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Biography Adam Klemm was born in Novi Sad in 1976. Started to play violin but switched to clarinet after a year. Fall in love with saxophone and jazz at 16 and founded a band with one of his sisters. At 18 started to play as an associate member in the RTS Novi Sad Dance Orchestra and with some local bands. Got his first “official” saxophone lesson at 20 in Budapest , Hungary , where he studied with Pap József and Tűzkő Csaba. After staying a year and a half in Budapest , he went to study to Austria and got a Master's degree in saxophone from University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz in the class of Karl-Heinz Miklin and Heinrich von Kalnein. Since 1999 he has led his own ensemble, the Adam Klemm Quartet/Quintet that he later renamed to Adam Klemm Banda. He has recorded for RTV Novi Sad and the Austrian ORF. He received a scholarship from the Austrian Ministry for Culture and went to the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki , Finland . He was taught by Jari Perkiomäki, Manuel Dunkel and Eero Koivistoinen. After returning from Finland , he started playing in a band led by the legend of the Austrian jazz scene, guitarist Karl Ratzer and young Slovakian composer Erik Rothenstein. 2004 he released a CD with a Bosnian trio Minority, and he is touring with the international band Marimanga. He is occasionally playing in different combos and Big Bands such as the Big Band of Radio and Television Slovenia, Ratko Divljak Group, etc. He has performed with different bands in Finland , Sweden , Germany , Poland , Serbia , Slovakia , Slovenia , Bosnia & Herzegovina , Croatia , Austria , Hungary , Egypt , France etc. Currently, Adam is based in Ljubljana , Slovenia . He is teaching saxophone and clarinet, working regularly with the RTV Big Band of Slovenia , playing with different small bands and he is one of the program managers on the Novi Sad Jazz Festival. His first solo recording „Hot Coolen“ is published by Sensor Records in October 2007. Played with: Gianni Basso, Lee Harper Little Big Band, Karl Ratzer, Barbara Hendriks, Ladislav Fidri, Sinan Alimanović International Band, Karlheinz Miklin, Marko Đorđević, Marimanga, Minority, Gabriele Centis, Angelo Comisso, Plesni orkestar RTV Novi Sad, KUG Big Band Graz, Big Band RTV Slovenije, Big Band Radovljica, Big Band Grosuplje, Big Band Radlje, Musical “Cabaret” MGL, Renato Chicco, Ratko Divljak, Primož Grašič, Aleš Avbelj, Blaž Jurjevčič, Drago Gajo, Tadej Tomšič, Matjaž Mikuletič, Zoran Škrinjar, Jazz Sacral-Nada Žgur, Jure Pukl, Robert Jukič, Primož Fleischmann, Klemen Kotar, Igor Lunder with Reeds, Nikola Matošič, Izidor Leitinger, Jani Moder, Erik Marenče, Marco Quarantotto, Ljubiša Matić, Molnar Igor, Aleksandar Bahun, Milan Simin, Dejan Đukanović, Aleksandar Dujin, Fedor Ruškuc, Uwe Plath, Predrag Perić-Preda, Anđelko Stupar, Milan Nikolić, Daniel Nösig, Armend Xhaferi's Marimanga, Enes Seferović, Wolfgang Rainer, Vladimir Kostadinović, Erik Rothenstein, Maja Jaku, Saša Mutić, Dušan Novakov, Amar Češljar, Dino Šukalo and others... From 2008, Adam is a regular member of the RTV Slovenija Big Band and he is endorsing the new P.Mauriat saxophones. CD: |
