Zoran Dukić, Petrit Çeku, Maroje Brčić, and Tvrtko Sarić had their first concert together in 2016, and ever since they have played numerous tours in Croatia, Italy, Slovenia, and the Czech Republic, including several premiers of works by composers such as Viktorija Čop, Gordan Tudor and Zoran Juranić, as well as performances with The Zagreb Soloists and Varaždin Chamber Orchestra. They received the ‘Orlando’ award from Croatian Radio Television for their concert at The Dubrovnik Summer Festival in 2017. Since 2020, this ensemble has performed under the name Croatian Guitar Quartet, and in the same year they published an album called ‘Guitarrismo’ (Croatia Records), which received two Porin nominations. In 2022, they published an album called “ Bagatelles for Home Use”. Croatian Guitar Quartet plays works from all musical eras, with a special dedication to the works of Croatian composers.

Zoran Dukić
Guitarist Zoran Dukić (b. 1969 in Zagreb, Croatia) began studying guitar at the age of six; he graduated from the Music Academy of the University of Zagreb in the class of Darko Petrinjak and continued his studies under the mentorship of Hubert Käppel at the Cologne University of Music and Dance. From 1990 to 1997, he won numerous prizes throughout the world. Dukić is the only guitarist to have won both Andrés Segovia International Competitions (in Granada and Palma de Mallorca), and he was also the winner of competitions dedicated to Fernando Sor, Manuel Ponce, Manuel de Falla, and the Francisco Tárrega. At the largest Spanish guitar competition in Madrid, held under the auspices of the royal family, he not only won first prize but was also the first foreign citizen to receive the award for best interpretation of Spanish music. In addition, at many competitions, he received the audience’s prize. He has performed (as a soloist and with orchestral accompaniment) on all continents. As he dedicates particular attention to contemporary music, Dukić’s concerts often include compositions by Tekemitsu, Henze, Riley, Carter, and Gubaidulina, and many composers have dedicated their works to him. He often has tours on which he performs evening-long programs with music by Bach; he also has a special propensity towards Spanish and South American musical expression, from Sor to Albéniz to Tárrega to Villa-Lobos. He has recorded for record labels in Germany, Spain, Belgium, Brazil, and Canada. An outstanding pedagogue, he has taught numerous classes of classical guitarists at the Royal Conservatoire in the Hague and the Escola Superior de Música in Barcelona.

Petrit Çeku
Petrit Çeku has performed recitals throughout the world and was a soloist with symphonic orchestras such as the Baltimore Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Czech Chamber Philharmonic, Daejeon Philharmonic, State Hermitage Orchestra of St. Petersburg, Pannon Philharmonic and Zagreb Philharmonic. He collaborates regularly with The Zagreb Soloists and is a founding member of Guitar Trio Elogio.
Hailed by Calgary Herald as “an effortless player, with a strong, projecting sound”, Çeku is the first prize winner of many international guitar competitions, including the most prestigious ones like Parkening (Malibu, USA), Schadt (Allentown, USA), Biasini (Bologna, Italy), and Pittaluga (Alessandria, Italy).
Çeku graduated from the Zagreb Academy of Music in the class of Darko Petrinjak and continued studies in Baltimore, USA at the Peabody Conservatory in the class of Manuel Barrueco. Petrit Çeku teaches Chamber Music for Guitar at The University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria.
Çeku’s recordings have been released by Naxos, BuntArt, and Eudora Records. His album The Cello Suites was nominated for ICMA awards. The recording sessions for this album, which includes Bach’s complete cello suites, were the subject of the award-winning documentary film ‘Sarabande’ by Kaltrina Krasniqi.
Petrit Çeku is a D’Addario artist and plays on a Ross Gutmeier guitar.

Maroje Brčić
Maroje Brčić was born in Dubrovnik, Croatia, where he lives today. He began studying the guitar at the age of seven, his first teacher being his father, Stefanin Brčić. He finished secondary music school in the class of István Römer, and he graduated from the Music Academy of the University of Zagreb in the class of Darko Petrinjak. He teaches the guitar at the Arts Academy of the University of Split, often serves on judging panels at competitions, and holds professional lectures and seminars. His pupils and students have won close to one hundred first prizes at national and international competitions. Brčić has performed on concert stages for almost thirty years as a soloist, as a member of various chamber ensembles, and as a soloist with orchestral accompaniment (the Croatian Radio-Television Orchestra, the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra, the Varaždin Chamber Orchestra, the Zagreb Soloists, the Mostar Chamber Orchestra, the Sarajevo Philharmonic, the Temisoara Philharmonic, the Orchestra of the Macedonian National Opera, and the Gnessin Virtuosos of Moscow). He has performed abroad in Europe, Asia, and North America. He has encouraged numerous composers to write for the guitar, including Željko Brkanović, Nikša Njirić, Ivo Josipović, Berislav Šipuš, Philip Bracanin, Goran Listeš, Anđelko Klobučar, and Zoran Juranić. He has received the Rector’s Prize of the University of Zagreb, the Milko Trnin Award (with Dubrovnik Guitar Trio) and is a two-time winner of the Orlando Prize (in 2009 with Zoran Dukić and in 2017 with a guitar quartet consisting of Zoran Dukić, Petrit Çeku, Tvrtko Sarić, and Maroje Brčić). He has published a book discussing themes in the field of interpretation and guitar playing technique and he has recorded six CDs for record labels in Croatia and Austria.

Tvrtko Sarić
Tvrtko Sarić was born in Gospić, Croatia. His musical education began in Rijeka, where he studied for three years in the class of Nikola Jedrlinić, after which he finished secondary music school in Zagreb in the class of István Römer. He then studied at the Music Academy of the University of Zagreb, graduating in the class of Darko Petrinjak. At the Ino Mirković Music Academy in Lovran, he completed a one-year specialization course with Goran Listeš. He has had concerts in Slovenia, Austria, Italy, Germany, Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mexico, and the United States. As a soloist, he has performed with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, the Zagreb Soloists, the Celje String Orchestra, the Varaždin Chamber Orchestra, almost all string quartets in Croatia, and as a member of the Cantus Ensemble for the promotion of contemporary music. From 2010 to 2015 he was a member of the renaissance ensemble Minstrel, in which he played the lute. Since 2016, he has performed in Kvartet gitara (with Zoran Dukić, Petrit Çeku, and Maroje Brčić). With this quartet, he received the Orlando Award at the 68th Dubrovnik Summer Festival in 2017. He records for record labels in Croatia and Slovenia. He is a recipient of the Porin Award for Best Classical Music Album (performing on Berislav Šipuš’s, Zajedno [Together], Cantus, 2018). He is the founder and artistic director of several concert series in the area of Gospić and Lika-Senj County. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Education at the University of Zadar’s Gospić campus and also teaches at the music school in Črnomelj. In 2012, he founded the Degenija Choir. In 2017 was awarded the Rector’s Prize of the University of Zadar for “outstanding achievements in artistic work and direction of the Choir.”