Antonio Babić, prof.

Antonio Babić (Rijeka, 1990) graduated in composition at the Academy of Music in Zagreb in the class of prof. Fran Parać. Academic year 2013/2014. spent time in Belgium at the Lemmensinstituut Leuven as an Erasmus student with prof. Jan Van der Roost.

He is the author of ten compositions for solo instruments, choirs, chamber and orchestra ensembles, which were performed in Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Montenegro and Belgium. He also wrote music for several independent short feature films. He participated in the Music Tribune in Opatija (2010, 2012, 2014), the International Workshop of Composition Students and Young Composers in Novi Sad (2012) and the Passionate Music Camp in Murska Sobota (2013) organized by the Musical Youth of Slovenia. He is the winner of the "Rudolf and Margita Matz" Fund scholarship for 2014, awarded by the Croatian Society of Composers. He had the opportunity to work with the famous American composer John Corigliano, winner of an Oscar, 5 Grammys and a Pulitzer Prize, at the Bosnia International Music Festival in Sarajevo (2015). He is the winner of the competition that took place as part of that festival, for which he was awarded twice; commissioning a new work and collaborating with film directors as a composer of film music.

He composed a new work for the Cantus Ensemble, which was premiered at the Osor Music Evenings in 2015, with a repeated performance in the Cantus & Lauba Concert Series in the 2015/2016 season. As a representative of Croatia, in 2017 he participated in the Roots project at the KotorArt International Festival, which commissioned new works from authors from the Balkans.

He is also engaged in pedagogical work, and he gained experience in several music schools in Croatia. He lives in Zagreb, where he is employed at the Zlatko Baloković School of Music as a teacher of theoretical subjects and at the company Pianissimo whose field of activity is performing arts.