LUKAS GABRIC
Austrian tenor saxophonist, composer, and musicologist Dr. Lukas Gabric (b. 1987) is hailed by Thomas Gansch and Joel Frahm as a "master musician" with "breathtaking tenor virtuosity" and has already made a mark on the international jazz scene. His performance and pedagogical activities have taken him to the USA, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Hungary, Spain, Slovenia, China, South Korea, Mongolia, and Brazil. Throughout his formative years, Dr. Gabric was selected as a member of the European Generations Unit at the biannual Festival in Frauenfeld, Switzerland in 2012. The adjudicators included the jazz icons Louis Hayes, Peter Washington, and David Hazeltine. In 2013 he was a semifinalist in the Thelonious Monk Competition in Washington D.C. In 2014 he won the Best Soloist Award and the Audience Choice Award at the Getxo Jazz Festival in Spain and received the third prize in the finals of the North American Saxophone Alliance Competition in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. In 2016 Dr. Gabric was awarded the Herb Alpert Composer's Award by the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) for his composition "Fire Dance." In 2018 he received the Cultural Distinction Award and Bruno Gironcoli Award from his hometown of Villach (Austria), enabling him to produce his album Labor of Love, which received positive reviews in eight countries. Dr. Gabric received a Post-Graduate Artist Diploma from the Juilliard School in New York, where he was a faculty member between 2014- 2021. In addition, he holds a Ph.D. in musicology from The City College of New York, where he served as an adjunct lecturer between 2012-2020. He has also taught masterclasses and lectures at universities around the globe, published ten method books, several musicological articles, and other educational resources. For his role as a pedagogue and mentor, he was awarded the "Extraordinary Dedication and Achievement in Teaching Distinction" by the American Protege International Competition at Carnegie Hall in