Ring Ring Festival Belgrad

BALKAN AFFAIRS

The fragile art of living together

A project by Neue Vocalsolisten

Hanan Hadžajlić: Requiem Ex Machina

for six amplified voices (2022/23)

Ylli Daklani: When all the leaves have been burned

for three voices (2025)

Jug Marković: NULA

for six voices (2022)

Coda

Jug Marković: #itistime

for video, electronics and two voices

Ana Pandevska: Electroacoustic mantra From Ex YU to EU

for soprano, mezzo-soprano and fixed media (2023)

Nina Perović: Apparatus
for six singing voices and electronics (2025)

Petra Strahovnik: SCREAdoM

for five voices, sound installation and electronics (2023)

Helena Skljarov: The Blue Giraffe

for five voices, electronics and video (2023)

Neue Vocalsolisten

Johanna Vargas, soprano

Susanne Leitz-Lorey, soprano

Helena Sorokina, mezzosoprano

Martin Nagy, tenor

Guillermo Anzorena, baritone

Andreas Fischer, bass

In an experiential artistic process, seven composers from the former Yugoslavian states reflect on the period of the Balkan Wars and the different perspectives from which the people of the Western Balkans interpret their shared history today.
Sober, ironic or sarcastic, the seven works speak of existential experiences in the clash of religions and ethnicities, of nationalism, ex-Yu nostalgia and EU hype, hyperinflation, physical and psychological violence, and the radical optimism of a post-war generation. A concert of great media and aesthetic diversity and utmost urgency.