The world-famous Greek virtuoso COSTAS COTSIOLIS first introduced himself to the Bratislava audience in 1979, at the fourth edition of the Guitar Festival. It is a pleasure that he has regularly included Bratislava in his extraordinarily rich concert activities in the following years and will again perform at this year's festival. He dedicates his concert performance to the music created by his friends, the world-renowned composers Leo Brouwer from Cuba, Mikis Theodorakis from Greece and Carlo Domeniconi from Italy. In addition, in his performance, joined by the BRATISLAVA GUITAR QUARTET, he will perform at the programme popular suite on The Beatles songs - Beatlerianas by Maestro Leo Brouwer - it will be the World Premiere of complete suite in arrangement for guitar and guitar quartet (arr. Martin Krajco).

The concert is part of the 47th Guitar festival of J. K. Mertz. Organiser: Society of J. K. Mertz, Co-organiser: Bratislava Cultural and Information Centre. Part of the Bratislava City Festival Cultural Summer 2023.
Supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council - Main partner of the Festival.
The event was financially supported by the Music Fund Slovakia, Social and cultrual fund of SOZA, The Embassy of Spain and Polish Institute in Bratislava, Fidelitas Clinic Centre and with the support of other partners.

Performers:

Costas Cotsiolis (Greece)
Bratislava Guitar Quartet (Slovakia)

ORGANIZERS:

Spoločnosť J. K. Mertza

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