Srdjan Ivanovic, drummer/percussionist/composer

Srdjan was born on the 8 of September 1983 in Sarajevo.

After moving to Athens, Greece in 1992 he starts playing the drums at the age of 13 and studies with the Greek drummer George Polychronakos. In 2003 he left for Holland, Amsterdam, where he studied at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Marcel Serierse, Martijn Vink, Lucas van Merwijk and Gergard Jeltes and earned his Bachelor of Music diploma in 2007. Srdjan is now doing master's studies with Joost Kesselaar at the Utrechts Conservatorium.

As a percussionist he was awarded twice the first prize and once the second prize in 3 consecutive years at the 'Hellenic Traditional Music Competition'.

In 2008 he won the Holland Casino Jazz&Pop Award with his band "S.I. Blazin' Quartet".

He has performed live in Greece, Holland, Serbia, Bosnia, Italy, Poland, Egypt and played and recorded with many of the best musicians in Greece and in Holland (Yotis Kiourtsoglou, David Lynch, Dimitris Tsakas, Giorgos Palamiotis, Harris Lambrakis, Dimos Dimitriadis, Mark v/d Feen, Paul v/d Feen, Slobodan Trkulja, Alex Simu, Michael Rorby a.o.) and played with bands such as Levantina, Makrina Ksaderfia, Giorgos Palamiotis Band, Georgia Velivasaki Band, Tarhana a.o.

Besides playing with Amsterdam based bands like the 'Branko Galoic Band', he has been the creator of bands: 'Trans Atlantic Conspiracy Troupe', 'Global Meltdown Band' that preformed mainly his music and the co-creator of 'Official Language', their first album 'Talking' is expected to be published in 2008. He is leading his band of creative musicians 'S.I. Blazin' Quartet'.


Srdjan also appears on the album 'Levantina' (subways music 2005) and on the album 'Tijana Milosevic and World Kontakt' (pgp-rts 2006).