Aldo Foško

Aldo Foško was born in Pula and started engaging in music at the age of ten when he enrolled in clarinet classes at the Pazin Elementary Music School. After completing Classical Secondary School, he studied Musicology at the Music Academy in Zagreb and at Ruprecht-Karls Universität in Heidelberg, where he graduated in 2015 with a thesis on “The Beginnings of Jazz in Zagreb Between the Two World Wars”, under the mentorship of academician Stanislav Tuksar.

He attended jazz summer schools in Grožnjan mentored by Boško Petrović, Neven Frangeš, and Emil Spanyi. In 2016, he started studying bass clarinet at the Giuseppe Tartini Conservatory in Trieste, in the class of Klaus Gesing. At the same time, he began his professional career in jazz as a clarinettist, bass clarinettist, and pianist. He collaborates with almost all prominent jazz musicians from the region and performs with renowned ensembles like GIIPUJA, Oridano Gypsy Jazz Band, Robert Mikuljan Quintet, Gustafi, Zoran Predin, and others.

In 2023, he released his first solo album titled This One Time, which brings together some of the finest musicians from Istria and Primorje. As an instrumentalist, he has recorded ten studio albums released both in Croatia and abroad. He has performed at numerous festivals in Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, Hungary, Austria, Spain, and Portugal. In addition to his performing career, Aldo is actively involved in composition, arrangement, pedagogical and research work, as well as music criticism.