Matej Bunderla

Saxophone

Matej Bunderla was born 1985 in Maribor (SLO). He started his musical education with piano lessons when he was seven years old. When he was eleven, he discovered the Saxophone andhas been playing it ever since. In 2007 he finished his bachelor degree with distinction and in 2009 his master studies under the mentorship of Mag.Gerald Preinfalk on the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz. In 2011 he finished his master in PPCM (Performance practice in contemporary music) under the Ensemble Klangforum from Wien and in 2013 he completed the bachelor in Instrumental Pedagogy at the same University. In 2021 he completed the Basis-certificate Cultur and Media Management at the HfMT Hamburg. Bunderla has played in several chamber groups as Los Capo Altros (tango), Sinfonietta Graz, Wap Sax Quartet (Jazz), Quki Ensemble (cont./free imp.), Oek (cont.) Platypus Ensemble (cont.), Now sports (free impr.) as well as with Orchestras (Oper Graz, KUG, Toti Big Band Maribor, European Master Orchestra, Naš Big Band, Ensemble für neue Musik...) and as soloist in Graz (AT) with the Wind symphonic orchestra of the University Music and Performing of Arts in Graz. In 2015 he performed Glazunov's Concert for alto saxophone with the chamber orchestra Diletto Grazioso and his composition Image III. In May 2016 he represented Austria at the European Union Music festival in Caracas, Venezuela, where he performed the Villa-Lobos Fantasia and his own composition Image IV. He is a member of the contemporary music Ensemble Schallfeld (selected as a representative of Austria, 2016-2017), which started to work in 2013. Also, he is a member of the Gbr Konglomerat and the MIM Trio Ensemble which performs improvised and new composed music, as well as a member of Trio Me3 which performs classical music. Matej has several years experience with teaching children and was a co-organizer of the Creative Music Week 2012 (Leutschach,Styria) under the support of the European program Youth in Action. He constantly works with composers and performs their new pieces, performs as theater Musician and improviser. In February 2020 he started his job at the Police orchestra Lower Saxony. In January 2020 he changed to the State police orchestra of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. He is currently living and working in Hamburg, Germany.