Elvis Stanić Group has been selected to participate in the China Central and Eastern European Countries (China-CEEC) Cultural Season project as a representative of Croatian music.
Elvis Stanić Group will hold three concerts from September 7 -9 in the most prestigious concert halls in Xi’an, China and participate in the opening ceremony of the 4th Silk Road International Art Festival, report Jutarnji.hr on September 4, 2017.
Stanić said that he is honoured to have been selected from a long line of international artists to perform with his band at the opening ceremony of the festival.
At the initiative of the Liburnia Jazz Association, Elvis Stanić Group, consisting of singer Meri Trošelj, keyboardist Ivan Popeskić, bassist Damjan Grbac and drummer Tonči Grabušić, was selected to participate in the China Central and Eastern European Countries (China-CEEC) Cultural Season project as a representative of Croatian music. The group will perform in the most prestigious concert halls in Xi’an on September 7 at the Guangdian Grand Theater, a day later at Xi’an Concert Hall, and on September 9 at the Symphony Hall of the Xi’an Conservatory of Music. The project is organized by the Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China, the National Government and the Department of Culture of the Province of Shaanxi.
Career of Elvis Stanić
Elvis Stanić is lauded as the best Croatian contemporary jazz fusion guitarist, accordionist and is the most awarded Croatian jazz composer. He is the leader and founder of the Elvis Stanić Group, a jazz fusion band that combines Mediterranean melodies of traditional Croatian music with Latin rhythms and contemporary jazz sound.
Elvis Stanić founded the jazz fusion group Elvis Stanić Group, which combines Mediterranean melodies of traditional Croatian music with rhythms of Latin expression and contemporary jazz tendencies. So far Elvis Stanić Group has recorded four albums and has won almost all national music awards, including eight Porin awards (Croatian Grammy) for best jazz songs, jazz albums and instrumental music.
He performed twice at the Montreaux Jazz Festival at 1998 and 2003., at the Lincoln Center in 2006, in New York (with Buster Williams and Lenny White), and with many great jazz artists from all over the world – Gilberto Gil, Django Bates, Scott Kinsey, Hadrien Feraud, Martin Drew, Mike Baker, Katisse Buckingham, Bobby Thomas Jr. , Alwin Queen, Furio di Castri, Karen Asatrian etc. As a guitarist and producer, he collaborated with the most important Croatian jazz musicians, including Boško Petrović, HRT Big Band, Neven Frangeš, Mario Mavrin, Tamara Obrovac, Matija Dedić etc.
Excerpts translated and taken from Jutarnji.hr and Elvis Stanić’s official website
