Award-winning classical guitarist Milos Karadaglic from Montenegro will give a recital in April at the Shenzhen Concert Hall.

Karadaglic first started playing the guitar at the age of 8. By the time he was a teenager, the Yugoslav Wars were raging and, although Montenegro was spared from direct conflict, its citizens were isolated from the rest of Europe. Despite all obstacles, the 17-year-old Karadaglic successfully applied for a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music in London.

His debut album was “Mediterraneo,” which topped the classical charts around the world in 2011 and earned him both the prestigious Gramophone Young Artist of the Year and Echo Klassik Newcomer of the Year awards. In 2012, he was named Classic BRIT MasterCard Breakthrough Artist of the Year for his second release “Latino.”

Gramophone, when reviewing the record, commented, “Karadaglic is a guitarist of superior musical and technical gifts who allows his personality to sing through the music with taste and intelligence.” Geoffrey Norris of The Daily Telegraph said, “The playing is lithe, subtle of timbre and transcendentally beautiful.”

The year 2012 was a breakthrough year on the concert stage for Karadaglic, with sold-out debut performances and tours around the world. “Part of the reason Karadaglic has such a large following,” commented The West Australian, “is his ability to straddle both hardcore classical and pop-classical camps.” This was echoed by the London press following his celebrated Royal Albert Hall debut, of which The Guardian commented, “More extraordinary by far, however, was the way a single guitarist, playing an intimate and understated set, and equipped with a single microphone and some clever lighting, could shrink the hall’s cavernous space into something so close.”

Time: 8 p.m., April 18

Tickets: 80-380 yuan

Reservations: 400-610-3721

Venue: Shenzhen Concert Hall, intersection of Hongli Road and Yitian Road, Futian District (福田区红荔路和益田路交汇处深圳音乐厅)

Metro: Longhua or Longgang Line, Children’s Palace Station (少年宫站), Exit D