Certified studies
1975: graduates of Ion Vidu Music High School
in Timisoara.
1980: graduates George Dima Music Faculty
in Cluj.
1983: The Volin in Modern Jazz, research
work concluding 1st degree in violin teaching.
Career in music
1973-1975 Plays the violin and also sings
in school band Allegro, with famous brothers Erlend and Dixie
Krauser, later to become the Phoenix.
1977-1980 Plays guitar bass and violin with
the band Experimental Q2 in Cluj, twice ranking best in Bucarest
Architecture Festival.
1980 Starts teaching violin and viola in
Art National College Ion Vidu in Timisoara; in ‘89 conducts
the school’s orchestra; has many students winners of
various prizes.
1982 Starts up Crepuscul jazz band; Consacration
Prize a year later in Sibiu Jazz Festival.
1982 Crepuscul plays in Nis Festival, Yugoslavia.
1983 Brasov Jazz Festival. Johnny Bota,
double-bass, seconds Bela Kamocsa, and Bega Blues Band is
thus born
1984-88 Double-bass with the the best Romanian
jazz band, Eugen Gondi Quartet.
1984 Seconds Johnny Raducanu in Eugen Gondi
Quartet, in most important jazz festivals in Romania
1985 With Gondi, first jazz touring concert
in some of the most important towns in Romania: Lugoj, Targu-Mures,
Cluj, Sf.Gheorghe, Brasov, Bucuresti.
1986 With Gondi band and Johnny Raducanu
in Tescani festival Enescu, Moldave Orpheus
1986 With Johnny Raducanu & guests like
Ion Caramitru and career piano-player Dan Grigore in extraordinary
concerts on stages like Opera House in Timisoara or Palace
Hall in Bucharest .
1990 First classical guitar teacher in newly
set up Music Faculty in Timisoara.
1990 Hosting Jazz Reflex at Radio Timisoara.
1990 A violin player in Banatul Philarmonic
Orchestra.
1990, 1991 Debrecen - Hungary most prestigious
East-European festival; co-starring Elvin Jones, Charlie Mariano,
Charles Lloyd, Larry Corrywell and N.H.O.Pedersen.
1991 Vicepresident of Romanian Jazz Association.
1992 Playing in Montreux Festival, for King
Michael of Romania.
1992 BBB in Privas - France music festival;
Most Popular Band Prize.
1993 BBB’s first blues-jazz CD in
Romania, Timisoara Blues.
1994 Plays with BBB in European festivals
and concerets, such as held in Frankfurt, Hamburg, Bensheim,
Leverkusen, Augsburg, Schwabish Hall, Crailseim, Konigsberg,
Novi Sad.
1995 With Dan Ionescu Electric Version in
in Privas - France music festival.
1996 Playing double-bass for a symphonic
jazz concert of Banatul Philarmonic Orchestra in Timisoara:
Y.Yannai’s Three Jazz Moods, directed by Dino Ghezzo.
1997 Plays with Dutch and American Jazzmen
in Pod 16 jazz club, later at Bijmhuis Hall, Holland, where
Miles Davis played; with Eugen Gondi - drums, Jos Machtel
- bass, trombone and tuba, Curtis Clark - piano.
1998 Plays in Belgrade Jazz Festival, then
Novi Sad, with Serbian Milos Krstic - piano, German Jo Mikovic
- sax and Hungarian Imre Koszegy - drums.
1998 Violin recital - Johann Rheinberger
and David Nepomuk - with German Constanze Deckwirth - organon;
in Hamburg Conservatory, then other towns in Nothern Germany.
2000 Plays in Belgrade Jazz Festival, with
Milos Krstic - piano and Bresilian Edir dos Santos - drums
.
2001 Staging of the first Clinics Jazz,
adjacent to Timisoara Jazz Festival, with famous jazz tutors
such as Sylvain Beuf, Manuel Rocheman, Stephane Kerecki, Milos
Krstic, Istvan Gyarfas, Gyuri Jesyenski.
2002 July Plays in a series of concerts
held in Northern Rennania-Westfalia, Germany.
2002 In Cluj, Transyilvannia 1st international
film festival, playing live for Murnau’s silent movie
Nosferatu with Gunter Buchwald - piano and Dinu Simon - drums.
2002 Plays in Sao-Luis, Maranhao-Bresil,
co-starring famous bluesman Kenny Brown, with Banatul Philarmonic
Orchestra, in music festival Um canto por la harmonia dos
povos.
2002, October Plays in Sibiu Jazz Festival,
with famous Jean Toots Thielemans.
