Echo Jazz for HKB lecturer Dejan Terzic
The drummer and HKB lecturer Dejan Terzic has been awarded the German Music Prize Echo Jazz 2014 as instrumentalist of the year national drums/percussion.
Born in Serbia, Terzic moved to Germany with his parents at the age of three. In 2002, he became a member of Ticino native Franco Ambrosetti's group, with whom he performed in Switzerland and Italy. In the same year, he became part of the Nils Wogram Nostalgia Trio. In 2004 he was awarded the Munich Culture Prize.
In 2008, he wrote the music for the documentary film "Tunnel's End" by director Monica Lleo, which was recorded by the Babelsberg Film Orchestra Berlin. Since 2008, he has also been a lecturer in jazz percussion at the Swiss Jazzschool of the Bern University of the Arts (HKB).
