Mislav Režić is one of the most prominent Croatian musicians who leads an active international career as a soloist and chamber musician. A wide interest in musical styles and the ability to perform both on period and modern instruments (including the electric guitar) led him to collaborations with different musicians and ensembles. Having a special interest in contemporary music and new compositional contexts, he commissions and often gives first performances of the new works for guitar, enriching in that way the repertoire of the instrument. Composers Vlado Sunko, Nikoleta Chatzopoulou, Michalis Paraskakis, Sofia Avramidou have dedicaded their solo works to him. He is the founding member of ensembles Machetes, based in the Netherlands, and Tetttix, based in Greece, specialized in contemporary music. So far, he has performed as a soloist or with musicians such as: percussionists Pepe Garcia and Diego Espinosa, harpsichordist Cvetanka Sozovska, mezzo-soprano Tanja Šimić, soprano Georgia Balabini, baritone Jussi Lehtipuu, violinist Laura Vadjon, flutists Antigoni Tsalla and Gregor Schulenburg, saxophonists Gordan Tudor and Guido de Flaviis, in the concert venues of European and North American cities, among others –  Split summer festival, Korkyra Baroque festival, Smash festival Salamanca, Bridges, Tectonics and Athens and Epidaurus festivals in Athens, Eleusis European capital of culture 2023, Time of Music in Vitasaari, Finland, and in halls like Greek National Opera, Onassis Cultural center, Greek national conservatory, The Knoll at Stanford University, Centre for new music in San Francisco, European Parliament in Bruxelles, etc.

He studied at the Academy of Arts in his hometown of Split, Croatia and in the Netherlands where he obtained Master’s degrees both at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and the Conservatory of Maastricht. He has won many Croatian national and two international music prizes (International Guitar Competitions in Zwolle 2002 and Enschede 2007) and in 2003 Croatian Society of Music prize.

Mislav Režić is the the co-founder and artistic director of the chamber music festival Musical Evening at St. Jerome’s and conducts the annual international summer guitar course, both in Kaštela, Croatia. His solo CD “Auburn” with contemporary music for guitar was released in January 2017 by Greek independent label DNA.

The duo with Gordan Tudor was the winner of the Concert hall Ivo Tijardović – Hrvatski dom Split award for the season 2023/24. Together with the award, Gordan Tudor and Mislav Režić were named artists in residence of the Concert hall in Split for the season 2024/25. Their first album with contemporary Croatian music will be released in January 2025 for HDS – Cantus.

Mr. Režić is Hannabach and Hatzinikolaou guitars artist.

Oct 2024