Achievements in Broadcasting Media given the first time to a Music Editor; In 2006 Acknowledgement and Diploma from the GitarArt festival as to a professional promoter in 2014.

Published papers and articles

  • On Children’s Operas (1997);
  • Conversations with Contemporary Composers and Musicians, 2000/2012 /first broadcast on the III program/: Pierre Boulez, Michael Tippett, Peter Pears, Hans Werner Henze, Peter Ruzicka, Peter Maxwell Davies, George Benjamin, Goffredo Petrassi, Ada Gentile, Gloria Coates, etc.);
  • In Daily Newspapers: Politika, Borba, Naša Borba, Danas (more than 300 articles);
  • In Magazines: OKO (Zagreb), Il mondo della musica (Rome) & The C.E.J. Newsletter (EU Community of Journalists) – in Italian, New Moment Magazine (London) and TEMPO a Quarterly Review of Modern Music (Cambridge, UK);
  • III Programme, Magazine of Radio Belgrade, Projekat, Pozorište (Novi Sad), Reč, Pro Femina, Pro Musica, Continuo, Novi Zvuk/New Sound, Teatron, Muzikologija, Književnost, Književni magazin, Koraci, Muzika klasika;
  • First Opera Leksikon (Belgrade, 2008) she wrote articles mainly on contemporary operas (Daniel Börtz Marie Antoinette; Zoltán Kodály Háry János; György Ligeti Le grand macabre; Luigi Nono Intolleranza 1960; Emil Petrovič C'est la guerre!; Sándor Szokolay/Federico García Lorca/ Vérnász, Isidora Žebeljan Zora D., Ferenc Erkel Bánk Bán).

    • Memberships

    Union of Yugoslav Composers (from 1976); Union of European Journalists C.E.J. (from 1989)

    References

    Donata Premeru Wikipedia
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