A thrilling concert…the audience was on its feet already after the first piece…a phenomenal evening.

—Gevelsbergerzeitung (Germany)

Zoran dukiĆ plays Dušan BogdanoviĆ’s six balkan miniatures

Program

OURKOUZOUNOV: Sonata No.1
IVANOVIC: Sonata
TELEMANN: Fantasia No.1 (arr. C. Marchione)
BARRIOS: Preludio, Caazapá, Choro de Saudade
BOGDANOVIC: Fantasy (Hommage à M. Ohana) U.S. Premiere
PIAZZOLLA: Invierno Porteño (arr. S. Assad), Adios Nonino (arr. C. Tirao)
BOGDANOVIC: Six Balkan Miniatures

About This Performance

Zoran Dukić has made his international reputation for his flexible technique and far-reaching interests in repertoire from many eras and cultures. His musical curiosity and active performance history with chamber ensembles have given him a gift for nuanced interpretation and a riveting, warm stage presence.

Guitar series presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts.

Artist Biography

Zoran Dukić is one of the most prominent guitarists of the new generation. He was born in 1969 in Zagreb, Croatia where he started to play the guitar at the age of six. He graduated from the Music Academy of Zagreb with Darko Petrinjak and completed his studies with Hubert Käppel at the Hochschule für Music in Cologne, Germany.

Dukić has won an incredible amount of international guitar competitions, in fact, more than any other guitarist in the world. Dukić has been a featured soloist in more then 30 countries on five continents in the most important concert halls such as: Het Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Teatre de la Monnaie in Brussels, Maison de Radio France in Paris, The National Art Gallery in Ottawa, the Luis Angel Arango hall in Bogota and the Çemal Resit Rey in Istanbul. He is regularly invited to give Master Classes in international festivals all over the world and often appears as a featured soloist with orchestras from: Spain, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Hungary, Switzerland, Taiwan, Columbia, Chile and Croatia.

Dukić is also a very active chamber music performer and a founding member of the guitar trio "Trio de Cologne". He has recorded compact discs for labels in Germany, Spain and Belgium. He is currently teaching at the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague, Holland, Hochschule für Musik in Aachen, Germany and at the Escuela Superior de Musica de Barcelona, Spain.

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