1st EuroStrings Composition Contest for Classical Guitar closed its applications on Tuesday, January 15. The aim of the competition was to promote emerging composers from Europe. During the two months, we received 57 applications from 22 countries. Composition Contest Jury Members are Nina Šenk, Sergio Assad, Stephen Goss, Brian Head and David Pavlovits. The winner and […]
Get to know the jury of the 1st EuroStrings Composition Contest for Classical Guitar. The winner and the finalists of the 1st EuroStrings Composition Contest for Classical Guitar will be announced on EuroStrings website and social media pages on February 28. Composition Contest Jury Members are Nina Šenk, Sergio Assad, Stephen Goss, Brian Head and […]
Starting from 2018, EuroStrings Artists have the opportunity to learn from great masters and to perform side by side with established international musicians gathered under the name EuroStrings Ambassadors. Through the EuroStrings Exchange Programme, we strongly support the circulation of emerging talents among the platform’s guitar festivals. The programme offers EuroStrings Artists the opportunity to learn and […]
Open call to all European Classical Guitar Festivals. Want to be listed in our database of European Classical Guitar Festivals (https://eurostrings.eu/european-classical-guitar-festivals/)? Send us the name and website link to your festival to [email protected], and we will add to our database! This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We’ll assume you’re ok with this, but […]
The Classical Guitar Magazine published a front-page article on EuroStrings’ first annual Composition Competition, after the French guitarist, composer, and teacher Nicolas Kahn was named the winner of the contest, for his set of miniatures called Les Arcanes, described by Sérgio Assad, who was on the jury, as appealing “directly to our subconsciousness as classical guitarists. “Congratulations, Nicolas… and […]
Mateusz Kowalski is the winner of the 2nd Eurostrings Guitar Competition. We congratulate to the second ever EuroStrings winner who received a cash prize of 8000 Euros, and will be seen on tour in the US, throughout Europe and China next season! Follow him on his Facebook page as he travels around and shares his […]
EuroStrings is excited to announce the four finalists for tomorrow‘s big finale! In order of performance the finalists are: Yuki Saito, Giulia Ballarè, Mateusz Kowalski and Simone Rinaldo. We invite you all to participate and vote for your favorite player by simply tagging his/her name in the comment section below! We will count the votes […]
One of the EuroStrings initiatives is to share music where live music isn’t heard. This time and thanks to Zuzanna Wężyk and Gábor Hart it was heard. A local orphanage in Targu-Mures was kind enough to let us share the beautiful sounds of the guitar with them, in the auspices of Harmonia Cordis Association. We […]
What a week for EuroStrings. We leave behind a four days long competition, two days of conference meetings and three days of recording at Strongroom Music Studios (with the wonderful Rob Kelly Music) for the new EuroStrings Artists CD, which will be available next season. The event was organized and hosted by Tom Kerstens and […]
14th Harmonia Cordis International Guitar Festival will take place from 6-11 August 2019 in Târgu-Mureș / Marosvásárhely • Odorheiu Secuiesc / Székelyudvarhely, Romania. Along with a full schedule of EuroStrings activities of our EuroStrings Artists Radu Valcu, Dimitris Soukaras, You WU, Zuzanna Wężyk, Peter Graneis & Gábor Hart, the festival enjoys an outstanding roster of […]
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 […]
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 […]
Outreach work with our community is important as music has no borders. It is a universal language that reaches even those who don’t speak it. Misael Barraza Díaz, Manny Sowicz, Yuki Saito & Radu Valcu made a beautiful impression on the community of Mottola as a part of the EuroStrings Artists Exchange Program at the […]
The 27th edition of the Mottola Guitar Festival will be held from 6 to 14 July 2019, taking place in Mottola, Italy. The festival will host many world-renowned guitarists from Brazil, Australia, Poland, Japan, Greece, England, etc. This is also the 20th edition of “Serenate”, a successful project carried out in the historic center of […]