Karol Samuelčík – Classical Guitarist
Karol Samuelčík is a Slovak classical guitarist and associate professor at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. He performs internationally in solo recitals, as a soloist with orchestras and in chamber music.
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A wide repertoire
His repertoire runs from Bach and the nineteenth-century Romantics through the Spanish literature to contemporary works. That span is deliberate rather than accidental: alongside performing, his work includes recordings, research into historical guitar performance practice, and the promotion of Slovak guitar music, a repertoire that is still waiting for a wider audience outside its own country.
The research and the playing feed each other. A guitarist who has studied how the instrument was actually played in the nineteenth century approaches Regondi differently from one who has only inherited the modern performing tradition.
Performing at Siccas Guitars
For our channel he recorded Giulio Regondi’s Introduction et caprice Op. 23 – one of the most demanding pieces the nineteenth century left for the guitar, and one that rewards exactly the kind of historical attention he brings to it.
Discover more players in our profiles of great classical guitarists.
