Zoran Dukic is one of the most prominent guitarists of the new generation. He was born in 1969 in Zagreb, Croatia where he started to play the guitar at the age of six. He graduated from the Music Academy of Zagreb with Darko Petrinjak and completed his studies with Hubert Käppel at the Hochschule für Music in Cologne, Germany.

Zoran Dukic has won an incredible amount of international guitar competitions, in fact, more than any other guitarist in the world. Listed below are some of his most important prizes presented in chronological order:

	First Prize “International Guitar Competition” in Mettmann, Germany 1991.
	First Prize “Andrés Segovia” Int. Guitar Competition in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 1991.
	First Prize “Dakar International Guitar Competition in Senegal, 1992.
	First Prize “Guerrero” International Guitar Competition in Madrid, Spain, 1992 – plus the special jury prize for the best interpretation of Spanish music).
	First Prize “20th International Guitar Competition in Viña del Mar, Chile, 1993 – plus the Prize of the Public
	First Prize “20th “Francisco Tárrega” Int. Guitar Competition in Benicasim, Spain, 1994 – plus received the Prize of the Public
	First Prize “International Guitar Competition “Printemps de la Guitarre” Belgium, 1994 – plus the Special Prize from the “Belgian Composer’s Association”
	First Prize “Andrés Segovia” International Guitar Competition in Granada, Spain, 1996 the only guitarist to win both of the “Andrés Segovia” competitions – Granada & Palma
	First Prize “De Bonis” International Guitar Competition in Cosenza, Italy, 1997 – plus the Prize of Public
	First Prize “Manuel Maria Ponce” International Guitar Competition in Tredrez-France, 1996

Zoran Dukic has been a featured soloist in more then 30 countries on five continents in the most important concert halls such as: Het Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Teatre de la Monnaie in Brussels, Maison de Radio France in Paris, The National Art Gallery in Ottawa, the Luis Angel Arango hall in Bogota and the Çemal Resit Rey in Istanbul. He is regularly invited to give Master Classes in international festivals all over the world and often appears as a featured soloist with orchestras from: Spain, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Hungary, Switzerland, Taiwan, Columbia, Chile and Croatia.

Zoran Dukic is also a very active chamber music performer and a founding member of the guitar trio “Trio de Cologne”. He has recorded compact discs for labels in Germany, Spain and Belgium. He is currently teaching at the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague, Holland, Hochschule für Musik in Aachen, Germany and at the Escuela Superior de Musica de Barcelona, Spain.

	Kölnische Rundschau (Germany): “…the 26-year old string genius from Zagreb showed both technical brilliance and tenderness,… with the artistic potential and expressive power of life itself,… This is a musician not a guitarist…”
	Guitarres, Brussels (Belgium): “enormously rich qualities of phrasing and rubato always at the service of the poetic dimensions of the music.”
	Vecernji List, Zagreb (Croatia): “…This review is not a scream of amazement or adoration but an honest tribute to the purest joy of music."
	Il Gazzetino, Pordenone (Italy): “… always the master of his instrument, Dukic demonstrated spectacular virtuosity over and over again together with a great maturity and powerful inspiration.”