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Recent reviews

Italian Press

"Mak Grgic is a young artist with an undoubtedly luminous career ahead of him...he portrayed an immense capability of developing the thematic material with a certain profound sense, which goes the same for his tendency for clarity of a phrase...his playing is, in fact, full of personality and wide musical range."  

Franco Di Lena, Il Messaggero, September 2011

"Mak Grgic is a guitarist who plays with a touch of intelligence rather than only with his hands. He constantly gives an impression of control of every aspect of music, which results in an overwhelming technical and marvelously bright capture of the emotional atributes of a musical piece."

Giorgio Tortora - composer, guitarist and artistic director of the Musica a 4 Stelle, September 2011

Slovenian Press

“An alluring combination of masterful guitar skills, dedication to playing and an engaging stage presence fascinated the multigenerational audience, who refused to let the guitar virtuoso of the stage.”
www.siol.net, March 2011

Ohio Press

“Mak Grgic, 23, is tall and unassuming, with a soft voice and an amazing talent on the classical guitar…while Toccata No. 6 is a showier piece meant to demonstrate the skill of the musician, which was flawless…[in] Seis Por Derecho, by Antonio Lauro. It’s a fast, lively Venezuelan dance, and no matter how hard you looked at Mak Grgic’s hands, you could not follow his fingers on those guitar strings.”
Eagle-Gazette, July 2010

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Performance highlights

Awards and Recitals include:

Fellowship/Invitation to Academie Musicale de Villecroze in Provence
The Sound of Six Strings, Academia Philharmonicorum, Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana
Young Artist Award from the Lions Club in Porec, Croatia
Recital at the 32nd Festival of Chamber Music - Piran Music Nights, Piran , Slovenia
Recital in the Cathedral of St. Mark, Korcula, Croatia
Recitals at Allegro Guitar Society in Ft. Worth and Dallas
Rodrigo's Fantasia para un Gentilhombre with the Lancaster Festival Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Gary Sheldon--Festival Director and Conductor, Miami City Ballet
Fandango by Boccherini with the festival (Veronika) string quartet
Shandalee Music Festival in the Catskill Mountains
Red Festival Hall of the Town Hall of Ljubljana
St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, Rodrigo, Concierto de Aranjuez
Interview on Radio Univox, Radio Triglav and with the magazine Jana, a popular family magazine in Slovenia, as well as Eagle-Gazette and Columbus Dispatch

News

New CD Release

A last minute fill-in for a recital on October 8th 2011 at the American Guitar Society in California is met with enthusiastic response.

Mak receives 1st prize at the Luigi Mozzani International Guitar Competition, Italy.

Summer tour includes recitals in Slovenia, Croatia, Italy and USA. More in Schedule.

June 2011 - String Modulations CD receives rave reviews: "...crème de la crème of young Slovenian musicianship..." by Tomaz Grzeta for Jeunesses Musicales Slovenia

March 22 2011 - Mak returned to his home town and made a stunning appearance at the Sounds of Six Strings concert series. Read more about the recital (in Slovenian)

Mak was just awarded 1st prize at the Pacific Guitar Festival 2011.

Read Mak's interview in Jana - popular Slovenian magazine (in PDF).

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