Đuro Živković

In May 2021, Zivkovic was one of 10 new members elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, alongside Marika Field, Katarina Karnéus, Jonas Knutsson, Sten Sandell, Richard Sparks, Keiko Abe, Giancarlo Andretta, Stefan Dohr, and Quincy Jones.

Concerto for cello and orchestra, commissioned by Swedish Radio. The premiere was given by cellist Hanna Dahlkvist and conductor Shi-Yeon Sung, together with Malmö Symphony Orchestra. The music is inspired by book "The Way of a Pilgrim", a 19th-century Russian work, recounting the narrator's journey as a mendicant pilgrim across Russia while practicing the Jesus Prayer. Musical elements which Zivkovic include in the concerto are: numerous repetitions, plain chant from the Russian north, church bells, Syrian Orthodox church song, etc. The piece is strongly associated with "Ascetic Discourse" in which the concerto has its roots. The first movement is entitled "Ich ruf zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ", as a spiritual reminiscence of Bach's chorale prelude BWV 639.

The concerto has received "Lilla Christ Johnson Award" in 2019, by the Swedish Royal Music Academy.

A part of a larger passion project for solo tenor, chorus and orchestra; commissioned and written for the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra who premiered the work in April 2017, with Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts - tenor, the Netherlands Radio Choir and Martyn Brabbins - conductor. The work is sung in the Church-Slavonic and has drawn on the Orthodox Easter liturgy, of which forgiveness and redemption are the key focus. "The Mystical Sacrifice" covers the end of "passion" with Good Friday and Saturday. Zivkovic plans to complete the full passion week including the resurrection.

Živković is also a professional violinist and violist, performing new music, as well as an improviser on violin and piano. He has received many international scholarships and prizes for his work, including the Grawemeyer Award in 2014. He has worked as a teacher of composition, music theory and aural training and violin and chamber music.

On the Guarding of the Heart was commissioned by and dedicated to Das Klangforum Wien. The premiere was led by British conductor Clement Power. The piece represents Živković's highest achievement in his compositional technique, complexity and musical accessibility. He was awarded the 2014 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for the work.

Commissioned and dedicated to Carina Vinke (mezzo-soprano), New European Ensemble (the Netherlands) and Christian Karlsen (conductor). The piece earned the Mokranjac Award 2012. The Award Committee writes the following:

Paul Valery's poem of the same name inspired Živković for the piece commissioned and dedicated to famous mezzo-soprano Anna Larsson and chamber ensemble Sonanza, who gave its premiere. The piece is recorded on the label "Phono Suecia" among other pieces by Swedish composers, and won the Swedish Grammy Award as the best classical CD of year 2009.

The Ancient mode is a synthetic scale constructed and used by composer Djuro Zivkovic in his compositions since 2004. The first example is found in his Sophisticated Prelude No.1 for piano solo. Because of its vibrating, colourful sound, and the way how Zivkovic developed it in his music, he has named it "the ancient".

Đuro Živković, also rendered as Djuro Zivkovic (Serbian Cyrillic: Ђуро Живковић; born 1975), is a Serbian-Swedish composer and violinist. He has lived in Stockholm, Sweden, since 2000.