Room for talents

26.10.2015

Tine Grgurevic - BOWARAIN 

 

Tine Grgurevic, also known as BOWRAIN, is a composer, pianist, singer-songwriter and producer. Grgurevic holds an MA of Music in Jazz from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. Grgurevic has performed widely at clubs and festivals around Europe and the United States and has composed three albums: Balcan Flavour(Philadelphia, 2009), Images of reality (Amsterdam, 2011) and Far Out(Amsterdam, 2014). In 2012 Grgurevic started making electronic music and he launched his official BOWRAIN debut album in 2014. “BOWRAIN makes electronic music from a genre-less perspective, touching upon traditions of modern classical, jazz and without ever really settling in any sound,” wrote independent music and culture platform Subbacultcha. His experimental approach in music can also be seen in the versatility of his practice, e.g.: “writing for dance pieces and playing jazz piano along to loops of pop-marxist legend Slavoj Žižek philosophising on ideology.” 

 

Dejan Pecenko 

 

In his successful musical career he participated in many musical projects and has recorded over 40 albums which mostly consist of his own compositions. He received an award of the Association of Popular Artists of Yugoslavia for his album „Persepolis”. The creativity of Dejan Pecenko was also rewarded with two prestige Slovenian musical awards: Zlati petelin, Zlata nota. He collaborated with many prominent artists such as Reggie Workman, Pharoan Aklaff, Doug Hammond, Aladar Pege, Barbara Thomson, Lee Harper etc. Dejan Pecenko participated at numerous European jazz festivals: Leverkusen, Lugano, Saalfelden, Wiesen, Berlin, Moers, Nurnberg, Vilshofen, Debrecen, Athens, Korinthos, Lenk, Dresden, Festival Mitte Europa, Zagreb and many others. His career also includes the educational field. He works as a jazz-piano professor at Anton Bruckner Universitat in Linz / Institut fur Jazz und improvisierte Music where, besides the main subject, jazz-piano, he also teaches musical practice and jazz ensemble. 

 

Tsarina Marinkova

She comes from Bulgaria and she now residing in The Netherlands. She studied classical piano at the Prins Claus Conservatory in Groningen (Bachelor) and Master degree at Amsterdam Conservatory (finished in 2012). 

Tsarina has been performing throughout Europe. As an artist she has also received more than 15 awards from competitions in Bulgaria, Italy, The Netherlands, Germany and Austria. She has been invited many times to be soloist of orchestras and a jury member of an International Piano Competitions, such as International Piano Competition "Fr. Chopin" in Bacau, Romania. She is currently involved in a very interesting and exciting project – Newstalgia. Visti web site to learn more: www.newstalgiamusic.com

Jure Goručan 

Jure Goručan je mlad slovenski pianist in percusionist, ki trenutno končuje študij klavirja na Visoki šoli za glasbo in ples v Kolnu. Kljub svoji mladosti ima za sabo bogato zbirko pomembnih koncertov in projektov tako v Sloveniji, kot drugje po Evropi. Vrsto let sodeluje s talentiranimi glasbeniki in profesorji ter dosega izjemne uspehe.

Med drugim je nastopal z Zagrebškimi solisti ter s Koelnsko in Ljubljansko filharmonijo. https://www.youtube.com/user/JureGorucan Jure je bil med prvimi, ki so snemali v Piano Roomu. Prvi je tudi preizkusil mikrofone DPA 4006. Poslušajte posnetek

Tarek Yamani 

Tarek Yamani born and raised in Beirut, Tarek is a New York based award winning composer and a self-taught jazz pianist who got exposed to Jazz around the age of 19. Since the release of his debut "Ashur" in 2012, Tarek has been dedicated to exploring relationships between African-American Jazz and Arabic rhythms/maqams. Learn more on: http://www.tarekyamani.com/stores/ 

Tarek je skupaj s Kristijanom Krajnčanom in Goranom Krmacom odigral prvi “ jazz koncert” v Piano Roomu. Ob tej priložnosti je posnel tudi dve avtorski skladbi.

Lana Petrovič

Lana Petrovič je 15 letna pianistka,  dijakinja prvega letnika srednje Glasbene šole v Kopru, kjer se izobražuje pod vodstvom profesorice Selme Chicco Hajdin.  Svojo glasbeno pot je začela leta 2005 v Glasbeni šoli Tržič pri profesorici Tanji Ahačič. Pogosto se udeležuje tudi mojstrskih tečajev pri profesorju Arbu Valdmi.

