Aleksandar Gajic

Bio:

Aleksandar Gajic was born in former Yugoslavia where he finished his musical education.He has a distinguished career in classical, chamber, and symphonic music, but also bears a deep affinity for folk,jazz and world music. In his native Yugoslavia Aleksandar was a member, soloist, and concert master with a number of the country’s leading orchestras, including the Belgrade Philharmonic and both the Symphony and Chamber Orchestras of Radio and Television of Serbia.He is a founding member and first violin for 7 years of renowned and prolific Bellotti String Quartet. Bellotti made 4 CD's (classical, jazz and original music) in the production of the national recording house PGP RTS and music for the movie White suite (Yugoslavian candidate for OSCAR Awards 2000). Aleksandar was engaged in composing, arrangements and studio production. He also played and recorded several times with the world renowned Yugoslav composers and musicians, Goran Bregovic,Milos Petrovic and Laza Ristovski. Aleksandar was in Dominican Republic for two years(1993-1995), where he was also actively engaged in symphonic,chamber, Latin Pop and Jazz music,and he took a part in projects with Manuel Tejada,Victor Victor,Michel Camilo,Jorge Taveras,Alex Bueno. Since arriving in Canada Aleksandar has toured,recorded and performed with groups Gypsology,Soccaled,Mirobolus string trio,Projecto Charanguero,Tipica Toronto,Odessa-Havana,and artists David Buckbinder,Hilario Duran,Roberto Occhipinti,Mark Kelso,Quinsin Nachof,Bret Higgins,Milos Popovic,Eric Stein,Martin Van de Ven,Bogdan Djukic,Igor Vrabac,Milos Angelov,Alex Kontorovich,Louis Obregoso,Yoser Rodrigues,Luis Guerra,Eliana Cuevas,Sasha Luminsky,Daniel Burns,Josh Dolgin,Jorge Maza, among others. In December 2004 became a member of Beyond The Pale-World music ensemble.PRESS Jun 12 2008. Charleston CITY PAPER by Robert Bondurant. …In Hotland, by Aleksandar Gajic’s our cellist begins the piece by using his instrument as a drum, creating a base for its stark drones to build. The wonderful cry of its double stopped melody moved hypnotically through what amounted to two chords and the truth. A folk song in hyperspace? This work does exactly the same thing for Serbian folk what Led Zeppelin did for the blues. Jun 2008. All About Jazz,New York-Odessa/Havana review by Elliott Simon …added benefit of violinist Aleksandar Gajic’s bow-that can burn as well as caress-

Member Since:

December 11, 2007

Members:

Aleksandar Gajic-Violin plus guests:,Milos Popovic-Accordion,Joe Philips-Acoustic Bass, Beyond The Pale-Eric Stein-Mandolin,Bret Higgins-Acoustic Bass,Martin Van De Ven-Clarinet,Bogdan Djukic-Percussions,Milos Popovic-Accordion,String Quartet"Bellotti"-Aleksandar Gajic-Violin,Djordje Pantelic-Violin,Tesman Zivanovic-Violoncello,Boris Brezovac-Viola,Zoran Miletic-Viola,Milos Petrovic-Piano

Influences:

Blues+Europian Spices=Walter

Sounds Like:

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Record Label:

Independent