He is the winner of the 2003 Cleveland Arts Prize in Music and is one of Ohio's best known living composers.
Resanovic moved to the United States where he has been a naturalized citizen since 1976.
He holds degrees from the University of Akron and the Cleveland Institute of Music.
His choral works are heavily influenced by Serbian music; Resanovic, of Serbian descent himself, has extensively studied the sacred chants of the Serbian Orthodox Church and has composed several volumes of liturgical music.
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