CLUB "JAZZ" - November 23rd - 29th 2003.
Workshop / Vocal jazz workshop - BERND SPITZBARTH,
Germany
Associates: Istvan Madjaric, bass guitar; Aleksandar
Bahun, piano; Robert Pongo, drums
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29th - Serbian
National Theatre, Club "Trema" - 11,30 pm
Workshop / Vocal jazz workshop - BERND SPITZBARTH
with associates - PUBLIC PRESENTATION
BERND SPITZBARTH was born 1956 in East
Germany. As a young boy he sang in a boy's choir and
began to study piano playing. Till the end of his
high school time he worked as an assistant in some
choirs. He studied School Music, Choir Conducting
and Piano at the Franz Liszt Music Conservatory in
Weimar and absolved different master classes, for
example at Masur, Sanderling, Oesterreicher and Gronostay.
After his studies he began to work as a teacher for
Piano, Choir Conducting and Music Theory at the Musikgymnasium
Schwerin / Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Since 1990 he has
been conducting the Youth Choir of the Schwerin Music
High School and received a lot of prizes at national
and international choir competitions. He has recorded
with his choir at the NDR, (north German public broadcasting),
as well as on CD; his choir have given concerts in
Europe and the U.S.A. Bernd Spitzbarth is especially
interested in baroque and gallant music styles, as
well as in the vocal jazz and light music. He gives
workshops and seminars for these specific music styles
and conducting vocal jazz in choirs.
ISTVAN MADjARIC was born in Kula in
1973. He has been in music professionally since 1995.
He has played with many musicians and singers: the
Tanja Jovicevic Band, Aleksandar Dujin, and the Yupika
Quintet. He has also collaborated with the RTV Novi
Sad Orchestra.
ALEKSANDAR BAHUN was born in Novi Sad
in 1975 into a family with a long music tradition.
His father Petar (1945-1999) was a composer, arranger,
guitar player and professor. He went to primary and
secondary music schools and studied Composition at
the Academy of Art in Novi Sad (class of Prof. Milan
Mihajlovic). He has performed at several jazz festivals.
He and his trio stayed in Egypt for over a year and
after returning he started writing music for DUPLO
DNO - a theatrical troop from Novi Sad. He is currently
preparing his own material.
ROBERT PONGO was born in 1976 in Novi
Sad. He started playing professionally in 1994 when
his band 'Flying Rabbit' released their first album
with their own songs in a jazz-rock style, while at
the same time playing jazz standards. In 1996 he started
playing with a funk band called 'Colibri' as well
as in a jazz trio with pianist Prof. Aleksandar Dujin.
In addition to these, he performed at the Pepsi-Sziget
Festival in Budapest where he played British pop with
the 'Simic Quartet'. He has played not only with small
bands but has also acquired experience playing with
big bands. He has accompanied some of the well-known
singers of our country, such as: Vladana Markovic,
Maja Odzaklijevska, Tanja Jovicevic, Ksenija, Dejan
Cukic, etc. Through 1997 and 1998 he attended the
Music Academy in Budapest, where he was taught by
Koeszegi Imre and Javori Vilmos. In 1998 he played
at the Budapest Jazz Festival and recorded an album
with famous musicians from Budapest. At the competition
of drummers held in Budapest in 2002, he was one of
the six drummers out of seventy participants who entered
the finals, and was awarded as the best drummer of
Hungarian nationality living outside Hungary. During
the competition he had the opportunity to meet and
play with one of the world's leading drummers - Jack
DeJohnette. In 2002 he began playing the timbales
in the band 'Fiesta Latina'. At the beginning of the
year 2003, he became a member of the 'Novi Sad Brass
Band' conducted by Fedor Vrtacnik. In the same year
he became a member of the 'Drum Factory'.
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