Goran Krivokapić
With technical virtuosity and a distinctive interpretative approach to both historical and contemporary repertoire, Goran Krivokapić has established himself as one of the leading guitarists and chamber musicians of the international scene.
He won his first international competition at the age of fourteen and went on to claim eighteen additional prizes, including “Michele Pittaluga” (Alessandria, 2000), “Andrés Segovia” (La Herradura, 2000), the Koblenz International Guitar Competition (2003), the Guitar Foundation of America (Montreal, 2004) and the Dr. Luis Sigall International Competition of Musical Performance (Viña del Mar, 2004).
Two Golden Guitar awards at the International Guitar Convention in Alessandria followed — 2005 as Best Young Guitarist and 2006 for his debut CD. Since then, he has performed across Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and Russia in renowned venues such as the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Tchaikovsky Hall (Moscow), Lobkowitz Palace (Vienna) and Auditorio Conde Duque (Madrid).
As soloist and as part of the Montenegrin Guitar Duo with Danijel Cerović, he appears at major international festivals including Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Festival Internacional de Música y Danza de Granada, Kotor Art, Koblenz International Guitar Festival, Forum Gitarre Wien, Iserlohn International Guitar Festival, GFA International Guitar Convention, A Tempo Festival, Guitar Art Festival, Shenyang Guitar Festival and Daejon Guitar Festival.
He has performed as a soloist with orchestras such as the Slovak Chamber Orchestra of Bohdan Warchal, Russian Philharmonic Moscow, New Russian Symphony Orchestra, Turin Philharmonic, Johannesburg Symphony, KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic, Aukso Chamber Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic, Montenegrin Symphony, Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Folkwang Chamber Orchestra, Chilean Symphony, Primavera Orchestra, Istanbul State Symphony, St. George String Orchestra, Berliner Camerata, Philharmonic Orchestra Bremerhaven and the Shenyang Symphony Orchestra.
Masterclasses, Bach lectures and workshops have taken him to institutions including the Grieg Academy (Norway), State University of New York, University of Toronto, Detmold University of Music, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Florida State University, Conservatorium Maastricht, University of Cape Town, University of Texas at Dallas, Victoria Conservatory of Music, Chapman University, Royal Conservatory of Music in Montreal, Seoul National University, University of Manitoba, University of Texas in Brownsville, Glinka Conservatory (Nizhny Novgorod), University of Wisconsin, Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles), Arkansas State University, University of Veracruz and Tianjin Conservatory.
He is also active in “Rhapsody in School,” an outreach project founded by Lars Vogt to promote classical music in schools.
He appears regularly in international media including Medici TV, BBC, France Musique, Arte, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, WDR, Hessischer Rundfunk, Bayerischer Rundfunk, MDR, SWR, Fox 7, WGBH Boston, Fine Music Radio, ClassicFM, ABC Classic and RTCG. His recordings and performances are praised in Gramophone Magazine, Classical Guitar Magazine, Soundboard Magazine, The WholeNote, Akustik Gitarre, Neue Musikzeitung, Gendai Guitar Magazine, Musica, Seicorde, Il Fronimo, La Stampa, Les Cahiers de la Guitare, Beeld, Die Burger, Vijesti and Mobilart.
His artistic interests include developing new works for classical guitar, transcribing baroque and classical repertoire, and collaborating with contemporary composers such as Gerard Drozd, Hendrik Hofmeyr and Atanas Ourkouzounov, who have dedicated works to him and the Montenegrin Guitar Duo.
The Montenegrin Guitar Duo’s live performances and their Naxos world-premiere recordings of J. S. Bach’s complete “English Suites” have received wide acclaim.
Born in 1979, he began studying guitar at age eight with Mićo Poznanović at the Music School of Herceg Novi. He continued his studies at the Faculty of Music Art in Belgrade (Prof. Srđan Tošić) and graduated in 2000. At the Hochschule für Musik Köln he studied with Hubert Käppel and Roberto Aussel, earning the Konzertexamen. He pursued a Master’s degree at Conservatorium Maastricht with Carlo Marchione and later a second Master’s with Raphaella Smits at LUCA School of Arts in Leuven. He is currently a professor at the Cologne University of Music and also teaches at the Detmold University of Music. He lives in Cologne with his family.
