Jure Pukl
Jure Pukl completed the study of classical saxophone in 2001 at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna (with Professor Oto Vrhovnik), and in the same year he spent a semester attending lessons within the programme for student exchange at the Royal Conservatory of Haag (Netherlands). During the years 2002 and 2003 he studied saxophone at the Berklee College of Music in Boston (USA), where he was given a scholarship B.E.S.T. (Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust). He completed the aftergraduate study of jazz saxophone in 2007 at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts Graz (Austria) in the class of the Professor Karlheinz Miklin. His skills and knowledge have been accomplished and prized at several domestic and international competitions (the JAZZON Competition in Novo mesto (in 2003 and 2005), he was the finalist at the Competition “Gustaw Bumcke” in Dortmund (Germany), as well as the finalist in the competition in Fribourg (Switzerland). He collaborates with many renowned domestic and international groups and soloists (European Movement Jazz Orchestra, Big Band RTV Slovenia, Berklee Concert Jazz Orchestra, Aaron Goldberg, Jeremy Pelt, Jamie Williams, Francisco Mela, Aruan Ortiz, Mike Janisch, Howard Curtis, Renato Chicco, Nouvele Cousine, Fool Cool Jazz Orchestra, Queen's conservatory Big Band Den Haag, the Vienna Saxophone Quartet, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra (Vienna-RSO), Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester GMJO (with Claudio Abaddo) and with the group Igor Lunder with Reeds). Up to now, he has recorded five original projects, and he has collaborated on more than fifteen released records. He gives more than hundred concerts per year (he was on tour in the USA, throughout Europe and, of course, in Slovenia).
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Matjaž Drevenšek, professor of saxophone at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana, as a member of the Zagreb Saxophone Quartet, the Sax Of A Kind Jazz Septet, in duos with pianist Z. Peter, percussionist A. L. Barber, harpsichordist M. Lazar and as a soloist in the ensembles Percussion Plus and Percussion Studio, he performs throughout Europe (in Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Macedonia, Monaco, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Turkey), in Canada and the USA (Arizona, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Wisconsin).
Soloist, researcher and tutor, Claude Delangle, one of the greatest contemporary saxophonists, stands out as the master of the French saxophone. Privileged interpreter for classic works, he enriches the repertoire and encourages creation by collaborating with the most renowned composers, including L. Berio, P. Boulez, Toru Takemitsu, A. Piazzolla, and promoting the youngest. Since 1986, he is invited saxophonist to the Ensemble Intercontemporain, he also appears as a soloist with the most prestigious orchestras (London BBC, Radio France, Radio of Finland, WDR Köln, Berlin Philharmonic, Kioi Tokyo) and works with D. Robertson, P. Eötvös, K. Nagano, E. P. Salonen, Miung Wung Chung, G. Bernstein and many other conductors. He is also invited to important festivals such as the Zagreb Biennale, Présences of Radio France or the Musica Nova Festival. The Festival Musica of Strasbourg invited him recently to offer the world premiere of the programme ‘Tango Futur’, interpreted afterwards at the Festival Aix en Musique and the Theatre of the Palais Royal in Paris. After obtaining several outstanding Premier Prix at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique of Paris, Claude Delangle was appointed professor in 1988, where he has created the most prestigious saxophone class in the world. He is currently in charge of a collection at the Henri-Lemoine-Paris publications. After completing deep observation on specific saxophone acoustics at Paris VII University “Laboratoire d'Acoustique Musicale”, Claude Delangle has begun a long and rich collaboration with Selmer Paris.
