Boris Kovač (1955) is a composer, instrumentalist and film maker from the Vojvodina region, the northern part of the present day Serbia. He composes music for chamber groups he rehearses and leads, moreover many of his projects are to some extent connected with film and theatre. His ensembles performed more than 600 concerts and festivals of World/New/Jazz Music in around 30 countries, travelling through 4 continents. Before his first documentary film 4 Suns and Piano he created 2 music/dance films: Times of Day and World after History.
His albums were 3 times in the Top 10 of the European Broadcast Union (World Music Charts Europe). The album The Last Balkan Tango was chosen among the best “50 essential albums ever” by the popular Songlines magazine.
His DVD film “Before and after Apocalypse”, received the prize of the German Critics Association (Preis der Deutschen Schalplatten Kritik) in 2008. Boris Kovač got the biggest Serbian theatre prize -Sterija Award for music in the year 2007 for the play “Nahod Simeon”. In the year 2008, 2011 he received the prize for the best music from the Cinema City film festival. In the year 2009 Boris composed the music for fiction film White, white World. This music got the award as the Best Soundtrack in Serbia for 2010.
For further information, see www.boriskovac.net