Workshop led by
Maja Vukobrat • Irena Blagojević • Boris Hložan Trio
THE BORIS HLOŽAN TRIO
Boris Hložan, guitar • Denis Žiško, trumpet • Milan Jančurić, saxophone
El Sistemа is a visionary global project supported, in Serbia, by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Serbia, National Committee for UNESCO and the State Office for Social Inclusion (SIPRU) that, as a new model of social change, changes the lives of children with disadvantaged background through music.
El Sistema uses music as a tool for social inclusion and includes four million children around the world. Due to its longevity and efficiency, it has been declared the world’s best inclusion programme by UNESCO.
The programme is implemented in Serbia by the Music Art Project in six cities and it includes 350 children from middle and lower social strata, but the programme is mainly oriented towards children belonging to marginalised social groups.
The El Sistema music workshops are organised in a cooperative effort of the Cultural Centre of Novi Sad and the Social Care Centre of Novi Sad, whose wards are the workshop participants.
See biographies of Boris Hložan and Milan Jančurić in the Main Programme!
Denis Žiško
Denis Žiško was born on 19th August 1998 in Zrenjanin, where he went to primary music school and started secondary music school in the trumpet department, with Prof. Slobodan Ćirić. In 2015, he transferred to SMS “Isidor Bajić” in Novi Sad, where he continued studying with Prof. Dragaš Slobodan. Denis has won several first prizes in recognised international competitions in our country such as the International Davorin Jenko Competition and International Young Musicians Competition Petar Konjović. He has won the first prizes and the titles of Laureate of the National Competition of Music and Ballet Schools in Serbia for four years in a row and has taken part in a number of music courses in our country and abroad (International Orchestra of Nine Countries Neumarkt 2014, El Sistema with Pacha Flores 2013, Luis Gonzales 2014, Nenad Marković and Saša Dragović 2015, Jazz workshops – Novi Sad-Dortmund 2016, and others).
His interest in jazz music grew in 2013, when he started listening to it more intensely. He started playing it often in his free time out of sheer love. He says it is a free form of music, music that feeds your soul and fills it with emotions.