Artists
Ismar Poric
Ismar Poric is a professional clarinet and saxophone player from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
He has been active in his professional career since 2008, performing hundreds of shows and concerts all over Europe. During his career, Ismar has cooperated with some of the biggest artists and groups from the Balkans, including big names like Halid Beslic, Crvena Jabuka band, Divanhana, Berin Buturovic and many more. Ismar is also a very active studio session musician, having recorded numerous songs for different artists in various genres (oriental, rock, world music, funk).
“I have been using the Nalbantov microphones since 2018, and I must say that I have never had the opportunity to use such quality and stable microphones like the ones from Nalbantov. I have used these microphones from small venues to big arenas (20.000 people) and the final product is always amazing. I highly recommend them to everyone.”
Ismar also has a formal music education – he graduated from the Music Academy Sarajevo and has an MBA in Arts Innovation (GLI program).
Piotr Baron
Photo © Kamil A. Krajewski
Photo © Kamil A. Krajewski
Piotr Baron is a Polish jazz saxophonist, composer, and educator. For many years he has ranked at the top of the Jazz Top poll published by Jazz Forum magazine in the tenor and soprano saxophone categories. He has also been noted as an alto and baritone saxophonist.
He has worked as a teacher and lecturer in saxophone, jazz harmony, and improvisation at the Jazz Institute of the State Higher Vocational School in Nysa, at the Wrocław School of Jazz and Popular Music, and at the Jazz Department of the IKSM University in Zielona Góra.
He has given open jazz lectures in the United States at the University of California, Irvine and at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia; in Turkey at Ankara Bilkent University; in Austria at Kunst Universität Graz; and has taught at summer jazz seminars in Prague, Lviv, and many cities in Poland.
From 1994 to 2011 he hosted his own program on Polish Radio Wrocław, and since 2012 he has worked with radioJAZZ.fm. He is also a reviewer and columnist (including for Jazz Forum) and the author of several academic publications.
From December 2015 to August 2018 he worked at the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage as an advisor to the Deputy State Secretary and as Deputy Director of the department.
From September 2018 to November 2024 he served as Director of the Polish Orchestra “Sinfonia Iuventus” named after Jerzy Semkow.
In recognition of his achievements and standing, Piotr Baron has become a corporate artist for Cannonball Musical Instruments, Drake Mouthpieces, and D’Addario Woodwinds.
For twenty-five years he has been among the leaders of the Jazz Top poll in Jazz Forum, winning the baritone saxophone category in 2015.
He was nominated for the Fryderyk Award as Musician of the Year in 2000, 2004, and 2009. His albums Bogurodzica and Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus were also nominated for Album of the Year.
On the 30th anniversary of his artistic work, Piotr Baron received the Bronze Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis, as well as the Honorary Badge of the Polish Jazz Association.
In 2018 he was awarded the Silver Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis.
