Guitarist Sanel Redzic won the first prize at the International biennal guitar competition in Kutna Hora, Chech Republic.
Redzic was unanimously voted the best guitarist at the open competition, in which he won second place two years ago, in the under-twenty category. This year’s winning was even more important to him, because there was no age limit this time. More than thirty guitarists performed there, all the way from Venezuela to Australia, and both the jury and the audience greeted our guitarist with a big round of applause after his finale performance.
In addition to winning an expensive guitar made by Petr Matouse and a money reward, winning this international competition would give Sanel Redzic a privilege to play a couple of major European festivals in the next two years. Fifteen concerts have already been scheduled for Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, France and Spain, and the first concert is to take place in France on June 21.
This prize is a great honor and the fourth international prize he won this year, along with Weimar, Lisbon and Markneukirchen. Sanel’s first album was released on Gramofon in 2007, and his next album is scheduled for release on Gramofon by the end of the year. The album will feature compositions of Eric Satie.