Oscar Ghiglia (Italy), Alberto Ponce (Spain) Marcin Dylla (Poland) and Elena Papandreou (Greece) will give the Masterclasss. The registration fee for the masterclasses amounts to 150 Euros. There is a limitation on the number of places for active students. Each student will receive a total of two lessons with two different teachers. They may also participate in the Competition. Students will be able to express their teacher preferences on the Application Form. The Organization will try to satisfy every student´s request when possible. The registration fee for listeners amounts to 50 Euros. You can send the Application form for the Competition and/or the Masterclasses
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Oscar GHIGLIA (Italia), Soloist and Professor of the Musik-Akademie der Stadt de Basel (Switzerland)
Born of an artistic family - his father and grandfather both famed painters, his mother an accomplished pianist – O.G. had to choose between a path strewn with brushes and colours and a world cut into harmony and melody. Though his early choice produced a few hundred water colours and a number of oil paintings, he soon realized music was his way. For this decision he thanks his dad, who one day made him pose for a painting showing a guitarist... For this he had to hold his father’s guitar, a companion to his artistic musings in front of his forming works. This painting was the start to a lifetime of disciplined dedication to music. Graduated from Santa Cecilia’s Conservatory of Rome O.G. began soon his apprenticeship beside the great Master Andres Segovia, who was his major influence and inspiration during his formative years. Later O.G. “inherited” Segovia’s glorious Class in Siena’s Accademia Chigiana and spread his own teaching around the five continents in a sister vocation to his concertizing.
O.G is proud of having founded such strongholds of guitar teaching as the Guitar Department at the Aspen Music Festival (Colorado, USA) as well as in the Festival de Musique des Arcs and the “Incontri Chitarristici di Gargnano”, of having been artist in residence, or visiting professor in such centers as the Cincinnati, San Francisco Conservatories, The Juilliard, the Hartt School and the Northwestern University of Evanston, Ill. In all these centers and else where Ghiglia has been nurturing talents and forming or perfecting young artists musical outlook and interpretation.
Composers as Giampaolo Bracali and, Franco Donatoni, among others have written and dedicated important works to Oscar Ghiglia.
Besides touring as a solo performer O.G. has played and recorded with such names as singers Victoria de Los Angeles, Jan de Gaetani, Gerald English, John mc Collum; flutists as J.P.Rampal, Julius Baker; ensembles as the Juilliard String Quartet, the Emerson String Quartet, the Cleveland String Quartet, the Quartetto d’archi di Venezia, the Tokyo String Quartet; violinists as Giuliano Carmignola, Franco Gulli, Salvatore Accardo, Regis Pasquier; violist as B. Giuranna, P Zuckerman; cellists as K. Adam, A Roman, L.Varga; guitarists as E. Fisk, S.Fukuda, L Guerra, Antigoni Goni, Elena Papandreou. O.G. was a founding member of the the International Classic Guitar Quartet (with, in different turns: Benjamin Bunch,.O. Koga, Anders Miolin, S. Schmidt, Andreas v.Wangenheim,)
Presently, after his last CD: “Manuel Ponce’ Guitar music”, the” Stradivarius” label released a new CD of J.S Bach lute works.
After retiring from Basel Switzerland, where he held the professorship in guitar at the Musik-Akademie der Stadt Basel from 1983 till 2005, his teaching continues, year long in Greece to a select group of pupils flocking in periodically from the four corners of Europe.
In June 2008 a selected group of former students of his have celebrated Oscar Ghiglia’s 70th birthday, in a festival held in the Mannes School of music of New York, including concerts, lectures and master-classes, called “THE GHIGLIA LEGACY”.
An analogous celebration took place in 2009, in Ithaca, N.Y.
Founder of the International Guitar Competition of Gargnano (Italy) O.G. boasts a very high number of first prize winners among his students, in competitions around the world.
Since 2010 he makes his home in Thessaloniki Greece.
María Esther GUZMAN (Spain) International Soloist and Professor of the “Amadeus” Special Music School.
María Esther comes from a long line of musicians on her mother’s side, the Guervós family, a surname going back to her great–grandparents, from the Netherlands, the first one of them come to Spain with Charles I’s Chapel of Music, giving rise to a musical tradition that has continued generation after generation, which extends to the present day.
Continuing the dynasty, María Esther, who was born in Seville, made her presentation in public at the age of four in the Lope de Vega Theatre, at eleven years old she won the first prize awarded by Spanish state radio and television (RTVE). At the age of twelve she played for the Maestro Andrés Segovia, who praised her playing and offered her advice.
