Biography
Stjepko Gut, also known as Steve Gut, is a jazz trumpeter born in Ruma on 15 December 1950 and based in Belgrade, among the most recognized brass players on the international jazz scene. He studied jazz trumpet at the Swiss Jazz School in Bern and at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.
For two years he was a member of the Lionel Hampton All Stars. Among the musicians he has collaborated with internationally are Clark Terry, Curtis Fuller, Mel Lewis, Johnny Griffin, James Moody, Clifford Jordan, Wild Bill Davis, Horace Parlan, Jon Faddis, Nicholas Payton, Frank Wess, Dusko Gojkovic, Jimmy Heath and Benny Bailey.
As a conductor he won first place at the first Austrian Big Band Competition. He is the founder of the jazz section at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, where he served as visiting professor and music advisor from 2012 to 2018. He has taught as a university professor in Graz and as a visiting professor at the University of New Hampshire, as well as at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, the Rotterdam Conservatory, the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, the Conservatoire de Paris and the New School of Music in New York.
In 2011 he composed the "Serbian Symphony Jazz Suite" for symphony orchestra, choir and jazz quartet. Among his albums are "Sketches of Balkan" with his sextet, "Mr C.T.", "Afro-Balkan Sketches" and two records with the Big Band RTS.
In 2022 he released the album "Come Back to Sicily", recorded with musicians from the Mediterranean jazz scene (Rino Cirinnà, Nello Toscano, Seby Burgio, Marcello Pellitteri).
