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YUGOSLAV & NOVI SAD JAZZ SCENE DOYEN JOSIP
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The pianist
Josip Lorbek was born in 1933 in Vrsac into a musical family. He
finished Music High School "Isidor Bajic" in 1952, class of
professor Stular. Between 1954 and 1958 he studied at the Faculty of
Philosophy, where he graduated at the department of German and
English Language. In 1959 he enters the Radio Novi Sad Octet
as its leader. In 1961 it developed into Dance Orchestra of Radio
Novi Sad. From 1969 to 1971 he studied in Graz at Music Academy,
Jazz Department composition and conduction. He has participated in
summer campuses at Berkley School in Boston.
He has been the conductor of Dance Orchestra of Radio Novi Sad since 1981. Appeared at jazz festivals – I, II. III Jazz Festival in Bled, Jazz Festival in Skopje, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Novi Sad, Belgrade, and abroad – in Budapest, Berlin, Burghauzen. Taken part in all meetings of dance and jazz orchestras of Yugoslavia in Radenci. Especially devoted to discovering young talents, jazz singers, in Novi Sad and other cities. He composes and arranges jazz compositions for big bands. Some of his works have also been performed by orchestras abroad. Last year, Josip Lorbek celebrated the 50th anniversary of his work as an artist. He is one of those who have been struggling to gain back the characteristics of a town of music, especially jazz, for Novi Sad and fought for the affirmation of young talented musicians. He received Charter of the Association of Jazz Musicians of Yugoslavia and Culture Spark of Vojvodina (Iskra kulture Vojvodine). |
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