Ds2

 

For more projects and special activities visit section "Projects"

 

Trio Degradable

❙ •About the trio

This trio first gathered for a specific project, performance of two contemporary pieces (A. Dumont: Eglog and a piece by G. Francoise), but playing and performing together (in various concerts, some of which took place in Bozar-Brussels, Flagey -Brussels, Maison de Poesie-Namur) they found that they share the same passion and desire to broaden and expand the form of contemporary repertoire, for this chamber group. Especially interesting for trio is that this kind of trio was particularly popular in 18th century and was portrayed by artists such as Watteau and Rameau, when portraying the atmosphere of the “Salon”, and music as a “soundtrack” to life often played at those very home salons. Having in mind what music represented then, and giving an homage to this time, their idea is to broaden the bond and performance expression of the trio, to further enrich and present pieces of contemporary music, contemporary take on subjects of music and its presence in the soundscape of everyday life. Employing contemporary instruments and even more contemporary techniques, goal is to have new pieces written inspired by this idea of combining diverse spaces for performing music, musical meanings and searching for inspiration in both entertaining but also enlightening, inner search spheres and even giving social statements. Taking the past and tradition as starting points only to transform it to “today” and view of “what’s coming”.

 

❙ •Current projects

You can read about the current project in the downloadable project description here. (Available in French. For any questions don't hesitate to send a message: contact [at] dejanasekulic.com)

 

❙ •About the girls

Cindy Castillo

High-spirited and uncompromising, talented and inspiring, Cindy Castillo has been raising her visiblity on the international scene of young organists through her concerts on four continents. She conceives her programmes along original thematic lines and transports her audience into another world due to the passionate commitment of her interpretations. Beyond her “classical” concerts, both as a brilliant soloist and as humble part of chamber music, Cindy Castillo equally explores possible dialogues at the cutting edge between the organ and other artistic languages, prominently among them dance, video and electronic music. She is also in touch with several contemporary composers: works by Claude Ledoux and Benoît Mernier have been dedicated to her. After graduating from the conservatories of Brussels and Paris, she became a laureate of foundations such as Rotary, Vocatio, Wernaers and de Lacour, as well as being invited as artist in residence at Sapporo Concert Hall in 2008-2009 with a view to promoting the organ and Western music in Japan. In the course of the past season she was invited for grand début recitals at prestigious venues such as Brussels cathedral (in the BOZAR series), at the Philharmonic Hall in Liège and at the Ars Musica festival. She also proved her mettle for he first time at the other side of the Atlantic, in Philadelphia and New York (USA), as well as on the African continent at Lumumbashi cathedral (Congo). In addition to her activities as a performer, Cindy Castillo is also a producer and host at musiq3, the Francophone classical radio station in Belgium. She frequently designs and presents the programme Le rendez-vous des musiciens. She also teaches organ at the Music Academy of Woluwé-Saint-Lambert in Brussels, while concurrently serving as titular organist at the National Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Brussels (Koekelberg). Cindy Castillo lives and works commuting between Brussels and Paris.

Maria Jose Jeannin

Maria José Jeannin was born in Besançon, France, where she learned harp, ballet and music at the Conservatoire untill 1998. From 1998 to 2000, she studied harp and musicology at the Conservatoire and the Faculté of Aix-en-Provence, France. From 2000 to 2003, she studied at the Conservatoire supérieur de musique of Geneva, Switzerland, where she got the Soloist diplom, with the teacher Catherine Eisenhoffer.
From 2003 to 2007, she studied at Musikene, Centro superior del País Vasco, San Sebastián, Spain, with Frédérique Cambreling.
In 2004, she participated at the Lucern Festival Academy of music, with Pierre Boulez. In 2005 and 2006, she was member of the the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester Academy, with Claudio Abbado, Philippe Jordan, Ingo Metzmacher, and played at the Musikverein Hall in Vienna and at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
Since 2005, she works regulary with the Ensemble intercontemporain, the Orquesta sinfónica de euskadi, the Radio Televisión Española, the Orchestre Philarmonique de Strasbourg, the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, the Orchestre Philarmonique de MonteCarlo... Since 2004, she' s member of the contemporary Ensemble Laboratorium, based on Zürich, Switzerland. In 2009, she participated at the Festival de musique de Besançon as a soloist. From 2007 to 2009, she's harpist at the Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania, Italy.
She presents an interest on new music, and working with contemporary composers, particulary on musical theater. Since 2012, she participates at the advanced master with the Ictus Ensemble.

