Renato Rozic

born in Zagreb, Croatia and grew up with jazz
lives in Cologne, Germany...

studied jazz guitar, improvisation, composition and
classical music at the Cologne conservatory / Germany...

developed a new "modal 12-tone composition technique" and is recognized in the "contemporary music" scene...

then returned to tonality, dedicating himself to interpreting the works of Bach and Mozart...

uses baroque and classical formal structures in his compositions, jazz arrangements and improvisations in a synthesis of tonal, extended and atonal material...

as initiator of "aesthetica nova" he has pioneered the field of improvisation within classical music and continues to invest himself for a new understanding of music within classical music...

his music work polarises the classical music community through his lose approach to written material and creating a fusion of jazz, classical, hip-hop and world music...

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