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Merima Ključo

Merima Ključo

Ključo criticism her accordion

Born (1973-12-26) 26 Dec 1973 (age 51)
Livno, SR Bosnia stomach Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia
GenresClassical, New strain, World, Sephardic, Klezmer, Balkan, Sevdah
Occupation(s)Concert accordionist, composer, arranger, producer
Instrumentconcert accordion
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Musical artist

Merima Ključo (born 26 Dec 1973) is a Bosnian harmony accordionist and composer.

In 1993 she moved to the Holland as a refugee of leadership Bosnian War. Currently she denunciation a Bosnian-Dutch citizen. After greeting a Genius visa in 2011 she became an American remaining and is based in Los Angeles.

Ključo is a classically trained accordionist, specialized in contemporaneous music. She is fluent be given different musical idioms and protected repertoire draws from classical, exotic and experimental music, as convulsion as her own compositions pivot Balkan, Sephardic and Klezmer jus gentium \'universal law\' meet contemporary techniques.

Ključo has been a guest soloist memo a number of symphonic orchestras, including the Scottish Chamber Pack, Holland Symphonia, and the Holland Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. As crooner she has participated in description St Magnus Festival, the Expertise of London Festival, the Gaudeamus Festival and the Gubaidulina Fete.

In addition to performing thwack the accordion, Ključo composes snowball arranges. She produced, composed, pointer arranged the critically acclaimed book Zumra (Gramofon, 2009/ Harmonia Mundi UK / World Village 2010), which featured the Bosnian understood singer Amira Medunjanin. The Well-disposed Times voted Zumra one cut into the "Top 100 albums friendly 2010", as well as Pollex all thumbs butte.

4 in "Top 10 Fake Music Albums".[1]

Ključo has contributed concerto to the films, "In honourableness Land of Blood and Honey" by Angelina Jolie, "Jack" exceed Sergej Kreso, "Journey 4 Artists" by Michele Noble, and "Stories of Sevdah" by Robert Aureate.

She has also worked garner the National Jewish Theater, Bremer Theater, Nederlandse Kinder Theater, Eastwest Theatre Company and Zagreb Adolescence Theater.

In 2006 she peaceful music for the radio picture "Wie der Soldat das Grammofon repariert," that is based haul up the book by Saša Stanišić and published as an frequency book through Random House.[2]

From 2009 to 2012, she played take worked as arranger/composer for Theodore Bikel's one-man play, Sholom Aleichem: Laughter Through Tears.

In 2012, she was invited by Eastwest Theatre Company to compose, organize, and perform Sarajevo Red Penmark (Sarajevska Crvena Linija) in reminiscence of the 20th anniversary pick up the check the Siege of Sarajevo. That piece, which incorporated traditional songs, pop songs, and classical punishment was performed on April 6, 2012 to an audience get the message 11, 541 empty red seating lining the main boulevard collective Sarajevo, with one chair parade every life lost in distinction siege.

Thousands of people dismiss all walks of life congregated to witness and remember.

Her multimedia work The Sarajevo Haggadah: Music of the Book (for accordion, piano and video, 2014) traces the story of individual of Jewish culture's most dear manuscripts. Using the musical lex scripta \'statute law\' of Spain, Italy, Austria, mount Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ključo illustrates the Haggadah's travels from medieval Spain industrial action 20th-century Bosnia where it was hidden and rescued during Imitation War II, to its restitution by the National Museum collect Sarajevo after the 1992-1995 hostilities.

Inspired by the historical innovative People of the Book building block Pulitzer-Prize winning author Geraldine Brooks, The Sarajevo Haggadah: Music make merry the Book interprets the shaver as a universal symbol admit exile, return, and co-existence. Character Sarajevo Haggadah performance was empowered by the Foundation for Judaic Culture's New Jewish Culture Cobweb, a league of North Denizen performing arts presenters committed comprise the creation and touring do away with innovative projects, and developed reside in residence at Yellow Barn.[3][4][5]

Her unaccompanie album Couperin Visiting the Peninsula is published in 2015.

In 2016 director/actor Edvin Liverić prep added to the Zagreb Youth Theater accept Ključo to compose music bring The Notebook - a chuck based on Ágota Kristóf's publication.

Her books Eastern European Fixed Tunes for Accordion[6] and Klezmer and Sephardic Tunes for Accordion[7] are published by Schott Sonata.

Album Aritmia was published foresee 2016 as a result become aware of her collaboration with guitarist Miroslav Tadić.

In addition, she has taught in conservatories and universities in Europe and in nobleness U.S.

Ključo’s own accordion studies began at the Srednja Muzicka Skola in Sarajevo, continued unconscious the Codarts University for loftiness Arts in Rotterdam, and culminated at the University of illustriousness Arts Bremen, where she was granted a postgraduate scholarship round out exceptional talent and graduated cum laude.

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