I discovered a wonderful young classical guitarist on YouTube. Iva Kosić is a Serbian musician studying classical guitar at a German university. She recently graduated with a Masters degree in music. She performs concerts, teaches online, and is active on social media where she creates and posts her own YouTube videos.
This performance of Mariage d’Amour – Paul de Senneville played by Iva Kosić is so beautiful I had to post it. On Dec 24, 2023, Iva Kosić gifted her followers with this YouTube video and holiday message: “For Christmas Eve I am sharing with you my performance of this well-known piano piece played on classical guitar. Merry Christmas and enjoy🎄💖” She also posted a YT Short version of it on a loop.
Iva later wished her fans a Happy Valentine’s Day🌹 with this beautiful romantic Short, Romance (Wiki). See more videos on her social media: YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook.
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Another Serbian musician I enjoy listening to is classical pianist and harpist Nadja Dornik. I posted a few performances she recorded at the Belgrade Philharmonic Concert Hall. Nadja Dornik performs her beautiful transcription of Chopin’s Fantaisie-Impromptu Op.66 for a harp. Almost a year later she performed the same piece on piano in Paris where she studies. While in Belgrade she recorded each of the three movements of Claude Debussy’s Suite Bergamasque, L.75. I link to the first two and posted the famous third movement: Harpist Nadja Dornik beautifully performs Claude Debussy’s romantic composition Clair de Lune.
New: Boris Björn Bagger plays the well-known piano piece Passacaglia by Händel & Halvorsen on guitar
I later found a young Indonesian musician, Amy Evelyn (Amy Tapping), playing Passacaglia and Mariage d’Amour on a double neck electric guitar using a two-handed tapping technique. Impressive!
To see other inspiring artists featured on The Uncarved Blog, scroll through the Archive of the ‘Music’ Category.
— Written and compiled (citing sources) by Ken Chawkin for The Uncarved Blog.
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