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Skladateljska društva nekoč in danes | Composers’ Societies Past and Present
He was the Vice Dean for International Affairs at the UL Academy of Mu-
sic, as well as the Head of the Department of Composition and Music The-
ory and President of the Academic Assembly at the same institution. He
has presided over the National Matura Commission for Music and served
as a Board Member of the European Composers Forum (ECF), the Euro-
pean Composers and Songwriters Alliance (ECSA), and was a member
of the Working Group for ECCO (European Contemporary Composers’
Orchestra). In recognition of For his work, he was awarded received the
Knight’s Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit.

Amra Bosnić (amra.bosnic@mas.unsa.ba)
is an Associate Professor at the University of Sarajevo’s Academy of Mu-
sic and the Head of its Department of Music Theory and Pedagogy. Bos-
nić completed her master’s studies in 2010 (Symphonic Music in Bosnia and
Herzegovina: overview, analysis, systematisation) and PhD studies in 2016
(Compositional Practice in Bosnia and Herzegovina) under the supervision
of Dr Ivan Čavlović. A special field of her interest is musical theory and
analysis of Bosnian and Herzegovinian compositional practice, which re-
sulted in her first monograph Symphonic Music in Bosnia and Herzegovi-
na in 2021. Bosnić is co-editor of The Collection of Papers “Music in Socie-
ty”, published by the Musicological Society of the Federation of Bosnia and
Herzegovina and the Academy of Music in Sarajevo (2018, 2020). As a re-
sult of her successful coordination of music pedagogy projects, Bosnić was
awarded the annual award for her contribution to the Academy of Music at
the University in Sarajevo in 2023.

Joanna Bullivant (joanna.bullivant@bcu.ac.uk)
is Lecturer in Music at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, UK and a music
historian specialising in British music and politics. She is the author of Alan
Bush, Modern Music and the Cold War: The Cultural Left in Britain and
the Communist Bloc (Cambridge 2017). She is currently Co-Investigator on
the Leverhulme-funded project ‘Elgar’s Themes: New Pathways for Analy-
sis, Interpretation and Engagement’ with the University of Oxford, and is
working on a new monograph on Elgar and English Catholicism.

Nataša Didenko (natasadidenko@yahoo.com)
is an associate professor of the Department for Cultural History at the In-
stitute of National History in Skopje, North Macedonia. Her research inter-
ests include cultural history, musicology, academic culture and ethnomu-

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