She studied at the Higher Conservatory of Music in Seville, under America Martinez, where she graduated in 1985, winning the Extraordinary Award. She perfected her musical education with A. Carlevaro, L. Brouwer, A. Diaz and D. Russell, among others. She has won 6 National and 13 International first Prizes. She was also awarded with “Young Andalusian Musician” Culture Prize in 1994. RITMO Prize, awarded by the magazine of the same name, for her recording of the works of Julian Arcas. In 1988 she was honoured by the JJ.MM of Seville for her “Silver Anniversary” in music.
As a tireless traveller, her presence is requested by the most important stages in Europe, Asia, and America, where she takes master classes and performing both as a soloist and with orchestra, under the direction of teachers such as E.G. Asensio, L. Brouwer, C. Metters, O. Alonso, C. Florea, Pedro Halftter, Adrian Leaper.
As well as her activity as a soloist, she regularly collaborates with many groups playing chamber music, and she forms a duet with flutist Luis Orden, and the guitarist Takeshi Tezuka.
She has been annually touring and recording in Japan since 1988. She has recorded 25 CDs, 1 LP, 4 videos and 1 DVD. She has premiered pieces by Maestros M. Castillo, J. García Román , Joaquin Rodrigo, Tomas Marco, Carlos Cruz de Castro, Zulema de la Cruz and Javier Jacinto.
She has been named Numerary Member by the Royal Academy of fine Arts of St. Isabel of Hungary in Seville.
She is a teacher at the “Amadeus” Special Music School in Seville.
www.mariaestherguzman.com
Marcin DYLLA (Poland), International Soloist.
Hailed by Washington Post as “the most gifted guitarists on the planet” Polish guitarist, Marcin Dylla is a rare phenomenon in recent history of Classical Guitar. Many music critics, connoisseurs and music lovers certify that Marcin Dylla is among the world’s elite of classical guitar players. He has earned this position, among others, to unparalleled number of awards including 19 First Prizes from 1996-2007 at the most prestigious international music competitions around the world. His last triumph was the Gold Medal of the ‘2007 Guitar Foundation of America International Competition’ in Los Angeles known as the most prestigious guitar contest in the world followed by tour of over 50 cities in North America, Mexico and Canada during 2008-09 season, live recital video recording for Mel Bay Publications and CD recording for Naxos that reached the Naxos ‘Top 10 Bestselling Albums’ in September 2008. His live recital DVD “Wawel Royal Castle at Dusk” was nominated for 2010 Fryderyk Award (equal to American Grammy) in the category of Solo Classical Music Album of the Year.
This season’s North American tour includes recitals in Cincinnati, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, New Jersey and Seattle as well as appearing with Riverside Symphonia in Piazzolla’s double concerto for guitar and bandoneon. During 2009-10 season Mr. Dylla appeared in solo recital throughout Europe including Norway, Spain, Hungary, Sweden, Denmark, Poland and Italy where he returned to serve on the distinguished jury panel of the 42nd edition of Michele Pittaluga’s International Classical Guitar Competition. Finally, he returns frequently to Germany for recitals throughout the country ending with his return each year to Koblenz International Guitar Festival and competition where he currently serves as an adjunct faculty.
During 2008-09 season and following his GFA victory tour he performed recitals in China followed by European engagements in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland and Germany where he appeared with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra at Stuttgart Liederhalle and in Romania with the National Romanian Radio Orchestra in Bucharest performing ‘Concierto de Aranjuez’ by Joaquin Rodrigo.
In 2007, Mr. Dylla performed as a soloist with the Hermitage State Orchestra at the Hermitage Festival in St. Petersburg followed by an exceedingly successful tour of the U.S. in the fall performing Rodrigo’s ‘Concierto de Aranjuez’ in a number of concerts with the Fort Collins Symphony under Wes Kenney, the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra and the Riverside Symphonia under the baton of Mariusz Smolij. In 2006, Cecilia Rodrigo, daughter of the legendary Spanish composer, Joaquin Rodrigo, chose Mr. Dylla to perform the world premiere of a lately discovered new guitar work by her father entitled ‘Toccata’ (1933) at Reina Sofia Museum of Modern Art in Madrid. In 2002, at the 7th International Guitar Convent in Alessandria, Marcin Dylla was granted a “gold guitar” musical critics’ award for the best coming young guitar player.
He has appeared in a number of distinguished concert halls such as Konzerthaus, Musikverein and Palais Lobkovitz in Vienna (Austria), Auditorio Nacional and Auditorio Conde Duque in Madrid (Spain), St. Petersburg Philharmonic Hall (Russian Federation), Kleinhans Music Hall in Buffalo (USA), Villa Hügel in Essen (Germany) and the Palazzina Liberty in Milan (Italy).
