The clarinetist, Pablo Barragán is recognised for his refined sound paired with a high skill of craftsmanship, stage charisma and boundless curiosity for the programming of his performances.

Pablo trained at the Seville Conservatory with Antonio Salguero and with Matthias Glander at the Fundación Barenboim-Said in Seville. He is the winner of the Prix Crédit Suisse Jeunes Solistes in 2013, amongst other competitions. He has worked with orchestras such as the Brucknerhaus Orchestra Linz, the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Radio Televisión Española, the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra with conductors such as Anja Bihlmaier, Thomas Dausgaard, Daniel Raiskin, and Zsolt Hamar. Pablo is humbled to collaborate with fabulous chamber music partners such as Liza Ferschtmann, Elena Bashkirova, Beatrice Rana, Kian Soltani, Emmanuel Pahud, the Modigliani Quartet, Schumann Quartet and many more. His Chamber music invitations included performances at Rheingau Music Festival, Classiche Form, the Martha Argerich Festival, the Wigmore Hall London and Tonhalle Zurich.

The 2023/24 season brings solo appearances with orchestras such as the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra in Neumarkt and at the Heidelberger Frühling led by cellist & conductor István Várdai, the Brasov Philharmonic under the direction of Paul Meyer, and the Bursa Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Adrian Prabava among others. He has been invited to open the season for the Cordoba Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Alvaro Albiach. In the realm of chamber music, he will perform with Noa Wildschut and pianist Frank Dupree at Konzerthaus Dortmund, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam among other venues. Further concerts bring him to the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Cologne Philharmonic Hall, as well as to Teatro Ristori in Verona and Auditorium C. Pollini in Padova with the Sitkovetsky Trio and with the Cremona Quartett to Amici della Musica in Florence. Other festival invitations are the Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival, the Kaposfest in Hungary, the Beethovenfest in Bonn, Festival Monteleón in Spanish León, as well as Música Musika in Bilbao. Pablo will also participate in a tour with Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival Ensemble in South America. Pablo’s curiosity and eagerness to create are also reflected in the repertoire selection for his February 2022 album BOUNDLESS, on which he has united the diverse sound universes of Weinberg, Bernstein, Prokofiev and Poulenc clarinet sonatas for the music label Aparté. Together with Noa Wildschut and Frank Dupree they will release a recording 24/25, featuring works by Paul Schoenfield, Béla Bartók, Claude Vivier and Ernest Bloch for the label Accentus Classic. Since 2020 Pablo Barragán is as a Professor at the Barenboim-Said Academy in Seville and at master classes such as Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid.

In 2024, Pablo Barragán became an artist of the Sax Clinic’s SCV ligatures. He uses Fusion ligature.

Saxophonist Dr. Dave Camwell has received wide acclaim for his technique, expression and performance in classical and jazz styles. He was a featured soloist in both styles in evening concerts at the 2012 and 2023 North American Saxophone Alliance biennial conferences.

Recently, he has collaborated extensively with Czech saxophonist Kateřina Pavlíková on a series of new works for their group, Covert Ensemble. These arrangements focus on creating virtuosic and compelling music for two saxes. The group was recently named the second prize winners of the American Prize in Chamber Music Performance in October, 2024, and the national finalists for the Ernst Bacon Memorial Award for the Performance of American Music in June, 2024.

Camwell is Director of Jazz Studies and Professor of Music at Troy University in Alabama.

In 2024, Dave Camwell became an artist of the Sax Clinic’s SCV ligatures. He uses Tonus Mundi ligature.

Paweł Kroczek – musician – clarinetist, soloist, chamber musician, orchestral musician and teacher.

Currently, he works as an assistant professor at the Academy of Music in Poznań, where he obtained a PhD in art in 2016.

In 2011 he graduated with honours from the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań in the clarinet class of Professor Zdzisław Nowak. In the years 2011 – 2013 he continued hisnstudies at Lund University – Musikhogskolan I Malmo under the direction of the world-famous soloist – Olli Leppäniemi. He also studied at the Academy of Music in Wrocław in the clarinet class of Professor Jan Tatarczyk.

