March 2021

EuroStrings – the European Guitar Festival Collaborative is pleased to announce the International Classical Guitar 2 in 1 Online Competition organised by the 16th Tampere Guitar Festival and Competition in Finland and the José Tomás Villa de Petrer International Guitar Festival and Competition 2020 in Spain.  Guitarists can enter 2 competitions with 1 registration fee and no other costs. The Competition is open to guitarists from all over the world with no age limit. A maximum of 70 applicants will be […]

Due to the situation caused by the coronavirus, International Guitar Festival Nuertingen is postponed for 2021! The festival was supposed to be held this August, but all the activities will be held next year! The new date of the festival is July 31- August 7, 2021. The registrations for the activities are open! You can […]

This year’s edition of the Zagreb Guitar Festival is known for its online Music Delights series. Well-known classical guitarists are doing online masterclasses, Q&A interviews, and concerts and everything is being streamed over on ZGF’s social media platforms. The guests of the upcoming online Music Delights episode are EuroStrings winners, Jesse Flowers and Mateusz Kowalski. […]

Despite the pandemic and these difficult times we are facing, our scholarship programme is continuing. We are so happy that we have another EuroStrings scholarship winner. She is Eleanor Kelly, self-taught classical guitarist who is attending the Uppsala International Guitar Festival. Read more about our scholarship winner: Eleanor Kelly (1995) is an originally self-taught classical guitarist based […]

We are pleased to announce our Annual EuroStrings Conference hosted this year by Uppsala International Guitar Festival. The conference is scheduled for 14th and 15th November 2020 and will feature two performances and two lectures which offer both information and an opportunity to reflect on the experiences of the member festivals during the international Covid-19 […]

Five EuroStrings Artists had a very special Thursday evening. As a part of the International Guitar Festival Rust 2020, Agustin Nazetta (from Argentina), David Fellegi (from Hungary), Pablo Menendez (from Spain), Luis Alejandro Garcia (from Spain) and Cassie Martin (from France) performed live in one of the world’s most beautiful concert halls – Musikverein in […]

We are so happy to announce that we have another EuroStrings scholarship winner! He is Florian Babțan-Varga and he is selected to participate at the upcoming Szeged International Guitar Festival that will be held from October 15th until October 18th. Congratulations! Meet our scholarship winner: Florian Babțan-Varga started his musical studies at the “Sigismund Toduță” […]

EuroStrings – the European Guitar Festival Collaborative is pleased to announce the online edition of 9th Sarajevo International Guitar Festival from 8 November – December 2020. Five EuroStrings Artists who will be a part of the festival this year are Carlo Curatolo (Italy), Maja Kralj (Slovenia), Pablo Menéndez (Spain), Pavel Ralev (Bulgaria), and Zsombor Sidoo […]

EuroStrings – the European Guitar Festival Collaborative is pleased to announce the Tampere Guitar Festival 2020 that will take place on 1–8 November 2020. This Finnish festival will feature five EuroStrings Artists: Carlo Curatolo (Italy), Ema Kapor (Serbia), Agustín Nazzetta (Argentina), Lovro Peretić (Croatia), George Tarlton (United Kingdom) as well as the winner of the […]

EuroStrings – the European Guitar Festival Collaborative is pleased to announce the 22nd International Guitar Festival Rust 2020, International Guitar Competition ‘Alirio Díaz’ that will be streamed via YouTube from 14th until 18th of November 2020 and the EuroStrings Winners Gala Concert. The concert will take place on Thursday, 1 October 2020 at the Musikverein in Vienna and […]

The International Guitar Festival José Tomás Villa de Petrer is taking place from 6 to 20 July 2019 in Spain, and it will present a very interesting and varied program. This year’s edition is called OMAGGIO because of many tributes as ones to Jaquín Rodrigo and Jorge Cardoso who will receive the José Tomás Honorific Guitarist Award […]

#EuroStrings Composition Contest was established in 2019 as an annual competition to encourage emerging composers up to 35 years of age to write for the classical guitar, in order to build a quality contemporary repertoire for the instrument. 🎼 Prizes First Prize is €1500 (brutto)! 🥇 For application link and propositions please follow this link: https://eurostrings.eu/eurostrings-composition-contest-for-classical-guitar/ The EuroStrings […]

EuroStrings – European Guitar Festival Collaborative Stringing out to festival directors, professional guitar players, young emerging guitarists, guitar lovers and broader audiences, EuroStrings contributes to the development of a vibrant and diverse European classical guitar scene. EuroStrings creates a hub of international opportunities for emerging guitar players, education and training programs that foster the professional […]

On the 12th of June 2019 our EuroStrings Artists had an amazing outreach concert performance at Tallinna Kitarrifestival with none other than Sting and Arvo Pärt in the audience! EuroStrings Artists: Simone Rinaldo, Emmanuel Sowicz, Gábor Hart, Radu Valcu, Julia Trintschuk, Tomasz Radziszewski, Yuki Saito, Viktor Djuknic, Misael Barraza Diaz.