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Zoran Majstorovic

-“PORIN” award with his band as the best overall new music artist in Croatia -“Damir Dičić” award as the best Croatian jazz guitar player -“Status” award as the best Croatian etno musician/instrumentalist -“Miroslav Sedak Bencic” award as the most prominent Croatian jazz composer

Jazz musician, guitarist, multiinstrumentalist, sound artist, arranger and composer, begins to play guitar at the age of 9, and plays professionally since the age of 13. His first guitar teacher was his father, a well known guitar player in Rijeka area during 1960’s and 1970’s. Later on he studied with the most prominent guitar players in Croatia and studied with and/or attended workshops of many world famous guitar players like Scott Henderson, Robben Ford, Marc Ribot, Sid Jacobs, Kurt Rosenwinkel…

After playing shortly in some demo-bands he joins, at the age of 14, a pop-rock group called “Teens” and stays with that band for 7 years.During those years the band played hundreds of concerts in Croatia and abroad, winning many awards in Croatia and internationally (most notable Porin 2000.g.), releasing 3 cd’s, gaining high popularity and appearing on numerous music festivals in many different countries.

In the years that followed he collaborates with many famous singers, mostly in Croatia, takes part in different projects, recordings and orchestras in Croatia and internationally. He also obtained a master degree with maximum votes in jazz performance at the jazz department of “Conservatorio G. Tartini” in Trieste, Italy.

Beside playing with many jazz&etno musicians from Croatia and his region, he played and can be heard on records with many instrumentalists from different countries like Reginald Veal, Corey Christiansen, Pat O'Leary, John Stowell, Russ Spiegel, James Weinstein, James Thompson, Kenn Bailey, Phil Keaggy, Asaf Sirkis, Yaron Stavi, Oleg Kireyev, Carlos Werneck, Takatsuna Mukai, Yoshio Machida, U.T.Gandhi, Francesco Bearzatti, Danilo Gallo, David Boato, Giorgio Pacorig, Tommasso Cappellato, Dario Carnovale, Alfonso Deidda, Alessio Menconi, Riccardo Chiarion, Andre Araujo, Wilmer Sifontes, Alvise Seggi, Luca Colussi, Simone Serafini, Jacob Melchior, Joe Kaplowitz, Rosa Brunello, Eldar Saparayev, Marcello Benetti, Alessandro Turchet, Flavio Davanzo, Michele Bonivento, Vlatko Stefanovski, Vasil Hadzimanov, Aleksandar Ipavec, Naat Veliov, Vasko Atanasovski, Stefano Di Grigoli, Mirko Cisilino, Igor Checchini, Moulaye Niang, Bodhisattwa Ghosh, Biji Bhattacharya, Premjit Dutta, Thomas Bauser, Daniel Schay, Martin Moro…and many international vocalists like Saba Anglana, Gabrielle Stravelli, Nancy Vieira, Tamara Obrovac, Milk and Coffee, Gino Santercole, Byron Motley, Lino Rocha, Ty Le Blanc, Pastora Soler, David Elliot, Marcina Arnold, Simon Marlow, Teti Cortese, Heloisa Lourenco, Francesca Viaro, Arsen Dedic Rade Serbedzija, Gabi Novak, Tereza Kesovija, Tinkara Kovac, Aleksandra Kovac, Nika Solce, Lela Kaplowitz…

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Play Time

Bono Records
2018

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The Road to Skitacha

Birdland Sounds
2016

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Simple Game

Bono Records
2015

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Waters and deserts

Croatia Records
2014

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