Žarko Ignjatović (SLO)
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Žarko Ignjatović
Guitarist Žarko Ignjatović graduated at the Academy of Music in Zagreb (Croatia) under prof. Darko Petrinjak in 1983 and at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Graz (Austria) in the class of prof. Marga Bäuml-Klasinc in 1987. He completed his postgraduate studies at the Salzburg Mozarteum under prof. Eliot Fisk in 1995. He attended numerous master classes all around the world (held by Julian Bream, John Williams, Assad Brothers, etc.) and won many prizes at national competitions.
He has been living in Ljubljana since 1984 and teaches at the Faculty of Education in Maribor (Slovenia). As a performer, Ignjatović is active both as a soloist as well as a member of various chamber groups. His first solo recording with compositions by Weiss, Piazzolla, Tippett, Bogdanović and Rojko was published in 1998, whereas the second one, Hic et Nunc, with the contemporary Slovene music in 2001. He also appeared on Cveto Kobal’s CD 20th Century Flute Music, published in 2003. Together with Jerko Novak, he released two recordings of guitar duos (2005 and 2013), with cellist Nebojša Bugarski a CD Southwest Meets Southeast in 2010, with mezzosoprano Barbara Jernejčič Fürst a digital album in 2020 and the most recently, in 2022 CD Dialogue with clarinetist Slavko Kovačič.
Many years is active as a jury member at national and international guitar competitions (TEMSIG, Slovenia; Guitar art festival Beograd, Serbia; Distant chords Split, Croatia; Mörski festival Murska Sobota, Slovenia; Sarajevo International Guitar Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Moscow International Festival of Slavic Music, Russia).