Croatia

Dominik Carević was born on February 3rd, 1998 in Zagreb, Croatia. He started playing the guitar at the age of 11 at Ivan Zajc Music School with professor Hrvoje Ton and immediately showed a distinct talent for music. He continued his education at Fortunat Pintarić Art School in Koprivnica with professor Antonio Rumenović where he completed three years of High School and enrolled in University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz (Austria) in the class of professor Paolo Pegoraro.

He has won more than 20 awards in various national and international competitions, among which the most important are: 1st place in the category with no age limit in the International Guitar Competition Bale- Valle 2016., 1st place in the European Classical Guitar Competition “Enrico Mercatali” 2016 Gorizia (Italy), 1st place at the International Guitar Festival Rust 2017 (Austria), 1st prize in the International Competition Porecki  Tirando 2016, 1st place in category no age limit at the International Tremolo Guitar Fest 2016 Skopje (Macedonia), 1st prize at the Omiš Guitar Fest˝2014, 1st place at the Zagreb Guitar Festival 2016, 1st place in the European Classical Guitar Competition “Enrico Mercatali” 2013 Gorizia (Italy), 2nd place at the Guitar Art Festival 2016 Belgrade (Serbia), a special prize in the International Competition for Young Guitarists Andrés Segovia˝2014. 3rd place in the International Competition Rago 2016 Stuttgart (Germany), 3rd place in the International Competition for Young Guitarists Andrés Segovia˝2016. Monheim am Rhein (Germany) and many other awards.

He regularly works with renowned professors such as Łukasz Kuropaczewski, Hubert Kappel, Carlo Marchione, Zoran Dukić, Lorenzo Michelli, Marcin Dylla, Petrit Çeku, Martin Mysliveček, Brian Head, Margarita Escarpa, Jorgos Panetsos and many others.