Founded in the spring of 2014, En big band seeks to bring "live" big Band and other music closer to the general public through musical renderings of various genres.
The members are both established professional musicians and trained music lovers who started their musical education in Slovenian Istria. Several generations play in the big band: from high school students, students to adult amateur and professional musicians. En big band began their musical journey with standard works of well-known tunes by artists such as Michael Buble, Frank Sinatra, Count Basie, Duke Ellington and many others. In the future, they strive to prepare a modern repertoire of Slovenian composers and arrangers of big band music, as well as wider European and World creators such as Michael Mossman, Kurt / <url>, Bert Joris,... with the vision to present this hidden music throughout Slovenia and beyond, as well as to give the opportunity to young talents, composers, arrangers, soloists and fans of Jazz, Funk, Pop, Latin music, etc., to present themselves and to present their musical messages to the public across Slovenia and Europe through concert projects and CD recording. In the beginning, one big band was artistically led by academic musician and trumpet teacher Mitja Bobic. In 2017, however, professional graduate jazz musician Sandi Shtor, who was among other students, took over this role. In 2024, Sandi Stor again went to the Netherlands for his master's degree and one big band was again taken over by conductor Mitja Bobic.
One big band has already collaborated with many famous Slovenian singers (Vlado Kreslin, Elda Viler, Rudi Buchar, Lea Sirk, Anika Horvat, Tulio Furlanic, Ziga Rustja, Eva Hren, Aleks Volasko, Maja Keuc).
As of 2019, four very successful projects have been carried out En Big band looking for your talent. 52 singers and instrumentalists and 11 composers and arrangers from all parts of Slovenia and Italy applied for the competition. In 2020, one big band set itself a new challenge, namely a program of music from cartoons that brought great joy and nostalgia to listeners on carefree childhood years. Every year, one big band sets itself important goals and a program to upgrade its quality and present a diverse musical experience to the audience.
Visitors to the concert are offered free parking in PH Amfora.
En big band, ki je bil ustanovljen spomladi leta 2014, skuša z glasbenim upodabljanjem različnih žanrov približati »živo« big bandovsko in drugo glasbo širši javnosti.
Člani so tako uveljavljeni profesionalni glasbeniki, kot šolani ljubitelji glasbe, ki so svojo glasbeno izobraževanje pričeli v Slovenski Istri. V big bandu igra več generacij: od dijakov, študentov do odraslih amaterskih in profesionalnih glasbenikov. En big band je svojo glasbeno pot pričel s standardnimi deli dobro poznanih melodij izvajalcev, kot so Michael Buble, Frank Sinatra, Count Basie, Duke Ellington in številnih drugih. Za naprej si prizadevajo pripravljati moderni repertoar tako Slovenskih skladateljev in aranžerjev big band glasbe, kot tudi širše evropskih in svetovnih ustvarjalcev, kot so Michael Mossman, Kurt Weiss, Bert Joris,… z vizijo, da se predstavi to skrito glasbo po Sloveniji in tudi širše, prav tako pa dati možnost mladim talentom, skladateljem, aranžerjem, solistom in pa ljubiteljem Jazz, Funk, Pop, Latinske glasbe itd., da se predstavijo in da predstavijo svoja glasbena sporočila javnosti po Sloveniji in Evropi s koncertnimi projekti in snemanjem zgoščenk. Na začetku je En big band umetniško vodil akademski glasbenik in učitelj trobente Mitja Bobič. Leta 2017 pa je to vlogo prevzel profesionalni diplomirani jazz glasbenik Sandi Štor, ki je bil med drugim tudi njegov učenec. Sandi Štor je 2024 ponovmo odšel na magistrski študij na Nizozemsko in En big band je ponovno prevzel dirigent Mitja Bobič.
En big band je sodeloval že z veliko znanimi slovenskimi pevci (Vlado Kreslin, Elda Viler, Rudi Bučar, Lea Sirk, Anika Horvat, Tulio Furlanič, Žiga Rustja, Eva Hren, Aleks Volasko, Maja Keuc).
Od leta 2019 so izpeljali že štiri zelo uspešne projekte En Big band išče tvoj talent. Na razpis se je prijavilo 52 pevcev in instrumentalistov ter 11 skladateljev in aranžerjev iz vseh koncev Slovenije in Italije. V letu 2020 si je En big band zastavil nov izziv, in sicer program glasbe iz risanih filmov, ki so poslušalcem prinesli veliko veselje in nostalgije na brezskrbna otroška leta. Vsako leto si En big band zastavi pomembne cilje in program s katerim nadgrajuje svojo kvaliteto ter občinstvu predstavi raznoliko glasbeno doživetje.
Obiskovalcem koncerta nudimo brezplačno parkiranje v PH Amfora.