In 2013 he passed the exam for the Opus International Youth Festival Orchestra (Innsbruck). In 2012 he received the First Prize in the Chamber Music Category and the Third Prize in the Soloists Category at the International Competition in Svirel (Slovenia). In 2011 he won the third prize at the V National Competition of Musical Interpretation (Krasiczyn). In 2010 he won the Third Prize at the 12^th International Chamber Music Competition (Jawor) and the Honorable Mention in the Chamber Category at the 4th West Pomeranian Clarinet Festival (Szczecin). In 2009, he was a scholarship holder of the Socrates – Erasmus programme – studies in the clarinet class of Dr Igor Frantisak – Ostravska Univerzita (Ostrava, Czech Republic).

He is the principal clarinetist of the Collegium F and L’autunno orchestras. He is a member of the wind octet Kapela Farna and Feroce Trio. He has collaborated with many excellent conductors, such as: Gabriel Chmura, Jacek Kasprzyk, Marcin Sompoliński, Nikolai Znaider, Jakub Chrenowicz, Wojciech Rodek, Przemysław Neumann, Paweł Przytocki, Marek Pijarowski, Jerzy Salwarowski, taking part in numerous orchestral projects throughout the country.

He has performed at numerous festivals, including: Animator, Malta Festival, Poznań Music Spring, Przemyśl Music Autumn, Transatlantyk, Nostalgia Festival, Karol Szymanowski Festival in Beijing; International Clarinet Festival and Congress in Gyro (2018, 2021), Camerino (2019), Krakow (2022).

He has performed numerous world premieres of works by contemporary composers, as well as radio, television and CD recordings. As a soloist, he has performed with the orchestras of the Kalisz Philharmonic, the Poznań Opera, the Academy of Music in Poznań and the Collegium F orchestra.

Paweł Kroczek is a co-founder and vice-president of the Józef Madeja Association, http://festiwalmadei.pl/stowarzyszenie/ He is also a member of the board of the Karol Kurpiński Music Society in Włoszakowice and a co-organizer of the Karol Kurpiński Academic Clarinet Competition.

He is very active as a teacher and his students have won numerous awards and distinctions in national and international competitions. He is a CEA consultant, as well as a lecturer of many master classes for clarinetists. He sits on the jury of national and international competitions and CEA auditions.

Since 2020, Paweł Kroczek has been an artist of the Royal Global Clarinets manufactory. He uses Royal Global Firebaird and Buffet Crampon Festival clarinets.

In 2024, Paweł Kroczek became an artist of the Sax Clinic’s SCV ligatures. He uses Tonus Mundi ligature.

Joel Cardoso is a member of the City Light Orchestra (resident at the KKL) and regularly collaborates with the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana (OSI), Luzerner Sinfonieorchester and the Argovia Philharmonic.

Joel is the winner of more than two dozen international competitions and prizes in countries such as Portugal, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Romania, Thailand, Poland and Peru.

He has participated in music festivals in Lucerne, Zermatt, Grafenegg, Aurora, Animato, Höri and Davos. He is an ambassador of the Lucerne Festival Academy, where he collaborated with the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO). He was twice selected for the Zermatt Music Festival and Academy, where he worked with musicians from the Berlin Philharmonic.

After auditioning, he was invited to play with the Estonian National Opera and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid (Teatro Real).

He got his first diploma with full marks in Domingos Castro’s class at the Guimarães Conservatory and graduated from the University of Minho with Vitor Matos, before being invited to study at the Hochschule für Musik in Trossingen with Chen Halevi, where he learned historically informed performance techniques. He completed a master’s degree at the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana under François Benda and Jordi Pons, where he received a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Since 2021 he has been studying(Orchestra and Solo master) at the Hochschule Luzern with Paolo Beltramini and Robert Pickup.

Joel is a multifaceted clarinetist with millions of views of his Rovere Trio on YouTube and on his personal Instagram and TikTok accounts.

