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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Discography
16 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Makrotonal Guitar
Classical - Released by MicroFest Records on 2 Feb 2018
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Balkanisms: Guitar Music from the Balkans
Classical - Released by Naxos on 4 Jun 2019
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Mak|Bach
Classical - Released by MicroFest Records on 2 Jul 2021
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Cinema Verismo
Classical - Released by Marquis Classics on 18 Mar 2014
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Christmas Dreaming
Christmas Music - Released by Red Poppy Records on 1 Dec 2023
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A Night in Upper Town - The Music of Zoran Krajacic
Classical - Released by RoundTone Records on 20 Aug 2022
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Viajeros
Giovanni Piacentini, Meagan Martin, Mak Grgić
Chamber Music - Released by Giovanni Piacentini on 28 Aug 2023
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Noć na Gornjem gradu (Glazba Zorana Krajačića)
Classical - Released by NOTA BENE Classical on 19 Apr 2024
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Peaceful Guitar EP
Relaxation - Released by Mak Grgic on 15 Jul 2022
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Angels (feat. Leon First & Damjan Krajacic)
Relaxation - Released by Mak Grgic on 29 Apr 2022
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Happiness (feat. Leon First)
Relaxation - Released by Mak Grgic on 7 Mar 2022
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Peace (feat. Damjan Krajacic & Leon First)
Relaxation - Released by Mak Grgic on 3 Jun 2022
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