Dejana Sekulić was born in Niš, Serbia where her musical education started in the Musical School, under the supervision of eminent professor Branislava Petrović Marković, most of whose students became appreciated performers or educators. Their fruitful cooperation lasted until Dejana graduated at the High School for Music "Vojislav Vučković" as the top student of her class. After that she went to study in the class of professor Igor Aleksić at the Faculty of Music at the University of Niš, where again she was as a top student. She continued her studies and obtained Masters degree and Postrgraduaat in Music and Performing Arts on Royal Conservatory of Brussels in the class of professor Valery Oistrakh and Bart Bouckaert.

Furthermore, she participated in several master classes, held throughout Europe, by renowned violinists, as well as numerous competitions, where she was, almost as a rule, ranked amongst the best. She worked with masters such as Igor Oistrakh, Ruggiero Ricci, Vladimir Spivakov, Eugenia Tchugayeva, Stefan Camilarov, Ilan Gronich, Mihail Grube, Dejan Mihailović, Angel Stankov.

During this time she has been performing regularly in Serbia and in Belgium, as well as in other European countries (Italy, Slovenia, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, Bulgaria, Germany) She also did several recordings for both Serbian and Italian radio and TV broadcasting companies. Beside solo performances, very wide and vivid chamber music engagements, there is her work with several orchestras that is also being noted. She played with “Constantinus Chamber Orchestra” from Serbia, Symphony Orchestra of Niš, Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra, “Timur und seine Mannschaft”, SymphoniaASSAI. She is the founder, musician and member of artistic council behind “deACT”, 2010 –collective that gathers eight musicians for performing, in different combinations, chamber music repertoires as well as new and special projects. She is the violinist in LAPS ensemble, ensemble that works with combining acoustic and electronic production of sound. She also plays in Trio Degradable (harpsichord, harp and violin trio) and has a close collaboration in the violin and piano duo, with pianist Nao Momitani.

Currently, she is working on a research in contemporary violin music, technique and performance and is a fellow in the program for contemporary music of the Ictus (Brussels) and Spectra (Gent) Ensembles.

To obtain a copy of biography, please visit the download section

Beside here, you can also visit (and follow updates) on Soundcloud.

Portraits

dejana dejana dejana dejana
dejana  dejana

Concerts

   
   
   
   
  

Please visit download section for obtaining "use-approved" photos.

"Tell me about... " - following the footsteps of thoughts of exceptional artists from Dejana Sekulic on Vimeo.

More details and information of this project are going to be published soon on: www.dejanasekulic.com

This video preview is an interlude and was a spark of inspiration for initiating and starting up artistic research.
The main concept of this artistic research (or rather artistic journey) is dealing, expressing and searching for new/extanded technique, technical expressions, contemporary music lines and meaning, thus broadening violin technique and repertoire. You will be able to follow updates and if you would like, you could also take part in some parts and performances of this project.

Follow also the video updates on vimeo.com channel: vimeo.com/dejana

Pick a project you would like to know more about by clicking on the title.
Please don't hesitate to send comments, thoughts, remarks, inquiries and/or any question you might have to contact [at] dejanasekulic.com
  • in_searchresearch

    The main concept of this artistic research (or rather artistic journey) is dealing, expressing and searching for new technique, technical expressions, contemporary music lines and meaning, thus broadening violin technique and repertoire. You will be able to follow updates and if you would like, you could also take part in some parts and performances of this project.

    ✱ Upadate: The second version of the essay "Do you Hear me? - Handbook to contemporary violin notation" will soon be available for download here.
    Do you Hear me? (Cover and Author's note)

    More details and information of this project are going to be published soon. In the meantime, you are welcome to look at the video-interview part of this work, titled "Where do we go from here?", which is an introduction to upcoming events that follow this research (you can find this video in video section of "Media" or by clicking here, for vimeo.com channel.)

