Tales of Being (The Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary Series) Georgi Dimitrov-Jojo

• John Dowland (ca. 1563 - 1626): A Fancy, P. 5:
• 1 Dowland: A Fancy, P. 5 02:46
• Hans Werner Henze (1926 - 2012): Royal Winter Music: First Sonata on Shakespearean Characters:
• 2 Henze: Royal Winter Music: First Sonata on Shakespearean Characters: IV. Ophelia 03:57
• John Dowland: A Fancy, P. 1a:
• 3 Dowland: A Fancy, P. 1a 04:17
• Hans Werner Henze: Royal Winter Music: First Sonata on Shakespearean Characters:
• 4 Henze: Royal Winter Music: First Sonata on Shakespearean Characters: II. Romeo and Juliet 04:40
• John Dowland: La mia Barbara, P. 95:
• 5 Dowland: La mia Barbara, P. 95 06:21
• Hans Werner Henze: Royal Winter Music: First Sonata on Shakespearean Characters:
• 6 Henze: Royal Winter Music: First Sonata on Shakespearean Characters: V. Touchstone, Audrey and William 03:42
• John Dowland: Forlorn Hope, P. 2:
• 7 Dowland: Forlorn Hope, P. 2 03:44
• Hans Werner Henze: Royal Winter Music: First Sonata on Shakespearean Characters:
• 8 Henze: Royal Winter Music: First Sonata on Shakespearean Characters: VI. Oberon 11:21
• Total Runtime 40:48

Info for Tales of Being (The Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary Series)

Georgi Dimitrov-Jojo is an award-winning classical guitarist – first European Bach Guitar Award in 2022, holder of The Musicians’ Company New Elizabethan Award – who enjoys a busy solo career. In his debut recording for Linn, Tales of Being, he boldly pairs two composers who lived nearly four centuries apart. John Dowland’s melancholy and feeling of loneliness are echoed by Hans Werner Henze’s musical portraits of Shakespearean characters which dive into the human condition: sorrow, suffering, hope, love. A great encounter and addition to the Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary Series.

Georgi Dimitrov, classical guitar

Georgi Dimitrov-Jojo
The Bulgarian guitarist Georgi Dimitrov-Jojo is on the path of establishing himself as an all-round classical musician, who's repertoire extends from the Renaissance epoch to the modern days. He is performing well-renowned masterpieces for the instrument, and has developed a specific proneness towards contemporary music and has been described as specialist on the works of Johann Sebastian Bach for guitar. He is the winner of some of the most important competitions for his instrument. In October 2021 he won the 1st Prize, and the special prize for best interpretation of the commissioned piece Corren los soles (2019) by the Argentine composer Alex Nante, of which he made the premiere recording. The 1st prize of the premiere edition of the European Bach Guitar Award brought Jojo to Toronto, where he had the opportunity to record a CD with Bach music with the esteemed sound engineer and guitarist Norbert Kraft for the record label NAXOS (out now). He will also become the first guitarist, as well as the first Bulgarian artist to ever be invited to perform at the legendary, prestigious festival Bachfest in Leipzig (14th of June 2024).

Georgi has studied the baroque guitar in the class of David Bergmüller, and viola da gamba in the class of Christoph Urbanetz in the Kunstuniversität Graz, and is currently in the Historical Performance class of Prof. Elizabeth Kenny in the Royal Academy of Music. Along with his involvement with historical instruments, he is also one half of the duo ChASE, where he is partnering up with the Bulgarian percussionist Sara Chakarova, creating new compositions for 7-string classical guitar with incorporated effect pedals, and percussion instruments - drum set, vibraphone, drum-machine and others. The unusual setting also defines their unique compositional style, which infuses influences from the genres of jazz, fusion, psychedelic music and progressive metal, as well as classical music. In the Royal Academy of Music in London, he has the chance to explore the new repertoire for chamber music with guitar, and soon the public can expect some experimental music for diverse configurations with different instruments. Georgi also appears in spectacles and charity balls, organized by the Art Foundation Stoyan Kambarev.

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