GitarFest BL 2011

ZORAN DUKIĆ

Born in Zagreb in 1969, the guitarist Zoran Dukic has a busy schedule in performing, teaching, recording and publishing. He is a professor at the music academies in Barcelona and The Hague and has himself studied with Darko Petrinjak and Hubert Käppel. Between 1990 and 1997) he won an astonishing number of competitions, including both Andrés Segovia competitions in Granada and in Palma de Mallorca, as well as competitions dedicated to Fernando Sor, Manuel Ponce, Manuel de Falla, and Francisco Tárrega among many others. This, in addition to his unique expressiveness and poetry on the guitar, launched his worldwide career, bringing him unrivalled distinction among contemporary guitarists.

MARCO TAMAYO

Marco Tamayo was born in Havana, where he started to play guitar at the age of three under his father’s tuition. He studied with Antonio Alberto Rodríguez and Leo Brouwer, and later in Europe in Munich and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, where he was a pupil of Eliot Fisk, Rainer Schmidt for violin, and Anthony Spiri for harpsichord, among others. Winner of major international guitar competitions like the Michele Pittaluga, Città de Alessandria, in 1999, Marco Tamayo has performed concerts together with the Chamber Orchestra of St Petersburg, the Turin Philharmonic, the Chamber Orchestra of Aix en Provence, the Tampere Philharmonic in Finland and the Havana Philharmonic, among many others. He divides his activities between concert appearances and teaching, with master-classes in different guitar festivals around the world and in universities such as Seoul University of Arts in South Korea. He has lived in Salzburg since 1995 and has taught at the Mozarteum since 2000.

ANABEL MONTESINOS

Anabel Montesinos is a winner of several major international guitar competitions, including the Francisco Tárrega in Spain and the Michele Pittaluga in Alessandria, Italy. She started her musical training at the age of five and the guitar at the age of six, and appeared, after a few months, as an infant prodigy. She performed a solo recital in Mallorca when she was just twelve. She has recorded for radio and television in Spain, Poland, Italy, and Sweden, and her many triumphs in major international competitions led to her first recording with Naxos, a release acclaimed by the international press and chosen by British Airlines as a part of the inflight musical programme on overseas flights. Anabel Montesinos has shared concerts with Paco de Lucía, receiving a standing ovation in Uppsala, Sweden. She has appeared as a soloist with the Moscow Philharmonic, St Petersburg Philharmonic, and orchestras in Turin, Mexico, Madrid, Oulu in Finland, and elsewhere. Her 2011 tour started at the Carnegie Hall, where she received a standing ovation. She plays a Simon Marty guitar and lives in Austria.

PAOLO SERENO

In 1996, during the ADGPA Convention in Italy, Marcel Dadi called him onto the stage during the final evening concert to play “One for Marcel” his first “superpicking” composition dedicated to the great french master. After this incredible first time with the bigs of fingerstyle guitar (he shared the stage with Paolo Giordano, Ed Gerhard etc…) Paolo played for important music shows. In 2000 Paolo played in Venice during the shows for the carnival and then he shared the stage with people like Tim Sparks and Muriel Anderson during some other concert. In 2002 he played opening acts for William Ackermann and Don Ross who had beautiful words for him. Then he came out with his first CD “Con la Chitarra”(self production) a work which contains seven original compositions and seven covers (some played with his acoustic quartet) like “Nuovo Cinema Paradiso” for fingerstyle solo guitar and a special rom track with the tabs played in the cd: a new product in the field of acoustic guitar works. In 2003 he began a collaboration with the American folksinger Jacqueline Perkins and Walter Lupi, and won first prize as best author/performer on acoustic guitar at the “New sounds of acoustic music” during the international guitar meeting in Sarzana – Italy. In 2004 he came out with his Method on Superpicking and Fingercussion Guitar dedicated to Marcel Dadi “superpicking” guitar technique. In 2007 he was the only Italian guitarist invited at the San Severino Blues Festival sharing the show with Patti Smith, Robben Ford, Larry Carlton and Bob Brozman. He shared the stage with Will Ackerman, Don ross, Antoine Dufour, Michael Manring and many Italian artists. He is the endorser for the american company K&K – guitar mic technologies – and for the SR Tech, one of the best european factory of PA Systems and combo for acoustic guitar. Defined “a talented guitarist” by Franco Morone and “the Italy’s grooviest guitar player ” by Don Ross, Paolo (38 years old) now lives and works for the University in Parma, in the north of Italy, alternating guitar teaching activity with fingerstyle guitar solo concerts.