Current Projects
Jasna Jovicevic Quinary
Composer and saxophonist, Jasna Jovićević, researches the creative process in composing and improvising, perception and production of sound frequencies and contextualized musical structures, which in a special way affect the mind and body. The music of the Jasna Jovićević Quinary is conceptual program music, written for string quartet, saxophones, bass clarinet, flute, spacedrum and voice. The free improvizing interaction between the participants harmoniously permeates the contemporary approach of the chamber ensemble.
The new program of the Jasna Jovićević quintet will present original music from the last two albums; “Flow Vertical”, a holistic artistic study of sound vibrations through music, and “Sounding Solitude”, an album that testifies to the inner journey into a new reality caused by the pandemic in two years.
This group opens the forms with improv framed by a contemporary expression of string format with a wide range of experience in an innovative approach to 21st century music. The collective expression they create is a mirror of togetherness and compassion in these extraordinary times and experiences that we all go through.
ANJALI Trio
ANJALI Trio consists of three well established improvising musicians with a diversified musical backgrounds creating an authentic music expression. Modus operandi of this group is a collaborative process based on simultaneity and music spatiality created during the free improvised event.
Annette Giesriegl AUT -vocal, electronics
Jasna Jovicevic SRB – saxes, bass clarinet, flute
Elisabeth Harnik AUT – piano, objects
Jasna Jovicevic & Predrag Okiljevic
Two saxophones in close, unscored dialogue – probing the edges of timbre, gesture, and shared listening.
This new project marks the first collaboration between composer and saxophonist Jasna Jovićević and fellow saxophonist, improviser, Predrag Okiljević, both of whom bring decades of experience in free jazz, contemporary music, and extended technique.
Emerging as a spontaneous improvisation, the duo navigates a space where sound arises from minor gestures – subtle shifts in breath, tension, and timing, constantly shaped by the presence of the other, by the resonance of the space, and by the contingencies of the moment.
Rather than seeking linear form or thematic development, the performers attend to what unfolds in real time: a processual interplay of proximity and distance, silence and rupture, intimacy, intuition and restraint. What results is not a composition, but a situated sonic encounter:ephemeral, embodied, and open.
Triple Reed
The international saxophone trio Triple Reed consists of established musicians from Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia, who recorded the material for the album in September 2023 at the IMPRONEDJELJAK / IMPROMONDAY III event in the Močvara club in Zagreb.
Musicians:
Cene Resnik SLO – tenor, soprano
Damir Capri Kafka CRO – tenor, soprano
Jasna Jovićević SRB – alto, soprano
Solo Music
Free solo improvised music is deeply connected with the tendency to explore the unknown and undiscovered, taking us to an almost mystical realm of musical expression. The unstructured world of abstraction is the only path to freedom.
Always inspired by Nature and Meditation.
Jovicevic/Miklos/Wojcinski Trio
This trio brings musical freshness with its originality, open forms and freedom. All three musicians are known for improvisation, composition and contemporary approach in chamber jazz. They play original music, mostly spontaneously composed. In November 2018, within the Artist and Residence program in Novi Sad, in addition to collaborative workshops and performances, they recorded their first joint album. Since then, they are on tours.
Musicians:
Jasna Jovicevic SRB – saxophones, bass clarinet
Silvester Miklos HU – drums
Ksawery Wojcinski PL – double bass
Previous Projects
SUper Saxophone Quartet
SUper Saxophone Quartet is a band made up of acclaimed musicians from Slovenia, Serbia, Hungary and Ukraine; Gabor Bunford (soprano, alto), Max Kochetov (alto), Adam Klemm (tenor) and Jasna Jovićević (baritone). All of them are band leaders, composers and excellent improvisers; although their quartet smoothly blends, it contains the individual expressions. Saxophone quartet repertoire includes original contemporary composed and improvised music, modern jazz, distinguished but easy to listen. The intensity and dynamics of harmony that four saxophones create, provide an authentic atmosphere and musical experience interesting not only for jazz and contemporary music lovers.
DHARMA
Jasna Joviċeviċ & Armand Mesaroš
DHARMA is a musical duo from Serbia, performing improvised experimental jazz music, inspired by the internal Sound. Music of Dharma is a combination of various acoustic and electric instruments, processors and loopers. It is an experiment, interactive exchange of ideas with emphasis on jazz, ancient Sanskrit mantras, and Balkan elements, practice and play with the sound acoustics. Members of Dharma are Jasna Jovicevic (saxophones, flutes, percussion) and Armand Mesaros (bass). They play on prestigious festivals in Region ( Green Town International Festival, Novi Sad International Festival, Ethno.com Festival, various concerts).
Travellers
is a studio album, combining various improvised and composed melodies and musical situations. Duo is creatively experimenting with acoustic sounds, looped ostinatos, free improvisation, el.effects, and mantras, such as 32 names of Durga, Gayatri mantra, and Shiva mantra. The aim is to produce calm meditative, but also exciting musical environment, free of forms, rules, concentrating on the Sound itself. 8 songs are just one moment of their inspiration.
Dharma
Travellers Music Video
Winter Session 2016.
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New Spark Jazz Orchestra – Balkan Women in Jazz
Women in Jazz is an innovative artistic program which aims to facilitate access to gender equal professional opportunities and to strengthen and increase the number of women musicians and composers on the regional jazz music scene. The partners in the proj- ect are: from Serbia – NGO ARTRUST, from Macedonia- Goce Dolcev University, from Montenegro- Tivat Music School, as well as experts from France and Italy, and they form a strong, sustainable platform for cross-sectorial international networking in the field of music production, education, and promotion by opening new career and job opportunities for independent artists.
Toth Bagi Csaba Balkan Unio
Toth Bagi Csaba Balkan Union is a Hungarian band, playing fusion of Balkan melodies, blues and jazz approach in improvised music. Recently, we performed with Mr. Mike Stern on Nisville Jazz Festival.
Music Action Lab Women
Music Action Lab Women is an innovative music residency lead by Giant Steps in San Francisco, bringing together outstanding female artists from around the globe, committed to advancing the causes of women through music.
