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Guitar Art Classic 3

SUNDAY 15th MARCH | NATIONAL MUSEUM | GUITAR ART CLASSIC 3 | TICKETS FOR ALL THREE CONCERTS: 1000,00

This March Belgrade will become the world capital of the guitar and music world through Guitar Art Festival. During 6 festival days, from 10th to 15th March, 13 big concerts and various featuring programs will be held, and Belgrade will be visited by more than 130 most renowned guitarists from all over the world.

Lovers of classical guitar  will have the opportunity to listen again to guitar superstars and leading classical musicians after many years of  break in the atrium of the National Museum.

GUITAR ART CLASSIC 3 is a night dedicated to young talents  and future guitar superstars.

The concerts are organised with the support of the Embassy of Denmark and the Russian House in Belgrade.

19:00  NIKLAS JOHANSEN (Denmark)

Niklas Johansen is a classical guitarist born in 1989 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has already received international acclaim after winning several international competitions and awards.

He has played concerts as a soloist and in chamber music groups in 16 countries all around the world. He has frequently been invited for concerts and masterclasses at renowned festivals across Europe, Russia and big parts of China. Furthermore he recorded his debut cd in 2016 with the Italian label dotGuitar, the cd “Paganini // Piazzolla” in 2018 with Kehan Zhang, and he has performed as a soloist with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Pleven Philharmonic (Bulgaria).

Niklas started playing guitar at the age of 9, and began his studies in 2009 at The Royal Danish Academy of Music under Jesper Sivebæk.

After finishing his bachelor exam attending the highest grade possible he went to Alicante in 2013 and finished a Master in Classical Guitar Performance with professors David Russell, Manuel Barrueco and others. After finishing his final exam attending the highest possible he received the Latin honor “cum laude”. In 2014 he went one year abroad and studied a year with Ricardo Gallén at the Hochschule Für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar, Germany. In 2015 he played his Master’s Recital in Denmark receiving the highest grade and since then he has been doing post-graduate degrees with Jesper Sivebæk in Denmark and Ricardo Gallén in Weimar.

20:15 IGOR KLOKOV (Russia)

Igor Klokov was born in the city of Yelets, southeast of Moscow, and began playing guitar at fifteen. He completed his bachelor's degree at the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno. Since 2017, he has been studying for his master’s degree under Prof. Hubert Käppel at the Hochschule für Musik Mainz.

Included among the promising talents of his generation, Igor has received first prize in the Koblenz International Guitar Competition (2019), the XX Guitar Art Festival and Competition in Belgrade (2019), the International Guitar Festival Jüchen (2018), and the Oberhausen International Guitar Competition (2018). He was also awarded best interpretation of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach at the Iserlohn Guitar Festival and Competition (2018).

As a part of the first prize he received in Koblenz, Igor will perform recitals in Europe on his D’Addario German Concert Tour 2020 in cooperation with and sponsored by D’Addario & Company and in Brazil in collaboration with GuitarCoop and Cultura Artística São Paulo.

In May 2020 he will release his debut CD, produced by the German label AureaVox.

21:30 MILAN DERETA (Serbia)

Milan Dereta, guitarist and composer, completed his high school education in the Music School “Vatroslav Lisinski”, theoretical and instrumental department, in the class of prof. Aleksandar Hadži-Đorđević in 2004. Several years later he completed his Master’s studies (2009) and specialist academic artistic studies (2011) at the Faculty of Musical Arts in Belgrade, in the class of prof. Srđan Tošić.

During his studies, he participated in numerous national and international competitions, as a soloist and as a member of chamber ensembles (first prize at the Republic competition in 2002). He performed in numerous places in Belgrade and Serbia, with the performances being recorded innumerable times for both TV and Radio.

He composes and arranges music and has written numerous works for guitar and chamber ensembles in classical and film genre as well as music for two feature-documentary films (Alexander Soloviev and Vladimir Dvorniković) from the series “Forgotten Serbian intellectuals” that were broadcast on RTS in 2006.

Milan has proven himself an inspired teacher whose success is embodied in the achievements of his students who are proud holders of numerous first-place awards in competitions held at the national level, including a laureate won in the third category at the 2016 National competition.