Lovro Ravbar is a saxophone player comfortable with many styles of music. He started to play saxophone at early age of nine at the local music school in Krsko. Soon he participated with the local wind orchestra, Big Band KK, and the school symphony orchestra.
He studied classical music at SGBS Ljubljana with prof. Matjaz Drevensek and graduated in 1998. Until 2005 Lovro Ravbar continued studies of jazz and world music at the Conservatory of Rotterdam with Dick de Graaf, Ben van den Dungen, Benjamin Herman and Piet Noordijk. He participated in workshops of Jerry Bergonzi, Andy Arnol, Dave Liebman, Donald Harrison etc. After the six years in the Netherlands he returned to Slovenia holding a master’s degree and had various musical experiences. At the moment he is playing, recording, teaching, composing and producing.
In autumn 2008 Lovro Ravbar released his first jazz album – RUSH HOUR (LP glasbena produkcija/Club & Vehicle Productions/Distribution Dallas Records). http://24ur.com/ekskluziv/glasba/prvenec-lovra-ravbarja.html
Audience in Slovenia, Netherlands, Croatia, Italy, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Belgium, Luxemburg, Denmark, England, Spain and Portugal have had the pleasure to listen to his sound with musicians and bands like Lovro Ravbar Quintet, European Jazz Orchestra conducted by Peter Herbolzheimer, Leeloojamais (www.leeloojamais.com) (SRF 2004, nominated for MTV award Lisboa 2005 and MTV award Liverpool 2008),
Hans van Oosterhout, Franklin Arrindell, Tashas world, Jill Scott (Grammy winner), Rob McConell (triple - Grammy winner), Fool Cool Orchestra (www.foolcool.com) , Izidor Leitinger, Vladko Stefanovski, Simone Zanchini, Massimo Savic, Eric Vloimans, Dusko Goykovich, Owen Hart, Eric Durrer, Adonis Rose, Joao Falcato, Tyrone (Incognito), Larry Harlow (Latin president of NYC), Aleksandra Kovac (MTV music awards winner), Spinz, Trkaj, Spinz, MC Complex, MC Dynamite, Alenka Godec, Rembrandt Frerichs, Zoran Predin, Juicy Juice, Slovenian National Radio and television Big band, Big band of Slovenian army, Big band KK, Demolition group, Zoran Predin, Vlado Kreslin etc.
In April and May 2009 Lovro Ravbar was touring with
EJO (European Jazz Orchestra EJO Tour 2009) as a lead alto, conducted by Peter Herbolzheimer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Herbolzheimer).
Lovro Ravbar won the prize of the best jazz composition of the year at JAZZON 2004.
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