The Hungarian festival, Szeged International Guitar Festival opted for a virtual audience development program this year. Their target audience were students in secondary school between ages 14 and 18. This activity was held online via Facebook. It’s a nice experience for young guitarists when they get a chance to meet with the real artists. The […]
Finland Antero Pellikka, born in 1988, is a Finnish guitarist. He had his first guitar at the age of 7 and soon after he started his guitar studies under the guidance of Esko Virtanen. After graduating from the Music Institute, Pellikka studied with Petri Kumela at the Helsinki Conservatory and Metropolia University of Applied Studies. […]
The International Guitar Festival Nuertingen is an internationally renowned festival which takes place every two years in the beautiful town of Nuertingen, close to Stuttgart in Germany. Since 1995, guitarists from all over the world have met in the town hall and in the church “Kreuzkirche” to enjoy in about 15 concerts throughout the week. […]
France Raphaël Feuillâtre is a young Paris-based virtuoso of the classical guitar. Born in 1996, he started classical guitar lessons at the age of nine, first with Hacène Addadi at Cholet Conservatory and later with Michel Grizard in Nantes. In 2014, he iwas accepted to Paris National Superior Conservatory of Music and Dance (CNSMDP) into […]
Italy Giacomo Susani (Padua, Italy 1995) started playing the guitar at the age of 7 and eventually studied under the direction of Stefano Grondona in Italy where he graduated with the highest marks and honours in 2013. He is currently continuing his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London, with Michael Lewin, where […]
Cristina Galietto’s musical studies have been strongly influenced by the presence of her father Alberto, a classical guitar teacher, who introduced her to this wonderful musical instrument. At the age of 10, she started attending the Conservatory of Music “San Pietro a Majella” in Naples. Cristina participated in numerous national and international music competitions, obtaining […]
Outreach activities (whose main goal is audience development) at Twents Gitaar Festival in 2020 were divided into two parts. First part of outreach activities consisted of masterclasses that EuroStrings Artists Ema Kapor, Maja Kralj, Silvio Bilić and Luis Alejandro Garcia held for young local students. Each of the mentioned EuroStrings Artists held individual online masterclass […]
Tampere Guitar Festival 01.06.2020. – 07.06.2020. Tampere Guitar Festival (TGF), established in 2005, presents gems of acoustic guitar from various styles for a wide range of audiences. World-class guitar music is heard in churches, cafés and concert halls, also in surprising places such as Finnish sauna, and reaches lots of new friends of this intimate instrument. […]
Montenegro International Guitar Competition offered a nice variety of audience development activities at their festival. Within the Educational sub-platform segment, 2 educational interactive concerts were organized with two EuroStrings Artists – Vuk Dragićević and Marcell Nickmann who, in addition to playing, also talked about the chosen program pieces. Volunteering campaign and program segment included LIVE […]
The Szeged International Guitar Festival (Szeged IGF) is a multi-venue, regional festival in Hungary for open-minded individuals: Amusement for curious fans of the guitar of diverse genres and astonishing combinations of various art forms Gripping competition and showcase for the greatest young stars of classical guitar Networking platform for wits and professionals (musicians, festivals/music institutions’ […]
Florian Babțan-Varga started his musical studies at the “Sigismund Toduță” Music School in Cluj-Napoca and began playing the guitar at the age of 13 under the guidance of teacher Laura Platon, then Ludovic Bíró and George Muntean. Over the years, he attended masterclasses of Judicael Perroy, Gabriel Bianco, Costas Cotsiolis, Giampaolo Bandini, Anton Baranov, Csáki […]
Julia Trintschuk began learning the guitar at the age of 4 with her father Anatoli Trintschuk. At the early age of 6, she became a student of Prof. Mario Sicca in Stuttgart. Later she studied with Martin Wiedmann, Prof. Johannes Monno, Ivo and Sofia Kaltchev, and Mateus dela Fonte. During this time she received many […]
Lovro Peretić is the winner of the 3rd EuroStrings Guitar Competition. He received a cash prize of 8000€ and will play a concert at each EuroStrings partner and associated partners festival as well as concerts at the affiliated partner’s festivals! (*Concerts will be organized according to the epidemiological situation) Lovro Peretić was born in Zagreb […]
Bianka Szalaty was born in Wrocław, Poland, in 1994. She first performed with orchestra at the age of 13 – Concerto in D by Antonio Vivaldi with the Koszalin Philharmonic Orchestra; since then Bianka Szalaty has played the guitar concertos by Joaquín Rodrigo, Manuel Maria Ponce and Heitor Villa-Lobos. Currently, she is preparing for her […]