Goran Krivokapić

Goran Krivokapić ( cnr, Горан Кривокапић; born 7 May 1979) is a Montenegrin classical guitarist.

Early years and education

Due to the 1979 Montenegro earthquake, Krivokapić was born in Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia. He started his music education at the age of eight with Mićo Poznanović at the Music School of Herceg Novi in Montenegro. When he was nine he began to perform publicly, and soon built a reputation which led to the montenegrin poet and television personalit
Dragan Radulović
to produce a documentary about him in 1993. In 1996 he furthered his studies at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade in the class of Srdjan Tošić, graduating in 2000. From 2000 he continued with Hubert Käppel and Roberto Aussel at the Hochschule für Musik Köln in Germany, where he graduated and received the artistic performance (Künstlerische Ausbildung) and postgraduate ("Konzertexamen") degrees. He then completed a master's degree at the Conservatorium Maastricht in the Netherlands with Carlo Marchione and a Masters after Masters with Raphaella Smits at LUCA School of Arts, Campus Lemmeninstituut, in Leuven, Belgium.

Awards and prizes

Krivokapić won his first international competition, "Petar Konjović" in Belgrade at the age of fourteen. In order to finance his studies and living costs in Germany he continued participating in competitions, winning a total of 19 international first prizes.

* 1994 – Petar Konjović, Belgrade.
* 1995 �
Citta di Stresa Music Competition
(guitar category)
* 1996 – Petar Konjović, Belgrade
* 1997 – Corfu International Guitar Competition Greecehttps://repository.asu.edu/attachments/27369/content/060304A.pdf
* 2000 – XVI International Guitar Competition Andrés Segovia La Herradura, Spain
* 2000 – XXXIII Michele Pittaluga International Classical Guitar Competition(member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions in Alessandria, Italy
* 2001 – XXII
International Guitar Competition Rene Bartoli
in Aix-en-Provence, France. First prize and audience prize
* 2001 – Wesel Guitar Festival and Competition, Germany
* 2003 – XXXII International Guitar Competition Fernando Sor in Rome, Italy
* 2003 – I Koblenz International Guitar Competition, Koblenz, Germany
* 2003 – Velez-Malaga International Guitar Competitio, Spain.n
* 2003 – International Guitar Festival and Competition Arhontiko, Arhanes, Crete
* 2004 – I Iserlohn International Guitar Competition, Iserlohn, Germany.
* 2004 – Ruggero Chiesa Citta di Camogli, Italy.
* 2004 – VII Alhambra International Guitar Competition
* 2004 – XXV International Guitar Competition Mauro Giuliani, Bari, Italy.
* 2004 – XXI
Guitar Foundation of America International Solo Competition
Montréal, Canada.
* 2004 – XXX
Dr. Luis Sigall International Competition for Musical Performance
(member of WFIMC), Viña del Mar, Chile.
* 2007 – Heinsberg International Guitar Competition, Germany.
Two Chittara D’oro (Golden Guitar) awards at the Alessandria International Guitar Convention which is held each year in Italy: 2005 for Best Young Guitarist Of The Year, and 2006 for his debut CD.

Artistic life

Goran Krivokapić has performed extensively all over Europe, North and South America, Asia, Africa and Russia, in halls such as Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, Lubkowitz Palace in Vienna, Auditorio Conde Duque in Madrid and Saint Petersburg Philharmonia.

As a soloist, Goran Krivokapić has performed with the Slovak Chamber Orchestra of Bohdan Warchal, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, Chilean Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Turin Philharmonic, Folkwang Chamber Orchestra, Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra, New Russian Symphony Orchestra, St. George String Orchestra, Harmonie Universelle, Berliner Camerata, Montenegrin Symphony Orchestra, Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra Bremerhaven, Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra, Kwazulu-Natal Philharmonic and Shenyang Symphony Orchestra amongst others.

As a performer, teacher and adjudicator Krivokapić attended international festivals such as Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, musicAmuseo, Festival Internacional de Música y Danza de Granada, Kotor Art, Koblenz International Guitar Festival, Mittelrhein Musik Festival, Central-European Music Festival, Guitar Virtuosi Festival, Forum Gitarre Wien, Iserlohn International Guitar Festival, GFA International Guitar Convention, International Guitar Festival Aarhus, Aalborg International Guitar Festival, A Tempo Festival, Guitar Art Festival, Guitarras del Mundo, Festival Internacional de Violao Belo Horizonte, Festival Internacional de Guitarra Monterrey, Semanas Musicalas de Frutillar, Shenyang Guitar Festival, Changsha International Guitar Festival, Qinling International Guitar Festival and Daejon Guitar Festival. He has given masterclasses, lectures on Bach and workshops at Grieg Academy (Norway), State University of New York, University of Toronto, Hochschule für Musik Detmold, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Gnessin Russian Academy of Music (Moscow), Florida State University, Conservatorium Maastricht, University of Cape Town, University of Texas Dallas, Victoria Conservatory of Music, Chapman University, Royal Conservatory of Music in Montreal, Seoul National University, Arkansas State University, University of Manitoba, University of Texas in Brownsville, State Conservatory M.I. Glinka Nizhny Novgorod, University of Wisconsin, Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles, University of Veracruz and Tianjin Conservatory. He has been active in the “Rhapsody in School” project on a regular basis, an outreach initiative founded by Lars Vogt, which devotes itself to bringing classical music into the classroom.

Regular features, broadcasts for television and radio include WDR, BBC
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