Goran Jurković is a leading Croatian saxophonist and pedagogue. His concert activities have taken him to stages such as Carnegie Hall in New York, the Musikverein in Vienna, and the Brucknerhaus in Linz, as well as on concert tours across all inhabited continents. He has given more than 350 chamber and solo concerts in all major musical centers of Croatia, including Zagreb (Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall, Blagoje Bersa Hall, Croatian Music Institute, Croatian National Theatre stage, LAUBA House of Arts, Zagreb Dance Center, Teatar &TD, Museum of Contemporary Art, Mimara Museum, Museum of Arts and Crafts, Golden Hall, Ilirska Hall, French Pavilion, Archaeological Museum, KNAP Cultural Center, Dubrava Cultural Center, Maksimir Cultural Center), Split, Zadar, Šibenik, Dubrovnik, Varaždin, Rijeka, Pula, Čakovec, Poreč, Bjelovar, Valpovo, Metković, Slatina, and others.   

He has appeared at numerous festivals such as the Vienna Sax Fest, Belgrade Sax Festival, World Saxophone Congress in Strasbourg and Zagreb, IMPULS Festival in Graz, Split Summer Festival, Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Alpenclassica Festival in Silz, Caprices Festival Wienerneudorf, Podium Festival Mödling, Osor Musical Evenings, Rijeka Summer Nights, Concerts in the Euphrasian Basilica, BaROMUS Festival, Musical Evenings in St. Donatus, Rab Summer Festival, Hvar Summer Festival, Korčula Festival, and many others.  

He has performed on prestigious European and international stages in Japan, Australia, Chile, Austria, the United States, France, Ukraine, Slovenia, Italy, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Jurković is a tenor saxophonist and co-founder of the acclaimed Papandopulo Quartet, founder and baritone saxophonist of the Mobilis Saxophone Quartet, and tenor saxophonist and founder of Trio GIG.  

Goran Jurković is also a promoter of contemporary music and regularly performs at festivals such as the Music Biennale Zagreb, Hörsturm Festival Ried, Glazbena tribina Opatija, Izlog suvremenog zvuka in Zagreb, echoraum Now Festival in Vienna, Milko Kelemen Days in Slatina, Muzički salon Zagreb, AudioArt in Pula, Zadar Snova, and Days of New Music in Split.  

He has also performed on numerous prestigious stages in Japan, Australia, Chile, Austria, the United States, France, Ukraine, Slovenia, Italy, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Goran Jurković is a tenor saxophonist and co-founder of the acclaimed Papandopulo Quartet, founder and baritone saxophonist of the Mobilis Saxophone Quartet, and tenor saxophonist and founder of Trio GIG.

He is the recipient of numerous first prizes at national and international competitions: First Prize at the Papandopulo Competition (2016), First Prize at the Gradus ad Parnassum Competition (2010), the Orlando Award for Best Concert at the 75th Dubrovnik Summer Festival (2024), the Milka Trnina Diploma (2019), the Annual Award of the Osor Musical Evenings “Daniel Marušić” (2021), the Golden Medal at the Vienna International Music Competition in the chamber music category (2021), the Grand Prix at the 3rd Berliner International Music Competition (2019) in the chamber music category, including the Manhattan Concert Artist Award, as well as the Porin discography award (2013 and 2023), the Pasticcio Award of Austrian Radio (2011), and the Annual Award of the Croatian Society of Music and Dance Pedagogues (2021).  

He has premiered works dedicated to him by numerous international and Croatian composers such as Frederick Neyrinck, Thomas Doss, Simeon Pironkoff, Teodor Burkali, Frank Riederer, Alessandro Baticci, Klementina Klemens, Igor Linz-Maues, Željko Brkanović, Dubravko Detoni, Petar Obradović, Fran Đurović, Krešimir Seletković, Matthias Kranebitter, Mirela Ivičević, Viktorija Čop, Margareta Ferek Petrić, Ivan Končić, Tena Borić, and many others. 

In addition to his concert career, he has been active for more than 18 years as a saxophone pedagogue: from 2006 to 2007 at the “Jan Vlašimsky” Music School in Virovitica, and from 2006 to the present as professor of saxophone at the Jastrebarsko Music School.  

He is the leader of the “Saxophone School in Jaska,” a seminar that for 18 years has hosted some of the world’s leading saxophonists, and he regularly gives seminars in Croatia (Makarska, Split, Slavonski Brod, Samobor, Sisak) and abroad (ANU – Canberra – Australia, Senzoku – Tokyo – Japan, Mödling – Austria, Bled – Slovenia, Belgrade – Serbia, Banja Luka – Bosnia and Herzegovina). He is also invited as a jury member at competitions in Croatia and abroad (Gustav Mahler Competition – Viktring – Austria, Josip Nochta International Saxophone Competition – Zagreb, competitions organized by HDGPP and AZOO, Daleki Akordi – Split…). 

He completed secondary music school (class of Prof. Nikola Fabijanić) in Zagreb and general high school in Jastrebarsko. He continued his saxophone studies in the class of Prof. Dragan Sremec at the Academy of Music, University of Zagreb, graduating with a solo recital in 2006. After his graduation in Zagreb, Goran Jurković continued his saxophone studies at the Conservatory in Vienna with Professor Lars Mlekusch. Goran is an exclusive artist of Henri Selmer Paris and JLV ligatures.