In 2024, Joel Cardoso became an artist of the Sax Clinic’s SCV ligatures. He uses Tonus Mundi ligature.

Mattia Cacciavillani – Musician: Saxophonist and Orchestra Director.

Mattia Cacciavillani began his musical studies at the age of 10 in the “Domenico Ceccarossi” musical comprehensive school in Orsogna, and then continued them at the “MI-BE” Artistic, Musical and Dance High School in Pescara and subsequently in the “Luisa D’Annunzio” State Conservatory of Music in Pescara, where he trained with Maestro Gaetano Di Bacco until completing the two-year high school diploma in “Discipline Musicali Saxofono”.

He obtained his academic diploma in July 2020 with “Laude and Honorable Mention” with a thesis of a musicological nature written together with the supervisor M° Raffaele Napoli and the co-supervisor M° Gaetano Di Bacco, entitled “The Saxophone: History, Interpreters, Interpretation” , in which themes inherent to the history of the saxophone and saxophonists are addressed, as well as interdisciplinary discussions regarding musical interpretation in objective terms, musical hermeneutics, philosophical reflection on the artistic content, function and fruition of the work of art , art and technology, art and its claim to present itself as a truthful experience of the world, making use of knowledge in the field of phenomenology of music, philosophy, aesthetics and psychology of music.

During his academic career at the conservatory, in the 2019/2020 academic year, he took the opportunity to study, through the “Erasmus+” project, at the “Fryderyk Chopin University of Music” in Warsaw with Maestro Paweł Gusnar, to which he returned, after graduating, in the 2020/2021 academic year as an intern, serving as an artist and as an assistant of the saxophone class.

He has held specialization courses and masterclasses with various saxophonists, including:
Claude Delangle, Vincent David, Arno Bornkamp, Federico Mondelci, Enzo Filippetti, Vittorio Cerasa, Luciano Ciavattella, Gaetano Di Bacco, David Brutti, Mario Marzi, Hans de Jong, Serge Bertocchi, Jérôme Laran, Joonatan Rautiola.

He has won competitions in various formations at: “Paolo Barrasso” International Competition of Caramanico Terme, National Competition of Campobasso, “Francesco Paolo Tosti” Music Competition of Ortona, “Young Interpreters” Competition of the Pescarese Music Academy, National Competition of Tarquinia, Competition “Garganum” National Competition, MIUR National Public Education Competition, “Officina delle MuSax” National Music Competition and others.

He has played in chamber ensembles with various musicians and as an orchestra member in the following orchestras: European Youth Symphony Orchestra, Rome Youth Symphony Orchestra, Dean Martin Symphony Orchestra, Youth Symphony Orchestra of the Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa Theater, MiBe Orchestra, Conservatory Wind Orchestra of Pescara, Symphony Orchestra of the Conservatory of Pescara, Young Academic Symphony Orchestra, Chopin University Modern Music Ensamble; performing in various concert halls, including: Concert Hall of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music of Warsaw, Filharmonia Narodowa of Warsaw, Karol Szymanowski Auditorium of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music of Warsaw,  Teatro Massimo of Pescara, Flaiano Auditorium of Pescara ,  Marrucino Theater of Chieti, Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa Theater of Avellino, Francesco Paolo Tosti Theater of Ortona, Municipal Theater of Città Sant’Angelo, Basilica San Pancrazio of Rome, Torri Montanare of Lanciano, Abbey of San Giovanni in Venere of Fossacesia, Abbey San Clemente a Casauria in Castiglione a Casauria, Roman Amphitheater in Alba Fucens, Auditorium Italia in Atessa, Auditorium of the Luisa D’Annunzio State Conservatory of Music in Pescara, Spazio Matta in Pescara, Teatro ex Aurum in Pescara, Teatro Fedele Fenaroli in Lanciano, Collegiate Church of San Michele Arcangelo in Città Sant’Angelo, Palazzo D’Avalos in Vasto, Teatro D’Annunzio in Pescara, Piazza della Rinascente in Pescara and others.

