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Hi! I am really curious which composition you have composed are considered to be your finest achievements. It is your opinion, public opinion, critical comments, anything. This is the list of my favourite compositions I have composed. I will mention five of them in every ensemble cast. ORCHESTRAL: Symphony no. 2 - My personal favourite, it makes me feel comfortable in composing long works. :) Concerto for violin and orchestra - It's the website's favourite too, it's already exposed on "Major works" section. Thanks! :D Contrasts in colour - early orchestral achievement (from 2003), I really started to feel comfortable in orchestral media with this one. Concerto for flute and orchestra - I enjoyed composing it very much. Not so virtuoso, but more melodic. Concerto for cello and orchestra - while it is fine in expressive and concertante matter, I have mentioned my dissatisfaction with formal approach several times. :) CHAMBER: Yearning for flute quartet - although composed back in 2004, I still consider it as one of my best works ever. I was really lucky to find a perfect combination of formal and expressive approach in it. And it became pretty popular all over the world. :D Pictures for saxophone quartet and two percussionists - one of my better recent chamber compositions. It is pretty bold in usage of modern techniques, specific tonal colouring and complex rhythms. Sonata for cello and piano - The critics in newspapers hate it, but I love it. Fortunatelly, several cellists love it too. :) One of my solid attempts to write a Sonata work in present tonal language. The Angel of Love for seven instruments - simply beautiful, that's all I can say. I also love the ensemble combination (flute, clarinet, trombone, percussion, piano, viola and cello) Divertimento Grazioso for violin, cello and piano - it is my breakthrough composition (written in early 1998) so even if I don't really take it as one of my best, I like it because of good memories. :) CHORAL: Mir vam zapustim (Peace unto you) - I just love it, that's all. Silence for choir and piccolo - A nice attempt to expand choral sound with other sonic expressions, rather than just singing. Popotnik (The Traveller) - I especially like the text of this poem which I set music on. So positive and universal. Imam ti nešto reći (There is something I need to tell you) - My first composition for which I won international prize for choral composition competition. But the composition itself is not one of my favourites though. :) Ave Maria - yet to be performed, but I enjoyed using a very simple musical language inside more modern expression. That's it so far. It's your turn! :) Yours Crt Sojar Voglar

Exactly. But anything gets eventually uploaded in YouTube (that's how I got familiarized with the Proms in first place ;) ).

NO I meant in the sense of letting us choose lol

I'm up to Op.50 with the piece I am just finishing now (although this includes arrangements and orchestrations of other pieces, so my total opus of entirely original compositions is more like 30). The Sun Rising (2010/11; orchestra): Until a few months ago the longest piece I'd completed, at 13 minutes, and my most successful as it reached the final of a national competition and was premièred in a public concert. In terms or personal significance, it taught me a lot about handling a longer form coherently and about using more original orchestration, as well as techniques such as writing sustained fast music and developing climaxes. It was also a major confidence boost, not just because of its success but due to the feedback from players and audience and the knowledge that I'd actually completed such a large amount of music in a style I wanted to write in and which managed to present an original idea. A Child of the Snows (2012; baritone, chorus and orchestra): OK, cheating a little as this is still (as of 13th July) around 20 bars incomplete, but I already feel this is my best achievement on almost all counts - handling of structure, instrumental and choral textures, setting the meaning of texts, use of a solo voice with orchestra (first time doing this) and just completing such a massive project - 27 minutes in a single movement. The première will take place this December. Midnight's Bell (2010, piano): This started life as a short chorale in another composition for harpsichord, but in a few days became a fairly substantial piece in its own right, in which I explore different textures available on the piano. Apart from feeling that the ending is too long, I was very pleased with the result., and it was a step into using longer forms than I had previously written. If Ye Love Me (2008, double choir): Half-arrangement, half composition, this was a re-imagining of Tallis' hymn with a second choir as a contemporary background. Whilst not an entirely original idea, I felt I carried this off well. In the Old Castle (2009, chamber orchestra): An orchestration of a Dvorak piano piece, but one of my most treasured achievements, not least for the warm reception it generated when performed. Whilst the music was not original, it was a noticeable step into developing a personal style of orchestration. ...And arts unknown before (2012, orchestra): Another 'quickie', done in a little over a week for a commission. It's neither my most original piece nor my most personal, but I rather like it and hope to expand this little fanfare into a longer choral composition in the future.

well I don't have as much as you but... Orchestral The Polyphasetic Colleection Op.20 (is a long long large work for full orchestra) Maseuayotl Op.31 Ecos del Tropico op.33 (this one was an achievement because I could manage to take those latin styles into a symphonic level, never done before I guess) Survivor Op.36 (this one I guess for the speed, I could write this work kinda fast and without very much planing) Electronic: I will hold to the End (when I did this I didn't have fancy libraries so I like very much what I could do then) Conferencia Subacuatica (I could sucessfuly emulate underwater sounds with synths) that is all I guess

When I get time I play guitar. Its my favorite.