Jadran Duncumb
Jadran Duncumb is an Oslo-based English-Croatian-Norwegian lutenist, since spring 2023 appointed as artistic director of Barokkanerne - Norwegian Baroque Ensemble. His musical career started as a guitarist in 2008. As a student at Barratt Due music institute with Vegard Lund as teacher, he was a finalist in both NRK Virtuos and BBC Young Musician of the Year, which led to his debut concert in Wigmore Hall. In 2016, after almost four years of countless lessons on lute, theorbe and baroque guitar with Rolf Lislevand as teacher, he took a diploma cum laude in lute and basso continuo at the state music school in Trossingen, Germany. In the same year he won first prize in the world's only international lute competition, "Maurizio Pratola" in L'Aquila, Italy, which led to his first international invitations as a lute soloist. In addition to being Barokkaneren's permanent lutenist, he mainly performs solo and chamber music on lute and historical guitars. His characteristic basso continuo playing has been praised by, among others, Diapason for the fullness, sensitivity and virtuosity it shows. As a chamber musician, he has visited Europe's most important halls with musicians such as Giuliano Carmignola, Lina Tur Bonet, Johannes Pramsohler, Kinga Ujszászi and Giovanni Sollima. His first solo CD was released in 2018 on French Audax Records with music from the High Baroque by Sylvius Weiss and Johann Hasse, while the first volume of Bach's lute music was released in February 2021 on the same label and received the French award "Diapason d'or".
