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Octav Zemlička

g, bj, voc, *1946 RO
Musician of Jazz, Pop and Latin

Romanian musician born in 1946, emigrated in 1975 to Germany, established in Dusseldorf. He studied at the Conservatory "Ciprian Porumbescu" in Bucharest, violin, guitar, composition and conducting. Even as a child he was enthusiastic about equally for classical music as well as the genres pop, rock and jazz. So he founded at the age of 17 years, the group Sfinx (3) which was very known with music in the style of the Beatles in the 60's in România. After his state examination in 1969, he worked as a guitar soloist in the orchestra of record production company "Electrecord'' - Orchestra Electrecord. During this time, he had numerous concerts to Sweden, Switzerland and Germany, where he was based in Dusseldorf since 1975 and since then has taught at the Clara Schumann Music School. The popularity of his arrangements for orchestra or big band with the audience manifested itself in 1985 in Malta at the "12-State Festival" with when he first Audience Award. Its roots, he has beaten in the city Dusseldorf now to show that he was for many years head of the "Benrather Orchestra Society" and has designed numerous benefit concerts in Dusseldorf. One of the highlights of his activities as a composer and arranger was certainly the performance of "Ode to Joy" on the occasion of the 2nd International meeting in Dusseldorf orchestra was listed on the market square in front of the city hall of two major symphony orchestras and a big band at the same time. With his Big Band "INTAKT" the Clara Schumann Music School, he is everywhere and always a welcome invited guest and occasional musical Botsc exemplary of the state capital Dusseldorf.

Instruments

• Guitar
• Banjo
• Vocals

Genres

• Jazz
• Pop
• Latin
• Rock

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