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ustvarjanja. Nedavno je virtuozni makedonski<br />
kitarist izdal solistični album<br />
»Thunder From The Blue Sky«, ki oslikava<br />
njegove kitaristične korenine in vzore. Na<br />
albumu med drugim gostuje tudi legendarni<br />
nizozemski kitarist Jan Akkerman.<br />
Stefanovski se uspešno poskuša tudi kot<br />
avtor glasbe številnih filmov, ki jo je leta<br />
2001 zbral in izdal v kompilaciji Kino Kultura.<br />
Univerza Cirila in Metoda v Skopju<br />
je leta 2007 njegovo glasbeno udejstvovanje<br />
nagradila s častnim doktoratom.<br />
Vlatko Stefanovski was born in 1957 in Prilep,<br />
FYR of Macedonia in a theatrical family.<br />
He started playing guitar at the age of<br />
13. It is not easy to describe what Vlatko<br />
Stefanovski does with his guitar; it seems<br />
that he has been on a quest for his whole<br />
career to discover the real possibilities of the<br />
instrument. For the last thirty years his work,<br />
both with his band Leb i Sol and his solo<br />
output, has reflected his diverse tastes and<br />
delicate guitar playing. Not many people<br />
have John McLaughlin, Mark Knopfler, Allan<br />
Holdsworth, and Joe Satriani praising<br />
their work. His precise, flowing style was one<br />
of the identifying trademarks of Leb i Sol’s<br />
sound and regardless whether he is playing<br />
acoustic or electric guitar, Stefanovski<br />
has demonstrated musical qualities that<br />
have made him one of the most exciting<br />
and progressive European guitarists. After<br />
Leb I sol he developed a very successful solo<br />
career. In 1997, together with Miroslav Tadić,<br />
a professor at CalArts in LA, he recorded Krushevo<br />
a collection of traditional songs and<br />
reels played on two guitars, which to this<br />
very day is one of the highlights of his career<br />
as a recording and performing artist. His<br />
latest release ‘Thunder from the Blue Sky’<br />
is a magnifi-cent blues record with guitar<br />
legend Jan Akkerman (Focus) contributing<br />
his part and perfectly complementing the<br />
almost dizzying playing of the 6-string virtuoso<br />
from Macedonia. Stefanovski wrote<br />
music for several films which was later collected<br />
and released as Kino Kultura in 2001.<br />
In 2007 Stefanovski was honoured a doctorate<br />
honoris causa at Skopje’s University St.<br />
Kiril and Metodij.<br />
Knut Erik Sundquist<br />
Na Festival Maribor se vrača tudi Knut Erik<br />
Sundquist, eden najodličnejših kontrabasistov<br />
iz dežele fjordov. Sedem let je bil<br />
član Filharmoničnega orkestra Bergen,<br />
danes pa redno nastopa z Norveškim komornim<br />
orkestrom, Norveškim baročnim<br />
orkestrom, Festivalskim orkestrom Lucern<br />
ter Mahlerjevim komornim orkestrom<br />
pod vodstvom Claudia Abbada. Nekdanji<br />
nogometaš je priljubljeni šport opustil<br />
zaradi študija glasbe, prvi kontrabas, ki<br />
ga je prijel v roke, pa je bil izdelan kar<br />
doma; iz vratu očetove kitare in plošče<br />
z domače mize. Na začetku je igral jazz,<br />
nato pa se je pridružil orkestru v mestu<br />
Tromsø. Kot pravi sam, je Mozartov Rekviem<br />
v njem prebudil življenje. Njegovi<br />
recitali so cenjeni tako na Norveškem kot<br />
v tujini, žirija festivala Northern Lights ga<br />
je tako nagradila za dosežke v njegovi<br />
glasbeni karieri. V obrazložitvi so še posebej<br />
pohvalili njegov »suveren nadzor<br />
nad instrumentom, ki je dovršen tako<br />
glasbeno kot tehnično« ter njegov čisti,<br />
elegantni in sijajni zvok. V domačem Harstadu<br />
je Sundquist kontrabasist in vodja<br />
orkestra Divison Music Corps, sicer pa je<br />
tudi član frankfurtskega Ensemble Modern,<br />
s katerim izvaja vsa pomembnejša<br />
dela sodobnih skladateljev.<br />
IZVAJALCI / PERFORMERS<br />
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