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Some months later having not heard from the Academy, he made an anxious phone call and it transpired that his acceptance letter had got lost in the post. He had in fact been offered a scholarship to study with Michael Lewin, the professor Miloš still describes as ‘a guide and mentor in every way’.
As a young boy growing up in
Montenegro, Miloš did not pay the Beatles much attention, preferring to concentrate on classical repertoire. He was therefore surprised when his teacher at London’s Royal Academy suggested he learned Yesterday in an arrangement by Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu.
“But then I studied the piece and fell in love with it completely – and audiences loved it too,” Miloš explains.
Blackbird was recorded in the famous Studio 2 of Abbey Road Studios where the Beatles recorded almost all of their songs. The sessions also used some of the original microphones.
Photography courtesy of Mercury Classics
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fter delighting audiences with his classical recordings, award winning guitarist Miloš Karadaglic makes a thrilling departure with his recently released highly acclaimed album Blackbird – a collection of Beatles favourites, performed with a host of internationally renowned guest artists. Born in Montenegro in 1983, Miloš started to play the guitar when he was eight. Possessing an outstanding natural talent, and driven by a formidable work ethic, despite the obstacles facing his tiny country and its warring neighbours,
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Miloš was determined to follow his dream. Guitarist David Russell suggested to the teenage Miloš, whom he met at a masterclass, that the Royal Academy of Music in London was the place to go – but this was Montenegro in the late 1990s. “You couldn’t just log onto the internet and find out what this Royal Academy of Music was,” Miloš explains. “I went to the British Council, they got me a prospectus. I couldn’t go to London so I decided to record an audition tape and send it in secret. I didn’t tell my parents until afterwards.”
“The spirit, the whole magic of this space was truly intoxicating. It was a bit like they were all there,” says Miloš. He performs innovative new arrangements of Beatles numbers, collaborating with celebrated artists from the pop, jazz, classical and world music fields, including singers Gregory Porter and Tori Amos, sitar player Anoushka Shankar, cellist Steven Isserlis and Brazilian guitar-composer Sergio Assad. The album includes such beloved tracks as Blackbird, Come Together, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Eleanor Rigby, Fool on the Hill and many others. Bringing the classical guitar to as wide an audience as possible has always been Miloš’ mission. In addition to the Beatles songbook, extensive worldwide touring, charity work and numerous other repertoire commissions, the 2016/2017 season will see Miloš give two brand new concerto premieres – one by Howard Shore (Lord of the Rings, Hobbit, Departed), the other by Joby Talbot (Adventures of Alice in Wonderland, Winter’s Tale). He continues to live in London, keeping close ties with his family and homeland. Blackbird is on Mercury Classics.
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