The graduates of the University of Zagreb Music Academy (Croatia) in the class of Prof. Josip Nochta founded the Zagreb Saxophone Quartet, which has been performing with the present members since 1989. In 2009/10 they are celebrating a 20th anniversary concert season.

The Zagreb Saxophone Quartet are: DRAGAN SREMEC, saxophone professor and vice dean at University of Zagreb Music Academy - soprano saxophone, GORAN MERČEP, chamber music professor at University of Zagreb Music Academy - alto saxophone, SAŠA NESTOROVIĆ, chamber music professor at University of Zagreb Music Academy and director of HRT Big Band - tenor saxophone, and MATJAŽ DREVENŠEK, saxophone professor at University of Ljubljana Music Academy (Slovenia) - baritone saxophone.

ZSQ has performed in Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Macedonia, Monaco, Montenegro, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, and USA (Arizona, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, New York City, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin), in concert halls such as: Emerson Concert Hall in Atlanta, Hodgson Concert Hall in Athens, Hôtel de Ville in Brussels, Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek in Copenhagen, Rector's Palace in Dubrovnik, Palais des Nations in Geneva, Cankarjev dom and Slovene Philharmonic Hall in Ljubljana, Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, Ted Mann Hall in Minneapolis, Cathedral in Monte Carlo, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, Franz-Joseph Hall in Munich, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York, Theatre at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Ottawa/Gatineau, Grand Palais in Paris, Richard Wagner Hall in Riga, Sala Victor de Sabata in Trieste, Palao de la Musica in Valencia, Porgy & Bess Club in Vienna, Croatian Music Institute and Vatroslav Lisinski Hall in Zagreb, etc. - read more at Current Projects.

They have been soloists with the Zagreb Philharmonic, the Croatian Radio Television Symphony Orchestra, the Zagreb Soloists, the Croatian Chamber Orchestra, the Slovenian Philharmonic, the Slovenian Radio Television Symphony Orchestra, the Slovenian Army Orchestra, the Slovenian Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, the Croatian Radio Television Big Band, the Croatian Army Symphony Wind Orchestra, the Croatian Navy Orchestra, the Orchestra of the French Republican Guard, Emory Wind Ensemble, and the University of Minnesota Wind Ensemble,

playing under the baton of distinguished conductors like François Boulanger, Pavle Dešpalj, Alun Francis, Hans Graf, David Itkin, Marko Letonja, Kazushi Ono, Scott Stewart, Vjekoslav Šutej and others. Renowned ensembles and soloists often appear as guests at their concerts, including Tomislav Mužek, Itamar Golan, the Slovenian Brass Quintet and composer Miljenko Prohaska, or the famous saxophonists Eugene Rousseau, Claude Delangle, Vincent David, Debra Richtmeyer, Steven Mauk, Kenneth Tse and Quartetto Academia.

ZSQ has given performances, highly acclaimed both by critics and audiences, at Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Split Summer Festival, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th World Saxophone Congress in Pesaro, Valencia, Montreal, Minneapolis, and Ljubljana, Zagreb Music Biennale, Ljubljana Summer Festival, Europhonia in Zagreb, Musicora in Paris, Biennale de la Creation Musicale et Choregraphique de l'Essone in Orsay, Open Europe 2000 in Berlin, Europamusicale 2000 in München, Ohrid Summer Festival, NOMUS 2003 Festival, Nei Suoni Dei Luoghi Festival, ISCM World Music Days - Slovenia 2003 in Postojna and Piran, Saxophonia 2005 in Latvia, ISCM World Music Days - Music Biennale Zagreb 2005, Trieste Prima 2006, 8th Festival of Chamber Music Julian Rachlin & Friends in Dubrovnik, Journees du Saxophone "Le temps du souffle" in Paris 2009... - read more at Reviews.

ZSQ has won some important croatian awards for their cultural activity (Milka Trnina, Judita, Vatroslav Lisinski). It has taken part in 11 discographic editions, the most important among them being Croatian Saxophone Music, Z Quartet, Cascades, Tsunagari, Ruben Radica: A Selection of Works, and Contemporary Croatian Composers - Srđan Dedić (which have won 7 Croatian discographic Porin Awards). Read more at Discography and listen at Music.

Their repertoire includes pieces originally written for a saxophone quartet, as well as transcriptions and arrangements of pieces by various composers belonging to different periods and styles, ranging from the baroque (J.S. Bach, H. Purcell) to the 21st century. In addition to this, the ensemble's top-notch performances have inspired numerous Croatian composers (B. Bjelinski, D. Detoni, S. Foretić, N. Glassl, S. Glojnarić, S. Horvat, O. Jelaska, A. Klobučar, I. Kuljerić, B. Lazarin, S. Majurec, V. Nježić, N. Njirić, B. Papandopulo, M. Prohaska, R. Radica, M. Ruždjak, T. Simović, B. Šipuš, M. Tarbuk, T. Uhlik), as well as foreign ones (J. Golob, J. Gregorc, M. Lazar, I. Lunder, J. Matičič, P. Merkù, I. Petrić, P. Ramovš, P. Šavli - Slovenia, N. Hall - New Zealand) to dedicate their pieces to them - read more at Repertoire.