Jan Kus
Clarinet & Saxophone & Piano
Selected Performed at:
Carnegie Hall in NYC, United Nations Headquarters NYC, Brooklyn Museum, Rockwood Music Hall, Washington D.C., New Jersey, Maryland, Indiana, Puerto Rico, Slovenia, South Korea, Hungary, Belgium, The Netherlands, Greece, Cyprus, etc.
Teaching Experince:
Over 20 Years teaching experinces with Clarinet, Saxophone, Piano and Flute, has taught hundreds of students, always good at inspiring and motivating students’ interest in learning.
Jan Kus started his musical journey at age 5 in his native
country of Slovenia, studying Clarinet and Saxophone, Flute and Piano.
Education:
National Conservatory for Music in Ljubljana.
The Royal Conservatory of The Hague, Netherlands.
Master’s Degree at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College.
Today,Jan Kus is an internationally recognized New York-based saxophonist and composer (3-time finalist of the international jazz compositionprize, Jazzon). Awarded with the prestigious Jimmy Heath Award, an award given to the most promising wind instrumentalists at the Jazz department.
Selected Recording Credits:
-Gal in galeristi – Fetis (January 2007 on Nika records)
-Robert Jukic – Jazz for Masses (2008 on GOGA Music)
-Robert Jukic – Operation Charlie (2012 on Dat’ E Nat’)
-Ziga Murko - The Green Room EP (self-released, December 2014)
-Yongwon Cho – YWQ (August 2015 on Mirrorball music)
-Jan Kus Quartet – Faith (2016 on LeitmotivArts)
-Slavo Rican Assembly – Moving Up (audio/video single, self-released 2019)
- Fernando Garcia Band – Alegría (single, self-released 2020)
- Slavo Rican Assembly – Intercosmic (Riverboat Records 2022)
- Fernando Garcia – Behique (Omix records 2023)
- Arsenije Krstic – Debut Album (TBD)