Daniela Rossi & Srdjan Bulat in the Festival Theatre

Dates: 
Saturday 26th Apr 2025 - 7.30pm to 9.30pm

We are delighted to welcome back Daniela Rossi to the Festival Theatre and to welcome Croatian virtuoso Srdjan Bulat.

Artist Biographies

Daniela Rossi
www.danielarossiguitarist.com

Described by the composer/guitarist Leo Brouwer as "…a performer with a very rare combination of energy, expression and perfect technique", Daniela Rossi is an exciting classical guitarist from Bahía Blanca, Argentina, currently based in Cambridge, UK. She studied with Lito González Velasco at the Conservatorio de Música de Bahía Blanca, from where she graduated.

She has studied with leading guitarists and teachers worldwide, including Eduardo Isaac, Paolo Pegoraro, Adriano del Sal and Graham Devine.

Daniela's interest in the music of Romantic composer Giulio Regondi has resulted in a recording featuring his works. She also enjoys collaborating with contemporary composers and recently inspired renowned composers to write for her, such as Mark Houghton (Danse Diabolique) Vincent Lindsey-Clark (The New Folias), Jeffrey McFadden (Rumores de Perales) and Dušan Bogdanović, including his Rossignol, Sonatina: Homage to J. Haydn, Winter Variations, God Bless the Child, Folia Variations and Lux et Umbra.

Her upcoming projects include concerts in Europe and Canada. Her second album Homages- Music by John W. Duarte with music by J. Duarte, Angelo Gilardino, Mark Houghton and Dusan Bogdanovic will be released by the label Brilliant Classics in July 2025. Her third album Dusan Bogdanovic Solo Guitar Works includes six premiere recordings and five works dedicated to her and will be released by the label Naxos in 2025. All three albums were recorded with the legendary sound engineer John Taylor.

She has won numerous performance awards and prizes across South America and Europe, including First Prize in the London International Guitar Competition (2015), Second Prize in the Heinsberg Guitar Competition and Festival in Germany (2017), and First Prize in the prestigious XXXVI Luis Sigall International Music Competition held in Viña del Mar, Chile (2009).

"…you are a really special poetic artist who at the same time has great intellectual clarity, two things that don’t come together very often."
Dušan Bogdanović

"It was immediately apparent that this performer had great strength of purpose that came from an internal, intuitive understanding of how the most subtle of expressions could be effectively portrayed."
Ely Standard, 2012, UK

Srdjan Bulat
https://srdjanbulat.com

"...a true concert artist of unique sensibility and expression..."
David Russell, senior lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and multiple Grammy award winner)

Srdjan Bulat (1986) is an award-winning concert classical guitarist from Split, Croatia. He is one of the most successful classical guitarists of the new generation and the top prize winner at almost all of the most important international classical guitar competitions. He has won top prizes in Benicassim (Francisco Tarrega), Almeria (Julian Arcas), Alessandria (Michele Pittaluga), Valencia (Alhambra), Madrid (Gredos San Diego), London (London International Guitar Competition), Rome (Fernando Sor), just to name a few; and has also won numerous special awards for the best interpretation of Spanish music as well as contemporary concert music, which are featured prominently in all of his recital programmes.

He has graduated summa cum laude from the Music Academy in Zagreb as the best student of his generation. He also has a Master of Arts in performance degree from the Royal Academy of Music in London, which he has successfully completed, with high distinction, in July 2014. He was awarded the prestigious ABRSM scholarship as the only international student of his generation to be given this honour. In September 2015 he completed his second postgraduate degree at the Music Academy in Zagreb, Croatia, where he specialized in classical guitar music written by contemporary Croatian composers.

He has given many solo recitals and masterclasses around the world (London, Paris, Rome, Madrid, Oslo, Kopenhagen, Helsinki, New York, Chicago, Toronto), and has recorded two full lenght solo albums – his first for RTVE (Spanish National Radio Television), and his second for the prestigious recording company Naxos, which was released in September 2012.

He is currently working as a freelance concert artist in Zagreb, Croatia

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Location: 
Festival Theatre, Cambridge Buddhist Centre
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