Marko Dzomba, born in Novi Sad, Serbia, is an internationally active soloist and chamber musician who
studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria with Oto Vrhovnik.

He has performed in England, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Serbia, Norway, Romania, the Czech Republic and in concert halls such as the Konzerthaus Vienna, Musikverein Wien, Brucknerhaus Linz, Ljubljana Philharmonic, RNCM Manchester and others.

Some of Marko’s upcoming concerts will also include appearances as a soloist with the Suzhou Symphony Orchestra China, the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra in the Great Tchaikovsky Hall, the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra Bulgaria, the Webern Chamber Philharmonic in the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein, with the Vienna Jeunesse Orchester in the Great Hall of the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Kronstadt/Brașov Philharmonic Orchestra
Romania and the Slovenian Armed Forces Orchestra in the Great Hall of the Slovenian Philharmonic.

Recent collaborations also include performances with the Vienna Volksoper Orchestra, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg and the Vienna State Opera Orchestra.
Marko was the winner of international and national competitions such as the Casinos Austria Rising Star
Award, the ADMC Illzach in France, the CRDM in Italy, the Svirel Prize in Slovenia (where he also received two special prizes), the Windisch Chamber Music Competition, Musica Juventutis …

He is a  three-time laureate of the Serbian National Competition and has been awarded with the Serbian Culture Prize Talent of the Year twice. He was also the winner of the Tokyo Foundation audition and a scholarship holder of the Thyl-Dürr Foundation and the Josef Windisch Foundation.

Marko Dzomba has appeared on radio and television stations such as ORF, Radio Ö1, Radio Klassik Stephansdom, RTVSLO and Klassikradio Germany.
Marko Dzomba is a Yamaha Artist and plays on a gold-plated Custom EX Alto saxophone and SCVLigatures model SONUS DIVINUS from Sax Clinic.

We are upgrading the cooperation started with professor Aleksandar Tasic and from this February 2023 he is officially an artist of SCV Ligatures.

Aleksandar Tasić, one of the most prominent clarinetists of his generation graduated and postgraduated clarinet at The Academy of Arts in Novi
Sad, Serbia.
He mastered his skills at the master classes directed by famous clarinetists such as Ricardo Morales, Michel Arrignon and Jim Ognibene (bass clarinetist-Metropolitan Opera of New York).

He won first prizes in the competition of Yugoslav pupils and students of
music, but also I prize in the competition of Jeuness Musicale ’Laureats
of Orpheus’ in 1998.
The University in Novi Sad, Serbia awarded him ‘Exceptional Award’ for
his artistic activities.
He performed as a soloist with Novosibirsk Philharmonic orchestra,
Symphony orchestra of the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Art ensemble
Stanislav Binički, with Belgrade string orchestra Dušan Skovran, Novi
Sad Chamber orchestra, Vojvodina Symphony Orchestra, Isidora Žebeljan Orchestra, string orchestra Camerata Panonnica, Montenegro Symphony Orchestra and had concerts in his home country and around Europe.

He performed at some of the most important festivals in Serbia and
abroad, such as NOMUS, BEMUS, NIMUS, International Tribune of
Composers, Les Classiques de Villars (Switzerland), Verbier Festival &
Academy (Switzerland), Y4Y – Bangkok (Thailand), Schloss Elmau (Germany), Kotor-Art (Montenegro), Ljubljana Festival (Slovenia), Granada Music Festival (Spain), Mostar Spring Festival (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Siena Summer Session for Music (Italy), Bregenzer Festspiele (Austria), A-Tempo (Montenegro) Ohrid Summer Festival ( Macedonia)…etc.

In the period between 2000 and 2006, Aleksandar Tasić performed as a
clarinetist with Verbier Festival Orchestra (Switzerland) in numerous famous concert halls with world known conductors such as James Levine,
Zubin Mehta, Kent Nagano, Wolfgang Sawalisch, Valery Gergiev, Claudio Vandelli and many others.
From 2006 onwards, he is a solo clarinetist of Verbier Festival Chamber
Orchestra, lead by maestro Gabor Takacs-Nagy.
He has been a coach for clarinet and woodwinds of Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra since was launched in 2013 and this orchestra evolved into one of the most intensive artist training programmes available to young musician today.
He made recordings for TV and radio stations both in the country and
abroad (RTS, BBC, ART TV, RAI, Netherlands Radio 4, Mezzo and
Medici TV).
He serves as a Regular professor for clarinet at the Academy of
Arts, University of Novi Sad, and Regular professor for clarinet at
FILUM, University of Kragujevac, both in Serbia.

Aleksandar Tasić is the artist of a famous clarinet brands Gonzalez reeds, SCV ligatures from Sax Clinic and currently plays the model SONUS DIVINUS and Royal Global playing on their top model Firebird clarinets.

Nadia Sofokleous (Hamoudi) was born in Romania and started playing the clarinet at the age of 13. After just three years she won several national competitions and the international competition Jeunesses Musicales Bucharest.

More prizes and scholarships followed, like the Emma Contestabile  of the Accademia Chigiana in Siena and second prize at the international competition “Saverio Mercadante” in Italy.

In 2020 she got an advancement award: “Kulturpreis Schwarzwald Baar” for her excellent pedagogical work.

After studying at the University of Music in Bucharest, she continued her studies in Germany and Switzerland. Great mentors like Antony Pay (GB), Francois Benda (CH),

Chen Halevi (Fr) and Charles Neidich (USA) left their mark on her interpretation style.  

As soloist she performed repeatedly with orchestras like Corda Cracovia Orchestra, Radio Chamber Orchestra Bucharest, Oradea Philharmonic Orchestra, and Sinfonieorchester Villingen-Schwenningen.  She played recitals and chamber music concerts across whole Europe.

She also played in prestigious festivals like the 11.th Clarinet Congress, Cracow, Kreuzgangskonzerte Alpirsbach, Faszination Klarinette- Berlin, Chamber Music Festival- Brasov and "Enescu Festival; – Bucharest.  

Nadia Sofokleous was a solo clarinet player of the Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra in Bucharest and collaborated with the National Radio Orchestra Bucharest as well as Junge Oper Stuttgart and Sinfonieorchester Villingen-Schwenningen.  

She is the leader of the woodwind section at the Musikakademie Villingen-Schwenningen where she gets to perform one of her biggest passions: teaching clarinet. Since 2021 she is a guest lecturer at the University of Music in Trossingen.

Nadia is giving regularly master classes in Germany and Romania and she is also thefounder of the Woodwind Quintett of Musikakademie Villingen-Schwenningen and Klarisma Ensemble that playes chamber music from duo to septet.

Nadia Sofokleous is an RZ-Artist and a SCV-Artist and currently plays the high end model RZ Magoo “Solo” clarinet with Licostini Mouthpiece, SCV Ligatures model TONUS MUNDI from Sax Clinic and Gonzales GD reeds. 

You can listen to some of her recordings here: https://www.youtube.com/@nadikucika https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CInoOYEoZu0