2003 BBB’s jubilee, an extraordinary
concert, "From Gershwin to Sting", at the Romanian
Opera House in Timisoara, with the Banatul Philarmonic Orchestra
directed by Cristian Orosanu; soloists: Alexandra Gutu - cello,
Mirela Zafiri - soprano, Hungarian Istvan Gyarfas - guitar;
Liviu Butoi - sax; Toni Kuhn - piano; Mircea Bunea - guitar,
Mackie - vocal group. First synthetic - opera, symphony, blues,
rock, jazz - concert in Romania, full house cleared long before
concert day.
2003 August BBB in the guitariade at Garana
jazz festival: Johnny Bota, Bela Kamocsa, Mircea Bunea, Bujor
Hariga, Horia Crisovan.
2003 BBB plays in the 2nd Jimboblues, an
international blues festival held in Jimbolia.
2003, November 16 2nd " From Gershwin
to Sting ", same success, for 13th Timisoara Blues and
Jazz Festival
2004 BBB plus Istvan Gyarfas, Mircea Bunea
and Mirela Zafiri; and Bucharest Radio Big Band; an extraordinary
concert in Bucharest Radio Hall; Best blues-jazz band in Romania
Prize, local equivalent of Grammy; high rating radio and tv
broadcasts, like Taverna and Guaranteed 100% on RTV1 and Andrei
Partos Show.
2004 is awarded by the City of Timisoara with the EXCELENCE PRIZE
2004
Performs in the ‘Note’ club in Timisoara with the band lead by vibrafonist
Eldad Tarmu from Los Angeles-SUA, then at the Filarmonica of Satu Mare, with the same band,
latter beeing joined by his son Sasa Bota.
2004
He performs with Sasa Bota and Barbara Salas the ‘Le grand tango’ of Astor Piazzola in Brasov
2004
He performs "Concert for saxophone and symphonic orchestra" by Sabin Pãutza,
lead by the author himself and as a soloist Nicolas Simion
2005
Organizes at Jupînesti the first International Jazz Symposium ,
with the participation of seven american jazz teachers and 40 romanian teachers and students
2005
In october he sets up the first jazz and pop college in Romania, at the Tibiscus University of Timisoara
which is named after the greatest romanian jazz composer'Richard Oschanitzky', born in Timisoara
2006
He is awarded the Prize for Jazz of the 'Actualitatea Muzicalã' magazine
2006
In january he participates as a representant of romanian academic jazz, to the IAJE Congress in New York,
where he meets and establishes a prolific correspondence with Jamey Aebersold, Dave Liebman, Rufus Reid
2006
In march he carries out the first academic jazz tour with Eldad Tarmu and 12 students from the jazz college
2006
Organizes the second edition of the International Jazz Symposium at Jupânesti, where new participants are
Karen Gallinger (canto teacher) , Ioan Minda (percussion teacher), ex partener in the band 'Crepuscul', and Paul De Castro
2006
Participates with Bega Blues Band at the Gãrâna Jazz Festival,
also he accompanies Karen Gallinger
2006
Participates at Gastroblues Festival in Paks-Ungaria, performing in the opening of Chris Farlowe from Colosseum
and Keith Emerson
2006
Starts a tour in Hungary, Slovacia and Serbia with Eldad Tarmu Ensemble and he records a CD
2006-2007
He performs with Bega Blues Band in the New Years Concert held in Piata Operei in Timisoara
2007
Celebrates 25 years of activity with Bega Blues Band in a concert held on the 3th of march, where they are
accompanied by the Filarmonic Orchestra of Timisoara, with special guest Moni Bordeianu, the first soloist of the band "Phoenix"
He performed along side with the greatest romanian jazz singers like,
Johnny Rãducanu, Dan Mândrila, Stefan
Berindei, Garbis Dedeian, Mircea Tiberian, Anca Parghel, Marius
Popp, Liviu Butoi, Dan Ionescu, Eugen Gondi, Toni Kühn,
Ion Baciu jr., Dragos Nedelcu, Harry Tavitian, Mihai Farkas,
Puiu Minda,Dinu Simon, Veronica Luta, Teodora Enache, Victor
Miclaus, but also with international artists like:
Paul Weiner, Puba Hromadka, Nicolae Simion, István Gyárfás,
Sylvain Beuf, Manuel Rocheman, Claudia Raths, Gado Gabor,
Gyury Jeszenski, J.L. Wilson, Terry Seabrook, Tony Lakatos,
Sylvain Beuf, François Hervé, Claude Barthélemy,
Sophia Domanchich, Yldîz Ibrahimova, Paul Rogers, Reinhard
Hammerschmidt, Francois Moutin, Urs Leimgruber, Simeon Šterev,Jiri
Štivin, Patrick Scheider, Szakcsi Lakatos, Imre Köszegi,
Berkes Balázs, Edir Dos Santos, Kenny Brown, Evan Parker
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