Nejc Kuhar
“Kuhar’s pieces were eclectic and fun...” (Washington Post)
“… Nejc Kuhar’s compositions have a strong personality and he plays them excellent. Bravo.” (Roland Dyens)
The international prizes, glowing reviews (Washington Post, Classical Guitar Magazine…) and the very response of the audience at home and abroad all point to an artist in the round, successfully negotiating the joined path of composition and interpretation.
Nejc Kuhar started to study guitar in Ljubljana (Slovenia), he finished his Masters degree in guitar at Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts with prof. Alvaro Pierri and his Masters degree in composition with Dr. Reiner Bishof and prof. Christian Minkowitsch at Konservatorium Wien, Privatuniversität, both with honours.
Since 2009 his guitar music has been published by Les Production d'Oz and The Record Label of the RTV Slovenia also released his CD "String modulations” featuring Kuhar’s music for guitar played by Mak Grgić and other finest Slovenian musicians of the young generation. He was a scholarship holder of Slovenian Culture Ministry and Gallus Foundation.
The numerous highest international prizes have come his way as a solo guitarist as well as a composer and his music was performed all around the world in prestigious venues such as Washington National Gallery of Art, Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, Rakhmaninov Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Slovene Philharmonic Hall and Cankar Hall…
Nejc is regularly giving concerts, master classes, lectures and being part of the juries on international guitar festivals (LiGiTa in Liechtenstein, Forum Wien, Taiwan Guitar Festival, Sarajevo, Seckau, Postojna Guitar Festival in Slovenia, …). His concerts are given a very special charm and uniqueness by dint of his interpretations of his own composition.