BIOGRAPHY
Jug Marković is a Serbian-born Germany-based composer whose work traverses contemporary acoustic, electroacoustic, and electronic music. Embracing an intuitive approach to composition, he resists rigid conceptual structures, favoring instead a vivid and impulsive exploration of stylistic heterogeneity, genre hybridity, and the reimagining of historically charged musical gestures.
Deeply passionate about the endless possibilities of electronic music, Marković relishes the chance to blur boundaries, challenging expectations with a playful touch. The human voice holds a special place in his work, and as a pianist, he often performs his own music, keeping his connection to the instrument alive at the core of his practice.
Jug studied composition at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade with Prof. Vlastimir Trajković, further developing his craft at IRCAM (Paris) and HMDK Stuttgart under Prof. Marco Stroppa. He also holds a degree in archaeology from the University of Belgrade — an echo of his fascination with layers of history and meaning that subtly permeates his music.
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Among his honors, Jug received the ISCM Young Composers Award 2019 for his choral work Nirvana and the Stevan Mokranjac Award, Serbia’s highest recognition for composition.
Marković's music has been performed by Ensemble Intercontemporain, Divertimento Ensemble, Mivos Quartet, Diotima Quartet, TANA Quartet, United Instruments of Lucilin, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, the Latvian Radio Choir, Chamber Choir Ireland, Croatian Radio and Television Choir, the Gulbenkian Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic, and the Radio-Television of Serbia Symphony Orchestra, among many others.
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His recent projects include Nula (for six singers), commissioned by the Zagreb Biennale and Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, and Stabat Mater (for choir, electronics, and viola da gamba), commissioned by IRCAM. He is currently preparing the premiere of Gramatik, a new ensemble work commissioned by ISCM, to be performed by Remix Ensemble at the World New Music Days in Porto, Portugal.
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Jug is based in Stuttgart, Germany where he is a lecturer at Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst.
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