As an orchestra conductor he studied with Maestro Raffaele Napoli and conducted the orchestra of the State Opera Theater in the city of Varna in the conducting courses, run by the Sergiu Celibidache Association.

In 2022 he was the winner of the national teachers competition announced by the “Ministry of Education, University and Research” for the teaching of musical disciplines in secondary schools.

Since 2024, Mattia Cacciavillani has been an artist of the Sax Clinic’s SCV ligatures. He uses Sonus Divinus ligatures.

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Risto Gjorevski is a clarinetist, a graduate of the Faculty of Music Art in Skopje, Macedonia where he also obtained his Master degree in 2006. He is a performing artists in different formations – solo, duo, chamber ensembles and orchestras. Risto Gjorevski has performed solo or with different ensembles in Austria, Albania, Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkiye, Poland, Russia, USA, Italy, Israel, Indonesia, etc. In 2018 he completed a postdiploma artistical training for clarinet performance at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, Poland.

In Macedonia, he works in the National Opera and Ballet Orchestra and he has also been a member and soloist in the Symphonic Orchestra for Film Music FAME’S – Skopje, Johann Strauss Orchestra-Skopje, the Symphonic Orchestra of CulturOp, Chamber Orchestra of Bitola, still active member of the Chamber Orchestra “Skopje Soloists”, member of the Skopje Woodwind Quintet a formation with a tradition of over 40 years, Duo Clarinets, etc. Risto has also performed solo with the Macedonian Philharmonic and with the National Opera and Ballet Orchestra. Recently, performed with the Royal Symphonic Orchestra at the Wilanow Palace – Poland, Masovian Symphonic Orchestra – Warsaw, the Symphonic Orchestra of Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and has cooperated with the conductors Krzeszimir Debski, Janusz Pszybilski, Robert Rumbelow, Sasha Nikolovski – Gjumar, Borjan Canev, Alexandr Sidnev and musicians as Simon Trpceski, Sergei Petrov, Goran Bojchevski, Stojo Miserlioski, Ognjen Popovic, Jakub Bokun, Barbara Boriwicz etc.

In 2013, he performed with Skopje Woodwind Quintet in Bohemian National Hall (New York City, USA) at the United Nations celebration attended by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Mun. Together with Sergei Petrov – the first clarinetist of Bolshoi Theatre – Moscow they have performed at Bitola Summer Festival as well as Ohrid Sumer Festival 2014. In 2018 Risto was guest to the world renown pianist Simon Trpcheski and his project “Makedonisimo” on the Poland tour, playing four concerts. Risto had a remarkable solo performance with the Moscow State Academic Simphony Orchestra in Moscow 2015 and a solo performance with the Wind Orchestra of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, Poland 2017. He has been member of

the jury since 2013 and has had solo performances at the International Moscow Festival for Slavic Music.

He holds a first prize for clarinet for the 1994 and 1997 state competitions as well as first prize for chamber music in the 2002 state competition. Internationaly the “DUO CLARINETS Gjorevski-Bakrevski” won the Silver Award at the international competition in Svirel, Slovenia in the cathegory of chamber music in April 2015.

Risto has recorded one solo compact disc – „Moments of Clarinet” and two CDs with the Skopje Woodwind Quintet.

In 2024, Risto Gjorevski became an artist of the Sax Clinic’s SCV ligatures. He uses Tonus Mundi ligature.

Igor Bakrevski was born in Bitola, Macedonia where he finished his primary music school and high school of music in the studio of prof. Pande Tatarchevski. During his studies he has won a lot of first prices in various national competitions in Macedonia and also in some international in Serbia. Also as a high school student he took part in YMISO orchestra for young musicians from Europe and played few concerts in Slovenia and Italy with this orchestra.

