Artistic Researcher in Music
Contemporary Arts Theorist
Jazz saxophone, bass clarinet, spacedrum
Composer
Educator
Yoga teacher
NGO Project leader and manager/ activist
Formal Education:
Doctorate in Art Theory- Transdisciplinary Studies in Contemporary Arts and Media
2017-2022
Doctorate in Art Theory- Transdisciplinary Studies in Contemporary Arts and Media Singidunum University | Belgrade, Serbia (officially approved dissertation proposal, expected time for defence: summer semester 2022)
MA in Music Composition
2006 - 2008
York University | Toronto, Canada
BA in Jazz Saxophone Performance and Teaching
2000 - 2004
Franz Liszt Music Academy, Jazz Department | Budapest, Hungary
Other Education and Courses
2020
Music Management Training - MOST EU Project
2019
Artistic Research in Music - an introduction Certificate - Orpheus Institute, KU Leuven
2019
Feminist School Seminary Certificate - Female Scientists to Female Scientists | Belgrade
2015
Seminary for Writing a Project for Creative Europe Program - Creative Desk Serbia | Novi Sad
2014
Master Course for NGO Leadership, Advocacy and Gender Equality Certificate - REC, SIDA | Belgrade
2013
Master Course for NGO Advocacy and Social Justice Certificate - REC, SIDA | Tallinn
2011
Course for Operational Trainer of Yoga Diploma, College of Vocational Studies for Sport Trainers | Subotica
2010
Course for Yoga Instructor Certificate, Bihar School Of Yoga | Rikhia, India
1996 - 1997
Conservatiro de Musica Pernambucana | Recife, Brazil
Published Scientific Articles
Jovićević, Jasna. “Flow Vertical: Composing and Improvising Original Music Inspired by Bodily Sound Vibrations.” Leonardo Music Journal, Vol.29 (2019) 78–82 - Link
Jovićević, Jasna. „Composing the Actual: Brainwave Sonification as Materialized Intensity of Virtual Relations.“ Journal of Art and Media Studies. No.23 ( 2020) 29-44 - Link
Jovićević, Jasna. „Mapping of the Performative Body in the Practice of Jazz Improvisation.“ Music in The body - The Body in Music: Corper an der Schnittstelle von musikalischer Praxis und Diskurs. Göttinger Studien zur Musikwissenschaft. Ed. Christine Hoppe and Sarah Avischag Muller. Hildesheim, Zurich, New York: Georg Olms Verlag. (2021) 255-272
Jovićević, Jasna, „Gender Perspectives of Instrumental Jazz Performers in Southeastern Europe.“ Musicology, No.30 (2021), 149-164, DOI: 10.2298/MUZ2130149J
Jovićević, Jasna. „The Pale Image of the Jazz Women in Eastern and Southeastern Europe.“ The Routledge Companion on Jazz and Gender. Ed. Monika Herzig and Michael Kahr. London and New York: Routledge. (2022) - in print
Jovićević, Jasna.„Yoga in Sport.“ Quality of Life in Pandemic - Thematic Collection of Articles from 12th International Interdisciplinary Scientific Conference „Horizon 2021.“ Ed. Zoran Milic. Subotica: VSOVSU (2021) 210-2019
Awards, Honours, Grants (Selective List)
Nov.2021-Jan.2022
Erasmus+ Mobility Traineeship - JAM Music Lab, Private University Vienna | Vienna
2020
Smithsonian Institute Research in Jazz Award Winner, JEN & Ella Fitzgerald Foundation | Washington D.C.
For the project Media Representation of Jazz Female Instrumentalists Best Music Video Awards for Walking Meditation (Sounding Solitude Artistic Research): Best Art Music Video - Munich Music Video Awards, Art Music Video Winner - Best Music Video Awards (London)
2020-2021
Winner in Best Jazz Song and finalists in the Video for Art Music - MVA (International Music Video Awards) | Munich, London
2020
Serbia Creates Competition for the Best Artist Video / Winner
2019
I-Portunus European Commission, Mobility for artists | Croatia
2019
Giant Step “Women Action Music” Awarded Musician | San Francisco
2019
National Winner AI Lab EU Project by Ars Electronica | Belgrade
2008
Karabekos Student Award - York University | Toronto
2006
International Student Scholarship - York University | Toronto
2005
1st Price on International Ethno Music Competition | Milan
2005
2nd Price Balkanart International Festival | Ljubljana
2004
3rd Price for the Best Jazz Composition in Hungary | Budapest
Presented Studies as a Speaker on Scientific Conferences ( Selective List)
2022
Jazz Research Conference (forthcoming on June 9th) Young female jazz instrumentalist in the Southeastern Europe: self-esteem and self-efficacy in the context of tokenism, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz | Graz
2022
Australasian Jazz and Improvisation Research Network Conference (forthcoming on May 6th) Gender Identity Representation in Open-social Space of Free Jazz Improvisation Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University | Brisbane, Australia (hybrid)
2022
Jazz Research Group Lecturer Series - online | Budapest Semi-Peripheral Status and Identity of Southeastern European Female Jazz Players
2022
Gender and Musicianship Study Days - online Double Standards for Female Jazz Instrumentalists - Southeastern European Research Uniarts Helsinki and Music Academy Helsinki | Helsinki
2021
