Dejan Pečenko

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Dejan Pečenko (born December 13, 1958 in Maribor ) is a Slovenian jazz musician (piano).

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Pečenko studied jazz piano between 1979 and 1985 at the Graz University of Music. In 1983 he recorded with Brüning from Altens Sunrise Orchestra . From 1985 to 1989 he performed as a freelance musician on numerous tours with jazz musicians such as Tony Scott , Bumi Fian or Tone Janša and took part in the Moers Festival , the Leverkusener Jazztage and JazzAscona . In 1986 he founded his own trio (with Peter Herbert and Drago Gajo ), with whom he released a first album in the same year, followed by the album Persepolis in 1988 . He also released the two solo albums Piano Pianissimo (1995) and Toy Museum (1998). He is also part of the Old Stoariegler Dixielandband and Manfred Josel's trio . According to the Austrian Music Lexicon , he is "one of the stylistically comprehensive jazz pianists and keyboardists whose music is based on styles such as swing , fusion , Latin music and hip hop ."

Since 1989 he has been a professor at the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz and is still active as a professor at the Anton Bruckner Private University that emerged from it. In 1992 he was co-founder of the jazz department of the Music Conservatory in Ljubljana. Between 1995 and 2003 he also taught piano practice at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz . Since 2013 he has also been a lecturer at the Maribor Conservatory.

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SURNAME Pečenko, Dejan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovenian jazz musician (piano)
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Maribor