January 16, 2019 •
Cultural, Past Events •
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WHEN: Sunday 20th January 2019 at 7.30PM
WHERE: The Ukrainian Cathedral Concert Hall, 21 Binney Street, Mayfair, London W1K 5BQ
Admission: From £15 (Children under 13 – Free) including refreshments with wine and snacks, and meetings with Artists after the concert. Tickets may be reserved by email: [email protected] or text: 0773 6735270
Join for Ukrainian traditional folk songs and Romantic Guitar music from Spain, Italy, Turkey, Ukraine and beyond.
Featuring:
Anastasia Dovgan’- a Child star (Ukraine);
Guitar duo:
Srdjan Bulat (Croatia) and Emre Gokalp (Turkey)
Srdjan Bulat
The Croatian classical guitarist, Srdjan Bulat, studied from 2005 to 2008 at the Academy of Arts; University of Split, Croatia, receiving Bachelor of Music degree (undergraduate course) with professor Goran Listeš and Rector’s award for the academic year 2006-2007. From 2008 to 2010, he studied at the Academy of Music; University of Zagreb, Croatia, graduating Summa cum laude with Master of Music degree (graduate course) with Professor Darko Petrinjak, and was Dean’s award recipient for the academic year 2008-2009 and Rector’s award recipient for the academic year 2009-2010. Since 2011, he studies at the Academy of Music; University of Zagreb, Croatia, where he has Postgraduate specialist study with Professor Darko Petrinjak; his Specialist thesis: Contemporary Croatian music for classical guitar. Since 2012, he also studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London, England for Master of Arts degree in performance (postgraduate course) with professor Michael Lewin; in 2012 he was ABRSM International Fees Scholarship winner. Read more here
Born in Turkey, in 1988, Emre Gokalp began to study classical guitar at 8 years old. He started participating in master classes and winning prizes in international competitions from the age of 10. Since 1998, Emre has benefited from master classes offered in guitar festivals given by internationally famous virtuosos and pedagogues. He has won several prizes in international guitar competitions around the world since 1999 and most recently won the 1st prize in 1st International Guitar Competition “Paris Guitar Foundation” in 2016. During his Bachelor of Arts (Music) Degree programme at Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory, Emre took leave to go to London, where he took private classical guitar lessons from Professor Michael Lewin (Head of Guitar, Royal Academy of Music) in 2009. Following year he traveled with the Erasmus Student Exchange Program to the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid in Spain, where he studied classical guitar with Miguel Trápaga. On returning to Ankara State Conservatory, he graduated with a BA degree in June 2011.
Thanks to his successful application and scholarship from the Borusan Kocabıyık Foundation, Emre has graduated from the Royal Academy of Music, Master of Arts programme with DipRAM and Frank Britton Prize in 2014. During his studies, he has collabrated with accomplished musicians in chamber music performances such as; Srdjan Bulat, Nazrin Rashidova, Christine Buras, Joseph Havlat. Since 1999, Emre has performed in various music festivals and competitions; The Parkening International Guitar Competition in USA, 1st Balkan Festival (1st Prize) in Bulgaria, Machyntleth Music Festival in UK, Hass Guitar Fest 2016 in Armenia to name a few and many others in Spain, Italy, France and Turkey.
