Canadian artist profile
SourcedMarjan Mozetich
Composer · Kingston, ON
Marjan Mozetich is a Kingston-based Canadian composer whose orchestral, chamber, choral, and solo works connect contemporary classical writing with minimalism and postmodern romanticism.
- Active since
- 1971
- Catalog
- 3 releases
- Last checked
- July 16, 2026
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Marjan Mozetich is a Canadian composer professionally based in Kingston, Ontario. His artist-controlled biography traces formal composition study at the University of Toronto and further study with Luciano Berio, Franco Donatoni, and David Bedford before a career spanning orchestral, chamber, choral, solo, theatre, film, and dance music. The Canadian Music Centre currently lists him in its Ontario region and holds more than eighty work records, while the official site describes a catalogue of more than seventy works. His style moved from early avant-garde expressionism through minimalism toward a melodic postmodern romantic language that blends modern, classical, and popular elements. The exact Spotify identity 4gV2sJGkviSLAJY1ojI4Ps contains three principal album containers available in Canada: Procession from 2000, Affairs of the Heart from 2008, and Marjan Mozetich: The Complete Piano Music from June 2024. These provider containers represent only composer-led releases, not the complete works catalogue or recordings of individual compositions on other artists' albums. The matching Apple Music identity 66084825 confirms the Canadian classical-composer identity and carries the 2024 piano collection alongside additional recordings of Mozetich's music. Jeremy Samolesky performs the eight pieces on the current Centaur Records release. The official work catalogue includes orchestral pieces such as Procession of Duos, Kingston Sketches, Postcards from the Sky, and Fantasia sul linguaggio perduto, with commissions and premieres documented by the composer. Current activity is supported by the official site's 2024 release announcement and the Kingston Symphony's 2025 to 2026 season, which programs Postcards from the Sky and describes Mozetich as Kingston's own. The composer retired from Queen's University teaching in 2018 after twenty-seven years, but the retirement applies to teaching rather than composition or performance of the catalogue. MusicList does not infer a record-production or engineering role from composition credits. Career distinctions include the 2010 JUNO Award for Classical Composition of the Year for Lament in the Trampled Garden and SOCAN's Jan V. Matejcek Concert Music Prize in 2002 and 2006. The Canadian Music Centre remains the official route for score sales and rentals, and current recording information is available through the artist-controlled site. Direct contact details found in legacy recording notes are not republished. Spotify media is displayed only through the provider-attributed live route with a monogram fallback.
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