Svjetlana Bukvich is one of Sarajevo's premier music figures. A "force in new music" (American Festival of Microtonal Music), Svjetlana alchemizes old with new in a superbly original, yet accessible voice. An innovator in hybrid electronic sound, and a compelling performer, Svjetlana has worked with a number of New York's cutting-edge instrumentalists including Martha Mooke, Tony Levin, Cornelius Dufallo, Leonardo Suarez Paz, Mari Kimura, Johnny Reinhard, Ha-Yang Kim, and Mordy Ferber. Her genre-bending performances often feature video, voice, and tuning of her design, and are informed by the unique places she has lived in - Addis Ababa, Edinburgh, Boston, New York City, and her native Sarajevo.

Svjetlana has been billed by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) as a "concert composer/performer whose music defies boundaries". She has appeared in venues as varied as the The Kennedy Center, the Tribeca Film Festival, American Festival of Microtonal Music, The Knitting Factory, Music With A View Festival, Serial Underground at the Cornelia Street Café, The Kitchen, The Anthology Film Archives, Rose Studio at Lincoln Center, (le) Poisson Rouge, ASCAP's Thru The Walls Series, the [New York] Times Center, and internationally including Beijing, London, South Africa and Copenhagen.

Svjetlana's music has been broadcast on Voice of America, American Music Center's Counterstream Radio, WQXR's Q2Music Living music, Living Composers, John Schaefer's New Sounds on WNYC, New York's MNN Public TV, and Marvin Rosen's Classical Discoveries. She received awards from the Soros Foundation, the American Composers Forum, the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue at Harvard University, and ASCAP's Buddy Baker Film Scoring Scholarship. Svjetlana is featured in the forthcoming book among twenty-five leading contemporary women composers in American music "Conversations with American Women Composers" and is an artist-in-residence at Lafayette College for the 2011-2012 academic year.

New York City-based, Svjetlana continues to write for electro-acoustic ensembles, film, animation, dance, and trail-blazing instrumentalists. Recently, she supported Goran Bregovic and his Wedding and Funeral Orchestra's North American tour with lectures, radio interviews and a write-up in Carnegie Hall's publication Playbill. She teaches at New York University and Pratt Institute. Among her mentors were Philip Glass, Robert Ashley, Carl Stone, Josip Magdic, Neil Rolnick, Kurt Munkacsi, Miroslaw Rogala, Goran Bregovic, and Martin Bresnick. Svjetlana premiered a new commission for mixed chorus, electronics, electric bass, and a drum set in April 2012 at the Williams Arts Center in Easton, PA.

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