Marc L. Greenberg

Marc’s interest in classical guitar began when he discovered a Segovia record among his father’s jazz collection. As a teenager he studied with then-graduate students in the USC guitar program, Dean Hamill and Michael Kozubek. While in high school (1978) he was selected by the Young Musicians Foundation in Los Angeles to perform on a public-television broadcast about classical musicianship. His show, hosted by Carl Princi, focused on classical guitar and included also Laurindo Almeida. He played the Vivaldi concerto in d min. with members of the Marina del Rey chamber orchestra. He also played in the Los Angeles Fringe Festival in 1984.
In recent years he has toured with the Carl Maria von Weber Guitar Orchestra in Germany and Kansas, USA, formed the Lawrence Guitar Quarter (2007-2010), and performed in the Lawrence Mandolin Orchestra. Alongside his professional interests in Slavic linguistics he has studied the Russian seven-string guitar tradition under Dr. Oleg V. Timofeyev. Most recently he has been a member of the Greenberg-Predolac duo (a.k.a. NPSND Duo), which focuses on baroque transcriptions.

Nikola Predolac

Nikola started playing first rock and blues songs on the guitar at age 12.
At age 16 he got introduced to flamenco guitar music by a relative and good friend who also owned a lot of classical music LPs. As several records in the collection had a common “Spanish Guitar” title on them, Nikola was bound to run into some classical guitar music albums while searching for the next flamenco guitar record [example 1, example 2]. He fell in love with classical music right there and started taking his first formal guitar lessons with Prof. Miodrag Radosavljević at the elementary music school “Vladimir Đorđević”, Aleksinac, Serbia. To meet with the teacher, he would regularly make a round-trip by bus from his home town to another town for two years. During these years, he regularly listened to Radio Belgrade classical music programs, always ready to catch a great performance with a loaded cassette recorder.
After finishing high school and the elementary music school program in 1998, Nikola studied linguistics in Belgrade, Serbia, and ended up coming to the United States as a graduate student to pursue a career in linguistics. However, music remained his passion throughout the years, and this is what has kept his guitar playing in decent form.
Eventually, life brought him to Lawrence, Kansas, where he met quite a few other passionate amateur musicians who stirred up his interest in ensemble playing. He played occasionally with a versatile musician Hakan Yasarer, and later as the lead guitarist in the band “Clowder”, together with the songwriter/guitarist Cody Case and vocalist Chelsy Larson.
In Lawrence, he also met Marc Greenberg, with whom he formed NPSND duo. It is in this duo where Nikola, with a good friend of his, has been fulfilling his love for classical music and ensemble playing for a number of years now.