  • Bach_Ysaye

    Full description and information on this project will be soon updated.
  • LAPS Ensemble

    Laps on ArsMusica


    ❙ •Members

    Claude Ledoux (conductor), Nao Momitani (piano), Dejana Sekulić, Jérémie Ninove (cello), Rudy Mathey (clarinet), Nicolas Villers (trombone), Gilles Gobert (laptop), Gilles Doneux (laptop).

    ❙ •Contact

    For any inquiries and booking please contact:
    laps.ensemble [at] gmail.com

    ❙ •About LAPS

    LAPS = L a p t o p  &  A c o u s t i c  P r o d u c t i o n  S y s t e m
    To find out more about this ensemble, our projects and music visit the official website, but also check out our Soundcloud and listen to some pieces and performances.

  • Nigh Chronicles: Dreamsand Nightmares

    Creation in progress. More information coming soon.
  • PhD in One Night

    PhD in 1 night


    ❙ •Members

    People Coming from Nowhere are (in this moment) : Liza Penkova, Ivana Momcilovic, Marta Coronado, Dejana Sekulic, Nina de Vroome, Xavier Löwenthal, Ljubomir Jakic, Kosta Jakic, Beniamin Boar, Jacques Ranciere, Djordje Balzamovic, Anny Czupper, Francois Beukelaers, Uros Maksimovic, and all who wish to join... Special thanks to Brice Cannavo, Pauline Fonsny, Manuella de Tervarent, Collectif Manifestement. To be continued...

    ❙ •Contact

    For any inquiries and booking please contact:
    share [at] phdinonenight.net or visit the official website

    ❙ •About PhD in One Night

    :: choreography of education::
    Philosophy of (better) living through art (of) movement and sound. Through understanding and taking education as discovering and sharing. In process in which everybody (and everything) is a teacher and everybody is a student. Where art is taken as knowledge. Where art becomes knowledge. As art is knowledge.

    PhD in One Night is based on the philosophy of Jacques Rancière and his book Le Maître ignorant : Cinq leçons sur l'émancipation intellectuelle where, rather than seeing equality as astral destination, the reader is challenged to consider it as a starting point.
    Rancière starts from the premise that all people are equal, of equal intelligence and goes on to consider that any collective educational exercise based on the principle of searching, researching, comparing, translating can bring to the insights from which knowledge is constructed. With this, Rancière goes on to claim that the disenfranchised should feel perfectly able to teach themselves whatever it is they want to know, not feel bound to experts or rely on others for their own intellectual emancipation.
    Through the story of his main protagonist, Joseph Jacotot, Rancière advocates equality of intelligence and the idea that there is stultification whenever one intelligence acts as if it is subordinated to another and that, in fact, whoever teaches without emancipating, stultifies.
    Growing, absorbing and extending knowledge in this manner goes to suggest that educators can channel the equal intelligence in everybody (and everything) and with that facilitate their intellectual growth in unlimited directions.

    "It is never to late. One is never too old or too stiff to become a dancer, a writer, a poet, an architect,a musician, a choreographer, a cook... It is never too late to have several lives in one."
    Watch the trailer for "PhD in One Night" on vimeo.com by clicking here

  • art is my...

    art is my...


    art is knowledge. art is unique. art is every person... every life... every day. art is moving. growing through art. art is living. living is art.

    ❙ •To view everything about this work and meet all its (current+future) participants, please visit "Art is my..." official presentation.

    For any inquiries please contact:
    contact [at] dejanasekulic.com

    ❙ •About "Art is my..."

