Ljiljana Becker was born in Belgrade (Serbia) where she started with her piano and music theory training at the age of seven. She has studied music composition in Montenegro and Croatia with Prof. Željko Brkanović, (received BM in music compositionin in 1988) and in 1989 moved to Stuttgart (Germany) in order to attend a professional short-term specialization (Kontaktstudium) in musique concrète at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst with Prof. Ulrich Süße.
Ljiljana continued her professional specialization (Aufbaustudium) in New Music Theatre/Composition at the Rheinische Musikhochschule in Cologne with Prof. Mauricio Kagel, as well as musicology, Slavic philology and philosophy at the Cologne University. In 2002 she completed the graduate studies in interdisciplinary theatre at Towson University in Maryland (MFA in Theatre) where she was the recipient of College of Graduate Education and Research Fellowship for 2001/2002. (composition/electronic sound studies with Dr. William Kleinsasser)
Ljiljana participated at the 2. Tonkünstlerfest Baden-Württemberg, Rheinisches Musikfest, Documenta IX and MusikTriennale Köln festivals, and was part of The Creator "pro-active, mentoring and cross cultural" TV production in Vancouver, the GEDOK Music Series in Cologne and Women Between Worlds and New Roots, multi-disciplinary & multi-cultural documentaries directed by Exsul van Helden. She was awarded two residencies at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Meet the Composer Grant and the first prize for an abstract radiophonic form Modi’in by Radio Belgrade, Serbia. In 2018 Modi'in represented radio Belgrade at the Prix Palma Ars Acustica , Prix Italia, and Karl Sczuka festivals.
Ljiljana's projects have been performed in Europe, Canada and US. She is a member of the Baltimore Composers Forum since 2002 where she currently serves as the pesident, and is listed in Adkins Chiti Foundation: Donne in Musica.
Fifth Mirror [Part I] has been recently released by Chen Li Music as part of their Pluralities CD. In September 2019 Modi'in [Part I] has been performed at the District New Music Coalition's New Music DC 2019 Conference, and in October Ljiljana toured throughout Maryland and DC with her new music theatre project The Suitcase/Der Koffer. She is featured in February 2022 issue of NewMusicBox online magazine's Different Cities Different Voices - Baltimore.
Ljiljana is multilingual, and writes primarily under the professional name Jovanović.
Ljiljana continued her professional specialization (Aufbaustudium) in New Music Theatre/Composition at the Rheinische Musikhochschule in Cologne with Prof. Mauricio Kagel, as well as musicology, Slavic philology and philosophy at the Cologne University. In 2002 she completed the graduate studies in interdisciplinary theatre at Towson University in Maryland (MFA in Theatre) where she was the recipient of College of Graduate Education and Research Fellowship for 2001/2002. (composition/electronic sound studies with Dr. William Kleinsasser)
Ljiljana participated at the 2. Tonkünstlerfest Baden-Württemberg, Rheinisches Musikfest, Documenta IX and MusikTriennale Köln festivals, and was part of The Creator "pro-active, mentoring and cross cultural" TV production in Vancouver, the GEDOK Music Series in Cologne and Women Between Worlds and New Roots, multi-disciplinary & multi-cultural documentaries directed by Exsul van Helden. She was awarded two residencies at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Meet the Composer Grant and the first prize for an abstract radiophonic form Modi’in by Radio Belgrade, Serbia. In 2018 Modi'in represented radio Belgrade at the Prix Palma Ars Acustica , Prix Italia, and Karl Sczuka festivals.
Ljiljana's projects have been performed in Europe, Canada and US. She is a member of the Baltimore Composers Forum since 2002 where she currently serves as the pesident, and is listed in Adkins Chiti Foundation: Donne in Musica.
Fifth Mirror [Part I] has been recently released by Chen Li Music as part of their Pluralities CD. In September 2019 Modi'in [Part I] has been performed at the District New Music Coalition's New Music DC 2019 Conference, and in October Ljiljana toured throughout Maryland and DC with her new music theatre project The Suitcase/Der Koffer. She is featured in February 2022 issue of NewMusicBox online magazine's Different Cities Different Voices - Baltimore.
Ljiljana is multilingual, and writes primarily under the professional name Jovanović.