The Serbian National Theatre, Club, 1st floor
16 – 18th November, from midnight
Adam Klemm, saxophone; Aleksandar Bahun, piano
Nikola Matošić, double bass; Dušan Ivanišević, drums
ADAM KLEMM
Adam Klemm was born in 1976 in Novi Sad. Upon completing his secondary education at the Music School “IsidorBajić” in Novi Sad in the Clarinet Department, he continued his studies at the “University of Music And Performing Arts” in Graz, Austria. In 2005 he earned a Master Degree in Arts – Jazz Saxophone.
During his Graz studies, he received a scholarship from the Austrian Ministry of Culture and went on to study at the prestigious “Sibelius Academy” in Helsinki, Finland. Upon his return from Finland, he played with the legend of the Austrian jazz scene, guitarist Karl Ratzer and released a CD with the Sarajevo-based jazz group “Minority”. He has played with: Dennis Rowland, Gianni Basso, Lee Harper Little Big Band, Karl Ratzer, Barbara Hendriks, Ladislav Fidri among others.
As a bandleader of The Adam Klemm Banda, he had his first release “Hot Coolen” for the independent label Sensor Records in 2007.
In 2012 he went into studio with his second authorial project, which is currently in post-production.
Klemm has been an endorser of P. Mauriat saxophones for Southeast Europe since 2008.
The permanent soloist of the RTV Slovenia Big Band since 2008, he also teaches saxophone and jazz band in the music school GCEW in Ljubljana.
He is a member of the Novi Sad Jazz Festival Council.
As a member of the RTV Slovenia Big Band, he has had the honour to share the stage with jazz greats such as: Mike Stern, Ernie Watts, Joe Lovano, Ronnie Cuber, Patti Austin, Peter Erskine, and Nicholas Payton.
ALEKSANDAR BAHUN
Aleksandar Bahun (composer, arranger, pianist) was born in Novi Sad into an old musical family of Novi Sad. He completed his primary and high music education at Music School “IsidorBajić,” going on to study Composition at the Academy of Arts.
At the beginning of 1990, he founded his first jazz band AB Sextet, performing with it in clubs and at cultural events in Novi Sad for several years.
In 1996 Adam Klemm and AleksandarBahun founded the Stomp Quartet, performing at the Jazz Time Fest in Novi Sad in November 1997 as the youngest ensemble playing their original music and as the festival hosts.
In 1998 he founded the Aleksandar Bahun Trio, including Ištvan Mađarić, Robert Pongo, and Aleksandar as a pianist and author, with whom he appears at a couple of national jazz festival and honing the ECM, which distinguishes them from the mainstream of 1990s as it is an open form jazz that allows all kinds of experiments.
The same year he became a member of the RTV NS Big Band and the Vojvodina Youth Big Band for a while.
In the early 2004, Aleksandar joined the Belgrade-based Latin jazz band Fiesta Latina, performing in our country and abroad.Later that year, Adam Klem, Igor Molnar and Aleksandar founded Mobada, the band that plays only original music, which appeared at the Umbria Jazz Balkanic Windows Festival and the Novi Sad Jazz Festival…
In 2006, Vladimir Samardžić and Aleksandar founded the authorial band Pannonia Project, whose first presentation was at the film festival Motovun 2006 (Croatia), followed by the Umbria Jazz Balkanic Windows Festival in August 2006, and the Novi Sad Jazz Festival in November that same year, where they were reinforced by Marko Đorđević as the lead trumpet.
He has collaborated with the Belgrade almost big band orchestra Jazz Connectioncomposed of the leading national jazz soloists, performing at the official opening of the Serbian Film Festival with Dusko Goykovich, Dado Topić…In the mid-2007, he went to Dortmund as one of the representatives of the cultural delegation of Novi Sad within cultural cooperation between the two cities Novi Sad-Dortmund, where he worked with German saxophonist Uwe Plath. The same year, he performed at the Valjevo and Petrovac Jazz Festivals (latter in Montenegro) with Pannonia Project.
In November 2007, he was invited by maestro Bubiša Simić to perform as a guest of the RTS Big Band in the Kolarac National University as part of the concert-homage to our brilliant pianist, arranger, composer – Bora Roković, where he gave a notable performance.During the summer of 2008, he did the music and arrangements for the play KNKN PNKN with the newly-founded troupe “Jorik”, directed by ŽankoTomić, which premiered at BELEF 08, winning the title of the best artistic achievement of that year by the Professional Council of the festival.
In November 2010 he performed with Pannonia Project at the Belgrade Jazz Festival, promoting The Bridge, as well as in the Novi Sad Studio M within the Novi Sad Jazz Festival, also promoting this album, where he is presented as a composer and arranger.
