From the 2002 SOCAN Awards, Marjan Mozetich is the recipient of the Jan V. Matejcek Concert Music Award in recognition for being the most performed and broadcast Canadian composer of the year receiving the highest paid royalties for concert music.

It has been said of Marjan Mozetich, "At last, someone who knows what Tchaikovsky would have written were he alive today!"

Keith Otis Edwards of the Classical Archives has written glowingly in a magnanimous article "The World's Greatest Composer". See: www.classicalarchives.com/articles/edwards030.html


 

Marjan Mozetich's compellingly beautiful music has found favour with outstanding artists, evident in their repeated presentations before an enthusiastic public.

Major symphonic works have received performances by leading ensembles including the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Vancouver Symphony, the Hamilton Philharmonic, Symphony Nova Scotia, I Musici de Montreal, Amadeus Ensemble, National Youth Orchestra, Thirteen Strings of Ottawa and the Edmonton Symphony. Exponents of his chamber works have included the Orford String Quartet, the St. Lawrence Quartet, Antonin Kubalek, Rivka Golani, Scott St. John, Robert Aikin, Mosha Hammer and Erica Goodman.

Mr. Mozetich has written compulsory pieces for the 1992 Banff String Quartet Competition and the 1995 Montreal International Music Composition. In 1995 he was the featured composer on postmodern music at the Gent Conservatory Music Festival in Belgium. Many of his works have been recorded on BIS of Sweden, CHANDOS of U.K, Centrediscs and CBC Records of Canada labels.

Mr. Mozetich, a graduate of the University of Toronto and the Royal Conservatory of Music has received over the years numerous awards and grants,and is on the composition staff at the School of Music, Queen's University. Marjan Mozetich now resides in Kingston, Ontario.

mm19@post.queensu.ca

 

 

On August 3, 2003 the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival, the largest in the world, devoted an entire evening concert to the music of Marjan Mozetich to a full house. A rousing ovation was given by a deeply satisfied audience. A thank you goes to the director, Julian Armour.

On May 8, 2003 the Emil Komel Slovenian Centre for Music Education in
Gorizia, Italy (his birth place) honoured Marjan Mozetich with a very
successful concert of his chamber music. The composer was present to
perform his piano pieces, AT THE TEMPLE. RAI Trieste recorded the concert for future broadcast.

On May 9 a followup event at the Kromberk Castle in Nova Gorica,
Slovenia presented a mini concert and panel discussion with Radio Ljubljana

At Kromberk Castle, front row left to right: Vida Gorjup Posinkovic, Tatjan Gregoric (both from Slovenian Radio), Marjan Mozetich, Silvan Kersevan (Director at Emil Komel Centre).

 

June 6, 2003, Mozetich's Concerto for bassoon, strings and marimba was
premiered by soloist Michael Sweeney and the Seiler Strings at their final Via Salzburg season concert held at the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto. The work was enthusiastically received with a standing ovation.