Luka Ignjatović
Luka Ignjatović was born on May 2, 1986. After graduating from elementary music school, he enrolled in the jazz department of the secondary music school “Stanković”, where he attended jazz saxophone classes. During the next four years, Luka played in various small ensembles and performed in the country and abroad.
During that period, he occasionally worked in the RTS Big Band of Radio Belgrade, with which he performed and recorded. After graduating from music high school, Luka went to study jazz saxophone at the Amsterdam Conservatory, where, after six years of study, he obtained a Master of Music degree. During his studies he played in many small and large ensembles. With some of these ensembles such as the European Saxophone Ensemble he performed and recorded in almost all cities in Europe.
Upon his return to Serbia, he founded the Qzama Quartet with his friends, in which he played the saxophone, composed and arranged original music. Shortly after its creation, the Qzama Quartet gained the status of the most original jazz band in Serbia and in 2016 released its first album, which received great reviews in Serbia and the region.
Luka currently plays the saxophone, composing and arranging original music for the Schime trio with which he released his first album in September 2016. The performance of Schime Trio + One at the Belgrade Jazz Festival in 2016 attracts the attention of critics of the most prestigious jazz magazines in the world “Downbeat Magazine” and “All About Jazz” who ranked this band among one of the best at the Festival. The following year, Schime Trio + One recorded an album called “Visualization”, which he released for UNIT Records (Switzerland). During the summer and spring of 2018, with the band Schime, Luka performs at festivals: Moers (Germany), Marsiac (France), Kragujevac Jazz Festival, Sabac Jazz Festival, Pancevo Jazz Festival and Naissus Jazz Festival in Nis. Luka Ignjatović teaches jazz saxophone at the Department of Jazz and Popular Music at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade.