ZORAN DUKIĆ
The Netherlands
Zoran Dukić (1969, Zagreb) has been a professor at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague since 1997. He studied with Darko Petrinjak in Zagreb and Hubert Käppel in Cologne. In his tour de force competition years (1990–1997), he won an astonishing number of competitions. He is the only guitarist to have won both Andrés Segovia competitions, in Granada and Palma de Mallorca, as well as competitions dedicated to "F. Sor", "M. Ponce", "M. de Falla", "F. Tárrega" among many others. Mentioned awards, in addition to his unique expressiveness and poetry on the guitar, launched his worldwide career, and he is now considered one of the most distinguished guitarists of today. Dukić performed in the most prestigious concert halls worldwide, such as Palau de la Musica in Barcelona, Carnegie Hall in New York, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow.
He has recorded compact discs and DVDs for labels in Germany, Spain, Belgium, Brazil, England, Croatia, and Canada. Zoran Dukić is also a very active chamber music performer and a member of the “European Guitar Quartet”, “Croatian Guitar Quartet”, and duo with Aniello Desiderio. He has been a D’Addario artist since 2011.
