Goran Krmac

Goran Krmac is a professional multi-instrumentalist, composer, and arranger working across jazz, folk, pop, electroacoustic, and experimental music.

He is best known as a tuba player with a number of acclaimed Slovenian acts, such as singer-songwriter Rudi Bučar, accordionist and composer Janez Dovč, saxophonist Boštjan Simon, and others. Besides tuba, he plays foot drums, trumpet, baritone horn, and keyboards.

Krmac also regularly composes, performs and produces music for radio drama, theatre, film and TV, having worked with a number of Slovenian national theatres and Radio-Television of Slovenia.

Notable projects as leader:
Suite for Tuba and Big Band (Radio Koper, 2025)
Planetarium (Celinka.si, 2019)
Forgotten Tribes (Celinka.si, 2016)

Notable projects as composer/producer in film, radio, TV, and theatre:
Zora ob koncu zgodovine (RTV Slovenija, 2026)
Takšno je življenje (RTV Slovenija, 2025)
George Kaplan (SNG Nova Gorica, 2023)
V vesolju (RTV Slovenija, 2023)
Antigona (RTV Slovenija, 2022)
Marijino oznanjenje (RTV Slovenija, 2022)
Nemi lik (RTV Slovenija, 2021)
Mesto svetlobe (EnaBanda, 2017)

Notable projects as performer in film, radio, TV, and theatre:
Pot odrešitve (2026)
Blagi pokojniki, dragi možje (2024)
Mišja glasbena hiša (2022)
Temni pokrov sveta (2022)
Sedem sekund večnosti (2022)
Jakiš in Pupče (2020)
Modelář (2020)
Pohujšanje v dolini šentflorjanski (2018)
Sluga dveh gospodarjev (2013)
Ustavljivi vzpon Artura Uia (2012)

Having appeared on more than twenty albums, Goran displays versatility in a host of contemporary music genres (jazz, swing, latin, pop, folk, rock, improvised music, dixieland). 2019 saw the release of Planetarium, an original suite for solo tuba, electronics, and spoken word, succeeding Goran’s 2016 jazz-classical-electroacoustic fusion release Forgotten Tribes.

Over his career, he has collaborated with internationally acclaimed jazz and improvising musicians, including Michael Moore, Han Bennink, Eric Boeren, Wolter Wierbos, Kaja Draksler, Boštjan Simon, and Tarek Yamani, and contributes to various Slovenian and European music projects.

Beyond performance and composition, Krmac is active as an educator, band leader, and workshop leader, developing unique approaches to group interaction through sound and improvisation. He is a Jazz Perfomance alumnus of the Prince Claus Conservatoire in the Netherlands.