Aleksandar Cvetković
Aleksandar Cvetković (1979) graduated from the Theoretical department of the High School of Music “Stevan Mokranjac” in Kraljevo, Serbia, after which he studied and graduated from the Department of Music Pedagogy at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. He successfully passed the entrance exam at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Graz, Austria, and became a student of the Jazz Department – Drums, where he completed his Master’s studies under the mentorship of Professor T. Howard Curtis.
He has participated in numerous seminars led by world-famous jazz musicians and lecturers: John Abercrombie, Billy Hart, Jerry Bergonzi, Ron McClure, Ben Dixon, Jimmy Cobb, Adam Nussbaum, Dave Liebman, Jim McNeely. He was a participant in numerous jam sessions with world-famous jazz artists: Billy Hart, David Kikoski, Brad Leali, Brad Mehldau, Renato Chicco, Klaus Reibl.
He played at Serbian and foreign jazz festivals, as well as jazz clubs, with famous Serbian jazz musicians: Duško Gojković, Stjepko Gut, Miša Blam, Miloš Krstić, Mima Mitrović, Vlada Maričić, Vlada Samardžić, Jelena Jovović, Tanja Jovićević. He also collaborated with Vasil Hadžimanov Band, Rambo Amadeus, Serbian Jazz Bre Project, Kochetov Quintet, RTS Big Band.
He is a permanent member of the following bands: Woodcock Group, Marčelo and Napeti Quintet, Snipe, Pannonia Project. At the beginning of 2014, he founded his own jazz band, the Drama Organ Trio, with which he recorded his first album “Dramathology”, released by Metropolis Jazz Records, in 2017. With the departure of the organist from the band at the end of 2019, the founder of the Drama Organ Trio expands the line-up to the Drama Quartet, with which he is preparing his second original jazz album.
Since 2012, he has been working at the Department of Jazz and Popular Music at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade as a teacher, and then as an assistant professor of Jazz Ear Training and Jazz Rhythm.