After graduating high school from Interlochen Arts Academy in 2009, Goran went on to study at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Located in such an innovative and musical city and having been surrounded by young, talented, and striving musicians, Goran was inspired to develop and compose his own style of music. His Balkan background and his immersion into American culture influenced him to compose music that fuses Balkan, Jazz, and Classical styles into one.
In 2012 Goran performed one of his first original pieces, “Macedonian Dance”, at the Boston Conservatory for the annual New Music Festival in which his work was greatly admired. Jazz critic Steve Elman went on to describe Goran’s piece as:
“The most extroverted and least traditional pieces deliberately modal and evocative of Balkan music (that is, music descended from the Ottoman domination of the Balkans). The composer played the saxophone part exuberantly.”
Within the following year Goran was a selected winner from the internationally acclaimed Davis Project for Piece organization which supported his trip to Macedonia to study the music of the Romani “Gypsy” people. Through this in depth study and through his studies at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Goran gained enough knowledge and expertise to write six books for the saxophone with original compositions that range from different Gypsy-Balkan style music and tricks to contemporary improvisational techniques, and his latest book, “The Music of Goran Daskalov”, which is a book set of 9 pieces for solo Saxophone.
Not only does Goran compose such original pieces, but he also rearranges world famous compositions, such as Csardas and Hora Staccato, into pieces for solo saxophone. In these rearrangements Goran has utilized various extended techniques and, giving them a touch of his own soul, created very unique, personal, and virtuosic sounds.
Goran is currently recording his first solo album, as well as the release of his books.