Petrit Ceku
Petrit
Ceku was born in 1985 in Prizren, Kosovo. He attended a primary music school
there where he received instruction from Luan Sapunxhiu. In 2002, he moved
to Zagreb, Croatia, where he continued his music education under the instruction
of Xhevdet Sahatxhija. He won first prize in the all-Croatian Competition
in Dubrovnik in 2003 as well as first in the international guitar competition
"Anna Amalia" in Weimar, Germany.The next year, he won the "Emilio Pujol" guitar competition in Sassari, Italy, as well as the "Andrés Segovia" in Velbert, Germany. Also in 2004, he represented Croatia in the European Music Prize for Youth in Dubrovnik and won first prize as well as the Croatian Composers' Union prize for the performance of a work by a Croatian composer. In the same year, he became a student in Darko Petrinjak's class at the Music Academy in Zagreb. Petrit Ceku was the only guitarist in the international young music artists competition "Ferdo Livadic" in Samobor, Croatia, and won first prize by unanimous decision of the jury. He won the annual prize of The Croatian Music Youth in the year 2005.
Petrit Ceku was awarded with First Prize in the ‘Michele Pittaluga Competition’ in Alessandria, Italy (2007). He is also the owner of The Silver Medal in ‘The Parkening International Guitar Competition’ in Malibu, California and got the second prize in the ‘Printemps de la guitare’ in Charleroi, Belgium last year.
Ceku has taken part in master classes led by Manuel Barrueco, Zoran Dukic, Carlo Marchione, Ehat Musa, Scott Tennant and Ana Vidovic. For several years, he has attended Strings Only!, the summer school for string instruments, led by the renomed cellist Valter Despalj. Ceku currently resides in Zagreb, Croatia.
PETRIT CEKU
email: petritceku@hotmail.com
