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Zvonimir TotQuick Contacts email the dept. of performing arts email the music dept. email the theater dept.
UIC Department of Performing Arts |
Assistant Director of Jazz Studies, Music Theory, Ear Training, Applied Jazz Guitar, Small Jazz Ensemble, Guitar Ensemble  Dr. Zvonimir Tot is a jazz guitarist, composer, and arranger with a style deeply rooted in the jazz tradition but flavored by his European origin. As a jazz musician, Tot has performed and/or recorded in The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Hungary, Serbia, the Czech Republic , Romania , and Croatia. He has performed with many world-renowned artists, including saxophonists Scott Hamilton, Billy Harper and Peter King, organist Joey DeFrancesco, violinists Johnny Frigo and Stefan Milenkovich, drummers Ernie Adams, Paul Wertico and Byron Landham, bassists Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, John Clayton and Hein Van de Geyn, trumpeter Orbert Davis, pianists Larry Novak and Larry Vuckovich, guitarists Philip Catherine, Henry Johnson and Paulinho Garcia, vocalists Jackie Allen, Carmen Lundy and Deborah Carter, and Chicago Jazz Philharmonic. Tot is the founder and owner of Groove Art Records, as well as full member of ASCAP, GRAMMY, The National Association for Music Education and American Composers Forum. As a bandleader, he has recorded three CDs for Groove Art Records: “Unspoken Desire” (2007), “Blue Quest” (2007), and “Travels and Dreams” (2004), as well as several CDs as a sideman for various labels. Since 2005, Zvonimir Tot’s biography has been included in Who’s Who in America, published by Marquis Publishing. He is an endorsing artist for Godin Guitars and Acoustic Image Amplifiers. Zvonimir Tot holds a doctorate from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a master’s degree from Northern Illinois University, as well as bachelor’s degrees from Franz Liszt Academy of Musical Arts (Budapest, Hungary) and Amsterdam Conservatory (The Netherlands). For more iinformation, go to www.zt-music.com.
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