TONI KITANOVSKI
Genres: Post Bop, World Fusion, RnB, Classic Fusion • Macedonia

Guitarist, composer/arranger, bandleader and educator Toni’s music is quite afro-centric. Maybe becosе he grew up playing soccer with African exchange students from his neighborhood and borrowing records from their huge collections after the game. All of his current musical projects are collaborations with master percussionist Oscar Salas. His crafty guitar style is the most intuitive of all of his musical outputs. He is one of the very few people ever to get rarely awarded full four year tuition scholarship by Berklee College of Music. Boston music scene suited well his diverse musical interests. Sounds of Bluegrass and Delta Blues started sneaking under his fingertips. Not less dramatic was influence of having opportunity to attend seminars and lectures of Luciano Berrio and Georgy Ligethy, to explore Duke Ellingtons big band style with Herb Pomeroy or Afro-Cuban rhythms with Giovanni Hidalgo also having special studies of composition and arranging with Dennis Grilo. It was than that read more...