Uspešno je sodelovala že na številnih domačih in mednarodnih tekmovanjih.  V PianoRoomu je nekakšen poskusni zajček,  ko je treba preizkusiti nov mikrofon, njegovo postavitev ali kakšen drug kos opreme. Prisluhnite njeni  izvedbi skladbe J.S.Bacha, Inventio 10

 

Davor Herceg

Born and studied in Zagreb, wrote music for ballet performances in Croatian National Theatre (HNK) in Zagreb, as a pianist cooperated with Zagreb Philharmonic orchestra and worked as a rehearsal coach at the HNK. In 2001 comes to live in Slovenia and is invited by a theatre director Jaka Ivanc to compose music for the show  ''Katka in Bunkec''. Since then he has composed music for more than 50 theatre performances, five feature movies, numerous documentaries, short and animated movies, dancing performances, music or museum exhibitions.

Writes also classical music, mostly for piano, plays piano and is engaged as a pianist in numerous theatre and musical productions. In 2014 completed a master’s degree in film and TV music at the ''Berklee School of Music''. More about Davor on http://www.davorherceg.com/. 

 

 

Marko Črnčec

Marko Churnchetz (Slovenian spelling Črnčec) is one of Slovenia's most heralded contemporary musicians and renowned exports, currently spending time living between his home country and New York City. On the international scene he is known as a formidable young multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and producer who easily works across genres and in particular jazz and popular music.

Churnchetz was born May 15, 1986 in Maribor, Slovenia and by the age of age six his musical path began by studying classical music on accordion and then piano at the age of ten. A prodigious talent, by his teens he was a multiple award-winner in both national and international competitions, and he earned a classical piano degree in 2005 as well as jazz piano degree at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Graz, Austria in 2009.

 

Churnchetz has released two albums as a leader, Signature and Moral Interchange (both released in 2010 on B.A.S.E.). His third album, Devotion, featuring Mark Shim (saxophone), Chris Tordini (double bass) and Justin Brown (drums) is due for release on Whirlwind Recordings, the prolific London-based imprint.

Marko has performed or recorded with the following notable musicians: Bob Mintzer, Don Menza, Michael Phillip Mossman, Ron McClure, Luis Bonilla,  Gary Chaffee, Damion Reid, Mark Shim, Chris Tordini, Justin Brown, Marco Minnemann, Stjepko Gut, Marcus Gilmore, Armando Gola, Suresh Talwalkar, Jonathan Powell, John Thomas, Chris Jennings, Kenny Grohowski, Gwen Hughes, Stefan Milenkovich, Boško Petrovic, Martin Belic, Andy Hunter, Karmina Silec, Sharat Shrivastava, Gyan Syngh, Bernhard Schimpelsberger, Karlheinz Miklin, Ewald Oberleitner, Bajsa Arifovska, Stanko Arnold.

 

Chris Jennings

Based in Paris France since 2002, Canadian bassist CHRIS JENNINGS has established himself as double bassist with the Dhafer Youssef Quartet with Tigran Hamasyan and Mark Guiliana, with guitarist Nguyên Lê in his new “Fire & Water Trio” and in quartets including Rita Marcotulli, Danny Gottlieb, Roberto Gato, Rick Margitza, Karim Ziad, Bojan Z, as well as with renowned Turkish nay master Kudsi Erguner, the Thomas Enhco piano trio, the Céline Bonacina quartet and the renowned ‘El Gusto’ Algerian traditional chaabi orchestra to name a few.

After 7 extremely varied albums released under his own name, his latest release with the CHRIS JENNINGS “DRUM’N KOTO,” (disc of the month Jazz Magazine, disc of the week FIP Radio France) features Nguyên Lê and Kudsi Ergüner as special guests. Past releases include his self-titled CHRIS JENNINGS QUARTET CD featuring French musicians Manu Codjia (el. gtr), Pierre Perchaud (ac. gtr), Patrick Goraguer (drums), and leading a trio with renowned American drummer Leon Parker for three years. Mr. Jennings has always continued his longstanding “JENNINGS/PERCHAUD” duo with acoustic guitar, a “SOLO DOUBLE BASS” project evolve for over a decade now, as well as the “CHRIS JENNINGS STRING QUINTET” featuring musicians of the London Symphony Orchestra.

 

Neisha

Neisha is a versatile and virtuous pianist/singer/songwriter with a classical training. By the age of 16 she became the youngest member of the Slovenian composer's association(classical muHer musical talent was quickly noticed by the professionals in the music industry and her debut album was released 3 years later. Titled simply 'Neisha' the album was released in 2005 on Slovenian Warner music branch-Nika Records. Album was an instantaneous success and has won Neisha the title of best selling album in 2006 followed by many important nominations and awards in Slovenia (SRF,Viktor,..). Her soulful singing appealed to the masses and she appeared as the opening act and 'baptized' MTV Adria the same year. 

By now she released 4 solo albums the last of them titled "Za vesoljke in kavboje" which made it straight to the radio charts. Neisha is considered one of the most acclaimed artists in Slovenia and in the region. Her performances and her dedication to music are astonishing and are still winning the audience.

