{"id":949,"date":"2025-08-20T13:53:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T20:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/guitarclub\/?page_id=949"},"modified":"2025-10-02T06:27:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T13:27:00","slug":"goran-krivokapic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/guitarclub\/goran-krivokapic\/","title":{"rendered":"Goran Krivokapi\u0107"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 2026
7:30 PM, CARLSON THEATRE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Admission:
General $15
BC Students with ID Free<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201c…an impressive level of accomplishment…in total control of his huge talent, hisdifficult material, his platform persona, his life, you might say…a fully-fledgedartist…\u201d-Classical Guitar Magazine (United Kingdom)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goran Krivokapi\u0107 is a leading musician in the international classical guitar scene. He is well known for breaking new barriers with his unique technical virtuosity, which sets new standards, combined with characteristically innovative interpretation of old and new repertoire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He won his first international competition at the age of fourteen, and continued to win eighteen more, including two of the most prestigious guitar competitions – “Guitar Foundation of America” (GFA) in Montreal, Canada, and “Dr. Luis Sigall International Competition of Musical Performance” in Vi\u00f1a del Mar, Chile, both in 2004. Two Golden Guitar 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 CD. Since then he has performed all over Europe, North and South America, Asia, Africa and Russia, appearing at such prestigious halls as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow Lubkowitz Palace in Vienna, and Auditorio Conde Duque in Madrid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a performer, lecturer and adjudicator he is a frequent guest at many international festivals such as Festspiele Mecklenburg- Vorpommern, Festival Internacional de M\u00fasica y Danza de Granada, Kotor Art, Koblenz International Guitar Festival, Forum Gitarre Wien, Iserlohn International Guitar Festival, GFA International Guitar Convention, A Tempo Festival, Guitar Art Festival, Shenyang Guitar Festival and Daejon Guitar Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a soloist he has performed with the Slovak Chamber Orchestra of Bohdan Warchal, Symphony Orchestra of Moscow “Russian Philharmony,” New Russian Symphony Orchestra, Turin Philharmonic Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, Montenegrin Symphony Orchestra, Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Folkwang Chamber Orchestra, Chilean Symphony Orchestra, Primavera Orchestra, Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra, St. George String Orchestra, Berliner Camerata, Philharmonic Orchestra Bremerhaven, State Orchestra Rheinische Philharmonie and Shenyang Symphony Orchestra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goran Krivokapi\u0107 has given masterclasses, Bach lectures and workshops at universities such as Grieg Academy (Norway), State University of New York, Florida State University, Consevatorium Maastricht, University of Cape Town, Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik Detmold, University of Texas at Dallas, University of Texas in Brownsville, Cambrian College, Victoria Conservatory of Music, University of Manitoba, State Consevatory M.I. Glinka Nizhny Novgorod, University of Wisconsin, Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Arkansas State University, University of Veracruz and Tianjin Conservatory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regular broadcasts and interviews for television and radio include WDR, Hessischer Rundfunk, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Arte, Fox 7 (USA), WBGH Boston (USA), Fine Music Radio and Classic FM (South Africa), ABC Classic FM (Australia) and RTCG (Montenegro). His recordings and performances have been highly praised and featured in Classical Guitar Magazine (UK), Soundboard Magazine (USA), Akustik Gitarre, Neue Musikzeitung and K\u00f6lner Stadtanzeiger (Germany), Gendai Guitar Magazine (Japan), Musica, Seicorde, Il Fronimo and La Stampa (Italy), Les Cahiers de la Guitare (France), Beeld and Die Burger (South Africa), Vijesti and Mobilart (Montenegro), El Norte (Mexico).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goran Krivokapic’s musical focus is on the development of new works for classical guitar, mainly through making his own transcriptions from the baroque and classical works, and collaborating with contemporary composers such as Du\u0161an Bogdanovi\u0107, Gerard Drozd and Queen Elizabeth Music Competition winner and Wim Wenders soundtrack composer Hendrik Hofmeyr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a chamber musician Goran Krivokapi\u0107 is part of the Montenegrin Guitar Duo, together with Danijel Cerovi\u0107. They are frequently invited to international events and festivals for recitals, as soloists with orchestras, masterclasses and lectures. Their performances have been highly acclaimed by both audience and critics who praise their historically informed performances of J. S. Bach’s English Suites in a new, fresh approach on two guitars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1979, he started his music education at eight with Mi\u0107o Poznanovi\u0107 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 Sr\u0111an To\u0161i\u0107, graduating in 2000. He continued with Hubert K\u00e4ppel and Roberto Aussel at the \u201cHochschule f\u00fcr Musik K\u00f6ln\u201d in Germany, where he graduated and received the \u201cKonzertexamen\u201d degree. He then pursued his master\u2019s degree at the Conservatorium Maastricht, the Netherlands, under the tutelage of Carlo Marchione.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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