JAZZ SQUARE

2018-07-22 23:00, Duration 2h

Museum Square

Sunday, July 22
Museum Square, 11 p.m. 

FREE ENTRANCE!

ALEKSANDRA BIJELIĆ ALEKSIJEVIĆ, vocal
MILAN PAVKOVIĆ, double bass
IVAN ALEKSIJEVIĆ, piano
PREDRAG MILUTINOVIĆ, drums

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ALEKSANDRA BIJELIĆ ALEKSIJEVIĆ, vocals, completed simultaneously both Mokranjac Secondary Music School (Belgrade) in the Piano Department and the Stanković Music School (Belgrade) at the Department for Jazz Singing. She graduated from the Department of Theory and Music Pedagogy at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, where she is currently completing master studies at the Jazz Department. Aleksandra Bijelić began her jazz vocal career in 2000, performing with the school big band, while soon after the doors of the Belgrade and European jazz scene started to open. Today, she collaborates with the RTS Big Band, the Belgrade Dixieland Orchestra and leads the Alex & the Fergusons Quintet. As 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.

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MILAN PAVKOVIĆ, double bassist, completed primary and secondary music school in Belgrade, and graduated in Jazz Double Bass from the Music Academy in Graz (2004), under Professor Wayne Darling. He has performed at numerous jazz and other music festivals. Milan Pavković has collaborated with eminent musicians such as Stjepko Gut, Duško Gojković, Fritz Pauer, Renato Chico, Dave Gibson, John Holenback, Wayne Darling, Ed Neumeister, Karl Ratzer, and others. He has participated in the recording of several compact discs, including Sweet Love by Vladimir Krnetić, as well as albums by Happy Guitar Trio, Beogradski Jazz Trio, and Jazz Connection Band.

 

IVAN ALEKSIJEVIĆ, pianist, first completed studies at the Stanković Secondary Music School  before enrolling in the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, at the same time beginning his career by playing in jazz clubs and at festivals on the national and international scene. He is a member of the RTS Big Band. He has collaborated with many great names on the jazz scene, such as Brad Lilly, Clark Terry, Benny Golson, Roy Hargrove, Diane Shuur, Don Menza, Duško Gojković, and Stjepko Gut. Ivan Aleksijević is also engaged in composing, writing music for film, theater, and television. As composer and arranger, he collaborates with numerous jazz and world music ensembles, such as Ognjen i Prijatelji and Yupika Quintet. Ivan Aleksijević arranged tracks for Romano Raj, the first and only jazz album of the famous Šaban Bajramović.

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PREDRAG MILUTINOVIĆ,drummer, attended private lessons for jazz drumming with Professor Dušan Ivanišević. He gained his first musical experience with a band at the age of fifteen, with members of the Oktava Ensemble at the Music School in Kragujevac. Following this engagement, Predrag Milutinović started collaborating with the Rich Bitch funk band in Belgrade, in the process meeting many jazz musicians with whom he soon started to play alongside in the Ptica and Čekaonica jazz clubs. In 2012, he became a member of the Maks Kočetov Quartet and the Vasil Hadžimanov Band, with which he recorded two albums – Can You Dig It (2012) and Alive (2014). In 2016, the American magazine DownBeat declared the Alive album, which also featured American saxophonist David Binney, one of the top 100 albums of the world. Predrag Milutinović participated in the founding of the Qzama Quartet with whom he recorded the album Portrait in Black and White. At the Malta Jazz Festival, he has played with Petar Krstajić and David Binney in the Avenija trio. In the category of Best Instrumentalist, Predrag Milutinović won second place at the Best Musical Mind International Competition (2016).