composition, sound art, media art, performance art


Biography

Lara Stanic is a classical musician, composer, performance and media artist.
She was born and grew up in Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia.
She lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland.

Lara Stanic studied classical music; concert and teaching diploma in flute at the University of Music Zürich and at the University of Music and Theatre Bern/Biel.
Followed by by the Open Music Diploma with a focus on New Music Theatre and
diploma in Electronic Music - Music and Media Art /Sound Arts at the Bern University of the Arts.

Lara Stanic works as a composer and performer in the fields of contemporary music, electronic music, sound art, music theatre, and performance art. She develops solo stage performances, composes for soloists, ensembles and electronics. The connection of electronic and digital media with the musician's body as well as the concert and performer situation are frequent themes in her work. In her experiments with electronics, she tries to extract a playful, poetic effect from the technology. Lara Stanic's use of modern media gives the classical concert situation an unexpected twist.

Lara Stanic is a member and co-founder of the GingerEnsemble Bern. The composer-performer ensemble focusses on historically informed performance practice of experimental electronic music. As a flautist and composer, Lara Stanic is a member of the ensemble Metanoia, Zurich, as well as the ensemble Funkloch, which presents the concert series FunklochOnAir with numerous guest composers and live concert broadcasts on Radio Lora Zurich.

Lara Stanic was a long-standing board member and president of the IGNM-International Society for New Music Zurich. She is currently president of the board of the IFMZ-Initiative Freie Musikszene Zürich and a board member of the SME Schweizer Musikedition.
Lara Stanic teaches flute at various music schools. Since 2011 she is a lecturer for the Performing New Technologies module in the CAP Master Contemporary Arts Practice programme at Bern University of the Arts.
Lara Stanic is currently working on her doctorate on the subject of "Smartphones as a Tool in the composition of electronic music" at the Anton Bruckner Private University Linz in collaboration with the Bern University of the Arts.