Goran Jurković

GORAN JURKOVIĆ (Zagreb, 1983) is a leading Croatian saxophonist and pedagogue.
His concert activities have taken him to stages such as Carnegie Hall in New York, Musikverein in Vienna, Bruckner Saal in Linz and to concert tours on all inhabited continents of the world. He has given more than 350 chamber and solo concerts in all major music centers of Croatia and has performed at numerous festivals such as the Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Split Summer, Vienna Sax Fest, IMPULS Festival in Graz, Split Summer, Alpenclassica Festival in Sils, Caprices Festival Wienerneudorf, Podium Festival Mödling, Osor Music Evenings, Music Biennale Zagreb, Hörsturm Festival Ried and many others. He has also performed on numerous prestigious European stages in Japan, Australia, Chile, Austria, the United States, France, Ukraine, Slovenia, Italy, Hungary, Romania, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia.
Goran Jurković is a tenor saxophonist and co-founder of the acclaimed Papandopulo Quartet, founder and baritone saxophonist of the Mobilissaxophonequartet, and tenor saxophonist and founder of the Trio GIG, and regularly performs with pianist Danijela Detoni.
In addition to his concert activities, he has been working as a saxophone pedagogue for more than 18 years: from 2006 to 2007 at the General Music School “Jan Vlašimsky” in Virovitica, and from 2006 to the present as a saxophone professor at the General Music School Jastrebarsko, and since 2024 as a full professor of chamber music at the Academy of Arts, University of Split. He is the leader of the “Jaska Saxophone School”, a seminar that has hosted the biggest names in the world of saxophone for 18 years and regularly holds seminars in Croatia and abroad.
Goran is an exclusive Selmer Paris and JLV – ligature artist.