Klasinc & Lončar Biography

The Klasinc & Lončar Guitar Duo, the Croatian husband-and-wife team of concert artists and guitar pedagogues, is based in the vibrant Loudoun County in Northern Virginia.

Their most recent performances include the the Croatian Embasy in Washington, the Guitar Foundation of America Conference in Los Angeles, the European Guitar Teachers Association, the Appalachian GuitarFest, Tennessee Guitar Festival, the Vicksburg International Chamber Music Festival, and the Classical Guitar Ensemble Week in New Orleans where they appeared along with the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet and the Assad Brothers. The duo has performed with the Gaudeamus Chamber Orchestra, the Karlovac Chamber Orchestra, and the Split Opera Chamber Orchestra in Croatia; with the Camerata Academica in Austria; and with the Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra in the U.S.

Klasinc and Lončar formed their duo at the University of Graz, Austria, where they both studied the classic guitar with Marga Bäuml and Martin Mysliveček. They received their doctor of musical arts degrees from the University of Southern Mississippi.

Klasinc & Lončar are winners of the Best Guitar Duo prize at the International Guitar Competition Toyoko Yamashita in Berlin.

In addition to performing, and teaching, Miroslav Lončar is also active as a composer. A grant from the Music Teachers National Association allowed him to study composition with Dušan Bogdanović in San Francisco. Miroslav is a member of the Education Committee for the Guitar Foundation of America.

Nataša Klasinc won numerous prizes at a number of national competitions in Croatia, including the Competition for Music Artists of Yugoslavia. While a student in Graz, she was a recipient of the Austrian National Scholarship. Nataša was also a winner of the University of Southern Mississippi Symphony Concerto Competition.

Klasinc & Lončar have released two recordings: Images, featuring music for two guitars, and Con Spirito, which consists mostly of Lončar's transcriptions for two guitars and cello. Miroslav's solo album, From Foreign Lands, features some of the most famous works for solo guitar.