Dubravko Jagatić, Nacional

 

In only one year (founded in January 2016), the Bow vs. Plectrum duo, composed of Filip Novosel on tamburitza and Tihomir Hojsak on double bass, has shown how much positive music energy and emotions the unexpected fusion of those two instruments can create in jazz pieces. In Filip’s and Tihomir's hands, the two string instruments with different playing traditions based on Croatian folk music create ethno jazz with a Pannonian and Balkan flavour. Top improvisations filled with folk music motifs fully reveal the range of both instruments – tamburitza and double bass. Numerous appearances throughout Croatia and abroad rocketed this duo to the very top of the Croatian ethno jazz scene and attracted extraordinary media attention. Their performances in America showed both the Croatian tradition and contemporary jazz in a special way, for which they received special recognitions for their contribution to culture from Californian Congresswoman Janice Hahn and the California State Senate. They used their stay in America to make a new video for Tihomir's piece Kit Blues. At numerous appearances around the world, Bow vs. Plectrum present both the Croatian heritage combined with contemporary music expression and Croatia in the best way. Their appearances are a real treat for music connoisseurs, but also a real discovery of the values of the Croatian tradition, which they spread throughout the world in a contemporary and unexpected way. In the past year, the appearances of the Bow vs. Plectrum music attraction have attracted the attention of audiences in Belgium, Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and throughout the USA. 

 

Tihomir Hojsak is a double bass player, whose virtuosity paved the way for numerous collaborations from classical to jazz music. He graduated from the Academy of Arts in Osijek and the Music Academy in Zagreb. He is an important figure on the Croatian music scene and participant of numerous jazz festivals. He is a permanent member of many orchestras. He was born in the town of Koprivnica and he started his music education in the town of Varaždin.

 

Filip Novosel is the greatest promoter of tamburitza in jazz. Tamburitza Techniques in Jazz was the topic of his graduation thesis at the Academy of Music in Zagreb and then also at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York. Filip is the first tamburitza player with a university degree and the world’s first jazz musician with formal education in that instrument.  He has collaborated with numerous orchestras and soloists. He started his path to success in his hometown of Slavonski Brod.

 

Filip Novosel: Mista Dance

Tihomir Hojsak: Balkanika, Zapjevala sojka ptica

Ivan Zajc: The Red Rose Blossoms (Cvate ruža rumena)

Filip Novosel: Wanna Jam?

Tihomir Hojsak: Bow vs. Plectrum / Kit Blues

Filip Novosel: Dalmatian Sunrise

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