After finishing the high school, Bakrevski became a part of the faculty of music in Skopje Macedonia in the studio of prof. Ivan Kocharov where he graduated in 2009 with the highest grade 10 (CUM LAUDE). For a short period in the year 2007 Igor became also a student in the Boston Conservatory in Boston USA, in the studio od prof. Jonathan Cohler as a full scholarship student, but he left the Conservatory shortly after and started working the same year in the National opera and ballet in Skopje, Macedonia. At the same time Igor started playing part time in the National philharmonic as a E flat clarinetist. Bakrevski is first clarinetist in Fames Project orchestra for recording music which is based in Skopje and he still records there until today. Igor has also been a member of Skopje City Wind orchestra and had played many concerts throughout the years with them as well. In 2016 he finished his master studies in the faculty of music in Skopje in the studio of prof. Sava Dimitrov from Sofia, Bulgaria. Igor has performed few times with the philharmonic orchestra of Monte Negro as a E flat clarinetist and has recorded music with the Bulgarian radio orchestra in Sofia as a first clarinetist. He had performed a lot of concerts with Bitola chamber orchestra in many towns all over the country on many different festivals. As a soloist Igor has performed few concerts with the faculty of music symphony orchestra, faculty of music big band, Macedonian National Philharmonic, Macedonian National opera and ballet orchestra and the Fames Project orchestra. Igor is currently a member of many different chamber groups with whom he had played numerus concerts, some of which are: Sonoris, Gjorevski-Bakrevski duo, Kvinteto, Kvarteto and many others. In 2022 Bakrevski transferred from the National opera and ballet and started working full time in the National philharmonic. Next year he became clarinet professor in the faculty of music in Skopje which started his teaching chapter.

Igor playes Royal Global Clarinets and is a representative of the brand for Macedonia.

In 2024, Igor Bakrevski became an artist of the Sax Clinic’s SCV ligatures. He uses Sonus Divinus ligature.

Marko Dzomba, born in Novi Sad, Serbia, is an internationally active soloist and chamber musician who
studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria with Oto Vrhovnik.

He has performed in England, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Serbia, Norway, Romania, the Czech Republic and in concert halls such as the Konzerthaus Vienna, Musikverein Wien, Brucknerhaus Linz, Ljubljana Philharmonic, RNCM Manchester and others.

Some of Marko’s upcoming concerts will also include appearances as a soloist with the Suzhou Symphony Orchestra China, the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra in the Great Tchaikovsky Hall, the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra Bulgaria, the Webern Chamber Philharmonic in the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein, with the Vienna Jeunesse Orchester in the Great Hall of the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Kronstadt/Brașov Philharmonic Orchestra
Romania and the Slovenian Armed Forces Orchestra in the Great Hall of the Slovenian Philharmonic.

Recent collaborations also include performances with the Vienna Volksoper Orchestra, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg and the Vienna State Opera Orchestra.
Marko was the winner of international and national competitions such as the Casinos Austria Rising Star
Award, the ADMC Illzach in France, the CRDM in Italy, the Svirel Prize in Slovenia (where he also received two special prizes), the Windisch Chamber Music Competition, Musica Juventutis …

He is a  three-time laureate of the Serbian National Competition and has been awarded with the Serbian Culture Prize Talent of the Year twice. He was also the winner of the Tokyo Foundation audition and a scholarship holder of the Thyl-Dürr Foundation and the Josef Windisch Foundation.

Marko Dzomba has appeared on radio and television stations such as ORF, Radio Ö1, Radio Klassik Stephansdom, RTVSLO and Klassikradio Germany.
Marko Dzomba is a Yamaha Artist and plays on a gold-plated Custom EX Alto saxophone and SCVLigatures model SONUS DIVINUS from Sax Clinic.

Petar Taneski was born in Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia, where he completed his primary music education. In Skopje, at MBUC “Ilija Nikolovski Luj” he is completing his secondary music education.

After completing secondary music education, continued his studies at the State Music Academy in Sofia, Bulgaria- Pancho Vladigerov as the first international clarinet student to receive a full scholarship from the Academy.

