Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar

Since 1961, the small town of Guca in Central Serbia has been the venue for the annual "Festival of Brass Music", a competition to determine the best Brass musicians on Earth, attracting over 300.000 people every year. The Boban Markovic Orkestar used to be among the winners every time, receiving the "best orchestra" award in 2000 as well as "best trumpet" for the maestro himself in 2001 - his 5th personal win. Since then, Boban decided not to compete any more, but simply performs as an honoured guest. He's the undisputed King of Balkan Brass music
Now he is honoured even further afield, reaching an international audience through his musical contributions to films by Emir Kusturica, and taking his frenetic and funky blend of Balkan and Gypsy roots touring around the globe, a guaranteed sensation at any wedding, open-air-festival, music academy, classical concert or impromptu street-party of your choice.

According to tradition, Boban officially handed over the Orkestar to his son and successor Marko, on his 18th birthday in 2006. Marko was given a trumpet as a toddler and started to receive lessons from Boban's father when he was 9. At 13 he was in the studio for the first time, at 14 he joined Boban's Orkestar. At 16 he became lead soloist and started arranging for the band. Now he is the featured soloist on Boban's latest CD "The Promise".
In 2006, Marko also appeared as the leading actor in the film "Gucha Distant Trumpet", directed by Dusan Milic & produced by Emir Kusturica. Marko plays a young Romeo who falls in love with a Serbian Juliana as music and racial tensions intertwine in this dramatic Balkan epic.

Press quotes

"The Boban I Marko Markovic Orkestar (9 brass brutes, 4 percussion) has been redefining sex appeal through juicy, frenetic decibels, fresh-spun cobwebs of orchestral technicality, and of course, matching striped polo shirts since the early 1980s." - James Henwood for Flaunt Magazine, LA

"Few Eastern European brass bands can match the vitality and innovation of Serbian band Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar, which is led by trumpet master Boban Markovic and his son Marko. Two generations of a legendary Gypsy family join forces to provide a powerhouse of brass virtuosity and infectious energy that has jumped from village celebrations to the dancefloors of the hippest Central European clubs."
- World Music Central, 11 November 09

"Imgagine the rowdiest, fastest rendition of 'Hava Nagila' you've ever heard, zip it up with wild brass playing that would make a New Orleans marching band stop and stare, and throw in percussion so thunderous it shakes a hall, and then you've got an idea why the Orkestar gets a crowd into a frenzy."
-Boston Herald, 09/2004

"Boban Markovic Orkestar is many things, perhaps most proudly one of the world's killer wedding bands."
-San Francisco Chronicle, 09/2004

"With nods to klezmer, jazz, Latin and deep-fried funk injected into the mix, the Boban Markovic Orkestar know where their music's been but they're hell-bent on sling-shotting it straight into the future."
-Global Rhythm

"...a stunning blast of exuberance & virtuosity."
-New York Times

"Supremely rich, varied & inventiven Serbian brass from a true musical thinker. File under stone cold classic."
-Songlines

Management & Booking

Manager
Ring Ring Promotions
Bojan Djordjevic
Pedje Milosavljevica 62/18
11076 Belgrad
Serbia
phone +381 63 365 783
fax +381 11 2454 255
Email: ringringpromotions@gmail.com

PR Manager
Sara Gigante
radimsamoradim@gmail.com
tel. +41767261056
and +381631566133

Germany/Austria/Switzerland
Koeterhai Booking
Simone Schrempf
Waldemarstrasse 28
10999 Berlin - Germany
phone: +49 30 61 65 94 78
fax: +49 30 61 62 99 46
email: simone@koeterhai.de

France
ZN Production
42 Rue Saint Just
94200 Ivry Sur Seine
France
www.myspace.com/znproduction

Manager :
Sasha Obradovic
e-mail: obradovic.sasha@gmail.com
phone: +33 (0)6 61 82 03 13

Booking:
Frederic Farrieu
phone: +33(0)6 33 52 38 19
e-mail: fred@znproduction.fr

Marjorie Caille
phone: +33(0)6 68 72 07 74
e-mail: margo@znproduction.fr

Skandinavia /Baltik
D Tours
Ken Day
Storgatan 23D
880 30 Nasaker
Sweden
phone +46 290 370 82
fax +46 290 370 83
eMail: kenday@dtours.org

Hungary
X Produkcio
Laszlo Horvath
Bartok Bela ut 92-94/A.
1115 Budapest
Hungary
phone 361 365 16 12
fax 361 365 16 11
eMail: folkeuro@axelero.hu

Greece
Thrassos Irinis
17 Trivonianou str.
116 36 Athens
Greece
phone +30 210 9813924
fax +30 210 9813742
eMail: irinis@hol.gr

Belgium
Peter Vertraelen
eMail: p.verstraelen@telenet.be

Holland
SummertimeMusic
Edwin Zomer
Houtrijkstraat 2
1165 LL Halfweg (NH)
Netherlands
phone 0031 6 53926397
eMail: edwinatsummertime@kpnmail.nl

Spain
El Espiritu del Sur
Juana Burillo
Menendez Pidal n 19, Off.1
22002 Huesca
Spain
phone 34 974 223 043
fax 34 974 230 797
eMail: info@espiritudelsur.com

Italy
Ballkan World Music Management
Mr. Olsi Sulejmani
Viale della Vittoria,171
61100 Pesaro
Italy
phone +39 072 137 42 81
fax +39 072 132 942
eMail: info@musicballkan.com

UK
Florence Arpin
Junction 2 Music
phone: + 44 (0) 773 405 1955
www.myspace.com/junction2music
eMail: florence@junction2music.com

North America
Mel Puljic
Mondo Mundo
PO Box 2817
Big Bear Lake, CA 92315
phone: +1 909 522 9494
www.mondomundo.com/
eMail: mel@mondomundo.com

Czech
Borek Jirik
Reichenbergerstr 109
10999 Berlin
www.charm-music.cz
eMail: borek@charm-music.cz

Turkey, Balkans; Eastern Europe, Caucasus, Middle East, North Africa
CHARMENKO - Music Organization
Post: Miralay &350;efik Bey S. 1/2 Guemue&351;suyu Taksim Istanbul Turkey
Phone: +90 212 2448065
Fax: +90 212 2514996
e-mail: office@charmenko.net