Goran Krivokapić

• Goran Krivokapic | Guitar Art Festival 2019 - March 12th – 17th, 2019 / Belgrade / Serbia | Guests

Goran Krivokapić's musical focus lies on the development of new works for classical guitar, mainly through making his own transcriptions of baroque and classical works, and collaborating with contemporary composers. Gerard Drozd dedicated his Concierto de Gliwice Opus 175, which Krivokapić premiered with the AUKSO Chamber Orchestra in 2018, conducted by Marek Moś. Drozd's Concierto for two guitars and string quartett Opus 140, dedicated to the Montenegrin Guitar Duo was premiered by Krivokapić and Cerović, together with the Camerata Quartett in 2013, as well as his Suite for two guitars Opus 150, dedicated to the Montenegrin Guitar Duo and premiered by them in 2014. In 2011 Drozd wrote a piece “Favola per Luka” to commemorate the birth of Krivokapic's son. The premiere recording of Hendrik Hofmeyr’s Rapsodia Notturna per chitarra e pianoforte, written for Krivokapić and Corneli Smit, and Sonate Printanière by Dušan Bogdanović for guitar and piano was released in 2013 together with other original chamber music works for guitar and piano by KSGEXAUDIO. He premiered Hofmeyr's Lachrymae for guitar, which was written for him, during the Meesters op de Gitaar series at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam in 2009. Hofmeyr wrote Diablerie for viola and guitar for Krivokapić and Gareth Lubbe, which they premiered in 2019 at Krivokapić's inaugural concert at the Cologne University of Music (Wuppertal). Atanas Ourkouzounov dedicated his Chaconne for solo guitar to him. Other premiered works (performance and recordings) include his transcription of C.P.E. Bach's Sonata for flute Wq. 132 and piano sonata XVI:33 by Joseph Haydn, transcribed by Carlo Marchione.

In 2017 Goran Krivokapić was featured giving a masterclass on Joaquin Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez for DakApp and Medici.TV.

Two Chittara D’oro (Golden Guitar) awards at the Alessandria International Guitar Convention which is held each year in Italy: 2005 for Best Young Guitarist Of The Year, and 2006 for his debut CD.

In 2005 Krivokapić and classical guitarist Danijel Cerović formed the Montenegrin Guitar Duo. In 2013 their debut CD was published by the Montenegrin Music Centre. The recording features works by Domeniconi, Piazzolla and Bogdanović. Naxos Records released two volumes of J.S.Bach's English Suites, transcribed by the duo for two guitars in 2015 (Suites 1–3) and 2018 (Suites 4–6).

Recorded at the St John Chrysostom Church, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, 28 April – 1 May 2005 NAXOS 8.557809 [61:11]

Goran Krivokapić (Montenegrin: Горан Кривокапић; born 7 May 1979) is a Montenegrin classical guitarist.

Due to the 1979 Montenegro earthquake, Krivokapić was born in Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia. He started his music education at the age of eight with Mićo Poznanović at the Music School of Herceg Novi in Montenegro. When he was nine he began to perform publicly, and soon built a reputation which led to the montenegrin poet and television personality Dragan Radulović to produce a documentary about him in 1993. In 1996 he furthered his studies at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade in the class of Srdjan Tošić, graduating in 2000. From 2000 he continued with Hubert Käppel and Roberto Aussel at the Hochschule für Musik Köln in Germany, where he graduated and received the artistic performance (Künstlerische Ausbildung) and postgraduate ("Konzertexamen") degrees. He then completed a master's degree at the Conservatorium Maastricht in the Netherlands with Carlo Marchione and a Masters after Masters with Raphaella Smits at LUCA School of Arts, Campus Lemmeninstituut, in Leuven, Belgium.