Peter Kosovec

He started young as a member of the Start Junior Tamburitzans under CFU guidance from ages 6-18. He was a member of the Detroit Tamburitza Orchestra under the direction of his father Ken Kosovec for several years. He has been the Tambura director of the South Hills Junior Tamburitzans with the CFU where he taught his own children how to play Tambura. He has played in a Croatian Tambura band called “Momci” with his father.

He started two more Tambura bands and one called “Otrov” and performs with “Tamburasi Sastav Ponoc” now. Peter has always been proud to be Croatian and loves sharing this fact with people that he meets personally and professionally. In 2001, he was the youngest recipient to receive the Lou Cavic Founder’s award given by the Tambura Association of America for demonstrating an outstanding devotion to the preservation of Tambura Music and Slavic culture. He has recorded and produced 15 albums since he started recording this music at the age of 17.

Today, he composes, arranges, and records Tambura music for professional Tambura artists and bands in Croatia such as Stjepan Jersek, Slavonske Lole and has collaborated with Miroslav Skoro, too. In the future, he hopes to record more Croatian Tambura CDs both with his band and maybe a solo project to include a Croatian Children’s album to help perpetuate Croatian Tambura folk music to our children. Family is from Zagorje, Lika and more from the Karlovac region.