MILOS RAICKOVICH, composer and conductor, was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1956. He has lived and worked in Belgrade, Paris, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Hiroshima and New York, where he now resides. Raickovich’s music has been performed in numerous venues in Europe and the US. Milos Raickovich studied composition with Vasilije Mokranjac, Olivier Messiaen and David Del Tredici; and conducting with Borislav Pascan, Pierre Dervaux, and Herbert Blomstedt. He holds a Ph.D. in composition from CUNY, and has taught at several universities in the U.S. and Japan. His choral work Parastos is published by Boosey & Hawkes.


Milos Raickovich’s orchestral music is released on Mode Records, on the CD NEW CLASSICISM, featuring pianist Margaret Leng Tan and the Moscow Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer. The Los Angeles Times critic Mark Swed describes Raickovich’s music as “a unique postmodern response to both minimalism and multiculturalism.” Raickovich’s CD B-A-G-D-A-D (Albany Records), features a collection of antiwar pieces. Critic Steve Smith describes the CD in Time Out New York, “Some of the works are wistful and poignant, while others are jarring and volatile; all are inventive, provocative and timely.”


Three Romances were written in 1988, fist in a version for violin and orchestra, and later that year in a version for violin (or flute) and piano. This work belongs to New Classicism that Mr. Raickovich likes to call "his style”. In 1979, he wrote that “New Classicism may be roughly defined as a blend of musical Minimalism and the styles of Viennese Classical and early Romantic music. Its form is Classical (e.g. the sonata cycle), but tonality is reduced to only a few notes of the scale. This reduction gives tonal music a new quality—a new energy.” M.R.


Three Romances are recorded on Milos Raickovich’s CD NEW CLASSICISM, with the violinist Igor Frolov and the Moscow Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer (Mode Records). This CD is available in the lobby.