LUKA LOVREKOVIĆ (HRV)

Luka Lovreković, born in 1995, started playing the guitar at the age of 8. He graduated in 2019 from the Music Academy in Zagreb where he studied in the class of Krešimir Bedek. After graduating in Zagreb he enrolled at Kunstuniversität Graz where he studied with Lukasz Kuropaczewski.

Since the beginning of his musical career, he has been involved in many cultural events and concerts in Croatia and abroad. He is a winner of numerous prizes at competitions in Croatia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands and Chile on festivals like Andres Segovia in Velbert, Viseu guitar festival, Groningen guitar festival, Brussels guitar festival, Papandopulo competition, International Guitar Competition Maurizio Biasini, International Musical Competition "Dr. Luis Sigall" etc.

He received the Oscar of Knowledge prize in 2017 from the Ministry of Science and Education in Croatia for his artistic achievements, Dean's award in 2019 from Academy of Music in Zagreb and Certificate of Appreciation from the city of Križevci in 2021. He is also the winner of competition organized by the Academy of Music in Zagreb and the Embassy of Spain in Croatia for the best performer of Spanish music in 2016. From the same year, together with guitarists Lovro Peretić and Ivan Šimatović, he is a member of an award-winning Trio Evocación.

From 2021, he works as an assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts and Music in Split, Croatia.