Uros SECEROV
percussion's
Ivan ALEKSIJEVIC
piano
Dusan IVANISEVIC
drums
BUNFORD Gabor
saxophone
MADJARIC Istvan
bass

At the top of the Yugoslav jazz scene for more than 25 years already. At the very beginning of his career Uros Secerov had the privilege of working with most of the famous jazz artists of our time, like Stjepko Gut, Ratko Divjak, late Joze Privsek, Bubisa Simic, Stevan Radosavljevic and many others.
During his career he has played with all Big Band Orchestras on the territory of ex-Yugoslavia, and had special arrangements with RTV Ljubljana, Novi Sad and Belgrade Big Bands where he played as a guest soloist. He played with Vojislav Brkovic in his quintet and later in MEDAYA, the cult band of the 80s with Wolfgang Reisner and Beat Fuhrer. With Ratko Divjak, Lado Jaksa and Dani Gancev he played in SONCNA POT group which, for the first time, introduced the combination of ethno sound with jazz elements. After that he played in Lala Kovacs’ orchestra, BALKAN IMPRESSION, as well as YU JAZZ ROCK SELECTION, JOVAN MALJOKOVIC SEXTET, YU JAZZ SUMMIT, VOYA BEE – JIMI HENDRIX PURE, TONY SCOT ORCHESTRA…
Recently, his main preoccupation has been YUPIKA QUINTET with Ivan Aleksijevic, Bunford Gabor, Istvan Madjaric and Dusan Ivanisevic, which is concerned by critics to be a big support to Yugoslav jazz scene after GUT-MARKOVIC SEXTET, as well as the first representative of Yugoslav jazz school.
Besides his concert activity, he has recorded over 30 albums for different performers as a studio musician, played at all relevant jazz festivals in Europe and recorded shows and concerts for Yugoslav and foreign TV and radio stations.

Ivan Aleksijevic

Born in Pancevo, in 1971. He finished "Stankovic" music high school. He has  been working in RTS Big Band since 1995. He has worked with many well-known Yugoslav and foreign jazz, pop and rock musicians. He is often engaged as a studio musician.
 
 
 

Dusan Ivanisevic

Born in 1969 in Pancevo. He finished Primary and Secondary Music School "Stankovic" in the class of the professor Miroslav Karlovic. At that time he played actively in different Yugoslav jazz and rock bands as well as in  Belgrade Philharmonic. 1989-1997 he studied at the Jazz Academy in Graz where he obtained a Masters degree. He has performed in the country and abroad with very well-known musicians: Harry Peple, Mark Murphy, David Liebman, Winton Marsalis, Peter Erskine, Endy Bey, Dusko Goykovich… Since 1998 he has been a member of the quintet "Yupika" and professor of jazz drums at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade.

Bunford Gabor

Born in 1972 in Stari Becej. He finished primary and secondary music school in Subotica. He is currently on a graduate year at the Novi Sad Academy of Arts, Clarinet Dept. He has been playing commercial and jazz music since 1995. He has won a prize for the bast foreign performer at the Young Talents Contest for sax players in Budapest. He is a member of RTV Novi Sad Orchestra. He played in Radio Novi Sad Big Band from 1990 to 1995. He has performed with Tanja Jovicevic, Yupika, Djordje Balasevic and Aleksandar Dujin.

Madjaric Istvan

Born in 1973 in Kula. He has been a professional musician since 1995. He has played with many musicians and singers: Tanja Jovicevic Band, Aleksandar Dujin, Yupika Quintet and Co-operated with RTV Novi Sad Orchestra.