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Nico Buri is one of the most exciting young Swiss guitarists of his generation. Born in Zurich, he began playing the classical guitar at the age of 9 and his fascination for the instrument and its endless possibilities has grown ever since. He was later accepted into the class of world-renowned guitarist Craig Ogden at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and started studying there in September 2019. During his second year, Nico achieved extraordinary success by becoming a finalist in the RNCM Gold Medal Prize, a competition which is open to the whole undergraduate and postgraduate student body. He is the only guitarist in the college’s history to have reached the finals of this most prestigious competition in just his second undergraduate year.
Nico has also achieved success in his home country, winning First Prize in the Swiss Youth Music Competition in 2017 and 2021. In 2020 he was awarded Third Prize in the final of the 17th Altamira International Guitar Competition in Italy and he was also a prize winner in the International Rago Competition in Stuttgart, Germany.
Currently in his third year at the RNCM, Nico is in increasing demand as both a soloist and chamber musician. He achieved the highest ever mark for a second year guitar recital in 2021 with the panel commenting on his “Exceptionally idiomatic, creative and spontaneous playing” and his “outstanding musicianship and complete technical control.” and his “ outstanding musicianship and complete technical control”. Nico’s solo programme’s explore some of the richest diversity within the classical guitar repertoire, from the solo violin sonatas and partitas of J.S.Bach through to substantial works by composers including Schubert, Rodrigo Regondi, Villa-Lobos and Ponce.
Programme
Sonata for Solo Violin in C Major BWV 1005
Adagio
Fuga
Largo
Allegro
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685- 1750)
A Fancy (P5)
John Dowland (1563- 1626)
Tres Piezas Espanolas
Fandango
Passacaglia
Zapatedo
Joaquin Rodrigo (1901 - 1999)