10.21.23

Lovro Peretić

Lovro Peretić

Winner of the 2022 Guitar Foundation of America's Solo Artist Competition 

Lovro Peretić is an internationally award winning classical guitarist from Zagreb (Croatia). Lovro started studying guitar at a young age under Prof. Xhevdet Sahatxhija.

Date: Saturday, October 21, 2023

Time: 7:30pm

Location: Regent Street Black Box Theater at the Eccles

144 South Regent Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84111

Workshop: Friday, October 20, 2023

Time: 4:00pm

Location: Leon and Karen F. Peterson Building

182 S 600 E, Salt Lake CIty, UT 84102

Lovro Peretić is an internationally award winning classical guitarist from Zagreb (Croatia). Lovro started studying guitar at a young age under Prof. Xhevdet Sahatxhija. He graduated with distinction from the Music Academy in Zagreb under Prof. Darko Petrinjak, spent one year in a student exchange program at L’École Supérieure Musique et Danse Hauts-de-France in Lille (France) with Prof. Judicaël Perroy, and studied under Judicaël Perroy at the Haute Ecole de Musique Genève in Switzerland.

Lovro is regarded as one of the leading guitarists of the younger generation. He has won over 30 prizes in international competitions including the

• Changsha International Guitar Competition (China)

• Andres Segovia guitar competition in Velbert (Germany)

• Anna Amalia guitar competition in Weimar (Germany)

• Zagreb Guitar Festival (Croatia)

• Boris Papandopulo music competition in Zagreb (Croatia)

• Antwerpen Guitar Festival (Belgium)

• Enrico Mercatali guitar competition in Gorizia (Italy)

• Fernando Sor guitar competition in Rome (Italy)

• Volos Guitar Competition (Greece)

• Concours international de guitare d'Antony (France)

• Peja International Guitar Festival (Kosovo)

• Sarajevo International Guitar Festival (B&H)

• “Paola Ruminelli” international chamber music competition (Italy)

• Split Guitar Festival (Croatia)

• Mörski festival kitare (Slovenia)

• International guitar competition ”Porečki tirando”

• Brussels International Guitar Competition ”Ilse and Nicolas Alfonso” (Belgium),

• International guitar competition ”Ida Presti” (Croatia)

In 2020, Lovro won the Eurostrings Guitar Competition, arguably the biggest competition for guitar in Europe, which brought him an opportunity to give numerous concerts and master classes in 18 European countries.

In 2022, he won the International Concert Artist competition of the Guitar Foundation of America and has continued to perform throughout the United States and Canada.

Lovro regularly performs in various chamber music groups including guitar trio Evocación who recently released their first album. As a soloist, he has performed with the Symphony Orchestra of Croatian radio television, Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra, Zagreb Soloists, and more.