 Nikola
Buble was born in Split, Croatia, in 1950. He finished
music studies at the Teacher-training College o the
Split University (Croatia) and at the Music Academy
of the Sarajevo University (Bosnia and Herzegovina);
he received the academic degree Master of Arts (M.A.)
of Ethnomusicology st the Academy of Music of the
Zagreb University (Croatia) and the degree Doctor
of Musicological Sciences (Mus.D.) at the Faculty
of Arts and Letters of the Ljubljana University (Slovenia).
He has been giving lectures both in his native country
Croatia and abroad (Bern, Vienna, Baden, Rome ...).
He is a professor of Ethnomusicology and Conducting
at the Academy of Music of the Split University. He
published fourthyone (41) books: seventeen (17) books
as author, twellve (12) books as editor and twellve
(12) collected works as editor, melograph, artistic
interpreter, author of music. He is an author of ninethy
(90) professional and scholarly papers and tventhysix
(26) recording editions. In his scholary papers he
«plunges into interpersonal relations, social environment
and cultural circumstances, and in that way he sets
the whole music culture into an enlarged social context»
and by doing so he expresses» a differentiated need
for ethnosociological research of the phenomenon of
music». «He is distinguished for his research throughness»
and his works «influenced the spreading of the frames
of ethnomusicology in Croatia both in the thematic
and conceptual way». His work distinguished itself
by its authenticity as it is a fruit of «a successful
music theoretician/ a scholar and a practitian artist/
a pedagogue».
As an artist he enjoys reputation of a reliabl conductor
(appearing in Split, Zagreb, Dubrovnik, Ljubljana,
Mainz, Paris, Stuttgart, Vienna ...), a pianist and
a church organ player (regens chori in the Benedictine
nunnery of St. Nicholas in Trogir). He was the first
conductor of the orchestra of the Croatian navy in
the independent Republic of Croatia (1991). His compositions
are based on the quotations of the Dalmatian urban
folklore. They are performed and recorded in Croatia,
Slovenia, Switzerland, Rusia, Japan ...
 For
his artistic and scholary work he has been awarded
many prizes, certificates and medals; for his exeptional
merits in culture he recived the order of «Danica
hrvatska s likom Marka Marulięa» by the decison of
dr. Franjo Tušman, the president of the Republic of
Croatia (1996), he was a double winner of the eminent
recording prize Porin (1994 and 1998), the winner
of the Lifetime Achievement Award (2002), the award
winner of the Italian Medaglia della regione Lazio
(2003), ...
He was the artistic acting manager of the International
Festival of the Mediterranean Folklore («Mešunarodni
festival mediteranskog folklora», 1997-1980), The
Festival of the Dalmatian Klapa Songs in Omi¹ («Festival
dalmatinskih klapa», 1992-1997) and he has been artistic
director of the International Mandoline Festival since
2001 (Mešunarodni festival mandolinista) ...
He is a member of a number of international (Interantional
Councile for Traditional Music ...) and national professional
associatons (Association of the Croatian Folklorists
- Dru¹tvo folklorista Hrvatske, Croatian Musicological
Society - Hrvatsko muzikolo¹ko dru¹tvo, Croatian Composers'
Guild - Hrvatsko dru¹tvo skladatelja ...); he is a
contributor ta a number of European professional magazines
(La cultura nel mondo, Rivista Cistercensa, Atti e
memorie della societa Dalmata di storia patria ...).
He was the initiator and now is the project manager
of Music Culture of the People of the South Croatia
(«Glazbena kultura stanovnika ju¾ne Hrvatske»), and
he was the chief editor of eight (8) books of the
professional magazine The Voices of the National Heritage
(«Ba¹ęinski glasi»), published under this project.
He was member of the international project on the
occasion of 2000 years of the Christianity at the
Pontifical (Pope's) Institute of Church Music, Vatican.
He was included into the Croatian Lexicon (1996),
Marquis's publication Who's Who in the World 2004...,
The Lexicon of the Croatian Church Music ... He has
filled the post of the dean of the Academy of Music
in Split since 2001, he is professor (since 2003)
at the postgraduate study Culture and Society at the
department for sociology of the Zadar University.
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