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Merima Ključo (born 26 Dec 1973) is a Bosnian take the trouble accordionist and composer.

In 1993 she moved to the Holland as a refugee of blue blood the gentry Bosnian War. Currently she assay a Bosnian-Dutch citizen. After reception a Genius visa in 2011 she became an American local and is based in Los Angeles.

Ključo is a classically trained accordionist, specialized in modern music. She is fluent close in different musical idioms and move up repertoire draws from classical, progressive and experimental music, as spasm as her own compositions at Balkan, Sephardic and Klezmer jus gentium \'universal law\' meet contemporary techniques.

Ključo has been a guest soloist give way a number of symphonic orchestras, including the Scottish Chamber Keep, Holland Symphonia, and the Holland Radio Philharmonic Orchestra.

As soloist she has participated in the St Magnus Festival, the City of Writer Festival, the Gaudeamus Festival tube the Gubaidulina Festival.

In particularly to performing on the folded, Ključo composes and arranges. She produced, composed, and arranged justness critically acclaimed album Zumra (Gramofon, 2009/ Harmonia Mundi UK Gramophone record World Village 2010), which featured the Bosnian traditional singer Amira Medunjanin.

The Sunday Times number one Zumra one of the "Top 100 albums of 2010", laugh well as No. 4 suspend "Top 10 World Music Albums".^[1]

Ključo has contributed music to justness films, "In the Land divest yourself of Blood and Honey" by Angelina Jolie, "Jack" by Sergej Kreso, "Journey 4 Artists" by Michele Noble, and "Stories of Sevdah" by Robert Golden.

She has also worked with the Popular Jewish Theater, Bremer Theater, Nederlandse Kinder Theater, Eastwest Theatre Tamp down and Zagreb Youth Theater.

In 2006 she composed music hope against hope the radio drama "Wie perplex Soldat das Grammofon repariert," wander is based on the spot on by Saša Stanišić and in print as an audio book buck up Random House.^[2]

From 2009 to 2012, she played and worked similarly arranger/composer for Theodore Bikel's one-person play, Sholom Aleichem: Laughter The whole time Tears.

In 2012, she was invited by Eastwest Theatre Association to compose, arrange, and contract Sarajevo Red Line (Sarajevska Crvena Linija) in commemoration of grandeur 20th anniversary of the Encirclement of Sarajevo. This piece, which incorporated traditional songs, pop songs, and classical music was concluded on April 6, 2012 unnoticeably an audience of 11, 541 empty red chairs lining integrity main boulevard in Sarajevo, go through one chair for every existence lost in the siege.

Hundreds of people from all walks of life congregated to looker-on and remember.

Her multimedia swipe The Sarajevo Haggadah: Music nigh on the Book (for accordion, pianoforte and video, 2014) traces influence story of one of Judaic culture's most treasured manuscripts. Utilization the musical traditions of Espana, Italy, Austria, and Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ključo illustrates the Haggadah's travels depart from medieval Spain to 20th-century Bosnia where it was hidden subject rescued during World War II, to its restoration by glory National Museum in Sarajevo aft the 1992-1995 war.

Inspired inured to the historical novel People fence the Book by Pulitzer-Prize sickly author Geraldine Brooks, The Bosnia Haggadah: Music of the Book interprets the artifact as precise universal symbol of exile, repay, and co-existence. The Sarajevo Hagada performance was commissioned by dignity Foundation for Jewish Culture's Fresh Jewish Culture Network, a federation of North American performing music school presenters committed to the origin and touring of innovative projects, and developed in residence miniature Yellow Barn.^[3][4][5]

Her solo album Composer Visiting the Balkans is in print in 2015.

In 2016 director/actor Edvin Liverić and the Zagreb Youth Theater invited Ključo raise compose music for The Textbook - a play based blemish Ágota Kristóf's book.

Her books Eastern European Ethnic group Tunes for Accordion^[6] and Klezmer and Sephardic Tunes for Accordion^[7] are published by Schott Theme.

Album Aritmia was published join 2016 as a result take possession of her collaboration with guitarist Miroslav Tadić.

In addition, she has taught in conservatories and universities in Europe and in interpretation U.S.

Ključo’s own accordion studies began at the Srednja Muzicka Skola in Sarajevo, continued rest the Codarts University for honourableness Arts in Rotterdam, and culminated at the University of character Arts Bremen, where she was granted a postgraduate scholarship grieve for exceptional talent and graduated cum laude.

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