Tuzla Guitar Week Welcome...
Tuzla Guitar Week was created to provide guitarists with the opportunity to work with world-class guitar professors from Europe and beyond during the summer and school break. It is designed for students of elementary and high music schools, university students, and all guitar enthusiasts who wish to refine their playing.
This year’s Tuzla Guitar Week will take place from July 6-10, featuring three concerts, intensive masterclasses in both individual and group formats, a guitar orchestra, daily ensemble practice, and various recreational activities.
This Year’s Guest Artists:
- Jan Depreter (Belgija)
- Vojislav Ivanović (BiH, Grčka)
- Boško Jović (BiH)
- Darko Karajić (Srbija)
- Sanel Redžić (BiH, Njemačka)
- Đani Šehu (BiH)
Packages
This year’s participants of Tuzla Guitar Week have two packages available.
- The price, which includes active lessons, 5 individual classes with professors of choice, without accommodation, is 130€.
- The price, which includes passive participation in classes without accommodation, is 50€.
Locations
Two concerts will be held at the Ismet Mujezinović atelier (Atelje Ismeta Mujezinovića): Klosterska BB 75101 Tuzla and one concert at the Ilinčica in front of the Home of nature (Dom prirode): Put Ilinčica, 75000 Tuzla.
Lessons will be held in the Youth Center (Dom mladih) and the International Gallery of Portraits Tuzla (Međunarodna galerija portreta Tuzla): II Tuzlanske brigade 13, Tuzla 75000
Registration & Deadlines
Participant registration: July 6, 2025, from 17:00 to 20:00, at Atelier Ismet Mujezinović, Tuzla.
Application deadline: June 30, 2025.
Limited spots available!
For all additional questions, please contact us at: [email protected]
We look forward to meeting you!
Dear participants, dear audience!
Welcome to Tuzla for Tuzla Guitar Week! I hope that you will feel comfortable in my city and that you will bring new knowledge and beautiful experiences back to your homes from here.
Sanel Redžić
TUZLA GUITAR WEEK Invited guests
Darko Bageski
R.N. Macedonia
Darko Bageski
R.N. Macedonia
Darko Bageski gained music education in Skopje, Macedonia (prof. Jane Penov).
He graduated at Higher School of Music “Franz Liszt” in Weimar, Germany (prof. Jurgen Rost).
His education continued at postgraduate studies at the National Conservatory of Music in Thessaloniki, Greece, in the class of prof. Gerhard Reichenbach, and a master’s degree under prof. Costas Cotsiolis.
He has performed many concerts and recitals in Germany, Greece, Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Italy, Sweden, China and the USA.
Alejandro Cordova
Mexico
Alejandro Cordova
Mexico
Alejandro Córdova, possesses an own style, based on the technical control exceptional gifts, equilibrium, coolness, virtuosity, musicality, and a curiosity by the knowledge, sensibility and experience tested in international settings as performer of classical music. Is one of the main youths Mexican exponents of the Classical Guitar to National and International Level. He was born in Cordoba, Mexico, initiating his studies with prof. Jesus Peña. He enters subsequently to the Faculty of Music of the University of Veracruz under the guardianship of the recognized teachers Consuelo Bolio, Massimo Gatta and Alfredo Sánchez.
He counts with three records, the first one recorded in London with John Taylor, the second one recorded in Seville with Contrastes records, and the third one recorded with NAXOS.
Vojislav Ivanović
BiH, Greece
Vojislav Ivanović
BiH, GreeceBorn in Sarajevo where he started playing guitar at the age of 10. Music of Vojislav Ivanovic, composer and guitarist, is one of astonishing diversity, ranging from contemporary classical and jazz thru fusion and rock to traditional music of the world. His diverse compositional output includes music for solo and accompanied instruments, choral, chamber and orchestral works. World's leading artists have performed his music extensively all over the globe.. In addition to his performance tours, composing and recording, Vojislav Ivanovic is highly sought after at the international festivals and competitions for his teaching and master classes in composition and guitar.
Euterpe guitar DUO
Portugal
Euterpe guitar DUO
Portugal
The Euterpe Guitar Duo is a chamber music group formed by Portuguese guitarists Pedro Baptista and Titus Isfan.
