An Object Beyond Music

In 2020, composer Sara Glojnarić won Berlin’s “Neue Szenen” competition, awarded the prize by a jury chaired by Chaya Czernowin. In 2018, her work “#popfem,” which artfully dismantles anti-feminist and racist propaganda, received Darmstadt’s Kranichstein Music Prize. 

“I’d never thought that my identity as a queer woman could have such a strong influence on my work as a composer,” Glojnarić, who was born in Zagreb in 1991 and now lives in Stuttgart, told me in a recent interview. “It’s actually a typically ‘western’ thought, that one shouldn’t incorporate the personal into the musical. I’d considered these to be two separate things.”