The sixth international festival "Guitar Days in Podgorica" started yesterday, and this time it will be divided into three segments - concert program, master workshops and lectures. The concept has remained the same, and the focus is on the integration of the classical guitar in the present time and the challenges it produces, and the organizers are sure that it will not only please lovers of guitar sound.
The most interesting part of the festival is certainly the concerts, and within this segment last night a Mexican guitarist performed at the JU Museums and Galleries in Podgorica. Alehandar Cordov, and after him the audience had the opportunity to hear by Thorvald Jorgensen from the Netherlands and Josip Dragnić from Croatia.
Already tonight, the concert part will be opened by an Italian guitarist Christian Lavernier, and the opportunity to close the sixth edition was given to a Montenegrin guitarist Marko Prentić.
Marko already had the opportunity to play at this event, and at the previous "Guitar Days" his performance was canceled due to the corona virus. In an interview with "Vijesti", Prentić says about how much the concept of tonight's performance will change compared to the performance planned for the last edition:
"Given that the concept of the concert consists of several stages and original music is also represented, the final part in which I play with the trio 'Fatal' has been changed. In our presentation to the audience, we mostly played covers of movie themes and well-known guitar compositions. During this time, we managed to do several of our themes for which we plan to record, and thus we managed to round off the complete author's story for the concert", Prentić reveals what the audience will have the opportunity to hear at the end of the festival.
Marko does not hide his satisfaction that he got the opportunity to close the sixth edition of "Guitar Days" with his performance, but, he says, it is his responsibility, whether he plays at the opening, during the same, or at the end.
"I can only say that it is a greater pleasure that I was given the honor to close the festival and with my friends, of course, give the audience a lot of beautiful, authentic music", emphasizes Prentić.
As a professor at the School of Music, he believes that such events and workshops are a very important segment in which renowned lecturers have the opportunity to work with guitarists.
"The workshops are a serious recommendation for all pupils and students who are of course seriously interested in the instrument. There are many guitar schools around the world that look at music in their own way, so if you have the opportunity to hear a useful lecture in just a few days, get advice, hear opinions about your work and progress from professors from Serbia, Croatia, Italy, Spain, Mexico, what's the deal with this edition of the festival, it's a big deal. In those few days, you can get enormous motivation and encouragement to move on," advises Prentić.
"Besides that you can hear a lot of good concerts, various performers, that's another good thing that adorns this festival," he adds.
This manifestation aims to combine the guitar with other instruments, and often unusual combinations can be heard on it. Marko decided to have guests at the concert, but there will be no unusual combination of instruments, but his guests will be a pianist Enes Tahirović, as well as colleagues from the trio Fatal - Petar Dobričanin i Drazen Joković. When asked if he would dare to make a more unusual combination in the future, and which instrument would sound unusual to him in combination with the guitar, he answers:
"Everything depends on the idea of the piece being performed. You never know in which direction it will take you and which instrument you will hear in a certain part of the composition, which can later lead to an album or some other project", concludes Prentić.
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