Boris Kovac
Vojvodina/Serbia/former Yugoslavia

In my creative work I build the HOUSE in which I am on my WAY to the BEING. My beign.” 
Boris Kovac (from the book “Mirror of the Voice”)

Boris Kovac(1955) is a composer, instrumentalist and multimedia artist from Vojvodina, the Pannonian part of Yugoslavia. He writes music for chamber groups he rehearses and leads. Many of his projects are to some extent connected with theatre. From 1989 he has been the leader of the Chamber Theatre of Music OGLEDALO from Novi Sad. During the period from 1991-1995 he mainly lived and worked in Italy, Slovenia and Austria. In 1996 he moves back to Yugoslavia. By leading his RITUAL NOVA ensemble, LaDaABa orchest, La Campanella orchestra, Chamber Theatre of Music OGLEDALO, Academy of Fine Skills and working with students he is also trying to reestablish the contemporary music/theatre scene in his country.
He has performed his works in a few hundred concerts and more the 200 festivals of new music and contemporary theater in around  30 countries on 4 continents.

Selected published works:

LP Ritual Nova, Symposion rec., Yugoslavia, 1986
LP Ritual Nova 2, Recommended rec., London, 1989
CD Profana Liturgija, ADN, Milan, 1991 / Kachara, Bukovac, 2004
CD Ritual Nova Collection, Recommended rec.,London/USA, 1993
CD Play on String (string quartet), More Music, Italy, 1996
CD Anamnesis - Ecumenical Mysteries, Victo, Canada, 1996
CD The Mask, Interzone/Ikarus, Yugoslavia/Austria, 1997
CD East OFF Europe, Victo, Canada, 1998
CD Mirror of the Voice (CD+book)Radio 021, Yugoslavia, 1999
CD The Last Balkan Tango, PIRANHA, Berlin, 2001
CD Ballads at the End of Time, PIRANHA, Berlin, 2003
CD DAMARI, Kachara, Bukovac, 2004
CD World after History, PIRANHA, Berlin, 2005
CD Songs from the Garden of Loves and Graves, Serbian National Theatre, 2007

Books:
New Ritual / one poetics view in new music, CKC Nis 1990.
Mirror of the Voice / Music as the way, katchara edition 2000.