ECM's debut album with Dejan DESPIĆ

Dejan DESPIĆ, born in Belgrade (1930), is a Serbian composer, author, music theoretician and pedagogue. He studied composition with Marko Tajčević and conducting with Mihailo Vukdragović 1950-1955 at the Music Academy in Belgrade. After his studies, he devoted himself to composing and teaching. He was teacher at several music schools and later as a professor at the Music Academy in Belgrade.  Dejan Despić is a full member of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences (SANU). From 1999-2012 he was Head of the Department of Fine Arts and Music.

Despić is the author of more than 240 compositions, including an opera - as well as numerous textbooks (music theory, harmony, harmony-analysis, orchestration) for the school and university level, but also in the field of scientific and theoretical studies.His compositions are published by the Brandstätter Musikverlag Köln