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Miloš Karadaglić (
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: Милош Карадаглић, born 23 April 1983), sometimes known mononymously as Miloš, is a Montenegrin
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ist and
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recording artist. He was born in
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and currently lives and works in the
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.


Biography

Karadaglić first started playing the guitar at the age of eight. By the time he was a teenager, the
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were raging and, although
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was spared from direct conflict, its citizens were isolated from the rest of Europe. When he was 17 years old, Karadaglić successfully applied for a scholarship at the
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by sending a video tape he recorded at home. He moved to
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in September 2000, where he has continued to live ever since. Kara (dark) dağ (mountain) means Montenegro in Turkish. Karadaglić is the Slavic form of the Turkish surname (Karadağlı) meaning a person from
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. In public, Karadaglić is most commonly referred to by his first name alone.


Career

Karadaglić signed an exclusive recording contract to
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in 2010. His career began its meteoric rise in 2011 with the release of his debut album ''Mediterráneo'' (titled ''The Guitar'' for the U.K. market), topping the classical charts around the world and turning him into “classical music’s guitar hero” (the Telegraph). The album stayed #1 in the U.K. classical chart for 28 weeks. That same year he won the prestigious ''
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'' Young Artist of the Year and
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Newcomer of the Year awards. ''Gramophone'', reviewing the record, commented: "Karadaglić is a guitarist of superior musical and technical gifts who allows his personality to sing through the music with taste and intelligence".
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of ''
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'' said: "The playing is lithe, subtle of timbre and transcendentally beautiful." In 2012, he was named Classic BRIT MasterCard Breakthrough Artist of the Year for his second release of Latin American solo guitar music titled '' Latino''. 2012 was a breakthrough year on the concert stage for Karadaglić, with sold-out performances and tours in the UK, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, USA, Canada, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and Australia. "Part of the reason Karadaglić has such a large following" commented ''
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'', "is his ability to straddle both hardcore classical and pop classical camps." This was echoed by the London press following his celebrated
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debut of which ''
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'' commented: "More extraordinary by far, however, was the way a single guitarist, playing an intimate and understated set, and equipped with a single microphone and some clever lighting, could shrink the Hall's cavernous space into something so close." ''
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'' wrote: “Defying its many critics to offer a dramatic and rounded evening of classical music, the guitar itself was the breakout star here – a sleight of hand that makes Karadaglić not only a magician, but a serious and accomplished musician”. The success of ''Latino/Pasión'' led to a new 2013 release entitled ''Latino Gold'' featuring thirty minutes of newly recorded tracks from a wealth of
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-inspired music.
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created arrangements for some of the key tracks on the album. The 2014 Deutsche Grammophon recording titled Aranjuez, with Joaquin Rodrigo's two most famous guitar concertos,
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and Fantasia para un Gentilhombre, conducted by Yannick Nezet-Seguin and the
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had the
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calling him “The King of Aranjuez”. “Blackbird- the Beatles Album” was released in 2016. Recorded in the famous Abbey Road Studio 2, it features classic
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songs performed in innovative new arrangements by
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and includes collaborations with the jazz legend
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, pop singer
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, cellist
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and sitar superstar
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. In 2016 BBC Music Magazine included Miloš in their list of Six best classical guitarists. He featured on the cover of the BBC Music Magazine in the same year. Karadaglić describes his 2019
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album Sound of Silence as, ‘a personal scrapbook of popular music that will always have a special meaning to me.’ The Moon & the Forest was released in 2021, also on Decca Classics, and features world premiere recordings of
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and
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’s concertos for guitar written especially for him. Talbot concerto was premiered at the BBC Proms Festival at the Royal Albert Hall in August 2018. Karadaglić has appeared as a soloist with some of the world’s greatest orchestras:
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and LA Philharmonics,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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, Santa Cecilia Rome, NHK Tokyo, Munich Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony.    Karadaglić returned to the
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post-pandemic in June 2022, playing “in the round” to a full capacity audience. He was a soloist with the
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in August 2023 for their annual Europa Open Air, playing Concierto de Aranjuez for more than sixteen thousand people, broadcast live on German nacional TV. His international stage debut happened in 2008, at the Luzern Festival. In 2025, he was nominated for the prestigious Montenegrin "Thirteenth of July" award, but he refused to receive it for political reasons.


SONY Classical

In 2022 Karadaglić signed a new long term exclusive contract with  
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, signalling the beginning of a new chapter in his career. Baroque, Karadaglić's seventh studio album and first for SONY, was released in October 2023 to universal acclaim. The track list is a carefully curated selection of baroque works especially transcribed and arranged for the guitar, both solo and in collaboration with Jonathan Cohen and his ensemble Arcangelo. Gramophone Magazine said, “‘Baroque’ is … Miloš’ most virtuosic album to date…. He asks the famous question, ‘Sonata, what do you want of me?’ and listens for an answer before communicating it to us in the clearest, most elegant and most moving fashion.”


Philanthropy

Karadaglić is an patron of numerous charities supporting young musicians in the UK and abroad including the London Music Fund and the charit
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3/sup> He recently launched the “Miloš Foundation” – based in Porto Montenegro, this philanthropic organisation aims to act as a regional hub of influence by empowering artistic excellence though various educational opportunities, partnerships and close mentorship.


Publishing

In 2018
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published a new series of 4 classical guitar books, titled "Play Guitar with Miloš", where he teaches classical guitar through the pieces he has played and enjoyed throughout his career.


Personal life

Karadaglić lives in
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, London. He keeps close ties to his homeland, Montenegro. He plays on a 2017
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