The eighteenth edition of the International Guitar Competition (Montenegro International Guitar Competition) will be held from May 30 to June 1 in the Tivat Cultural Center, the organizers of this event announced.
The competition will take place in two categories - solo guitar and chamber ensembles with guitar, which are divided into seven subcategories according to age.
And this time, the festival, in addition to competition, also includes concert activities. In the official part of the program, on May 31 at 20 p.m., on the big stage of the Tivat Culture Center, Duo "Kalem" from Serbia will perform. The duo they make Stefan Ilic (voice and violin) i Dušan Popović Lipovac (guitar) performs traditional music of the Balkans, dressed in new clothes. Its beauty is in its simplicity and the idea it carries - to bring modern man closer to the cultural heritage that this climate preserves.
The second concert of this year's edition of the festival will be organized by the Slovenian guitarist, Mak Grgić. World famous, even twice nominated for the famous Grammy Award, Grgić was described in the New York Times as "imaginative, gifted and expressive", and in the Washington Post magazine as "a guitarist to keep an eye on". He is an innovative musician, whose varied activities include works of ethnic heritage of the Balkans, avant-garde, classical music, as well as film productions. As a soloist and collaborator, Mak has an average of 85 performances a year. He will perform in Tivat on June 1 in the DTV Partizan hall, also in the Cultural Center.
The Montenegro International Guitar Competition festival is realized by the Anagastum Guitar Society, with the support of the Tivat Culture Center.
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