Igor Karaca

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Igor Karaca
Born	(1974-10-26) October 26, 1974 Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
🏫 Education	Sarajevo Music Academy The Ohio State University
💼 Occupation	Classical music/contemporary music composer and Academic teacher
📆 Years active	1988–present
🏢 Organization	Oklahoma State University professor, Music Composition, Music Theory and Music Technology

Igor Karaca (Bosnian: Igor Karača; born 1974) is a contemporary classical music, electroacoustic music and computer music composer, jazz pianist and organist. He is also the first mentor of DMA study in musical composition at Sarajevo Music Academy, University of Sarajevo and the winner of First Lady of the OSU Distinguished Music Faculty Award.

Early life and education

Karaca was born in 1974 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina).

Along with private music lessons, he studied music at the Academy of Music in Sarajevo under Josip Magdić and Anđelka Bego-Šimunić. Graduating in 1996 with a BM in music composition, he has since been a guest at performances in Europe, working with Bogusław Schaeffer, Klaus Huber, Marc-André Dalbavie, Helmut Lachenmann and Marco Stroppa, among others. He came to the United States in 1999 to study composition with Ohio State University's Thomas Wells, earning his DMA in 2005.

Classical compositions

Karaca has composed three symphonies, suite "Airies" for concertante works for clarinet and piano, wind ensemble more than thirty electro-acoustic compositions, over seventy chamber compositions such as "Wind Trio", "Filigree" for saxophone, accordion, vibraphone and piano, "Between Walls" for violin, clarinet and piano, and "Handful of Dust" for bass clarinet and piano.His works has also been performed in many European countries and USA such as: Germany, Austria, Swiss, Croatia, Bosnian and Herzegovina, and in Carnegie Hall in NY.

Designer for software instruments

His is also designer for software instruments and effects on the Propellerhead Reason platform. These are some of his designed instruments:

• 4MER
• Additive Oscillator
• Chip64
• CV Mutant
• EDS-06
• Table Oscillator
• Tick Tick
• Chenille
• Boom 808.

He also designed algorithmic patches for the ArtWonk program, which is winner of the 2005 Electronic Musician magazine award. His Stochastic Generator, as well as musical examples are part of this program.

Popular music

Karaca was a member of Sarajevo Jazz Quartet, Josip Juric Quartet and Bosnian pop-rock band Punkt, for which he played piano, Hammond organ and electronic keyboards.

Music for film and stage

Karaca composed dramatic scores for three Bosnian motion pictures directed by Nadja Mehmedbasic "A House Over the Rainbow", "Sarajevo War Diary" and "Tell Me Your Name Again", and four theater plays in France and United States: "Twelfth Night", "Fate of a Cockroach", "As You Like It" and "Requiem for 'Bird' Parker" (with Jodie Forrest). His music is featured on five commercially available CDs and one Web release.

Style

Most of Karaca's work has involved chamber ensembles and electronic media. He uses a variety of techniques, including controlled aleatoric, avant-jazz inspired textures ("Handful of Dust", "Between Walls"), to more traditional neo-romantic style, as evidenced in his "Three Nocturnes for Piano solo" and "Amber Sonata" for flute and piano.

Significant compositions

• "Lumen for chamber orchestra",
• "Handful of Dust" for bass clarinet and piano,
• "Symhony No. 2" for orchestra,
• "Mantra" for saxophone quartet,
• "Lost" for saxophone quartet and electronics,
• "Phantom Wings" for electro-acoustic sounds.

Academic career

After receiving his DMA, Karaca spent a year teaching music theory at Fort Hayes Metropolitan Education Center in Columbus before getting a job at Oklahoma State University. He currently serves as the Associate Professor at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, where he teaches courses on music composition, counterpoint, jazz improvisation, orchestration, technology and music theory. He is also Visiting Full Professor of Music Technology at Sarajevo Music Academy of the University of Sarajevo, department of music composition. His notable composition students are Dino Residbegovic and Dawn Lenore Sonntag.

First Lady of the OSU Distinguished Music Faculty Award

Karaca is award recipient of the First Lady of the OSU Distinguished Music Faculty Award in 2017. The award was received from Friends of Music, the OSU Music Department, and the First Lady of OSU, Ann Hargis. In his honor, a concert of his compositions was held at the Seretean Center for the Performing Arts in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Other sources

• Čavlović, Ivan, "Historija muzike u Bosni i Hercegovini", Sarajevo, 2011, Muzička akademija. ISBN 978-9958-689-05-5 Search this book on .
• Pfitzinger, Scott, "Composer Genealogies: A Compendium of Composers, Their Teachers, and Their Students", Lanham, 2017, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated. ISBN 9781442272248 Search this book on .

External links

• http://insam0.musicaneo.com
• http://www.muzikolosko-drustvo.ba/publikacije/audio/
• http://www.sonemus.com/about/
• http://www.societyofcomposers.org/members/IgorKaraca/
• https://soundcloud.com/karacha

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