Multi-instrumentalist Andrej Fon's interest
and career in music took root at the Lower Music School in Sežana where he
graduated in clarinet. He later extended his field of musical activity to
include saxophone, singing, writing texts and composing, bagpipes and various
musical and sound instruments. He has created for, and still works with, a variety of bands and projects including
Strahuljarji, Žoambo Žoet Workestrao, Kraški solisti, Čarangi, Gita amrita,
Horda Grdih, Barka Tone and Bele Plombe, Buče4 and Samo gromofon. His
international experience has developed by cooperating with foreign musicians
and performing on the international stage; in Croatia, Italy, Hungary (Big Ear
and Szeget festivals ), in the Netherlands (Forbidden Fruits of Civil Society
Festival 1998), in Germany, with the touring Indian singer, Haradhan das Baula,
Seijiro Murayama, Francesco Cusa and Ruins Matada. He is also very active in
performing arts and in the field of music pedagogy with children.
Among is his activities,
Andrej Fon is a regular associate in several Sploh Institute projects. In
addition to presentations at Confine aperto, Zvokotok and Neforma, in the RR
and Sonce and sončice concerts po vsem svetu, at the international Sound
Disobedience Festival, his contributions are also included on the Sound
Disobedience compilation of Slovenian improvisational music and in the
iMstrument collection of solo performance recordings. He also collaborates with the
Samo Gromofon trio, in the
Šift project and in performance
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