Jazz Articles about Branka Parlic

About Branka Parlic

Album Review

Thirty-two years since pianist Branka Parlic's debut recording of the music of French composer Erik Satie, Inities 1988 (M Production, 1988), she offers another take on his work. Parlic, who is a lecturer at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Serbia, is also a professional pianist whose repertoire consists predominantly of works by modern-day composers such as Philip Glass, Arvo Part, Wim Mertens and Michael Nyman. But it's Satie who has been most consistently present in her repertoire. Famously, ...

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Album Review

Branka Parlic: Metamorphosis (The Music Of Philip Glass)

Read "Metamorphosis (The Music Of Philip Glass)" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski

by Nenad Georgievski
September 28, 2006

If there is one musician whose music is instantly recognizable, it's Philip Glass. His intricate melodies, repetitive patterns, combustive rhythms and sharp lyricism are just some of the trademarks that have featured throughout the different phases of his career. His music has inspired many artists, one of whom is Branka Parlic, a professor and long-time chief advocate of minimalist and avant-garde music in Serbia. Apart from giving lectures on these often different streams in modern music, she regularly performs their ...