Naxos recording artist Necati Emirzade is a Cypriot classical guitarist, composer and arranger with “many colours and no fear" as said by Sergio Assad, a Latin Grammy award winner.

Necati has performed throughout the world and has released three CDs with Mark Anderson as DuoTandem. DuoTandem’s music has been hailed as a “new and exciting polyglot” (Classical Guitar Magazine) and a “wonderful melange” (Minor7th), with their two albums ‘Watching the World Go By’ and ‘Guitar Duos of Kemal Belevi’ being chosen as one of the top 10 albums of the year (2018 and 2020) by Classical Guitar Magazine.

Starting his musical vocation at the age of seven and giving his first public concert at the age of eight, Necati became one of the leading classical guitarists in Cyprus. At the age of 16, Necati became one of the youngest undergraduate students accepted at the UNC School of the Arts. He later went on to receive his Master of Music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, under the instruction of Guitar Foundation of America first prize winner, Marc Teicholz.

Necati is currently teaching in London and continues to perform internationally.