Apart from his guest performances at virtually every major European and North American guitar festival, he has been regularly invited to appear at Festival Internazionale Settimane Musicali di Stresa (Italy), Don Quixote Music Festival (Paris, France), Burghofspiele Eltville (Germany), International Festival Musical Olympus (St. Petersburg, Russian Federation), Inverno Musicale (Alzano, Italy), Central European Music Festival (Zilinai, Lithuania), Festival Internacional de Música (Toledo, Italy) and Musique Dans la Rue (Aix-en-Provence, France).
Furthermore, he has appeared as soloist with Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (USA), Orquesta Sinfónica de Radio Television Espanola (RTVE Madrid, Spain), St. Petersburg Philharmonia Orchestra (Russian Federation), Orchestra Filharmonica di Torino (Italy) and the Essen Chamber Orchestra (Germany) under the baton of JoAnn Falletta, Alexander Rahbari and Mariusz Smolij.
Marcin Dylla was born in Chorzow in 1976. He received his first guitar lessons at the Ruda Slaska Music Conservatory in his native Poland. From 1995 to 2000 he studied at the Music Academy of Katowice with Adi Wanda Palacz. He then completed his studies with Prof. Oscar Ghiglia, Prof. Sonja Prunnbauer and Prof. Carlo Marchione at the Music Academies of Basel (Switzerland), Freiburg (Germany) and Maastricht (The Netherlands), respectively.
www.marcindylla.com
Elena PAPANDREOU (Greece), Soloist and Professor at the Macedonian University in Thessaloniki.
Elena Papandreou was born in Athens on 7 March 1966. She studied the guitar with Evangelos Boudounis (with whom she received her diploma in 1985 from the National Conservatory with the highest mark) and with Oscar Ghiglia. She also studied with Gordon Crosskey at the Royal Northern College of Music, England, on a British Council scholarship, obtaining the Diploma in Advanced Studies in Musical Performance (1986). She played in master classes of Alirio Diaz, Julian Bream, Leo Brouwer and Ruggero Chiesa.
She has won the First Prize in three International Competitions, “Maria Callas” (Greece), “Gargnano” (Italy), “Alessandria” (Italy) and the Second Prize in the “Guitar Foundation of America” Competition. In the latter she was also awarded the “NAXOS” Prize, which gave her the opportunity to record two personal CDs with this company. In the past she had released five other records while now she collaborates with the Swedish BIS where she recorded two CDs (music by Nikita Koshkin and by Roland Dyens). In 1992 she was honoured by the Academy of Athens with the “Spyros Motsenigos” Prize - a most important prize that is awarded to one outstanding performer every two years.
Elena Papandreou has performed in most European countries, as well as in the U.S.A., Canada, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Japan. Within the “Rising Stars” program of the “European Concert Hall Organisation”, she gave concerts in some of the most prestigious halls in Europe, the Vienna Musikverein, the Koelner Philharmonie, the Birmingham Symphony Hall and the Athens Concert Hall. She has also played in the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow and the Queen Elisabeth Hall in London. In 1998 she gave her debut in Carnegie Hall in New York.
She has collaborated with outstanding musicians, the guitarists Oscar Ghiglia, Alirio Diaz, Roland Dyens, Nikita Koshkin, Evangelos Boudounis, the violinists Leonidas Kavakos and Gerardo Ribeiro, the cellist Leonid Gorokhov, the singers Vasso Papantoniou and Herbert Lippert and the flutist Stella Gadedi. Elena Papandreou has played as a soloist with the State Orchestras of Athens and Thessaloniki, the Camerata Orchestra, the Orchestra of Colours, the Orchestra of Patras, the Orchestra of Alessandria, Italy, the Istanbul Chamber Orchestra, the Bucharest Philharmonic and the ESMDM orchestra in Monterrey Mexico. Performances of hers were recorded by the Greek Television and Radio, Radio France, Deutsche Welle and the Turkish Television.
Elena Papandreou is a professor in the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki and teaches in the summer course of Incontri Chitarristici di Gargnano, Italy together with Oscar Ghiglia.
Composers who have dedicated their works to her are Nikita Koshkin (among others, a concerto for guitar and orchestra), Roland Dyens, Nikos Mamangakis (among others, a concerto for guitar and orchestra), Evangelos Boudounis, Giorgos Koumendakis and Dimitris Nicolau.
For her interpretations she has received laudatory comments from significant people of the music world and enthusiastic reviews from the Press in Greece and abroad. Leo Brouwer said about her: “If you want to hear music of the highest level of interpretation with poetical perfection you must hear Elena Papandreou.” The Washington Post called her “a poet of the guitar” and the Greek newspaper “Ta Nea” wrote: “Now we see Elena Papandreou as one of the greatest interpreters [...] the critic becomes silent … when the Music begins.”
www.elenapapandreou.gr