 

Zoran Škrinjar

Zoran Škrinjar je profesionalni glasbenik s širokim spektrom znanj in delovanjem. Deluje kot pianist, profesor glasbe in klavirja (za videče in slepe osebe), muzikolog, predavatelj na kongresih in tečajih, skladatelj, svobodni novinar na področju glasbe, organizator kulture slepih v Sloveniji in še kaj bi se našlo. Kot pianist igra klasične in džezovske skladbe, sodeloval pa je že tudi pri različnih projektih, snemanjih tudi drugih zvrsti glasbe (sodobna improvizirana glasba, improvizirani koncerti na prostem v starem mestnem jedru Ljubljane in po Sloveniji, pop, rock, etno, gospel, pri raznih sodobnih plesnih projektih ...) z najrazličnejšimi glasbenimi zasedbami (orkester, ansambli, zbori idr.). Kot skladatelj in aranžer deluje trenutno predvsem na džezovskem področju. 

Posebno poglavje  med njegovimi profesionalnimi dejavnostmi je pedagoško delo. Še kot študent Akademije za glasbo (še pred oslepitvijo) je že deloval kot uspešen klavirski pedagog. Znal je zainteresirati učence in učenke za glasbo v najširšem smislu. Več kot osem let je poučeval slepe otroke klavir in glasbeno teorijo ter jih pripravljal na zunanje izpite na redni nižji glasbeni šoli, kjer so dosegali najboljše rezultate. Je edini učitelj glasbe za slepe v Sloveniji, zato je leta 2005 na mednarodnem kongresu v Pragi delil tovrstne pedagoške izkušnje s pedagogi iz več kot desetih evropskih držav.

 

Manose Newa

Manose is bansuri flutist born in Boudhanath, Nepal. He began studying the bansuri as a child, under the tutelage of Mandan Dev Bhatta. While his formal education involved an exceedingly rigorous study and practice of Hindustani music and instrumentation, he nonetheless became intimate with many western musical forms and developed an astonishing facility for improvisation within diverse scale structures. 

From the demanding study of raga music, Manose has acquired technical mastery and an astonishing ability to improvise. At the same time, we find him wonderfully free to draw inspiration from wherever he finds it, be it the swaying sweetness of a samba, or the lightning fast lines of Celtic masters. When asked what or who has had the greatest musical influence on his playing, he thinks for a moment and says "the sound of the flute."

For the past several years, Manose has been creating music and touring globally with Deva Premal & Miten. He has released four solo CDs and is ever-more popular as a contributing artists for work by everyone from Grammy-nominated Jai Uttal to bluegrass great, Peter Rowan. He has also collaborated with the Chicago Children's Choir, Snatam Kaur, tabla master Swapan Chowdary, John Densmore of the Doors, and The New Maihar Band, an ensemble created by Ustad Ali Akhbar Khan. Even while living in the United States, he still manages to be a vital part of the music scene back home. He is a founding member of the classical raga group Sukarma, his music videos air regularly on Nepali TV, he performs annually in Nepal's jazz festival where he has shared the stage with Australian maestro Don Burrows. And as a member of the nation's top rock band, 1974AD, it has been his privilege to re-popularize his traditional flute in Nepal where he was the first to introduce it as a rock instrument.

 

Gregor Ftičar

Gregor Ftičar (1985 Kranj, Slovenia) began playing piano at the age of 3. He stared out as a classically trained musician, graduating at the Ljubljana Secondary Music School (now Ljubljana Conservatory of Music) in 2004. He obtained a master degree in jazz piano major in 2011 at the University of Music and Performing Arts (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst) in Graz, Austria. Over the years, he had the opportunity to work with many of the finest internationally acclaimed instrumentalists and singers in jazz (Don Menza, Bob Brookmeyer, Boško Petrović, Howard Curtis, Derrick Gardner, Peter Herbolzheimer, to name but a few), played in various Big Bands and in numerous combo setups (various types of duos, trios and quartet setups up to nine-piece band), and as a solo-pianist. He participated in numerous studio recordings (as sideman and leader), played in various jazz clubs and festivals all across Europe (Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Austria, Hungary, Germany, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Czech republic, Slovakia), he attended workshops with some of the finest jazz musicians (Barry Harris, Fred Hersch, Toshiko Akyoshi, Bob Brookmeyer, Jerry Bergonzi, Jim McNeely, Bill Dobbins etc.). Although Gregor's principal occupation is working as a pianist (& keyboardist/organist), he is also a dedicated arranger and composer.

In July 2014, Gregor's piano-trio performed in the finals of the European Jazz Competition (organised by the European Broadcasting Union) in Rotterdam, the Neterlands. In September 2014, Gregor played in the European Jazz Orchestra, touring in Czech Republic. In 2015, he co-released an album »Close To You - Tribute To Burt Bacharach« with his trio and singer Iva Stanič, contributing all the arrangements.