Petrit Ceku

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Petrit Ceku (born 2 June 1985) is a young classical guitarist from Kosovo who has won several awards for his music.

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Petrit Ceku was born in Prizren, Kosovo. He attended a primary music school there where he received instruction from Luan Sapunxhiu. In 2002, he moved to Zagreb, Croatia, where he continued his music education at the music high school "Pavao Markovac", under the instruction of Xhevdet Sahatxhija. He won first prize in the all-Croatian Competition in Dubrovnik in 2003 as well as first in the international guitar competition "Anna Amalia" in Weimar, Germany.

The next year, he won the "Emilio Pujol" guitar competition in Sassari, Italy, as well as the "Andrés Segovia" in Velbert, Germany. Also in 2004, he represented Croatia in the European Music Prize for Youth in Dubrovnik and won first prize as well as the Croatian Composers' Union first prize for the performance of a work by a Croatian composer. Also that year, he became a student in Darko Petrinjak's class at the Music Academy in Zagreb. The year 2005 saw him on the concert stage in several Croatian towns as well as in Prishtina, Kosovo, and in Weimar, Germany. In his concert at the Croatian Music Institute in Zagreb he not only received flattering press reviews, but also won the annual prize of the Croatian Music Youth. He was the only guitarist in the young music artists' competition "Ferdo Livadić" in Samobor, Croatia, and won first prize by unanimous decision of the jury.

Ceku has taken part in master classes led by Manuel Barrueco, Zoran Dukić, Ana Vidović, Carlo Marchione, Ehat Musa, and Scott Tennant. For several years, he has attended Strings Only!, the summer school for string instruments in Zadar on the Croatian coast. Ceku currently resides in Zagreb, Croatia.