Sunday, July 14
Museum Square, 11 p.m.
JAZZ SQUARE
Alex B. & The Fergusons
Band members:
Aleksandra Bijelić, vocal
Ivan Aleksijević, keebords
Petar Radmilović, dums
Milan Pavković, bass
Kristijan Mlačak, sax
Nemanja Banović, trumpet/flugelhorns
Aleksandra Bijelić, vocals, completed simultaneously both Mokranjac Secondary Music School (Belgrade) in the Piano Department and the Stanković Music School (Belgrade) in the Department for Jazz Singing. She also graduated from the Department of Theory and Music Pedagogy at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, where she is currently completing her master’s studies at the Jazz Department. Aleksandra Bijelić began her jazz vocal career in 2000, performing with the school big band, soon after which the doors of the Belgrade and the European jazz scenes started to open. Today, she collaborates with the RTS Big Band and the Belgrade Dixieland Orchestra and leads the Alex & the Fergusons Quintet. As a backing vocalist, Aleksandra Bijelić has collaborated with numerous musicians of the regional pop-rock scene, and her voice can be heard in commercials, jingles of TV shows, and in animated films. She is a Professor of Modern Singing at the Josif Marinković Secondary Music School in Vršac.