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Merrimans' Playhouse Jazz Performance Series presents Trio Balkan Strings!

Merrimans' Playhouse
South Bend, IN

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Merrimans' Playhouse Jazz Performance Series presents Trio Balkan Strings!

CONCERT CANCELLED. Performers had to cancel their USA tour due to Visa issues.

"Fly by Balkan carpet with the guitar family from Belgrade-Serbia"

Zoran STARCEVIC guitar
Nikola STARCEVIC guitar
Zeljko STARCEVIC guitar

TRIO BALKAN STRINGS (Zoran Starcevic & sons) performs its original guitar music, a fusion of Balkan music: Serbian, Gypsy, Macedonian, Romanian, Moldavian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Mediterranean, Greek, OrientalJazz, Gypsy Swing, Classical music, asymmetrical rhythms and original guitar interpretation. The result, combining many cultures, is BALKAN SWING - WORLD FUSION, virtuoso, rich and unconventional, fresh and spontaneous, brimming with energy. Authentic, attractive music with the finest taste, real presentation of guitar music in Balkan Jazz style, unique interpretation from three of them and the universal music language, without frontiers. A real music trip by Balkan carpet, so if you like Jazz, Swing, Ethno, Classical, or you simply like guitar music, it is your perfect choice. They invented 6 hands playing on 1 guitar and that is their trademark. They have performed in many Festivals (Jazz, Classical Guitar, World music) and concerts in: USA, Canada, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Turkey, Russia, Moldova, Slovakia, Chech Republic, Finland, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Spain, UK, Lithuania, Estonia, Norway, France, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia. They did master classes-clinics and concerts for classical and Jazz guitar students in Europe and in the USA.

FIRST PRIZE WINNER in the World category of the 2005 USA Songwriting Competition with composition Water-mill written by Nikola Starcevic and performed by Trio Balkan Strings.
FIRST PRIZE WINNER - Trio Balkan Strings won first prize and the Dolphin statue for being the best instrumental ensemble on the Music World 2004 Italy Festival Internacionale Fivizzano.
FIRST PRIZE WINNER - of the JoAnn Falletta International Composition Competition for Guitar 2007 Buffalo, New York (Asiana IV written by Nikola Starcevic).

" Trio Balkan Strings dedication to the music of the Balkans and central Europe is inspiring. The guitar interpretations of this music are wonderful. Really good !!! "
John McLaughlin
http://www.starcevic.co.rs
https://www.facebook.com/triobalkanstrings
BALKAN SWING-WORLD FUSION

VIDEO LINKS:
Stampedo http://youtu.be/AASl37ovJes
Balkan Swing No.1 http://youtu.be/_tMSGcSr_Mo
Hava Nagila http://youtu.be/7olwxUxtPzM
Afyon http://youtu.be/O_yemK0JMo0
Smoky Swing http://youtu.be/gxpM76lXqUo
Seven Grains http://youtu.be/x2-UeCLmofw
Swing Time http://youtu.be/9HaNHlDGmrw
The Nutcracker's New Suite (over The
Nutcracker by
P.I.Tchaikovsky) http://youtu.be/uZQr4AzUNyM
The Legend of the Balkans (over Asturias by
I.Albeniz) http://youtu.be/iJ-O4TJO_7A

$10 Advanced, $13 Door, $8 Student
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