Pianist Branka Parlić is one of the most prominent interpreters and promoter of New Music in ex-Yugoslavian region. She graduated from the Faculty of Music at the University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia where she studied under Professor Olga Mihailovic in the late 1970s. She later refined piano skills at the Summer Music Academy in Nice under Paris Conservatory professor Pierre Sancan. Since 1986 Branka Parlić exclusively focused her work on the music of French composer Erik Satie as well as to 20th and 21st Century New Music – Minimalism and Post Minimalism. She released the vinyl Initiés (1988), CD Initiés ’88 - Initiés ‘99 (1999) with music by Erik Satie, and the CD Metamorphosis (2004) with Philip Glass’s piano pieces. Branka Parlić released vinyl Satie & Beyond on 2014 by Sing-Sing Studios in Holland and Odličan hrčak in Serbia, presenting the piano pieces by Erik Satie, Graham Fitkin, Jeroen van Veen and Philip Glass. She presented this program at the concerts in London (St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden) and Liverpool (Capstone Theatre, Liverpool Hope University) in 2013, and Lunchtime performance in London (Southbank Centre) in 2015. New double vinyl Initiés 2017 was released in 2019 by label Triston Master Recordings SCHOPPER in Switzerland and by co-publisher “Odličan hrčak ” for Serbia. For this record she received Silver Medal at Global Music Awards in 2020. Her music and concert videos are regularly broadcasted on the major regional Radio and Television channels as well as on the British C Music TV. Branka Parlić performed as a soloist and chamber musician in Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Germany, England, France, Austria, Macedonia, Croatia, Hungary, Switzerland, Romania, Holland and Denmark. She also performs film music often live to film or with appropriate video works and visualizations. She works as a piano teacher at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad/Serbia, acts as Artistic director of the concert serial New Ears for New Music and is also often holding lectures and seminars on New Music. She is also a member of Ensemble for Different New Music which repertoire is dedicated to Minimalism and Post Minimalism.
Awards
For the record Inities 2017 she received Silver Medal at Global Music Awards in 2020.
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, ...
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 ...
… Even though I have few CDs of Satie’s music, Branka Parlic’s way of playing is my favorite… Sound initiation is as well important as physical…”Time Regained” as Marcel Proust once said.
Gorčin Stojanović Blic, 2006, Belgrade
… Balkan Bravura at Capstone Theatre, Liverpool
Serbian-based Branka Parlic has played all over Eastern Europe, and it was a real treat to see her in the Capstone's brilliantly acoustic setting for an evening of minimalist and post-minimalist piano music tonight.
… Even though I have few CDs of Satie’s music, Branka Parlic’s way of playing is my favorite… Sound initiation is as well important as physical…”Time Regained” as Marcel Proust once said.
Gorčin Stojanović Blic, 2006, Belgrade
… Balkan Bravura at Capstone Theatre, Liverpool
Serbian-based Branka Parlic has played all over Eastern Europe, and it was a real treat to see her in the Capstone's brilliantly acoustic setting for an evening of minimalist and post-minimalist piano music tonight.
Joe Coventry, Catalyst media, Novembar 2013
… But Parlić's playing had guts, it was sparkling and the sound and melody came in waves, especially the control of the volume in certain passages were pristine, going down as it should be. The audience was ecstatic and couldn't stop applauding. Études 2, 6 and 17 followed and it was clear that Parlić's skills are up there in the pantheon of the great pianists. A stroke of genius was the performance of Opening from Glassworks, absolutely expert and sentimental, in the good meaning of the word, Parlić's transformed a tune into something ethereal and melodious as I never heard before. As Philip K. Dick wrote: "That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky." Branka Parlić does that.
Benjamin Silva-Pereira The Fabrication of Wonders, February, 2016
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