Elvis Stanic

Elvis Stanić is the best Croatian contemporary jazz fusion guitarist, multiinstrumentalist and the most awarded new generation jazz composer. He is the leader of the «Elvis Stanić Group», a jazz fusion band which connects mediteranean fluidness with fiercing latin rhythm and contemporary jazz sound. The band performes original music, with starting point in modern electric jazz, expanding it to the edge of traditional, latin or even the New Age music frontiers. As a composer, Elvis Stanić explores a Traditional Croatian music, connecting it with diverse world traditions, thus creating a new and yet unheard genre. He is the one of the leading World jazz mucisians in Croatia. Born in the 1963., Rijeka, Croatia, he started to play at the age of 6. After accomplishing a classical music education for the accordeon, he switched to the guitar, and was influenced by the blues, rock and jazz music. In 80's he established a succesfull career as a recording musician, as well as a music producer for the major Croatian pop artists.   As a full scholarship awarded Best Entering Student Talent in the 1994. he went to the Berklee College of Music, Boston, where he studied Guitar and Jazz Composition. During the Boston years, he performed with most of Boston based musicians, such as Jim Kelly, Dennis Montgomery, John Thomas, Bob Harrigan, Frank Williams and many others. Elvis Stanić has graduated in Visual Communications at the Departpent of Fine Arts, University Of Rijeka. He is a member of the Croatian Composers Society (HDS) and International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE). He has been teaching Jazz guitar and Jazz theory at the Jeunesse Musicalle Summer Jazz School in Grisignana for the past eight consecutive years. He is also the founder and the Art Director of the „Liburnia Jazz Festival“ and the „Jazz Ex Tempore“ multicultural educational project in Opatija, Croatia.   Elvis Stanić Group After returning to Croatia, in 1996. he established the world fusion-based jazz ansamble, the “Elvis Stanić Group”, which has soon become the best world jazz band in Croatia. In succeding years they released four albums with original music which won all the most significant National music and discography awards (8 „Porin“ awards in cathegories of the Best Jazz Albums, Jazz Compositions and Instrumental performances).