    The only bounderies and limits we have are those that we impose to ourselves. When truth is the fact that one can do and reach beyond any limits. If one dares. It is said art should provoke. This work hopes that it does exactly that. It provokes every individual to find within themselves desire, strength, passion to go beyond their known bounderies, in no matter which part of work or life. Improve. Themselves, for themselves. Thus improving first the quality of own life and than society.
    Art and education are the sparks that initiate us to think and strive, expand and set intellectual challenges. Spark that doesn’t allow us to be satisfied with shortcuts, mediocrity and trivial. Art is an individual and unique expression of inner thought and feeling. Each person possess within individuality, unique personality. That makes each life unique. Life, an unique piece of art. Life is art as art is life.
    “Art is my…” looks on art as whole, its necessity for quality living and perceiving life, with all its individuality and originality, as a form of art. It aims to remind of these sparks that we should never forget about and that we should embrace, through artists – pictures, stories and performances of their artistry and their everydayness. Because, an artist is not necessarily just the person doing art. Just as well, even without being an artist, one becomes so in its own way and work – by making their everydayness, their life, their doing be inspired and lead by artistry and innovative thinking.

  • Trio Degradable

    Trio Degradable


    ❙ •About the trio

    This trio first gathered for a specific project, performance of two contemporary pieces (A. Dumont: Eglog and a piece by G. Francoise), but playing and performing together (in various concerts, some of which took place in Bozar-Brussels, Flagey -Brussels, Maison de Poesie-Namur) they found that they share the same passion and desire to broaden and expand the form of contemporary repertoire, for this chamber group. Especially interesting for trio is that this kind of trio was particularly popular in 18th century and was portrayed by artists such as Watteau and Rameau, when portraying the atmosphere of the “Salon”, and music as a “soundtrack” to life often played at those very home salons. Having in mind what music represented then, and giving an homage to this time, their idea is to broaden the bond and performance expression of the trio, to further enrich and present pieces of contemporary music, contemporary take on subjects of music and its presence in the soundscape of everyday life. Employing contemporary instruments and even more contemporary techniques, goal is to have new pieces written inspired by this idea of combining diverse spaces for performing music, musical meanings and searching for inspiration in both entertaining but also enlightening, inner search spheres and even giving social statements. Taking the past and tradition as starting points only to transform it to “today” and view of “what’s coming”.

     

    ❙ •Current projects

    You can read about the current project in the downloadable project description here. (Available in French. For any questions don't hesitate to send a message: contact [at] dejanasekulic.com)

     

    ❙ •About the girls

    Cindy Castillo

    High-spirited and uncompromising, talented and inspiring, Cindy Castillo has been raising her visiblity on the international scene of young organists through her concerts on four continents. She conceives her programmes along original thematic lines and transports her audience into another world due to the passionate commitment of her interpretations. Beyond her “classical” concerts, both as a brilliant soloist and as humble part of chamber music, Cindy Castillo equally explores possible dialogues at the cutting edge between the organ and other artistic languages, prominently among them dance, video and electronic music. She is also in touch with several contemporary composers: works by Claude Ledoux and Benoît Mernier have been dedicated to her. After graduating from the conservatories of Brussels and Paris, she became a laureate of foundations such as Rotary, Vocatio, Wernaers and de Lacour, as well as being invited as artist in residence at Sapporo Concert Hall in 2008-2009 with a view to promoting the organ and Western music in Japan. In the course of the past season she was invited for grand début recitals at prestigious venues such as Brussels cathedral (in the BOZAR series), at the Philharmonic Hall in Liège and at the Ars Musica festival. She also proved her mettle for he first time at the other side of the Atlantic, in Philadelphia and New York (USA), as well as on the African continent at Lumumbashi cathedral (Congo). In addition to her activities as a performer, Cindy Castillo is also a producer and host at musiq3, the Francophone classical radio station in Belgium. She frequently designs and presents the programme Le rendez-vous des musiciens. She also teaches organ at the Music Academy of Woluwé-Saint-Lambert in Brussels, while concurrently serving as titular organist at the National Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Brussels (Koekelberg). Cindy Castillo lives and works commuting between Brussels and Paris.

