Prof. ŽARKO IGNJATOVIĆ, guitar prof.

Department of Music

Full professor Žarko Ignjatović

Music art – guitar, chamber music

ARTISTIC ACTIVITY

CD The Chamber Duo Barbara Jernejčič Fürst and Žarko Ignjatović, Publishing and Record Label ZKP RTV SLO, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2020. SI-ID 304662784
Duo Clarguitar (Slavko Kovačič and Žarko Ignjatović): concert at the Steinhardt School, Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions, New York University, USA, 29. 10. 2018. COBISS.SI-ID 24251912
Solo concert, Conservatoire de Musique de Genève, Switzerland, April 2015. COBISS.SI-ID 21678856
Solo concert, International Festival of Slavic Countries, Moscow, Russia,
5. 2014. COBISS.SI-ID 21797640
The Chamber duo concert Barbara Jernejčič Fürst and Žarko Ignjatović, University of Ottawa, Canada, 7. 2. 2014. COBISS.SI-ID 21655048
CD Les Deux amis, the guitar duo Jerko Novak and Žarko Ignjatović Ljubljana, Slovenia, Publishing and Record Label ZKP RTV SLO, 2013. COBISS.SI-ID 1104637278
CD Southeast Meets Southwest, the chamber duo Nebojša Bugarski violoncello & Žarko Ignjatović guitar. Doberman-Yppan, Canada, 2010, COBISS.SI-ID 19063816
Solo concert to celebrate the Slovene presidency of the European Council, Leighton House Museum, London, UK, 14th February 2008. COBISS.SI-ID 16558344
CD the guitar duo Jerko Novak and Žarko Ignjatović, Publishing and Record Label ZKP RTV SLO, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2005. COBISS.SI-ID 225100288
Solo CD Hic et nunc, Publishing and Record Label ZKP RTV SLO, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2001, COBISS.SI-ID 8870450

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

Guest lecturer (Contemporary Slovenian guitar music) in Den Haag (Royal Conservatoire), Oslo (Norwegian Music Academy), Monopoli (Conservatorio di Musica Nino Rota), Split (UMAS), Szeged (Academy of Music Bela Bartok), Ljubljana (KGBL) and at PEF UM since 2009 –
Founding member and president of EGTA Slovenia (Slovene Guitar Teachers Society ) 2001 – 2007
Initiator, organizer and artistic director of the concert cycle Kitarski večeri at the Modri salon 2003 – 2007
Founding member of the Association of Guitarists of Southeastern Europe (ASEG), Belgrade, 2001
Member of the project group (full prof. MA. Tomaž Svete and associate prof. Slavko Kovačič), which prepared the project study of 1st and 2nd level (Bologna reform) of Music pedagogy at PEF UM
Longtime consultant at Cankarjev dom (Ljubljana) ie. of the international cycle of guitar concerts Zvoki šestih strun as well as author of commentaries (more than 60 programme booklets between 1986 and 2011)
Coordinator of the project group which prepared the new curriculum for guitar teaching at music schools in 2003

JURY MEMBER

International Guitar Festival Guitarart, Belgrade, Serbia, 2003 and 2009
International Guitar Competition Daleki akordi, Makarska and Split, Croatia, 2008 and 2012
Mörski Guitar Festival, Murska Sobota, Slovenia, 2004 and 2010
Sarajevo Guitar Festival, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2011
International Guitar Competition, Szeged, Hungary, 2020
TEMSIG (Competition of young Slovenian musicians and ballet dancers), member of different juries in categories guitar and guitar duo, since 2000 –

PEDAGOGICAL ACTIVITY

International Summer Guitar School, Karlovac, Croatia, longtime mentor, since 2004 –
International Music Workshops Arena International, Pula, Croatia, longtime mentor, since 2002 –
Masterclass for guitar, Oslo, Norway, 2010
Masterclass for guitar, Žalec, Slovenia 2012
Masterclass for guitar, Monopoli, Italy, 2011 and 2013
Masterclass for guitar, Moscow, 2014 and 2015
Masterclass for guitar, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2014
Masterclass for guitar, Celje, Slovenia, 2018

AWARDS, MEMBERSHIPS IN IMPORTANT ORGANIZATIONS AND SOCIETIES

UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR AWARD FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, ARTISTIC AND EDUCATIONAL WORK, 2018
UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR PERLACHOVA AWARD, 2008 (UROŠ EFERL, STUDENT)
EGTA (SLOVENE GUITAR TEACHERS SOCIETY), FOUNDER AND MEMBER SINCE 2001 –
ASEG (ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEASTERN EUROPEAN GUITARISTS), MEMBER SINCE 2001 –
DGUS (SLOVENE ASSOCIATION OF MUSIC ARTISTS), MEMBER SINCE 1989 –
HDGU (CROATIAN ASSOCIATION OF MUSIC ARTISTS), MEMBER SINCE 2004 –

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