Balkan Jazz Musicians - Lajko Felix

Lajko Felix

official website: www.lajko.hu

Lajko Felix is extremely talented violinist. He is a virtuoso and wild at the same time, he brakes strings and bows, but his music sounds extraordinary.
Lajko Felix (born December 17, 1974) is a jazz and world music violinist and composer born in Backa Topola, Serbia.

Lajko's music is difficult to categorize; it is based on wide spectrum of influences of traditional string music from Pannonian plain. It can be viewed as a specific form of jazz, but it is based on traditional music.

He is a virtuoso violinist, playing with great fervor and passion, and occasionally he plays other traditional instruments, such as Citera. On concerts, he usually performs with his small band, but sometimes also plays solo violin.

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Collaborations and work
Lajko has also played together with a large number of well-known bands and musicians. He was a member of Gyorgy Szabados's band, Makuz and Boris Kovac's band, Ritual Nova. He performed together with the world-famous Japanese butoh dancer, Min Tanaka and the French Noir Desir band a number of times. He has had many concerts together with the Romanian violin player living in London, Alexander Balanescu and with Boban Markovic's brass gipsy band. He has composed music for some theatrical plays. Among others he wrote the complete music material for the Szabadka Theatre's Public enemy production, but Jozef Nadj from Orlean also asks him to compose music for his performances regularly and he has also composed music for coreographies of Ivett Bozsik. He composed the whole musical score for Wheels, a film by Ljubisa Samardzic from Yugoslavia. It was also him who composed the hymn for the 1998 Sarajevo cultural festival, Sarajevska Zima. He has participated in many fiction films and Miklos Jancso made his short film Play, Felix! about him. He wrote music for Towards a New Atlantis, a project of the Venice Biennale in 2000. Lajkó also composed music for and acted as the main character of Kornel Mundruczo's film Delta- a film which won a small prize in Cannes, and was nominated for the Golden Palm. It was the Hungarian Film Festival's winning film, and Lajko was awarded the best original soundtrack of the Festival.(source: Wikipedia)