For the last couple of years Aleksandar has been active performing in our country and abroad with the most eminent domestic jazz musicians (DušanNovakov, DušanIvanišević, Vladimir Kostadinović, Slobodan Bata Božanić, BrankoMarković, Milan Pavković, LjubišaPaunić, AlexandarJaćimović, Vladimir Krnetić, Max Kochetov, Marko Đorđević (NY), Uwe Plath, JelenaKuljić, Pannonia Project, NS Big Band……)
At the beginning of 2015 he composed music for the play “The Day When We Met”, which is on the regular repertoire of the Serbian National Theatre, and works on a number of projects with Serbian and foreign artists from various fields of culture and media – radio, film, theatre, and is a regular member of the Serbian National Theatre’s Opera.
NIKOLA MATOŠIĆ
Nikola Matošić was born in 1978 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He discovered that jazz music was his passion while a sophomore at the high school for chemistry. He started his career as a self-thought musician. Later on he joined various seminars, workshops, private lessons and after that enrolled, to sharpen his musical knowledge, in the Private University for Music, in Linz. Even though pursuing his dream meant getting into a violent conflict with his parents, he soon appeared on many stages in Slovenia and abroad. Twelve years ago he started organizing jam sessions at various locations in Ljubljana. However, for the last nine years, he has been the organizer of the famous Monday Jam Sessions in the jazz club Gajo in Ljubljana and consequently also responsible for the development of jazz music in the Slovenian capital city and in Slovenia. Besides that, he has also been a co-organizer of jazz seminars and performances in Slovenia, involving names such as Barry Harris, Doug Hammond and others. By now he has proudly shared the stage with many musicians known throughout the world, to name just a few: Arron Goldberg, Deborah Brown, Rachel Gould, Don Menza, Allan Praskin, Roberto Magris, Peter Mihelič, Renato Chicco, Douglas Sides, Howard Curtis, Tony Lakatos, Florian Brambock, Herb Geller,… as well as many rising names of the younger jazz generation and well-known Slovenian jazz names. His primary passion has always been jazz music, but he is also appreciated by musicians of other musical genres. Thus, he has collaborated with many popular Slovenian musicians like Zoran Predin, Oto Pestner, Adi Smolar,…He is known for his smile, impeccable rhythm, and profound sound, not to mention that his goal is always to satisfy the audience.
DUŠAN IVANIŠEVIĆ
Born on 31.03.1969 in Pančevo, Dušan Ivanišević completed his elementary education in his hometown, going on to study at the High Music School “Stanković” in Belgrade with Prof. Miroslav Karlović. This was also the beginning of his professional career as he started performing with the local jazz and rock bands, as well as with the Youth Philharmonics, touring Yugoslavia, Belgium and Switzerland. As the best student of his school, he attended jazz workshops with first-class jazz artists organised by the Yugoslav Music Youth taking place in Grožnjan, Istria. During this period he performed with well-known domestic and international jazz musicians: Steve Gut, Eduard Sadjil, Bora Roković, Alex Deutsch, Renato Chicco, among others.
He entered the Music Academy in Graz in 1989, where he continued his professional career. During his studies he attended a number of seminars and master classes with renowned jazz artists: Dave Weckl, Jojo Meyer, Vinnie Colaiuta, Peter Erskine… At the same time Dušan performed on the stages all over Europe both as a bandleader and as a sideman. In 1992, he was awarded the 3rd prize in the European Student Drummers Competition organised by the magazine “Sticks”. While studying, Dušan started working on education of young musicians in Serbia. He got his Master Degree from “Hochschule fur darstellende Kunst” in Graz in 1997.
In 2000 Dušan started working at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade and became the Artistic Director of the Pančevo Jazz Festival, which has grown into Pančevo’s major and Serbian prestigious cultural event. The festival has hosted about 300 leading jazz musicians from all over the world. Having gained public and professional recognition, he has been engaged as a musician, organiser, producer and a consultant for a number of concerts and festivals in our country and abroad: Vienna-“Cross over the Border”, Paris –“Jazz Colors”, Trieste- “The Days of Serbian Music”, the Belgrade Jazz Festival, Novi Sad Jazz Festival, Herceg Novi Festival, etc… A winner of the Town of Pačevo Award for international presentation of the culture of Pančevo, he has organised art events in Serbia in collaboration with the embassies of Austria, America, France, Denmark, Indonesia and England…
Since 2003, Dušan has been a professor at the Jazz Department of the Music School “Stanković” in Belgrade. He is also engaged as a guest professor in the music high school in Podgorica. Active as a concert, club and studio musician, he has about 40 recorded CD, video and TV editions. He is married and has a son, Uroš.
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