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Featuring Damir Imamović, University of Sarajevo Music Academy

Kresge Hall, Room 1515 or Via Zoom! 

Damir Imamović is a musician, author, researcher in ethnomusicology and educator.

www.damirimamovic.com

Professionally active as a performer and music author since 2005. Damir released seven music albums for labels such as Smithsonian Folkways, Glitterbeat Records, Wrasse Records. His concert tours included Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, USA, China, Japan, India, Mexico…

Damir has been awarded several national and international awards: “The Best of Europe” for his “Singer of Tales” album by Transglobal WMC, “The best in traditional music” by German Association of music critics (both in 2020), two awards by national association of authors in Bosnia and Herzegovina (AMUS) as well as several awards for film and theatre music.

Damir graduated at the Department of Philosophy and Sociology (University of Sarajevo, 2003) and completed his master degree at the Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology (University of Sarajevo, 2022). He is a PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology at the Music Academy in Sarajevo where he also works as an assistant professor.

He teaches regularly within his own “SevdahLab”, an educational and research program. He held lectures and taught workshops internationally: at Loyola University Chicago (USA), Collegio Internazionale Ca' Foscari (Venice, Italy), Department of Slavistics at the Philosophical faculty in Ljubljana (Slovenia), Music academy in Zagreb (Croatia), Music institute of SANU (Serbia), Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversität (Austria), Music academy in Aarhus (Denmark), Boise State University (USA), among others.

Damir curated a multimedia exhibition “Sevdah, the art of freedom” (UG FOTON, Art gallery of BIH, 2015) and authored the first history of sevdah music “Sevdah” (Vrijeme, Zenica, 2016). His recent work is "History of queer life in Bosnia and Herzegovina" ("Historija kvir života u BiH", SOC 2025) which he edited and co-authored.