He graduated from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris with degree in saxophone as well as in composition, analysis, music history and new music technology. At the age of 25, he was appointed saxophone professor at the Conservatoire National de Région in Lyon, and later he was promoted to assistant-professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (CNSMDP). His students come from Japan, the USA and from all over Europe. He gives lessons at masterclasses (seminars) in France and abroad to saxophone students as well as to tutors, he also teaches at saxophone summer schools in Gap (France). Furthermore he is also a jury member at the international competitions and admission exams at the CNSM in Paris. As a soloist with an orchestra (either symphony, string, or wind), he has performed in Japan, Spain, Canada, Netherland and in Slovenia. In a duo with the pianist Sylvaine Nely, they perform throughout the world. As a concert performer, Jean-Denis Michat is recognized for the quality of performances of classical pieces, as he pays much attention to the transcriptions of this kind of music literature. As a leading artist he collaborates, assists and takes part in developing and promoting the manufacture of the Yanagisawa Saxophone. He has not only excellently premierd the pieces by renowned composers, such as Stockhausen, Mantovani, Ton That Tiet, Escaich, Levy, Merah and others, but he is also becoming well-known as a composer. His works have been played by the Toulouse National Chamber Orchestra, The Academic Choir Callilope, by ensembles Itinéraire, Les Temps Modernes, Arcema as well as by the Slovenian Police Orchestra on the occasion of the 14th World Saxophone Congress in Ljubljana.
Lev Pupis graduated in 1998 at the Vienna Music University, and perfected his technique at the National Conservatory of Music in Paris, taking a degree with Jean-Yves Formeau (Premier Prix), and specialising with Vincent David. Lev Pupis won several prizes at domestic and foreign competitions, and gave solo recitals or played in various chamber ensembles throughout Europe. He has collaborated with important conductors, such as George Pehlivanian, Toshihiro Yonezu, Juergen Bruns, and as an orchestral musician he has played with many renowned orchestras, such as the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, The RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, the Slovenian philharmonic orchestra, the Slovenian Army Orchestra and others. At the Vienna Music University, he rounded off with distinction, his postgraduate studies, with a master's degree (in the class of Professor Oto Vrhovnik). In 2007 he finished specialising at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana (in the class of the Professor Matjaž Drevenšek). He teaches saxophone at intermediate music schools in Ljubljana and Celje, and has for a number of years been a tutor at the Nova Gorica Summer School, acting as artistic director in 2006. Lev Pupis is also a member and founder of some performing groups, such as Ensemble 4saxess, the Ad Libitum Trio, and the Sax.org Duo. Many contemporary composers wrote new works (more than 15 compositions) for hem and for ensembles in which he has taken part.
After obtaining his diploma at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana (with Professor Matjaž Drevenšek), Miha Rogina continued his studies in Paris, where he graduated from the Cergy-Pontoise National Conservatorie in Paris (CNR de Cergy-Pontoise) in the class of Proffesor Jean-Yves Fourmeau and the CNR de Versailles by Professor Vincent David. He has also studied at the Eastman School of Music (Rochester, New York) with Professors Chien-Kwan Lin and Matt Pivec (Jazz). In June 2006 he graduated with distinction at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (with Professor Claude Delangle). In the same year he passed the entrance exam in “perfectionnement” cycle at CNSMDP, which brought him to the concert halls in Paris and abroad. He has won several first prizes at domestic and international competitions. He has performed the concerts all over Europe, as well as in Tunisia, Libya, China, the USA and Japan. As a soloist, he has been playing with orchestras such as the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Hoffer Philharmonic Orchestra, Thai Orchestra, Slovenian and Maribor Philharmonic Orchestra. 
Zoltan Peter began his academic studies in the class of Arbo Valdma at the Academy of Fine Arts in Novi Sad (Serbia). He completed his piano studies at the Accademy of Music in Ljubljana (Slovenia). As a soloist, chamber musician and piano accompanist for all generations of top musicians, he has performed in Slovenia and abroad (in Italy, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro, Macedonia, Russia, Germany, Switzerland, as well as at many festivals of contemporary music in Slovenia and abroad). As a soloist, he has worked with many reputable conductors (Igor Gjadrov, Simon Robinson, Berislav Skenderović, Elvira Huszar, Hermann Ostendarp, Guido Mancuzzi, George Pehlivanian and many others.) He has recorded a number of compositions for the public broadcasters RTV Slovenia, RTV Belgrade, RTV Novi Sad, and HRT, as well as eight CDs of solo and chamber music. He is one of the finest chamber and piano accompanists who has mastered an extensive repertoire. Zoltan Peter often takes part in domestic and international masterclasses and competitions. As well as teaching and giving concerts, he gives seminars for piano students, teachers and piano accompanists.
