"powerful and atmospheric work, evocative of the sacred" - IAWM Journal

"...a superb, involving job of bringing together strands of classical, traditional Balkan, European disco and dramatic musics into a dazzling, coherent whole."  - The Big City Blog

"..memorably gypsyish ..evokes the hypnotic swirl of trip-hop.. as well as Angelo Badalamenti’s Twin Peaks score." - Lucid Culture blog

Svjetlana Bukvich-Nichols is one of Sarajevo's premier music figures. Her genre-bending works span from acoustic and performer-driven to electronic and theatrical. They often include movement, video, voice, and tuning of her design. An innovator in hybrid electronic sound, Svjetlana composes, produces, and performs with a unique musical sensibility informed by the cities she has lived in, including Edinburgh, New York City, Boston, Addis Ababa, and her native Sarajevo. Billed as a "concert composer/performer whose music defies boundaries" (ASCAP), Svjetlana has appeared at major venues across the country, such as the Times Center, the Tribeca Film Festival, Music With A View at the Flea Theater, The Knitting Factory, The Kitchen, The Anthology Film Archives, ASCAP's Thru The Walls Series, Serial Underground at the Cornelia Street Café, The Kennedy Center in Washington DC, the Inner Voices New Music Festival in Los Angeles, and internationally including Beijing, London, South Africa and Copenhagen.

Her music was broadcast on Voice of America, New York's Cable TV, American Music Center's Counterstream Radio, and John Schaefer's New Sounds on WNYC. She has received ASCAP’s Buddy Baker Film Scoring Scholarship, and grants from the Soros Foundation, American Composers Forum, New England Foundation for the Arts, and the Institute On The Arts And Civic Dialogue at Harvard University.

Recent activities include releases on Pitch and Innova Recordings and performances at Lincoln Center's Rose Studio and (Le) Poisson Rouge in NYC. Svjetlana is currently working on her new album, and a May 2011 commission from the American Festival of Microtonal Music. She is featured in the forthcoming book among sixteen contemporary women composers in American music "Conversations with American Women Composers" and will be an artist-in-residence at Lafayette College in fall 2011.

For more information visit http://www.svjetlanamusic.com.