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Erik Rothenstein<\/strong> (1973, Slovakia, Bratislava) is a jazz baritone saxophonist, composer, arranger and pedagogue. As a leader of Erik Rothenstein band he concentrates on modern mainstream jazz combined with ethnic elements of middle-eastern and southern Europe. The band cooperates with various Slovak and international musicians, singers or beat box artist. His band was touring in Europe and Latin America. With pianist Zita Sopkov\u00e1 he founded Lento Ad Astra a group oriented on European classical music build on interesting arrangements, new compositions from Slovak contemporary composers and connection to improvisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erik started as a child to play clarinet and later alto saxophone. He played in local rock groups and later with Pressburger Klezmer band. From this time he was strong influenced by klezmer and ethnic music of middle-eastern Europe. He also startetd to play jazz and at the age of 18 he decided to study saxophone on Bratislava conservatory. Afterwards he moved to Austria to Graz academy jazz department where he took baritone saxophone as his primary instrument. He also started to work on his author \u0301s compositions, arragements and discover other music cultures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beside his work as a band leader Erik is active as a sideman, big band player and arranger. He is a member of Mat\u00fa\u0161 Jakab\u010dic CZ-SK Big band. He also cooperated with Gust\u00e1v Brom Orchestra, Vi\u0161egr\u00e1d Jazz Big band and with classical orchestras Slovak Radio orchestra, Slovak Philharmony, Sinfonieta \u017dilina, Melos Ethos ensemble. He is a member of Michal Mot\u00fd\u013e Tentet and a founder of Pressburger klezmer Band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a arranger and composer he cooperated with company PS Production, CZ-SK Big Band M.Jakab\u010dica Michal Mot\u00fd\u013e tentet, Hanka Gregu\u0161ov\u00e1, Pressburger Klezmer Band, Robo Opatovsk\u00fd, NikiStein Jazz Sextet and others. He is also active as a music journalist for newspaper Music Life and web portal skjazz.sk. He works also as a music teacher and organizes saxophone workshops. Erik is a author of first Slovak Saxophone school- book The Progresive saxophone method.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Euro Jazz Mexiko, Guatemala Jazz festival, Morelia Jazztival Michuacan-Mexiko, Bratislava Jazz Days, Bratislava music festival, Kub\u00edn music Spring, Melos-Ethos\u2013festival of contemporary music, Ba\u017eant Pohoda, Jazz fest Brno, Bohemia jazz festival, Jazz goes to town – Hradec Kr\u00e1lov\u00e9, Czechoslovak jazz festival P\u0159erov, Valjevo jazz festival Serbia, Novi Sad jazz festival Serbia, Ljubljana festival Slovenia, Zagreb jazz festival Croatia, Zabrze jazz festival Poland, Poysdorf Wine & Jazz summer Austria Discography extract<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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