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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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