Mak Grgić
Guitarist Mak Grgic is noted for a wide repertory that has allowed him to embark on a wide range of recording projects and collaborations with other artists. He has also founded several influential ensembles.
Grgic (pronounced GER-gich) was born March 8, 1987, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. (His surname in Slovenian is Grgić, but he omits the diacritical mark in English-language contexts.) As a youth, he excelled in mathematics -- earning a number-one ranking in Slovenia -- and in martial arts. He continued with the latter even after beginning to concertize on the guitar but decided to focus entirely on music after suffering a hand injury. Grgic studied at the Elly Bašić Music Academy in Zagreb and then went on to the Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna, where his teacher was Alvaro Pierri. Grgic rounded out his education in the U.S., studying at USC with William Kanengiser, Scott Tennant, and Brian Head. He also took courses at USC in the school's arts leadership program, and he has gone on to co-found several influential organizations, including the European guitar festival network EuroStrings, the Zagreb Guitar Festival, and Music@Rush Hour in Los Angeles. Grgic founded his own contemporary octet DC8, as well as the Duo Deloro and FretX Duo. He served for two years as artist-in-residence at the Da Camera Society Chamber Music Series in Los Angeles.
At age 22, Grgic appeared as a soloist with the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra in Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez. His solo appearances have taken him to such prestigious venues as the Musikverein in Vienna, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. His career is especially notable for its range of collaborations, which have included work with such diverse artists as the JACK Quartet, violinist Augustin Hadelich, the Assad Brothers, and pop star k.d. lang, for whom he opened on part of her 2018 Ingénue Redux Tour. In 2020, he began an ongoing collaboration with pianist Paul Cardall. During the coronavirus pandemic, Grgic founded the 500-member Virtual Guitar Orchestra.
Grgic believes that performing in a range of genres will help draw new listeners to guitar music, and his 2019 Balkanisms featured folk works from his native Balkan region. Grgic has also released two albums on the MicroFest label on which he experimented with microtonal and other unusual tunings of the guitar, MAKrotonal (2018) and MAK/Bach (2021).
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Discographie
16 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes
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Makrotonal Guitar
Classique - Paru chez MicroFest Records le 2 févr. 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Balkanisms: Guitar Music from the Balkans
Classique - Paru chez Naxos le 4 juin 2019
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Mak|Bach
Classique - Paru chez MicroFest Records le 2 juil. 2021
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Cinema Verismo
Classique - Paru chez Marquis Classics le 18 mars 2014
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Christmas Dreaming
Musiques de Noël - Paru chez Red Poppy Records le 1 déc. 2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
A Night in Upper Town - The Music of Zoran Krajacic
Classique - Paru chez RoundTone Records le 20 août 2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Viajeros
Giovanni Piacentini, Meagan Martin, Mak Grgić
Musique de chambre - Paru chez Giovanni Piacentini le 28 août 2023
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Noć na Gornjem gradu (Glazba Zorana Krajačića)
Classique - Paru chez NOTA BENE Classical le 19 avr. 2024
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
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Peaceful Guitar EP
Relaxation - Paru chez Mak Grgic le 15 juil. 2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Angels (feat. Leon First & Damjan Krajacic)
Relaxation - Paru chez Mak Grgic le 29 avr. 2022
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Happiness (feat. Leon First)
Relaxation - Paru chez Mak Grgic le 7 mars 2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Peace (feat. Damjan Krajacic & Leon First)
Relaxation - Paru chez Mak Grgic le 3 juin 2022
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