They met in 2013 as classical guitar students of Professor Dejan Ivanovic at the University of Évora. They met again in 2017 as classical guitar teachers at the Montijo Regional Arts Conservatory. In 2019, they founded the Euterpe Guitar Duo.
They have dedicated themselves to promoting, fostering and publicizing new music for this formation by some of Portugal's most celebrated composers..
Titus Isfan
Portugal
Titus Isfan
Portugal
He performs under the name Euterpe Guitar Duo, which is a chamber music group he formed together with the Portuguese guitarist Pedro Baptista.
They met in 2013 as classical guitar students of Professor Dejan Ivanovic at the University of Évora. They met again in 2017 as classical guitar teachers at the Montijo Regional Arts Conservatory. In 2019, they founded the Euterpe Guitar Duo.
They have dedicated themselves to promoting, fostering and publicizing new music for this formation by some of Portugal's most celebrated composers.
Sanel Redžić
BiH, Germany
Sanel Redžić
BiH, GermanySanel Redžić is one of the most virtuosic guitarists of his generation. Known for his varied repertoire and lively performances, he is quickly becoming one of the most important figures on the international guitar scene. Since 2006, he has been constantly performing around the world, both solo and in various chamber ensembles and with orchestras, and has so far delighted the audience and the media at several hundred concerts in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Poland, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, Italy, France, Netherlands, Great Britain, Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, Mexico, Chile, China, Japan, India, Iran and USA. With the famous Bosnian-Herzegovinian band "Divanhana", Sanel constantly collaborates and expands his musical horizons beyond classical music. Evidence of this is numerous joint concerts and sound carriers.
Cipra gudački kvartet
Austria
Cipra gudački kvartet
Austria
With great success, the Viennese CIPRA Quartet is establishing itself as one of the most promising string quartets on the international scene.
It was founded at the beginning of 2023, as an independent ensemble within the WISE: Wien - International Soloists Ensemble, as part of a new chapter of development on the occasion of the 10th anniversary, with the mission of devoting itself to rarely performed, forgotten, neglected and newly created repertoire for the most important classical chamber ensemble - the string quartet.
Led by Andrea Nikolić, the quartet consists of some of the most internationally active and sought-after musicians of the generation, based in Vienna. Second violin is played by Angela Chia-Chen Lin, viola by Weronika Izert, cello by Weronika Strugala.
Pedro Baptista
Portugal
Pedro Baptista
Portugal
He performs under the name Euterpe Guitar Duo, which is a chamber music group he formed together with the Portuguese guitarist Titus Isfan.
They met in 2013 as classical guitar students of Professor Dejan Ivanovic at the University of Évora. They met again in 2017 as classical guitar teachers at the Montijo Regional Arts Conservatory. In 2019, they founded the Euterpe Guitar Duo.
They have dedicated themselves to promoting, fostering and publicizing new music for this formation by some of Portugal's most celebrated composers.
Elvis Sivčević
BiH
Elvis Sivčević
BiH
Elvis Sivčević started playing classical guitar at the age of 8, and at the age of 15 he became a student of the legendary professor of classical guitar Predrag Stanković at the High School of Music in Tuzla. He continued his education in the Netherlands at the Conservatorium Codarts Rotterdam in the class of Professor Dick Hoogeeven and at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, where in 2003 he earned a Bachelor's degree in Guitar in the class of Enno Voorhorst and in 2005 a Master of Music.
He performed throughout Europe as a soloist or as a member of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and the Mediterranean Sundance Ensemble, while his students won a large number of prizes at national and international competitions.
Belma Tuzović-Mujkić
BiH
Born in Sarajevo. She received his primary and secondary music education for the guitar in Sarajevo.
After graduating from the High School of Music in Sarajevo in the class of prof. In 1994, Mile Rakanović, as a scholarship recipient of the Austrian government, went to study in Austria, at the University of Music and Art in Vienna.
She graduated in 1998 and received his master's degree in 2000 in the class of prof. Konrad Ragosnik.
Since 2000, she has been employed as a guitar teacher at the High School of Music in Sarajevo.
Regular member of the jury of national and international competitions. (SIGF Sarajevo, Guitar United East Sarajevo, Montenegro International guitar competition and others.)