Edin Karamazov (born Edin Džananović in 1965) is a
Bosnian musician,
lutenist and
guitarist
A guitarist (or a guitar player) is a person who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of guitar family instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselve ...
.
Biography
Karamazov studied lute with
Hopkinson Smith at the
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. He has worked with such ensembles as
Hesperion XX,
L'Arpeggiata,
Hilliard Ensemble, Mala Punica,
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and singers
Andreas Scholl,
María Cristina Kiehr,
Arianna Savall, and
Sting.
Karamazov accompanied Andreas Scholl on his album
Wayfaring Stranger (Decca 2001). Collaborations with Sting in the field of 16th century music resulted in the album and film ''
Songs from the Labyrinth'', devoted to the lute-songs of
John Dowland (DG, 2007).
Karamazov's first solo project ''The Lute Is a Song'' (Decca, 2008) includes guest appearances of
Sting,
Renée Fleming
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and Macedonian singer and songwriter
Kaliopi.
Sting on the solo album "The Lute is a song" of Edin Karamazov
Karamazov's second solo archlute
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recording ''Britten - Bach'' (Alpha, 2011) features Benjamin Britten
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's "Nocturne" and Johann Sebastian Bach
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's violin Partita in D-minor.
He has also recorded with the Croatian women's vocal group :hr:Klapa Cesarice (Menart, 2012).
Discography
*''Confronting Silence'', with Žarko Hajdarhodžić (Hrvatsko Drustvo Skladatelja, 2004)
*''Come, Heavy Sleep'' (Alpha, 2004)
*''Concerto in Dialogo'' (Aquarius, 2004)
*'' Songs from the Labyrinth'', with Sting (Deutsche Grammophon, 2007)
*'' The Journey and the Labyrinth'' with Sting (Deutsche Grammophon, 2007)
*''The Lute Is a Song'' (L'Oiseau-Lyre, 2009)
*'' Oblivion'' with Kaliopi (Kaliopi, 2009)
*''Klapa Cesarice & Edin Karamazov'' (Menart, 2012)
*''Reminiscences: Music Inspired by the Beatles and Sting'' (Lumaudis, 2018)
*''Lachrimae'' with Božo Vrećo
Božo Vrećo ( sr-cyr, Божо Врећо; born 18 October 1983) is a Bosnian musician.
Childhood
Božo Vrećo was born in Foča, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia on October 18, 1983. His father died when he was five years old, and h ...
(Croatia, 2020)
References
External links
Biography
at ''Hoertnagel.com''
1965 births
Living people
Musicians from Zenica
Bosnia and Herzegovina classical guitarists
Lutenists
Bosniaks of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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