Marjan Mozetich

Marjan Mozetich (born 1948) is a Canadian composer who has written music for theatre, film and dance, as well as symphonic works, chamber music, and solo pieces. He has written compulsory competition pieces for the 1992 Banff String Quartet Competition (Lament in the Trampled Garden) and the 1995 Montreal International Music Competition (L’esprit Chantant for violin and piano). Co-founder of Arraymusic in Toronto, Mozetich served as their artistic director from 1976 to 1978. After his work with Array, he worked for some time at the University of Toronto music library, and then became a freelance composer. Mozetich discovered classical music on CBC Radio, which inspired him to compose romantic music through listening to Chopin, Tchaikovsky, and Rachmaninoff. He also first heard on the radio what was then considered “super-modern pieces”, which presented him with a totally different, almost science-fiction perspective. He then started improvising some of his own “super-modern pieces” rather than practicing the classics. At this point, he had not yet learned how to record his compositions. and a Bachelor of Music degree in 1972 in composition and piano. With the help of the Canada Cou