Misha Cvijović was born in Belgrade and lives and works in Berlin as a composer, musical director, pianist, synthesizer performer, and sound artist. Her work spans a wide spectrum of contemporary genres —from instrumental solo and chamber works to orchestral, electroacoustic, opera, and music theatre compositions, as well as music for theatre and film. Constantly exploring new sonic and artistic possibilities, her music transforms sound into vivid, boundary-crossing experiences.
Cvijović completed Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in piano at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad with Vladimir Ogarkov, and in composition at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade with Vlastimir Trajković. She continued her studies in composition at the prestigious Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” Berlin with Eun-Hwa Cho. She has also participated in numerous international courses and workshops with Georges Aperghis, Marc André, Heiner Goebbels, Pierluigi Billone, Stefano Gervasoni, Lucia Ronchetti, Hannspeter Kyburz, Wolfgang Heiniger, Isabel Mundry, Clara Iannotta, Sarah Maria Sun, She She Pop, and Forced Entertainment.
Her compositions have been presented at leading international festivals and concert series, including Ultraschall Berlin, MaerzMusik, Musica Electronica Nova Wrocław, Frequency Kiel, Heroines of Sound Berlin, KLANG Copenhagen, SONIC MATTER Zurich, Musik 21 Niedersachsen, Unerhörte Musik, Klangwerkstatt Berlin, IMPULSE Graz, Darmstadt Ferienkurse, Musiktheatertage Wien, as well as the Cannes Film Festival and the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Cvijović’s music has been performed by renowned ensembles and orchestras for contemporary music, including the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (RSB), RTS Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble LUX:NM, Zafraan Ensemble, Ensemble RADAR, zone expérimentale Basel, and Ensemble Studio 6, and interpreted by soloists and conductors such as Enno Poppe, Gregor A. Mayrhofer, Alessandro Crudele, Mike Svoboda, Markus Weiss, Teodoro Anzellotti, Sebastian Berweck, Salim(a) Javaid, Steffen Ahrens, and Fidan Aghayeva-Edler. Her work has been broadcast on Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Deutschlandfunk Atelier Neue Musik, ARTE Kultur Radio, WDR 3 Studio Neue Musik, WDR 3 Tonart, WDR 3 Studio Electronic Music Techné [80], Radio Bremen Zwei, and Radio Belgrade 1.
Alongside her concert works, Cvijović composes for opera, music theatre, theatre, and film, and is active as a sound artist, arranger, pianist, and musical director. She has collaborated with directors including Anna Weber (Staatstheater Wiesbaden), Nadja Loschky (Theater Bielefeld), Ulrike Schwab (Neuköllner Oper), Jan Sobrie (Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf), Aliénor Dauchez (Donaueschinger Musiktage), Johannes Müller (Musiktheatertage Wien, Sophiensaele Berlin, Theater Rampe, Brut Wien), Jonas Egloff (Deutsche Oper Berlin), Andrea Moses (HfS Ernst Busch), Peter Kastenmüller (Mecklenburg State Theatre, Theater Bielefeld), Fabian Gerhardt (Neuköllner Oper, E.T.A. Hoffmann Theatre Bamberg, TD Berlin, Theater am Kurfürstendamm), Miloš Lolić (Yugoslav Drama Theatre Belgrade), Demjan Duran (Ballhaus Ost Berlin), Aleksandra Odić (ARTE, Cannes Film Festival), Boris Hadžija (rbb, International Film Festival Rotterdam), Jovana Tomić (Yugoslav Drama Theatre Belgrade), Nebojša Bradić (Opera & Theatre Madlenianum), Iva Milošević (Atelje 212), Kokan Mladenović (Atelje 212), Snežana Trišić (UK Parobrod), and Djurdja Tešić (Atelje 212).
In 2021, she received a grant from the Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa (Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe), as well as support from Musikfonds Berlin with the trio Splitsignals Berlin. She is the recipient of a WERGO CD portrait, funded and produced by Edition Zeitgenössische Musik in co-production with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (RSB), Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ultraschall Festival Berlin 2025/2026, and Deutschlandfunk. Her queer operetta Alles Liebe! (composition) together with libretto by Philipp Amelungsen received the Reinhold-Otto-Mayer-Preis in 2025. Its premiere at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden marked the first world premiere of an opera by a female composer on its main stage.
From 2024 to 2026, Cvijović held a teaching position in the Music Theatre department at Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK Berlin).