ROBERT MIKULJAN TRIO

Robert Mikuljan - trumpet, flugelhorn; Denis Razz - alt and soprano sax; Aldo Foško - keyboards

The Robert Mikuljan Quartet presents selected pieces from the standard jazz repertoire as well as recent original compositions.Trumpeter and wingman was born in 1981 in Pula. He received his master's degree in jazz in 2017 at the jazz department of the Music Academy "Giuseppe Tartini" in Trieste in the class of prof. Klaus Gesing.

He has been involved in music and actively performing for more than 20 years, but since 2011 he has been dedicated exclusively to jazz music. In 2008 he joined the Big Band Pula, and in 2014 he became a member of the JazzIstra Orchestra. He presented himself as a composer and soloist in 2017 as part of the project "New compositions for the HRT Jazz Orchestra" with the composition "Black Hands".

In the same year, he became a member of the Porto Ethno Orchestra, which in 2018 will perform at the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg with the aim of preserving traditional Croatian music in contemporary jazz arrangements.

He collaborates with many renowned Croatian and foreign jazz musicians as part of various projects and solo concerts.

He won the Status Award 2019 in the jazz trumpet category awarded by the Croatian Music Union for top art and playing skills.