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Wednesday 20 November 2013

TAMARA OBROVAC

TAMARA OBROVAC
Tamara Obrovac the composer,  singer and flutist is one of the most impressive artists on the Croatian music scene. Her unique musical expression which blends contemporary jazz with particular musical and dialectal tradition from her homeland Istria, North Adriatic peninsula, brought here international recognition.

Her musical career as a singer started mid 80-s in Zagreb, after finishing High school of music for flute in here native Pula. At that time she immersed in research of jazz harmony and soon she begins to compose her own contemporary jazz compositions, forms her own band and in the next few years discovers tradition of her homeland as a point of inspiration and originality.

She released her first CD “Triade” in 1996, which immediately got critics approval (“absolute masterpiece”), and 1998 CD “Ulika”, named on her grandmother, both with piano trio, establishing fusion between contemporary jazz, Istrian and Mediterranean tradition as her original musical expression.

At that time she began to perform in the neighboring countries, Italy, Slovenia, Austria and starts to compose theatre and film music as well. On her next CD ”Transhistria” 2001, she inaugurated a new international Transhistria ensemble (Histria is ancient name for Istria) and a new sound, with accordion and acoustic guitar.

In following years she released 4 author albums, experimenting with the border areas of jazz, funk, classical music, and different ethnic traditions of the Mediterranean, singing on endangered Slavic and Romanic Istrian dialects.

With her distinctive musical expression, excellent band and passionate live performances suffused with spontaneity, inventive improvisation, freedom, humor and the ability to communicate with the audience, she has become increasingly more
present and recognized on the European musical stage.

She collaborated with many renowned musicians; Glauco Venier, Gabrielle Mirabassi, Theodosii Spassov, Wolfgang Puschnig, performed on many international festivals: Talos Jazz fesival, Le Gipfel du Jazz Freiburg, Strictly mundial Marseille, Akordeon festival Vienna, EBU festival Kaustinen, Saulkrasti Jazz, Freiburger Jazz-nights, Firra Medititerranea de Manresa, Jazz-ahead Bremen, Jazz au Chellah; and clubs: Joe’s pub NYC, Porgy&Bess Viena, Moods, Zurich, Bird’s eye, Bern, and many more, highly praised from audience and critics as well.

She received numerous awards for her work, among the others 9 Porin awards
(Croatian's Grammy), and she was nominated for BBC Radio 3 World Music awards
(European music and Audience Award).

Since 2010, she is the director of Valamar Jazz Festival in Poreč.

In 2013 she recorded 2 new CD-s in ArteSuono studio Udine (IT): “Ulika revival” with
here quartet that had succesful showcase on Jazz-ahead Bremen 2013, and “Canto
amoroso” with Transhistria ensemble.

Currently looking for international label and concert management.
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