    Maria Jose Jeannin

    Maria José Jeannin was born in Besançon, France, where she learned harp, ballet and music at the Conservatoire untill 1998. From 1998 to 2000, she studied harp and musicology at the Conservatoire and the Faculté of Aix-en-Provence, France. From 2000 to 2003, she studied at the Conservatoire supérieur de musique of Geneva, Switzerland, where she got the Soloist diplom, with the teacher Catherine Eisenhoffer.
    From 2003 to 2007, she studied at Musikene, Centro superior del País Vasco, San Sebastián, Spain, with Frédérique Cambreling.
    In 2004, she participated at the Lucern Festival Academy of music, with Pierre Boulez. In 2005 and 2006, she was member of the the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester Academy, with Claudio Abbado, Philippe Jordan, Ingo Metzmacher, and played at the Musikverein Hall in Vienna and at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
    Since 2005, she works regulary with the Ensemble intercontemporain, the Orquesta sinfónica de euskadi, the Radio Televisión Española, the Orchestre Philarmonique de Strasbourg, the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, the Orchestre Philarmonique de MonteCarlo... Since 2004, she' s member of the contemporary Ensemble Laboratorium, based on Zürich, Switzerland. In 2009, she participated at the Festival de musique de Besançon as a soloist. From 2007 to 2009, she's harpist at the Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania, Italy.
    She presents an interest on new music, and working with contemporary composers, particulary on musical theater. Since 2012, she participates at the advanced master with the Ictus Ensemble.

  • Duo_Ascic_Sekulic

    Aščić-Sekulić duo met over the course of studies at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels. Early on they discovered mutual way of thinking, understanding and feeling music and art forms. This lead to combining these two similar, yet individual, approaches in one expression. The duo strives to, with each new performance, enrich their musical journey, broadening further comfort and ease in sharing ideas, emotions and colors of music. Altogether with including the influence of inevitable “third” person of their duo – the audience.

    You can read more in their downloadable biograbhy here.

  • deACT

    deACT

    ❙ •Current projects

     

    ❙ •Current members

    Clara Sánchez, Dejana Sekulić, Donatienne Moulard, Mariella Baier, Noah Mayer, Nejc Lavrenčič, Pablo Menéndez Freije.

    ❙ •Contact

    For any inquiries and booking please contact:
    deact [at] dejanasekulic.com

    ❙ •About deACT

    deACT is DeArtCollective. Music, and art in general, are very important for us, as they enrich our lives and culture. We were brought together by desire to create art through music and we would also to share it and spread awareness of its importance.
    We were all students at Brussels' Conservatory immersed in our own projects, when our paths began to cross each other. This is when we decided to combine our ideas and visions and start working together. And the idea of an artistic collective was “born”.
    We strive to show how, for us, the classical music comes as close as any other type of music. How it can be fun. How it can be serious. How it can be deep, yet when it is necessary, very light. deACT gives us freedom to explore this. We formed deACT as a collective, to stay individuals in a group, but without making borders between each other. Because we felt that only this way, together, we can create something greater and better.
    For us, being part of a collective is not only about playing along other musicians. It is also about an exchange of ideas and thoughts through music between each other, and further sharing and exchanging (ideas) with our audience. Including and interacting with audience for creating better and greater experience not only from musical pleasure point of view, but also from rising general standards and expectations music and culture can bring. The communication between musicians is very important. Having established a good basis of communication and feeling comfortable, yet inspired for going further, we are careful and “picky” when it comes to involving new musicians. However, we are always open and happy in meeting and exploring new possibilities to “join forces” and add new people and artists. Because, as deACT grows, so does our idea of spreading the music and culture to people, involving audience and communicating with them…
    This “structure” of different combinations of members allows us to have diverse artists depending on an idea or a concept of the upcoming concerts and projects. Or if necessary, less. Nevertheless, we all work together on developing us as a collective, keeping in mind that in order for that to happen, each member has also to individually develop and advance as an artist.
    We try not to be bound by periods in music. We strive to perform music from all periods – from ancient to contemporary. Because our goal is performing and teaching valuable and important aspects of music and musical history, so that the modern day performer or “music lover” can have good foundation and form an opinion that would lead them in their future life with classical (and any other kind) of music. Of course, taste can vary and that is something what we discuss, but we help each other find beauty and meaning in every piece we decide to play. This way, the audience can also feel the structure of each piece and understand and feel it better.
    Beside concert performances, deACT activities include chamber music workshops and music initiation for children.

  • People (Musicians, Composers, Artists, Colaborators..)

