Paris based Slovenian guitarist, improviser, and composer Primož Sukič was born in Koper, Slovenia in 1986. He studied at the Academy of music in Ljubljana, at the Akademie für Tonkunst Darmstadt, and at the HoGent conservatory Ghent.
Along with percussionist Ruben Orio he is a founding member of the Third Guy duo, where the two musicians constantly collaborate with other artists, and explore boundaries between improvisation, and composition as well as music and other artistic media. He is also a founding member of the group Replicant (Paris) which includes guitar, saxophone, and electronics. Their music blends contemporary written scores, improvisatory practices and rock.
His compositions are based on open form, interagency, and performer/composer practice, and feature works for solo electric guitar, group settings, and sound installations. He’s also exploring studio production techniques as means of composition.
As a performer his main interests are exploring and widening the possibilities of his instruments, both classical and electric guitar. Through improvised music practices, and constant collaboration with composers of all generations he is trying to expand the solo and chamber music guitar repertoire and is regularly presenting it on renowned festivals and concert venues around Europe, South America and United States such as Musica festival Strasbourg, Klangspuren festival Innsbruck, Cafe Oto, Spectrum NYC, Rhizome DC Washington, the Venice Biennale etc.
He is a regular member of ensemble ICTUS Brussels, and PlusMinus London, and also performs with groups as Soundinitiative (Paris), and Neofonia (Ljubljana). He regularly collaborates with dancer Jacob Storer, percussion player Seijiro Murayama, composer François Sarhan and his group “Something Out there”.
His first solo album entitled “Splitting” (Editions Zavod Sploh, 2016) features contemporary solo guitar works by composers Luciano Berio, Michael Maierhof, Vinko Globokar, Juan Camilo Vasquez, Uroš Rojko, and Peter Ablinger. In collaboration with English clarinet player Tom Jackson he also released an album of improvised music entitled “The Godson’s Way” (Roam releases, 2020), and in November 2021 has released a monographic CD of a 45 minutes work by American composer Michael Pisaro-Liu entitled “Mind is moving IX” (Inexhaustible Editions, 2021).
His passion for teaching, and knowledge transition have led him to give workshops and masterclasses in guitar, and guitar related topics at institutions such as USP São Paulo, Academy of music Ljubljana, Reid University Edinburgh, Guildhall London, and UFRGS Porto Alegre.