Documenting Jazz Conference: Round table - Artistic Research in Jazz and Gender University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art | Edinburgh
2021
Female Leadership in Music Conference - Positioning of the Female Artistic Researchers Academy of Dramatic Arts | Belgrade
2021
2nd International Artistic Research in Jazz Conference - Jazz Practice Research: Transdisciplinary Methodologies of Artistic Research in Music Improvisation Case Study Birmingham Conservatoire, Jazz Department | Birmingham
2020
Jazz Educational Network Conference Online - Construction of Jazz Women Instrumentalists Stereotypes: Media Representation That Needs To Be Rewritten Round table - Gender in Jazz
2019
1st International Artistic Research in Jazz Symposium - Collaborative Event of Improvisation JAM Music Lab, Private University Vienna and University of Music and Performing Arts Graz | Vienna
2019
Rhythm Changes Conference “Jazz Journeys” The Concept of “Collaborative Time Zone” in Free Improvised Music Event University of Music and Performing Arts Graz | Graz
2019
Music in the body - body in music: The body at the intersection of musical practice and discourse - Collective Free Improvisation: Music Event as a Sonic Mapping of the Performative Body Department of Musicology, Georg-August-University of Göttingen| Göttingen
2019
CGA Belgrade - Computer, Graphics and Arts conference | Belgrade Artistic research in Music and Neuroscience
2018
Nova Contemporary Music Meeting: Composing Music Today Free Music Improvisation as a Collaborative Creative Event Contemporary Music Research Group of CESEM at Nova University | Lisbon
2018
Central European Society Soundscape Ecology Conference The Sound of Birds - Gentle Artistic Voice for Protection of Endangered Bird Species Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design | Budapest (MOME)
2018
Arts+Science Conference Artistic Research and Ornithology: The Sound of Birds Faculty of Dramatic Arts and Centre for Promotion of Science | Belgrade
Professional Associations
INARJ
- International Network for Artistic Research in Jazz: Founding Member Women in Jazz Media
JEN
- Jazz Educational Network Jazz Research Group Hungar
CESSE
- Central European Society for Soundscape Ecology: Founding Member Centre for Culture and Contemporary Arts: Founding Member
INSAM
- Institute for Contemporary Artistic Music and Research
Serbian Yoga Association: Founding Member
Music Performance Projects as Leader and Composer (Selective List)
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Composing and arranging for string trio, string quartet, saxophone quartet, jazz combo, big band, free improv, free jazz
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Leader of: Jasna Jovicevic Sextet, Jasna Jovicevic Quinary, Jovicevic/Miklos/Wojcinski Trio, Super Saxophone Quartet, New Spark Jazz Orchestra.
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Performed original works on various festivals and clubs: Belgrade Jazz Festival, Ars Electronica, Nisville/ Nis, Women In Jazz Festival / Halle, Unterfarht Jazz Club /Munich, Ring Ring/ Belgrade, Novi Sad International Festival, Valjevo Jazz Fest, Timisoara Jazz Festival, Green Town Jazz Festival / Sombor, Kanjiza Jazz Festival, Budapest Jazz Festival, Zsambek jazz Fest, TD Toronto Jazz Festival, Jazzy Colors/ Paris, Roulette Improv Nights/ New York, Cobi`s Place / New York, Color Festival /Dorset UK, Jazzire/ Subotica, Pula Jazz Festival, Rovinj Jazz Fest, Veneto Jazz Italy, Milan Ethno Fest.
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Collaborated with Hamid Drake, Mike Stern, Chico Freeman, Elisabeth Harnik, Annette Giesriegl, Dresh Mihaly, Olah Kalman, Al DI Meola, Reut Regev, etc…
Multidisciplinary Artistic Projects (Selective List)
2019-2022
Walking Meditation, Autonomous Machine Music Video Production: Screenplay, Music, Acting
2021
Za kim zvono zvoni Music Fairytale (Audio Book): Music, Production, Postproduction
2016-2020
Imago Sonus - Dance and Music Improv, with Henni Varga and Denes Dobrei
2019-2020
Improvising Events - Site Specific Artistic Research: Conceptual Visual Arts, Dance, and Music with Annette Giesriegl, Zrinka Uzbinec and Andreja Kuluncic/ Contemporary Art Museum Zagreb
2020-2022
You betrayed the Party when you needed to help it - Site Specific Conceptual Multidisciplinary Work on Goli otok, with Andreja Kuluncic (author), Annette Giesriegl, Zrinka Uzbinec
Participation in Artist in Residency Programs
2019
Improvising Events - Museum of Contemporary Arts | Zagreb
2019
Music Action Women Residency - Giant Steps | San Francisco
2018
Artist Residency NS2021, University of Arts | Novi Sad
2010
Improv Kolektiv International Music Residency | Subotica
2009
Valparaiso Artist Colony | Mojacar Spain
2008
OMI- International Artist Residency | New York
2006
Djerassi International Artist Residency | San Francisco
2005
ArtsLink Residency | New York
2005
Banff Centre for the Arts - Long Term Artist Residency | Banff Canada
2004
Veneto Jazz Summer School by The New School | Bassano del Grapa Italy