With Pavel Steidl and GoranKrivokapić, two world-class guitarists once again enter the stage ofthe Twents Gitaarfestival. Their international reputation isimpressive. A concert not to be missed.
Pavel Steidl
Pavel Steidl was born in Rakovnik (Czech Republic). Since he won first prize at the Radio France International Competition in Paris in 1982, he has become one of the most widely celebrated soloists of his generation. Between the membres of the jury were names of such artist like Alexander Tansman, Antonio Lauro , Maria Luisa Anido …
Before that, he studied with such guitarist as Milan Zelenka and Stephan Rak in Prague. In 1987 he decided to emigrate to The Netherlands were after years of studying and getting inspiration from many different artist he has created his own style which is not ignoring the authentic way of intepretation of 19th-century guitar literature on periodic instruments and going far to some world music elements. Since 2004 he moved back to Czech republic and since 2015 he gives a lectures at the Conservatoire in The Hague.
He had honor to work together with such artists like Leo Brouwer, Carlo Domeniconi Paolo Paolini, John Wiliams, Miroslav Vitous, Karin Schaupp, Edin Karamazov and others. Together with Zoran Dukic, Reentko Dirks and Thomas Fellow he is a member of Europian Guitar Quartet since 2012.
“Here was a guitarist who knew how to laugh with the music and share the joke with his audience. But behind the entertainer lies a serious artist, whose extended composition in memory of Jana Obrovska proved fully capable of stirring emotions at the other end of the scale. Never was a standing ovation more richly deserved. Pavel Steidl had won the hearts and minds of a capacity crowd.”
(Classical guitar magazine)
Goran Krivokapić
Born in 1979, Goran Krivokapić started his music education when he was eight with Mićo Poznanović at the Music School of Herceg Novi in Montenegro and furthered his studies at the Faculty of Music Art in Belgrade in the class of Srđan Tošić, graduating in 2000. He continued with Hubert Käppel and Roberto Aussel at the “Hochschule für Musik Köln” in Germany, where he graduated and received the “Konzertexamen” degree. He then pursued his master’s degree at the Conservatorium Maastricht, the Netherlands, under the tutelage of Carlo Marchione and Masters after Masters under the tutelage of Raphaella Smits at LUCA School of Arts Campus Lemmensinstituut in Leuven, Belgium. He is professor of guitar at Cologne University of Music and teaches guitar at Detmold University of Music. He lives in Cologne with his wife and son.
He won his first international competition in Belgrade at the age of fourteen, and continued to win eighteen more, including “Michele Pittaluga” in Alessandria, Italy (2000), “Andrés Segovia” in La Herradura, Spain (2000), Koblenz International Guitar Competition (2003), “Guitar Foundation of America” (GFA) in Montreal, Canada (2004) and “Dr. Luis Sigall International Competition of Musical Performance” in Viña del Mar, Chile (2004). Two Chittara d’Oro awards followed at the annual “International Guitar Convention in Alessandria” in Italy – 2005 as the best young guitarist of the year and 2006 for his debut disc Goran Krivokapić Guitar Recital (Naxos). Since then he has performed all over Europe, North and South America, Asia, Africa and Russia, in halls such as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, Lubkowitz Palace in Vienna, and Auditorio Conde Duque in Madrid.
“In a sense, this is a difficult review to write. How can I avoid repetitions of superlatives or constant reference to a thesaurus? So let’s do this: think of anything you could use to describe a performance – musicianship, musicality, technical brilliance – the list could go on. Now believe me when I tell you the Goran Krivokapić’s rendition of the six Giuliani Rossiniane is at the very highest level in anything you can imagine. This is superlative playing of such power and imagination that it elevates the works far above what can descend to mere pastiches.” – Al Kunze, Soundboard Magazine (Mauro Giuliani – Le Rossiniane, Goran Krivokapić / Naxos)