Hanan Hadžajlić

Hadžajlić studied composition with Ališer Sijarić and flute with Ljubiša Jovanović and Sakib Lačević. She holds Doctor of Musical Arts degree in flute performance (Faculty of Music Arts, University of Arts in Belgrade, 2015-2019),[3] Master's Degree in composition (Sarajevo Music Academy, University of Sarajevo, 2012-2018) and Master's Degree in flute performance (Sarajevo Music Academy, University of Sarajevo, 2010-2015).

Currently, she is PhD candidate in art theory - transdisciplinary studies of contemporary art and media at the Faculty of Media and Communication in Belgrade (mentor: Dr. Andrija Filipović, co-mentor: Dr. Miško Šuvaković, 2017) and DMA student of composition (2019) at the Music Academy of the University of Sarajevo.

Hadžajlić participated in composition courses led by Heiner Goebbels, Wolfgang Rihm, Philippe Manoury, Vinko Globokar, Peter Ablinger, Dieter Ammann, Michel van der Aa. She was a scholarship holder of the Science Underground Academy 2016 and Lucerne Festival Academy - Composer Seminar 2017.[4]

• Composition, Contemporary Improvisation and Electroacoustic Music Performance
• Transhumanist Music (machine music for acoustic instruments)[5] and Artificial Musical Intelligence (AMI),[6] the theory developed as a part DMA thesis Flute as 'metainterface' of modular systems in contemporary electroacoustic music
• Transculturality, Nomadism and Globalization
• Management

Her scientific papers were published by AM Journal of Art and Media Studies[7] and INSAM Journal[8]

Since 2018, Hadžajlić works as a Teaching Assistant at the Composition Department of the Sarajevo Music Academy (University of Sarajevo).[9]

• INSAM Institute of Contemporary Artistic Music (2015)
• Ensemble SONEMUS (2012)[10]
• Musicological Society of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2019)[11]

Her music was performed in Europe, Israel and United States at the festivals such as Lucerne Festival, Women Composers Festival of Hartford, Vox Feminae - Israeli Women Composers and Performers Forum, SONEMUS Fest, Sarajevo Chamber Music Festival, Sarajevo Sonic Studio, Reconstruction – Contemporary Music Festival Belgrade, Flauta & Me and institutions such as University of Maryland Baltimore County, Jan Hus Presbyterian Church New York, Charter Oak Cultural Center Hartford, Conservatory of Music Tel Aviv, Kunstmuseum Luzern - KKL, Hochschule der Künste Bern, Utzon Center Aalborg, Henrietta St Dublin, Bosniak Institute Sarajevo, Army Hall Sarajevo, Musem of the National Theatre Belgrade, Faculty of Music Belgrade, Zavod za kulturu Vojvodine, Music Academy Zagreb etc. She cooperated with ensembles such as Mosaik, New Thread Quartet, Lucerne Festival Alumni Ensemble, SONEMUS, Neofonia, Impro Ensemble MAS, String Orchestra MAS, etc.

As a flutist, she has performed in Switzerland, Germany, Ireland, Slovenia, Israel, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro at festivals such as Lucerne Festival,[12] Culturscapes Basel,[13] SONEMUS Fest, Sarajevo Chamber Music Festival, Sarajevo Sonic Studio, Reconstruction – Contemporary Music Festival Belgrade Glazbena tribina Opatija, Hvar Town Cultural Summer Programme, Ljubljana Festival, etc and institutions such as Luzerner Theater Box, Yehudi Menuhin Forum Bern, Gare du Nord Basel, Wolfgang Rihm Forum Karlsruhe, Henrietta St. Dublin, Knight's Hall of the Castle Brežice, St. Gabriel's Church Nazareth, National Theatre Sarajevo, University of Sarajevo Hall - Rectorate, Bosniak Institute Sarajevo, Army Hall Sarajevo, Musem of the National Theatre Belgrade, etc. She cooperated with composers such as Ališer Sijarić, Dino Residbegovic, Philippe Manoury, Louis Franz Aguirre, Richard Barrett, John Buckley, Bil Smith, Srđan Hofman, Marko Nikodijević, Ailís Ní Ríain, Svjetlana Bukvić, Antoine Fachard, Tamara Knežević, etc. As a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician she has worked with conductors such as Jürg Wyttenbach, Gregory Charette, Edo Mičić, Matthias Kuhn, Toshio Yanagisawa, Robert Ames, Uroš Lajovic, Riccardo Muti, Ognjen Bomoštar, Mikica Jevtić, Andrija Pavlić, Miroslav Homen, etc. As a soloist she performed with Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra and String Orchestra MAS and as a chamber musician, she performed with ensembles such as SONEMUS, Studio 6, AMAS, 2K+, Impro Ensemble MAS, Belgrade Flute Quartet, Trio Hadžajlić/Strotter Inst./Christoph Erb, Duo X O, etc.

She has won numerous high awards at regional and international musical interpretation competitions such as first prize (Reconstruction – Contemporary Music Interpretation Competition, Serbia - flute), first prize (Reconstruction – Contemporary Music Interpretation Competition, Serbia – chamber music), first prize (International Flautist Gathering - Tahir Kulenović, Serbia - flute), first prize (Yamaha EU Foundation, Bosnia and Herzegovina - flute), first prize (TEMSIG, Slovenia - flute) etc. She has also been awarded by the University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo Music Academy, Association of Composers – Music Authors (AMUS, Bosnia and Herzegovina) and 11th pre-art Competition for young composers (pre-art, Switzerland).[14] Her composition Freezing Moon is included in the book The 21st Century Voice: Contemporary and Traditional Extra-normal Voice by Michael Edward Edgerton.[15]

Hadžajlić is the pioneer of transdisciplinary research in music and scientific approach to free improvisation in composition, in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

She is an artistic director and coordinator of the "INSAM Competition" for young Bosnian composers and performers of contemporary music, which is the only contemporary music competition in Bosnia and Herzegovina.[16]

She is a co-founder and editorial team member of the INSAM Journal of Contemporary Music, Art and Technology,[17] which is the first and only international, scientific, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to contemporary music, artistic practices and technology, in Bosnia and Herzegovina.