His mentors and professors are Borislav Yotzov, an outstanding pedagogue and clarinetist who is one of the most active clarinetists in Bulgaria and Professor Petko Radev, for 11 years principal clarinetist at the famous Opera House in Milano “La Scala” and one of the most famous Bulgarian musicians.

After completing his studies, he applied to the Boston Conservatory in USA in 2009, where he was accepted and received a scholarship for (master’s degree) in the Department of Wind Instruments in the class of Professor Jonathan Cohler

Participating in many masterclasses where he gained many diplomas, commendations and a lot of experience and knowledge. A master class held in Plovdiv in 2007 led by Charles Nejdich, clarinet professor at the Julliard School of Music”. Participation in a masterclass by Nicolas Baldeyrou , who is the first clarinet soloist of the Orchestera Philharmonique de Radio France. Participation in masterclass by Sabine Meyer, former first clarinet of the Berlin Philharmonic, participation in masterclass by Reiner Wehle, Ilian iliev and many others.

A large number of concerts with different ensembles and as a soloist in the Republic of Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, Italy and other European countries.

He collaborates and performs with exclusive clarinetists and famous instrumentalists such as Naum Grujovski (Sofia Philharmonic) Fabio Di Casola (Zurich Academy of Music, Geneva Music Competition winner) Pablo Baraggan (International clarinet soloist) Damjan Pejcinoski (international guitar artist) and many more.

Since 2017, he has been establishing the Clarus International Clarinet Academy in Ohrid, where he started collaborating with famous clarinetists and teachers.

The first edition of this Clarinet Academy is opened by the famous Bulgarian clarinetist Ilian Iliev, who lives and works in USA and is a graduate and (time assistant) at the famous Julliard School of Music in New York.

A large number of distinguished clarinetists and pedagogues participate as professors and lecturers at the Clarus International Clarinet Academy, among which we would single out: Spyros Mourikis Greece, Borislav Yotzov Bulgaria, Slavko Kovacic Slovenia, Fabio Di Casola Switzerland, Pablo Baragan Spain, Ilian Iliev Bulgaria USA. Every edition Petar Taneski takes part as an organizer and lecturer of this clarinet academy.

He gives online lessons on “Play with a pro” (https://www.playwithapro.com/live/Petar-Taneski) and on several other well-known platforms for online lessons where he collaborates with students and clarinetists from the USA, Europe, Australia, UK etc.

Since 2012, he has been working as a professor at OOMU Metodi Patce in Ohrid.

His students are winners of many national and international competitions. Some of his students enroll in studies at the famous and prestigious music academies in Germany, Austria, etc.

Petar Taneski is also invited to be the jury member of the national and international clarinet or woodwind competitions and gives clarinet masterclasses in several Balkan countries.

In 2024, Petar Taneski became an artist of the Sax Clinic’s SCV ligatures. He uses Fusion ligature.

Piersilvio Balta began his clarinet studies with Giordano Muolo and took his specialization at the Higher Institute of Musical Studies “O. Vecchi – A. Tonelli” in Modena, studying under the guidance of Corrado Giuffredi and Annamaria Giaquinta and graduating with honors. He has won multiple first prizes in international competitions such as “Terra degli imperiali”, “Rosa Poncelle” and “Premio Giuseppe Alberghini”.

He was accepted for several important chamber and orchestral projects: the Italian Youth Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Musical High Schools, the National Orchestra of Italian Conservatories, and the SenzaSpine Orchestra, the Petruzzelli Theater Orchestra; moreover, in 2021/2022, he was deemed eligible for the Italian Army Band.

In 2023, he won the audition at the National Orchestra of Italian Conservatories for the bass clarinet, an instrument he studies with Dario Goracci. He has also collaborated with the National Orchestra of Italian Conservatories, the Modena Philharmonic, the SenzaSpine Orchestra of Bologna, the Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana, the Orchestra of Bologna Opera and the Petruzzelli Orchestra of Bari.

Since 2024, Piersilvio Balta has been an artist of the Sax Clinic’s SCV ligatures. He uses Tonus Mundi ligatures on Clarinet and Bass Clarinet.