Viktorija Pilatovic is a Lithuanian vocalist, bandleader, composer, and educator who shares her love for jazz through her original music: poetic melodies and lyrics, modern, heart-grasping chord progressions, and virtuosic vocal performances. She is a recording artist with four releases featuring original music: "Skybridges" 2023, "The Only Light" 2019, "Stories" 2017, and "Nica's Blues" 2013. Her music has been covered in NPR live sessions, Downbeat magazine, RTVE, Discopolis Radio 3, and various other platforms.

 

Alongside Sílvia Pérez Cruz, her voice can be heard on "Voces," the latest big band album by renowned Spanish saxophonist Perico Sambeat. 

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Through Berklee, she has collaborated in productions with Gilberto Gil, Victor Wooten, Michael League (Snarky Puppy), Banda Magda, and Petros Klampanis, who produced her fourth album, Skybridges, released in March 2023, featuring acclaimed Spanish flutist and saxophonist Jorge Pardo.

 

Some of the festivals she has already performed at in Spain include Valencia, San Sebastian, Seville, and Formentera, along with outstanding programs in Europe and outside in Switzerland such as Montreux Jazz, France like Jazz-Rhone-Alpes in Grenoble, Denmark, Lithuania's Vilnius Mama Jazz, Ecuador, the United Kingdom, Poland, Tunisia, Belgium, and The Netherlands.

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Viktorija teaches Undergraduate and Master students at Berklee Valencia and Musikene in San Sebastian, as well as various international seminars, with her most recent one being in Abu Dhabi at the Berklee Abu Dhabi Creative Arts Educators Symposium.

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Viktorija was born on the 12th of March, 1989, in Klaipeda, Lithuania. At the age of 6, she began playing classical piano and later picked up the guitar and started writing songs. In 2007, she began her Bachelor's studies in Jazz Vocal at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. In 2010, Viktorija moved to The Netherlands to further her jazz studies at Prins Claus Conservatorium. Here, her style evolved from traditional to contemporary jazz.

 

In 2012, Viktorija received a full scholarship to enter the master's program at Berklee Valencia. From 2013 to 2016 Viktorija was teaching at USFQ College of Music (Berklee Partner school), in Quito, Ecuador. 

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In 2016, she moved back to Europe and has since been actively recording, performing, and teaching while living in Valencia, Spain.

Multi-awarded saxophonist, composer and arranger Tobias Hoffmann. 

Tobias Hoffmann is a German-born saxophonist, composer and arranger currently living in Vienna and Graz. Besides being the bandleader of his award-winning "Tobias Hoffmann Nonet" he works as a sideman for various projects and bands. In the past years some of his compositions were awarded at international competitions, like the "Downbeat Student Music Awards" (USA), the "5th Karel Krautgartner Composition Contest for the Best Composition for Jazz Orchestra" (Czech Republic) or the "Bill Conti Big Band Arranging & Composition Competition” of the “American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers” in Los Angeles (USA). 

His "Tobias Hoffmann Nonet" was awarded first prize in the “Band” category at the international online competition “Made in New York Jazz Competition 2019” by a top-class jury including the judges Lenny White, Randy Brecker and Mike Stern.

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