JAZZ SQUARE

Sunday, August 5
Museum Square, 11 p.m.

FREE ENTRANCE!

NOVAK MIJOVIĆ, trumpet
ALEKSANDRA BIJELIĆ ALEKSIJEVIĆ, vocal
IVAN ALEKSIJEVIĆ, piano

NOVAK MIJOVIĆ, trumpet, completed primary Music School in Bar, under Professor Miki Jelenić. Under Professor Izudin Čavrković, he first completed the Stanković Secondary Music School (Belgrade), and then studies at the Music Academy (Kosovska Mitrovica). As a member of the RTS Big Band, he has performed with eminent jazz musicians, such as Benny Golson, Jessie Davis, Eddie Henderson, Brad Lily, Gut, Duško Gojković, Nikola Mitrović, and others. As young representative of Serbia and Montenegro, during 2007, Novak Mijović performed with the EBU Big Band across Europe and Asia. Since 2008, he has been a permanent member of the Duško Gojković International Octet, with which performs at the European jazz scene. In 2012, Novak Mijović became Assistent of Stjepko Gut at the Jazz Department of the Faculty of Music Arts in Belgrade.

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.

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.