We are excited to share the news about our latest scholarship winner! EuroStrings scholarship for Peja International Guitar Festival goes to Lorik Pylla, twenty-two years old guitarist from Kosovo! He will compete at the festival’s competition for free! Congratulations! Meet our scholarship winner: Lorik Pylla was born in 1998. He started doing music when he […]
Miloš Vuković is a Serbian classical guitarist born in 1996 in Smederevska Palanka (Serbia). He graduated from the music high school Vojislav Vuckovic in Belgrade in the class of Prof. Milkica Ponjavić as one of the best students of the generation. He is currently a student at the Faculty of Arts in Nis, in the […]
Outreach activities at Tallinn Guitar Festival in 2020 featured five EuroStrings Artists. David Fellegi, George Tarlton, Ema Kapor, Carlo Curatolo and Lovro Peretić held individual masterclasses to young Estonian talents. EuroStrings Artist Ema Kapor giving masterclass Because of the covid_19 pandemic, masterclasses were held virtually, via Skype. That way young Estonian guitarists got a chance […]
Tallinn International Guitar Festival in Tallinn, Estonia, hosted 9 EuroStrings Artists -Tomasz Radziszewski, Viktor Đuknić, Misael Barraza – Diaz ,Julia Trintschuk, Gábor Hart , Yuki Saito, Simone Rinaldo, Emmanuel Sowicz & Radu Valcu. As a part of their outreach program, which helps spark interest for classical guitar in the community, they visited the famous Arvo Pärt […]
Outreach activities at the Uppsala International Guitar Festival consisted of Workshop Methodology teaching kids by Matias Zloto that took place on October 6th. Moreover, there was a school tour with concerts and teaching in Uppsala and Enköping with Matias Zloto from October 7th until October 9th. One day later, on October 10th there was a […]
Një intervistë me Antonio Rumenović Koordinator i EuroStrings Guitar Competition Dhe coordinator i EuroStrings Composition Contest Bisedë me Thérèse Wassily Saba dhe Tom Kerstens Antonio Rumenović është gjithashtu mësuesi kryesor i kitarës në Shkollën e Muzikës Bonar (Glazbena škola Bonar) në Zagreb, e cila ka një numër të madh të studentëve të kitarës. Antonio Rumenović: […]
We are proud to announce that the winner of EuroStrings Competition 2018, Jesse Flowers, is going to perform two solo recitals in China as a part of the concert tour organized by EuroStrings’ partner Altamira Guitar Foundation. Both concerts will be held on Wednesday 11th of July, first one at the 3rd Altamira Hong Kong […]
The Canadian guitarist Steve Cowan has performed as a soloist and in ensemble throughout Canada, the United States and Europe. His debut album of Canadian music, Pour guitare (McGill Records, 2016), helped to establish him as ‘one of Canada’s top contemporary classical guitarists’ (Classical Guitar Magazine). In 2018–2019, Steve Cowan made his concerto debut with […]
Audience Lab activities at Tampere Guitar Festival in 2020 included charitable/therapeutic sub-platform. EuroStrings Artists Lovro Peretić, Carlo Curatolo, Agustin Nazzetta, George Tarlton and Ema Kapor played online concerts for disabled and retired people. The concerts were later streamed in Sofiakylä carehome for disabled people and Koukkuniemi retirement home. Care home organised individual music evening for […]
Giorgos Lyratzis (1998) acquired secondary education in 2016 in the High music school of Komotini, Greece. Guitar teachers at the National Music School: Yorgos Yurcidis, Tassos Liratzis. Participations in the period from 2014 to 2017: Participation in the guitar festival “Trakia” in the city of Komotini, a master class with Dimitris Semertzidis and participation in […]
The winner of the 2nd EuroStrings Competition 2019, Mateusz Kowalski has finished his EuroStrings Winner USA Tour. From February 2nd to February 23rd, he visited 7 states, did numerous concerts and amazing performances. Not only that, he met some new people, made friendships and created memories that he will remember forever. Now that he’s back home, he is ready to share […]
Helin Hallik is a young Estonian guitarist. She started her musical studies at the age of 7 in Tallinn Music High School where her main teachers were skillful guitarists Kirill Ogorodnikov and Vahur Kubja. She has given many concerts, both as a soloist and as a chamber musician. Helin has taken part in masterclasses by […]
Silvio Bilić started playing guitar at the age of eight in the small town of Omiš with Neno Munitić. In 2017, he enrolled at the Arts Academy of Split where he studied with Maroje Brčić. He has been active in guitar competitions since 2008. He has won 20 first prizes as a soloist and 12 […]
Applications for this year’s EuroStrings Composition Contest close on March 15th, which means there are only 20 days left to apply and submit your compositions! Our mission of building a quality contemporary repertoire for classical guitar continues third year in a row. Creative Europe supports young emerging artists, hence why we are looking for European […]