A concert by Croatian guitarist Dejan Ivanović is scheduled for the auditorium of Bemposta EBS School, in Portimão, on April 3, at 18 pm. Admission costs 30 euros.
The same instrumentalist will also direct a masterclass for the students of this art school, on the 4th, 5th and 6th of April.
Croatian guitarist Dejan Ivanović was born in Tuzla (Bosnia and Herzegovina) in 1976, starting his guitar studies at the age of 8 years.
He studied with Predrag Stanković and Vojislav Ivanović at the Primary and Secondary School of Music, and with Darko Petrinjak at the Zagreb Academy of Music.
He participated in masterclasses by John Duarte, Thomas Müller-Pering, Elliot Fisk, Costas Cotsiolis, Valter Dešpalj (cello), Michael Steinkühler (viola da gamba) and Igor Lešnik (percussion).
He was supervised by Christopher Bochmann in the Doctoral Course at the University of Évora between 2011 and 2014.
His professional career began simultaneously with higher education (1994-1998).
He has performed in some of the most prestigious music festivals such as Festival de Spoleto (invited personally by conductor Gian Carlo Menotti as Artist in Residence), Edinburgh Summer Festival, Estoril Coast Festival, Gevelsberg Guitar Festival, Porto European City of Cultura and Viva Guitar (Croatia), among others.
He also acts as part of several chamber music ensembles: with flutist Vasco Gouveia, cellist Jed Barahal, guitarist Masakazu Tokutake, soprano Ana Ester Neves, String Quartet Lyra, etc.
He is the winner of the 1st Prize and Special Prize for Best Interpretation of Spanish Music at the 13th International Guitar Contest Doña Infanta Cristina (Madrid, 1998); 1st Prize of the 3rd International Competition of the City of Sinaia (Romania, 1998); 1st Prize at the 17th International Guitar Competition Andrés Segovia (Herradura, 2001); 1st Prize and Audience Award at the 35th Francisco Tárrega International Guitar Festival (Benicássim, 2001); 1st Prize of the 4th International Competition of Crete (Arhanes, 2005). He is also awarded in competitions in Rome (Italy) and Sernancelhe (Portugal).
He collaborates with several orchestras such as the Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonie (Belgium), Benicássim Orchestra (Spain), Slovak Chamber Orchestra, Vojvodina Symphony Orchestra (Serbia), Beiras Symphony Orchestra and Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra.
His recitals in Europe, Africa, North America, South America and Asia received strong public and critical acclaim. Magazines and newspapers such as Ritmo (Spain), Bremer Umchau (Germany), Sunday Herald Times (Indiana-USA), The Scotsman (Scotland), Slobodna Dalmacija (Croatia) and Oslobodjenje (BiH) have published positive reviews about their performances.
His solo discography consists of CD Recital na laureate series from NAXOS (2002) with works by Matilde Salvador, Anton García Abril, Frederic Mompou, Richard Rodney Bennett, Malcolm Arnold, Gordon McPherson and Francisco Tárrega, and by CD Mediterranean (recorded in 2001, awaiting publication) with works by Boris Papandopulo, Vicente Asencio, Antonio José Martínez Palacios, Joaquín Rodrigo, Carlo Domeniconi and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
In 2013, he recorded the work In Memory of the Dawn by Marina Pikoul for guitar and orchestra with the Orquestra Clássica do Centro, under the direction of conductor David Wyn Lloyd.
Christopher Bochmann, Marina Pikoul, Tomislav Oliver, João Madureira, Jorge Pereira, Ricardo Abreu, Francisco Chaves and Carlos Gutkin are some of the composers who dedicated their works to Dejan.
Since 2004, he has been a member of the guitar duo Kontaxakis-Ivanovich with Greek guitarist Michalis Kontaxakis. The first CD of this Duo, entitled Les Deux Amis and recorded by producer Hubert Kappel in Cologne (Germany), it was released in 2010 by KSG EXAUDIO.
In 2005 he created the International Guitarmania Festival in Lisbon, of which he was artistic director until 2010. Since 2007, he has been professor of guitar at the Department of Music at the University of Évora.
He has a PhD in Music/Interpretation since March 2015 with the theme Collaboration between Composer and Performer in the Creation of Music for Guitar: Study of the Editorial Process in the Repertoire of England, Croatia and Portugal.
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