This weekend, the Montenegrin Guitar Duo will perform at the Mitrovica Guitar Days, an annual festival comprising guitar masterclasses, workshops and concerts held in Kosovo.
Respected individually as two of the region’s leading guitarists, Goran Krivokapić and Danijel Cerović look forward to presenting a duo recital programme during the festival, which is part of KosovoArs, an organisation that exists to promote dialogue and cultural exchange in the region through the arts. The concert is presented as part of the 🇲🇪 Embassy programme “20 4 20”, marking the 20th anniversary of Montenegro’s restored independence.
The Montenegrin Guitar Duo is in demand across the continent, with recent engagements including the Aalborg International Guitar Festival in Denmark, and Germany’s Gevelsberg Guitar Festival, Bielefelder Gitarrenforum and Bergisches Gitarrenfestival. Following the success of their two albums of J.S. Bach’s English Suites, the duo is currently recording their arrangements of the complete French Suites, for future release.
The Duo will open their programme ‘The Sounds of Montenegro’ with their arrangement of J.S. Bach’s French Suite no. 1 in D minor, BWV 812, followed by Fernando Sor’s L’Encouragement, op. 34. They will perform Sergio Assad’s arrangement of Astor Piazzolla’s Suite Troileana, and close the programme with Šimun Čarli Botica’s Ex Nihilo. The Duo’s wide selection of video performances includes of several of the works on this programme, which may all be found by clicking here.
The concert takes place at The Catholic Church, Mitrovica, Kosovo this Sunday, 14th June at 7:30pm, with complete details available by clicking here. The Duo continues its summer engagements with a performance at the Iserlohn International Guitar Symposium and Festival in Germany on 26th July, and more details of this performance can be found here.