Coming Soon

❙ •2014

•March
Wednesday 12th with G.A.M.E @ (to be announced), Gent
Thursday 13th sonatas for violin and piano (Debussy, Ravel and Penderecki No.2) with Pablo Garcia Berlanga @ (to be announced), Gent
Friday 21st sonatas for violin and piano (Debussy, Ravel and Penderecki No.2) with Pablo Garcia Berlanga @ Maene, Brussels

•April
Tuesday 1st, with Besides - open general rehearsal for Baudouin de Jaer's new chamber opera "La forêt" @ Théâtre La Balsamine, Brussels
Wednesday 2nd with Besides - Baudouin de Jaer's new chamber opera "La forêt" @ Théâtre La Balsamine, Brussels
Thursday 3rd with Besides - Baudouin de Jaer's new chamber opera "La forêt" @ Théâtre La Balsamine, Brussels
Friday 4th with Besides - Baudouin de Jaer's new chamber opera "La forêt" @ Théâtre La Balsamine, Brussels
Saturday 5th with Besides - Baudouin de Jaer's new chamber opera "La forêt" @ Théâtre La Balsamine, Brussels

•May
Thursday 8th with LAPS @Shanghai International Festival, China
Friday 9th with LAPS @Shanghai International Festival, China
Tuesday 20th creation @ Wevelgem
Thursday 29th Ligeti with G.A.M.A @ (to be announced), Gent

•June
Thursday 5th solo violin+duo with Nao Momitani @ (to be announced) Gent

•October
Sunday 26th @ MiM, Brussels

❙ •2015

•May
Sunday 10th @ MiM, Brussels

 

❙ •2013

•December
Thursday 19th with LAPS @ Saturnalia, Gent
Sunday 8th sonatas for violin and piano (Debussy, Ravel and Penderecki No.2) with Pablo Garcia Berlanga @ MiM, Brussels
Saturday 7th with G.A.M.E @ Batard Festival, Beursschouwburg, Brussels
Friday 6th with G.A.M.E @ Batard Festival, Beursschouwburg, Brussels
Thursday 5th with G.A.M.E @ Batard Festival, Beursschouwburg, Brussels
Sunday 1st with SymphoniaASSAI @ De Zinne

•November
Friday 29th solo violin @ Wewevlgem
Thursday 28th with SymphoniASSAI @ Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, Brussels

•October
Monday 28th Lachenmann and Gubaifulina @ Orpheus Institut, Gent
Sunday 13th Bach and Ysay solo violin sonatas @ MiM, Brussels

•September
Sunday 22nd with SymphoniaASSAI @ Beringen, Limburg
Sunday 15th with SymphoniaASSAI @ Bozar, Brussels
Friday 13th solo violin @ L'Académie royale de Belgique, Brussels

•July
Sunday 21st violin and piano recital @ Gent Festival, Gent

•June
Tuesday 18th Recital "Sound of existence. Existence of sound", followed by presentation of the essey "Do you hear me? Handbook to contemporary notation, with Nao Momitani @ Koninklij Conservatorium, Brussels Thursday 6th with Trio Degradable @ Miry Hall, Gent

•May
Sunday 12th with SymphoniaASSAI @ Cultuurcentrum, Haselt
Friday 10th with SymphoniaASSAI @ Koninklijk COnservatorium, Brussels
Saturday 4th with Trio Degradable @ Maison de Poesie, Namur

•April
Sunday 28th vioPhonia (violin duo, with Mersiha Teskeredzic) @ Brik Festival, Maastricht
Sunday 28th violn&piano recital, with Pablo Garcia Berlanga @ MiM, Brussels
Thursday 4th with Trio Degradable @ Bozar, Brussels

•March
Friday 15th with LAPS for ArsMusica @ La Raffinerie, Brussels

•February
Thursday 28th with vioPhonia (violin duo with Mersiha Teskeredzic) @ KoT concerts, Brussels
Wednesday 20th "COncErto...? Certo! - cOn soli pEr tutti (... perduti) with Heinz Holliger @ Koniklijk Conservatorium, Brussels
Sunday 3rd with Trio Degradable @ Flagey, Brussels

❙ •2012
❙ •2011

       CV

       bio

       photo