PETAR ČULIĆ is one of the most prominent guitarists of his generation. He was born on June 26th 1986. in Split, and lives permanently in Dugi Rat. He finished primary musical school "Lovro pl. Matačić" in Omiš. Having finished the third grade of the secondary musical school "Josip Hatze" in Split, he enrolled in the first year of the Academy of Arts at the Split University; the Guitar Department in professor Goran Listeš's class. In addition to being a full-time guitar student, he has also worked as a part-time associate in "Lovro pl.Matačić" primary music school in Omiš.

So far he has held around 250 successful solo-recitals, already playing on the biggest festivals and halls over the world. He also gives masterclasses on international guitar festivals and on some competitions he is member of jury. In addition to numerous solo-recitals, he has also played in duets, quartets and with orchestra (at the age of 11 he performed Vivaldi's Concert for guitar and orchestra in D-major).

Petar Čulić, a young guitar player from Dugi Rat has performed a solo-concert at last week's «Norfolk and Norwich festival» in Great Britain. The above-mentioned festival has the longest tradition among the british festivals ( it is the oldest one, being held annualy every since 1772) and it gathers some of the world's greatest names in music, acting, dancing and visual arts. The auditorium of the Asembly House in Norwich ( the place where some of the world's greatest classical musicians such as Frederick Chopin, Nicolo Paganini, Franz Liszt, Anton Rubinstein had held their solo-concerts) was where our fellow-townsman Petar Čulić was introduced as one of the world's best upcoming young guitarists and he was on the frontpage of booklet of three-months program of the Assembly house. He was actually the youngest solo-performer at the festival. At the concert Petar performed the works of J.S.Bach, F.Sor, M.M.Ponce, N.Koskin and N.Milotti, and was given tremendous ovation by more than 120 classical music lovers.

The other most famous performers at this festival were London Philharmonic Orchestra, Balanescu quartet, Tamas Vasary, Budapest Simphony Orchestra, Andy Sheppard, John Williams etc..