Đuro Živković

This is a Slavic name. The family name "Đuro Živković" is sometimes transliterated as "Djuro Zivkovic".

Đuro Živković (Serbian Cyrillic: Ђуро Живковић) (born 1975) is a Serbian-Swedish composer and violinist. Since 2000 he has lived and worked in Stockholm, Sweden.

He has composed a wide range of works including chamber, orchestral and vocal music, music for solo instruments, choral, and short electro-acoustic pieces.

He studied composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm under Pär Lindgren and Bent Sørensen, while also taking classes with Magnus Lindberg and workshops with Esa-Pekka Salonen, James Dillon, Mario Davidovsky and Michael Obst.

Živkovićs style is characterized by fantastic narration, virtuoso instrumentation and stylistic highly profiled sound. In his music he has develop a variety of compositional techniques such as polyrhythmic, improvisation, special harmony based scales, microtones, layer-polyphony and heterophony.

Živković is also a professional violinist, performing new music, as well as an improviser on violin and piano. He has received many international scholarships and prizes for his work. He also works as a teacher of composition, music theory & aural training, violin and chamber music.

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Name	Zivkovic, Djuro
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Short description	Serbian-swedish composer
Date of birth	1975
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