Zoran Scekic

Zoran Šćekić received his BFA in jazz guitar at University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (Austria). As a recipient of the 1998 Bruxelles Stipendium, Šćekić went to Helsinki to continue post-graduate studies in composition and arrangement, and to participate in the International Summit of Music Academy as a representative of the Sibelius Music Academia. His works as composer, arranger, and guitarist in the field of written and improvised music is available on the unofficial six-disc studio and live album compilation Selected Works in Equal Temperament. These recordings are the results of playing jazz guitar in duo, trio and quartet settings; collaborating with light and stage designers, choreographers, and visual artists in the creation of theater and film music; participating in jazz and free jazz festivals; and writing a number of works for big band, chamber orchestra, and large orchestra.

With his microtonal work Šćekić has had premieres in several European capitals, seminars on microtonal harmony based on his book Five Limit Intervals – Theory & Praxis, and presentations of his microtonal keyboard prototype (Z-board), which was built in San Diego after his design. He is the winner of the Croatian Composer Society’s 2015 international competition, and author of the multimedia project Panmonism, which premiered at Concert Hall Vatroslav Lisinski in Zagreb, Croatia. The project consists of concerts with original compositions for piano in five limit just intonation, an animated movie about the connection between mathematics and music, a lecture on just intonation harmony, and an exhibition of the harmonograph prototype (Lira Spectrum) built in Bari, Italy after Šćekić’s construction. Lira Spectrum is permanently on exhibit at the Museum of Nikola Tesla in Zagreb, Croatia.