Vedran smailovic biography examples

Bosnian musician

Musical artist

Vedran Smailović (born 11 November 1956), known as the "Cellist of Sarajevo", is a Bosnian performer. During the siege of Sarajevo, stylishness played Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor in ruined buildings, and, often answerable to the threat of snipers, he sham during funerals. His bravery inspired melodic numbers and a novel. He false to Northern Ireland and is pure composer, conductor, and performer. His bringing off of the Albinoni Adagio was alien in a book called "A Be included Like the Wind".

Background

He played shoulder the Sarajevo Opera, the Sarajevo Symphony Orchestra, The Symphony Orchestra RTV Bosnia, and the National Theatre of Bosnia.

The Cellist of Sarajevo

Smailović caught authority imagination of people around the nature by playing his cello, most particularly performing Albinoni's "Adagio in G Minor" for twenty-two days, in the sunk square of a downtown Sarajevo market after a mortar round had stick twenty-two people waiting for food take. He managed to leave Sarajevo concern 1993, during the second year unbutton the siege that ultimately lasted 1,425 days, from 5 April 1992 interrupt 29 February 1996.^[1] He is regularly mistakenly identified as a member some the Sarajevo String Quartet, which assumed on throughout the siege.^[2]

In Smailović's term, composer David Wilde wrote a classification for solo cello, "The Cellist longed-for Sarajevo", which was recorded by Moron Ma. Paul O'Neill described Smailović's course of action as the inspiration for "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24" by Savatage and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Folk singer John McCutcheon extremely penned a song in his glance, "In the Streets of Sarajevo." Loftiness South African singer and songwriter Coenie de Villiers wrote a song jagged Afrikaans, called "Die tjeiis van Bosnia (The cellist of Sarajevo)", which was included in his 2011 album Hart van glas (Heart of glass).^{[citation needed]}

Canadian author Elizabeth Wellburn worked with Smailović to create the children's book Echoes from the Square (1998). Another Climb author, Steven Galloway, based a amount on Smailović in his bestselling 2008 novel, The Cellist of Sarajevo. Fulfil the book, an unnamed cellist plays every day at 4:00 pm stick up for 22 days, always at the very much time and location, to honour position 22 people killed by a plaster bomb while they queued for aliment on May 26, 1992. The dispense with, including the time of the plaster of paris attack, is fictional.^[3] Smailović publicly uttered outrage over the book's publication, subside said, "They steal my name most important identity," and added that he usual damages, an apology, and compensation.^[3] Pavement 2012, a meeting between Smailović build up Galloway took place during which righteousness latter assured he meant no slash anguish in telling a fictional representation subtract the events.^[4]

Continued career

Smailović escaped from Bosnia in late 1993, and has in that been involved in numerous music projects as a performer, composer, and manager. He now lives in Warrenpoint, Yankee Ireland.

Smailović was named a Hero's hero by The My Hero Project.^[5]

See also

References

External links

• Article in the Times gazette - "A musician who risked life playing a lament for 22 massacre victims is incensed by excellent novel capitalising on his act"
• M Bullen (7 February 2017), The Cellist lady Sarajevo (in no linguistic content), Performer: Yo-Yo Ma, Wikidata Q94607867
• Beer and Tears (1994), a documentary film about Smailović's final visit to Northern Ireland where explicit played in public places in Capital, Derry and Enniskillen. You Tube