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3rd JOSIP NOCHTA COMPETITION: JURY MEMBERS

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Vincent David

Vincent David is the leader of a generation of saxophonists who develops the musical and technical possibilities of his instrument.
As soloist, he has performed with Philharmonique Orchestra of Radio France, National Orchestra of Strasbourg, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra of Stuttgart, MAV Orchestra of Budapest, Navy Band Orchestra of Washington, Camerata Aberta of Sao Paulo, Musica Assoluta of Hannover. Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and many others. He collaborated with many composers Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Peter Eötvös, Gérard Grisey, Philippe Hurel, etc.
He works since 1998 with concerts Intercontemporain Ensemble, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France, and the Orchestra of the Paris Opera.
Composer and conductor, he has composed for his instrument, solo pieces such as Sillage for soprano sax, Pulse and Éclats d’échos for alto saxophone, Mirages for soprano saxophone and piano, Nuée Ardente for alto sax and piano commissioned by the International Adolphe Sax competition in Dinant, l’éveil de la toupie and concertos Reflets for alto sax and orchestra, Arches for soprano sax and orchestre, Rhizome for alto sax and strings. He has also written Jazz duets and quartets.
He is active in improvised music (jazz, contemporary) through encounters with musicians such as Pierrick Pedron, Christophe Monniot, Jean-Charles Richard, sometimes giving rise to recordings. He is the founder of the Fireworks Quartet with Jean-Charles Richard, Stéphane Guillaume et Baptiste Herbin and record his music.
Vincent David has given numerous masterclasses throughout the world. He is a recognized teacher and attaches importance to the transmission of his experience and his passion for music. Generous musician, he is very attached to the opening and promotes artistic curiosity in his class. Since September 2019 teaches at the Conservaroire Royal of Bruxelles.

Saša Nestorović

Saša Nestorović (Zagreb, 1964) is active on the US, German, Croatian and Slovene jazz scene. For decades he has led the Summer School of Jazz on the island of Brač and given lectures at the Summer School of Saxophone in Dubrovnik. He is a saxophonist, clarinetist and recording musician with the Croatian Radio Television Big Band, as well as composer and arranger with the Zagreb Jazz Portrait quartet. As a conductor, he has recorded 20 albums with a Jazz Orcestra HRT, has worked projects/recordings with eminent jazz musicians like Ernie Watts, Doug Richards, Rex Richardson, Christian McBride, Charles Toliver, Alan Broadbent, Miroslav Vitous, Boris Kozlov, Alexey Sipiagin, and many more. Most recently he did a concert with Vanessa Rubin playing Tadd Dameron’s music.
He is disting. prof. art at Music academy in Zagreb, teaching chamber music, jazz improvisation and leading the jazz ensemble. He was a colaborator of over than forty JazzLab workshops with names such as Charles Toliver, Miroslav Vitous and Jean -Luc Ponty, Eddie Henderson, Barry Altschul, Ambrose Akinmusire, Black Art Collective (Jeremy Pelt). He has mentored six graduating essays at final diplomas and teaches ensembles that were four time awarded in Croatia, Serbia and Italy.
He was a member of the EBU Big Band Orchestra (leading by Andrew Homzy) during a concert tour in Montreal and other cities of Canada in 1999 and has participated in many jazz recordings in Croatia and Slovenia.
Co-founder and member of Zagreb Saxophone quartet, he has had 13 tours – concerts and workshops in the United States and Europe and released many recordings, and in 2018 he was a jazz side host of the 18th World Saxophone Congress in Zagreb.

Miha Rogina

Described as ‘’The best saxophonist of today’s younger generation’’, Miha Rogina is accredited for his innovative interpretations of musical works. He has won the first prize at no fewer than 10 international competitions. He has worked with today’s leading musicians including Pierre Boulez and Fabio Luisi and has appeared at major concert stages throughout Europe, Asia, USA and Africa such as the Musikverein in Vienna, Salle Pleyel in Paris, Großes Festspielhaus in Salzburg and Izumi Hall in Japan.
He initially studied at Ljubljana Music University with Matjaž Drevenšek, and continued his studies at the prestigious CNSM de Paris with Claude Delangle, where he graduated with the highest honours, and at the renowned Eastman School of Music in the USA. In 2015 he graduated orchestral conducting from the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna and in 2019 he graduated choral conducting from the same university.
As a soloist he performed with a number of orchestras worldwide including the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Thailand Philharmonic orchestra, Hoffer, Bruges, Slovenia, Maribor and Paris Laureates Symphony Orchestras and others. An active chamber musician, he performs frequently with concert pianist Sae Lee as the Duo Kalypso.
Rogina is associate professor at Ljubljana University and a guest lecturer at Senzoku Gakuen College of Music, Osaka College of Music. Since 2017 he has been a guest lecturer at the Osaka College of Music and Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. He gives masterclasses across Japan, UK, Latvia, Poland, Finland, Germany and Austria, and is a member of jury at national and international saxophone competitions.
As a conductor he has led orchestras such as Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Slovene national theatre Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava Philharmonic Orchestra, Pro-Arte Symphony Orchestra and more.

