ARTIST FEATURE: From opening for KD Lang to playing classical guitar recitals; from performing at Disney Hall to Musikverein in Vienna, meet Mak...
Los Angeles based classical guitarist Mak Grgic shares insights on the importance of rhythm and practicing with the metronome.
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ARTIST FEATURE
ARTIST FEATURE: From opening for KD Lang to playing classical guitar recitals; from performing at Disney Hall to Musikverein in Vienna, meet Mak...
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FINGER STRETCHING FOR GUITARISTS: You Don’t Need To Be A Gymnast To Stretch! Have you ever picked up a tune and felt that your left hand is just...
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What Is Your Favorite Rock Guitar Solo? Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple) in ‘Highway Star’. Famous for crafting one of the most famous riffs in...
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Who Is Your Favorite Guitarist? When we think of guitar we think of the diversity. With diversity comes opportunity. And with opportunity we see...
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Guitar Chords for Beginners Guitar is arguably the world’s most popular instrument and with that amount of fame it attracts many people wanting...
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Arpeggios What is an arpeggio, you may be asking yourself? Well, have you ever heard Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen as played by James Buckley?...
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Virtual Guitar Orchestra, the first ever global guitar initiative, which started during the Covid pandemic, has united more than 350 guitarists from...
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Go beyond the simple guitar practice plan, and add something new to your regimen. Professional classical guitarist Mak Grgic shares tips, techniques,...
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Bringing the guitar festival into the new age is one thing, bringing up the next generation of classical guitarist is another. EuroStrings goes...
Mak Grgic
Mak Grgic is a classical guitarist and one of the founders of Eurostrings, the European Guitar Festival Collaborative. The expansiveness of Mak’s repertoire winds its way through a dizzying array of approaches, from music of the baroque and renaissance (for which he received praise from Washington Post) to music of a cinematic nature, ethnic music of his native Balkan Peninsula, and extreme avant-garde and microtonal music. His first solo release on Marquis Records entitled Cinema Verismo explores adept guitar arrangements of music from the movies. His latest recordings, Balkanisms for Naxos Music and MAKrotonal for MicroFest Records, an album produced by the Grammy Award winning producer John Schneider, explore a vast repertoire spanning ethnic music, microtonal newly-composed music and early music on re-fretted instruments.
In the recent past Mak has showcased an innate affection for entrepreneurial work. This has resulted in directorship roles at EuroStrings; Zagreb Guitar Festival and Roots & Notes Interactive Music Festival in Croatia; [email protected] in Los Angeles; and Acoustic Caffeine Concert Series in cooperation with Arts Brookfield.
