Daniela Rossi & Dušan Bogdanović in the Festival Theatre

Album Launch Concert – Guitar Works by Dušan Bogdanović (Naxos)

Daniela Rossi – Dušan Bogdanović – Guitar

This concert marks the official album launch of Guitar Works, a recording devoted entirely to the music of Dušan Bogdanović, and the result of a unique artistic collaboration that has unfolded over several years.

The album brings together works spanning more than four decades of Bogdanović's writing for guitar, with a special focus on a large body of pieces written specifically for Daniela Rossi. These dedications form the heart of the project: music that grew out of an ongoing dialogue between composer and performer, shaped through conversation, experimentation, and shared artistic curiosity. In many ways, the album can be understood as a kind of multidimensional diary – a living document that reflects different moments, aesthetics, and inner landscapes within Bogdanović’s musical universe.

The concert programme will centre primarily on this album repertoire, offering an intimate insight into the sound world captured on the recording: a language where tradition and innovation coexist, where counterpoint, colour, rhythm, and freedom are in constant conversation.

The evening will also include a special second part featuring duos with Dušan Bogdanović himself. Together, Rossi and Bogdanović will perform a selection of his works alongside music by the great Bulgarian pianist and composer Milcho Leviev. These pieces, originally written for piano, have been arranged by Bogdanović for guitar duo, revealing new textures and perspectives while preserving their distinctive rhythmic vitality and expressive depth.

This album launch concert is not only a presentation of a recording, but a celebration of artistic collaboration, shared listening, and the living process of music-making – an invitation to experience these works both as carefully shaped compositions and as vibrant, human expressions in the moment.

Tickets are available in advance via our website with limited tickets on the door from 7pm.

Full programme details to follow.

Daniela Rossi

danielarossiguitarist.com

Described by the composer/guitarist Leo Brouwer as "…a performer with a very rare combination of energy, expression and perfect technique", Daniela Rossi is an exciting classical guitarist from Bahía Blanca, Argentina, currently based in Cambridge, UK. She studied with Lito González Velasco at the Conservatorio de Música de Bahía Blanca, from where she graduated.

She has studied with leading guitarists and teachers worldwide, including Eduardo Isaac, Paolo Pegoraro, Adriano del Sal and Graham Devine.

Daniela’s interest in the music of Romantic composer Giulio Regondi has resulted in a recording featuring his works. She also enjoys collaborating with contemporary composers and recently inspired renowned composers to write for her, such as Mark Houghton (Danse Diabolique) Vincent Lindsey-Clark (The New Folias), Jeffrey McFadden (Rumores de Perales) and Dušan Bogdanović, including his Rossignol, Sonatina: Homage to J. Haydn, Winter Variations, God Bless the Child, Folia Variations and Lux et Umbra.

Her upcoming projects include concerts in Europe and Canada. Her second album "Homages - Music by John W. Duarte" with music by J. Duarte, Angelo Gilardino, Mark Houghton and Dusan Bogdanovic has just been released by the label Brilliant Classics.

She has won numerous performance awards and prizes across South America and Europe, including First Prize in the London International Guitar Competition (2015), Second Prize in the Heinsberg Guitar Competition and Festival in Germany (2017), and First Prize in the prestigious XXXVI Luis Sigall International Music Competition held in Viña del Mar, Chile (2009).

"…you are a really special poetic artist who at the same time has great intellectual clarity, two things that don’t come together very often".
Dušan Bogdanović

"…It was immediately apparent that this performer had great strength of purpose that came from an internal, intuitive understanding of how the most subtle of expressions could be effectively portrayed".
Ely Standard, 2012, UK

Dušan Bogdanović

Described as "a composer of masterful craft with a genuine clarity and purity of vision"(Guitar Review), Dušan Bogdanović has developed a personal synthesis of contemporary classical, jazz and world music. His work numbers over two hundred published compositions, including a variety of commissions for solo guitar, chamber ensembles, orchestra and multimedia, as well as numerous recordings. Early in his career, he received the only First Prize at the Geneva Competition and gave a highly acclaimed debut recital at Carnegie Hall in 1977.

Dušan’s theoretical work includes Polyrhythmic and Polymetric Studies, Counterpoint for Guitar and Harmony for Classical Guitar published by Edizione Curci, as well as Ex Ovo and Tradition and Synthesis published by Doberman/Production d’Oz. After having taught at the Belgrade Music University and at the San Francisco Conservatory, Dušan was engaged by the Haute école de musique de Genève from 2007 to 2020.