EFFEA Jury

Margareta is a composer and artistic director of Music Biennale Zagreb. She was born in Zagreb, Croatia, and has studied composition with Ivan Eröd, Chaya Czernowin and Klaus Peter Sattler at The University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, where she still lives and works. Margareta was granted scholarships from various international institutions and foundations and has received numerous international prizes for her work as a composer. Her music can be described as colourful, humorous, deep, and strives to create absurd sound images. Her approach implies an ironic treatment of traditional musical aesthetics, implanting vivid rhythmical impulses, transforming theatrical gestures into timbre, and exploring the intensity of extended instrumental techniques. The inspiration for her scores comes from literature, art, movies, science, politics, philosophy, remarkable individuals, or bizarre life situations. In addition to her work as a composer and curator, she is a member of various associations (ACOM - Association of Austrian Composers, IGNM - International Society for New Music/Austria and Musik21 - Association for the Promotion of Contemporary Music/Germany). She serves on the board of ÖGZM (Austrian Society for Contemporary Music) and as part of the Croatian Composers' Society (HDS) presidential board. In 2021 she was appointed to the Music Advisory Board of the Goethe Institute.