Davor Vincze

 

Davor Vincze is a composer of contemporary music whose artistic focus lies on meta-reality and musical mosaicking. Inspired by technology and science fiction, he searches for hidden acoustic spaces or ways to blur the real and the imaginary, often using electronics and AI tools. Working with mosaics, in technique he calls ‘microllage’, Vincze searches for fluid sounds that allow for non-binary, ambiguous, or "androgynous" interpretations.

 

After completing his composition studies in Graz and Stuttgart, Vincze specialized in electronic music at the Ircam and finally completed his doctorate at Stanford University. His compositions have been performed by renowned international musicians like Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Recherche, and Ensemble Intercontemporain, Klangforum Wien, Talea and Slagwerk den Haag, JACK Quartet, Secession Orchestra, No Borders Orchestra, etc, at festivals such as Présences, Impuls, MATA, Manifeste, Darmstädter Ferienkurse and others.

 

In 2014, Vincze founded an international festival for contemporary music - Novalis. Since 2023 he has been co-director of the Music Biennale Zagreb. Vincze's works are published by Maison ONA in Paris.

 

Vincze won Alain Louvier Prize, Stuttgart Composition Competition and 2nd prize at the Pre-Art Composition competition, Impuls Festival competition, and has been awarded many stipends in support of his studies and creations of new works. In 2020/21, Vincze was the winner of "Boris Papandopulo Prize” for the best Croatian composer of contemporary music, winner of the European Contemporary Composition Orchestra competition, winner of the best audiovisual work at the International Competition Città di Udine (Italy), as well as artist-in-residence both at the Institute of Electronic Music in Graz (2021) as well as at SWR Experimentalstudio (2022 & 2024).

 

In 2023, Vincze completed his Arts Fellowship at Emory University in Atlanta. In 2024, his piece "XinSheng" was selected for the production of Noperas! in Germany, and a new, expanded version under the new title "Freedom Collective" had its premiere in numerous theatres in Germany.

Vincze will continue to develop this interdisciplinary opera project as part of his post-doctoral research, which he just started at Hong Kong Baptist University.