Alba&Leo
Alba&Leo
Genres: female vocalist, acoustic, Ballad Song Contest 158
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About Alba&Leo
Alba Nacinovich was born in Rijeka in 1986 and came close to music very early, singing at various children's song festivals such as the international Zecchino d'Oro where she won the "Zecchino d'Argento" in 1993. She started to take piano lessons from prof. Roberto Haller and took part in some theatre pieces at the Croatian National Theatre Ivan pl. Zajc both as actress and soundtrack's vocal performer. In 2003 she won the 1st prize at the Rijeka's Gitarijada rock festival with the band Matriz. She figures on Damir Halilić Hal and Crooks & Straight's records. At present, she's attending the Jazz Course at the "Giuseppe Tartini" Conservatory in Trieste, Italy, under the guide of professors Glauco Venier, Marcello Tonolo, Stefano Bellon, Carla Marcotulli and Klaus Gesing. As part of the Erasmus Student Exchange Programme, she "migrated" for a semester at the Escola Superior de Música e das Artes do Espectáculo in Porto, Portugal, where she studied with professors Michael Lauren, Sofia Ribeiro and Paulo Perfeito. Over the last few years she attended masterclasses and workshops with (among others): Stefano Bollani, Diana Torto, Ohad Talmore NewsReel (featuring Shane Endsley, Jacob Sacks, Matt Pavolka, Dan Weiss), Harjo Pasveer, Pedro Madaleno. Leo Škec was born in Rijeka in 1985 and began playing the guitar at the age of 16. In 2003, after taking some basic guitar lessons, he was introduced to the Lovran Wind Orchestra (Puhački Orkestar Lovran) by his teacher Zoran Dumičić – Duma. There he learned to play rhythm and lead guitar and became familiar with different stlyes such as rock, pop, jazz and latin music. As a member of P.O.L. and of the Josip Pepi Forembacher's Big Band, Leo played with some of the most popular artists of the Croatian pop and jazz scene, such as Gibonni, Oliver Dragojević, Severina, Elvis Stanić, Lela & Joe Kaplowitz, Meri Trošelj, Marko Tolja and Tina Vukov. Together with Franjo Črnjarić on alto saxophone, in 2004 Duma and Leo formed a band called Puma i Tri Lava and began to play jazz standards, and the year after they founded the band LoveRunners with Boris Kačić on percussion and Alba Nacinovich on vocals...
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