Dragan Sremec

Dragan Sremec graduated saxophone and earned his MA degree in the class of Josip Nochta at the University of Zagreb Academy of Music. He also graduated conducting in the class of Igor Gjadrov. He received further training in Paris with Daniel Deffayet as a French Government grantee and with Dr. Eugene Rousseau at the IU School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana as a Fulbright grantee.
Sremec is professor of saxophone and was the vice-dean at the Academy of Music in Zagreb for many years, artistic director and founder of the International Saxophone Competition Josip Nochta, artistic director of the XVIII World Saxophone Congress in Zagreb 2018 which gathered over 1900 people and a member of the International Saxophone Committee. In 2008, he founded the Saxophone Class at the Music Academy of Sarajevo University where he was taught until 2016. He is the founder of the Zagreb Saxophone Quartet and for many years he was the principal saxophonist with the Zagreb Philharmonic and the Croatian Radio Television Symphony Orchestra.
He earned many major prizes as a saxophone soloist at competitions in former Yugoslavia and with the Zagreb Saxophone Quartet
He performed as a soloist and as a member of the Zagreb Saxophone quartet in prestigious halls of many European countries, the USA, South and Central America and Asia and under the baton of distinguished conductors such as Kazushi Ono, Alun Francis, Pavle Dešpalj, Nikša Bareza, Vjekoslav Šutej, Klaus Arp among others, with all major orchestras in Croatia and Slovenia, with the Orchestra of the French Republican Guard, the US Navy Band, Banda de conciertos de San José and many more.
He made a number of solo recordings for Croatian Radio and Television, a solo LP with the pianist Đorđe Stanetti, and with ZSQ he has taken part in 11 discographic editions which have won 7 Croatian discographic Porin Awards. He has premiered over fifty works by foremost Croatian and Slovenian composers most of which were dedicated to him or to Zagreb Saxophone Quartet.
Sremec served as a jury member at competitions in Dinant, Hamburg, Zagreb, Varaždin, Nova Gorica, etc., and held numerous master classes and seminars in Croatia, France, Costa Rica, Hungary, Slovenia, Spain and the USA.

Javier Valerio

Dr. Javier Valerio, widely recognized as one of the pioneers and leading classical saxophonist in Latin America, is an exhaustive advocate of the Latin American classical saxophone repertoire and the current President of the Latin American Saxophone Alliance.
After studying with the world renowned saxophonist Eugene Rousseau at Indiana University School of Music, Valerio returned to his home country, Costa Rica and established the Saxophone Studio teaching as a Distinguished Professor at The University of Costa Rica.
He is the founder and Director of the Sax Fest Costa Rica International, the Costa Rica International Saxophone Competition and the renowned saxophone and percussion quintet, SONSAX.
Valerio obtained his Master degree in Jazz Studies at the Florida International University, where he was later a professor of the classical saxophone. He was also a professor at the New World School of the Arts in Miami, and is a member of the Florida Saxophone Quartet. He obtained his DMA degree from the University of Kansas, as part of the KU-UCR partnership initiated in 1958.
As a soloist, Valerio has played with many orchestras and ensembles around the world, and he has performed in numerous occasions at the Montreal International Jazz Festival, World Saxophone Congresses and Latin American Saxophone Alliance Congresses. He was a member of the world known Adolphe Saxophone International Competition Jury in 2014 and has also been invited as a jury member in many other saxophone international competitions.
Valerio has played concerts and given masterclasses all around the world: in Russia, Croatia, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Canada, United States, México, Colombia, Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Paraguay, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Scotland, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Central America and Panama.

Matija Fortuna

Matija Fortuna was born in 1985 in Krizevci, Croatia. At the Academy of Music in Zagreb in 2009 he graduated in Music Theory in the class of Berislav Šipuš, and in 2011  in Orchestral Conducting in the class of Vjekoslav Šutej and Uroš Lajovic. He won the Top scholarship for top students in the yeas 2010/2011. He spent the last two semesters of his conducting studies as an Erasmus exchange student at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna in the class of maestro Uros Lajovic. He finished the postgraduate conducting program at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna also in the class of professor Lajovic. He studied Opera Conducting under Konrad Leitner and Opera Accompaniment under Marius Burkert, and he did postgraduate studies in piano, chamber music and lied in the class of Roswitha Heintze. During this time in Vienna he worked with conductors Bertrand de Billy and Fabio Luisi.
From 2012 to 2014 he worked as an artistic associate at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna where he worked on several projects (Mozart’s Der Schauspieldirektor, Stravinsky’s Mavra and Pulcinella, Weber’s Der Freischütz). In 2015 he assisted maestro Georg Fritzsch in preparing Weber’s opera Der Freischütz at the Jopera opera festival in Jennersdorf. The same year he was a semi-finalist of the Lovro von Matacic International Conducting Competition in Zagreb. He has worked at the Academy of Music in Zagreb since 2015 as an assistant to conductor Mladen Tarbuk, and he works with the Symphony Orchestra of the Academy and prepares opera projects.
Since 2015 he has worked with the Croatian National Theatre Ivan pl. Zajc in Rijeka where he has conducted Andrea Chenier by Umberto Giordano, Werther by Julesa Masseneta, Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss, La Boheme by Giaocomo Puccini and Swan’s Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. He has assisted in the preparation of Giulio Cesare by Georg Friedrich Händel and other opera and sypmhony projects.
He has worked with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Varaždin Chamber Orchestra and Croatian Chamber Orchestra and he often works with the Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Choir and Tamburitza Orchestra.
He has participated in many masterclasses in Croatia and the world, including the masterclass with Yuri Simonov in Moscow, where he had the opportunity to conduct the Moscow Philharmonic in 2013 and 2014. He has attended masterclasses by Nicolas Pasquet, Colin Metters, Georg Fritzsch, Mark Heron, Clark Rundell, Ralf Weikert, Gianluigi Gelmetti, David Reiland, Alun Francis, Karolos Trikolidis, Stephen Cleobury, Gerald Wirth i dr.

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