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Florida Guitar Foundation International Guitar Competition
The Florida Guitar Foundation is inviting all up-and-coming guitar professionals to enter the FGF's 2019 International Classical Guitar Competition. Participation Fee: $90 There are Open and Youth Divisions for competitors, based on age. Competitors will be evaluated on their technique, musicianship, and overall presentation. Judges’ comments will not be made available to competitors. Competitors are […]
Masterclass with Aniello Desiderio
Masterclass with Aniello Desiderio
In 1992, Aniello Desiderio graduated with honors from the Conservatory of Music in Alessandria. He performed in public for the first time when he was 8 years old, displaying such outstanding gifts that music critics started to speak of him as an "infant prodigy", "wunderkind", "a genius", "the Orpheus of the guitar", "a guitarist of […]
Youth Competition Round 1
Youth Competition Round 1
Youth competitors will play their choice of music for 7 minutes each.
Meng Su
Meng Su
“Here we have a guitarist who knew how to laugh with the music and share the joke with his audience. But behind the entertainer lies a serious artist, whose extended composition in memory of Jana Obrovska proved fully capable of stirring emotions at the other end of the scale. Never was a standing ovation more richly deserved. Pavel Steidl had won the hearts and minds of a capacity crowd.” - Classical Guitar Magazine
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Open Competition Semifinals
Open Competition Semifinals
8 players will play 10 minutes of free repertoire in the competition semifinals.
Masterclass with Meng Su
Masterclass with Meng Su
Multifaceted guitarist Meng Su is captivating audiences around the world with her stunning virtuosity and refined artistry. New York Concert Review called her performance “seemingly effortless and stunningly polished…. Add to that a beautiful – and fashionable! – stage presence and she is poised to be in high demand” while Classical Guitar Magazine wrote that […]
Youth Competition Finals
Youth Competition Finals
3 Youth competitors will play 15 minutes of free repertoire that must include at least 2 contrasting works.
Competition Finals
Competition Finals
Three (3) competitors will play 20 minutes of free repertoire in the FGF Competition Finals.
Aniello Desiderio
Aniello Desiderio
"...the kind of musician that seems to have disappeared long ago, Aniello Desiderio sweeps away the audience with enthusiasm—as the great virtuosi, Paganini, Regondi or Giuliani of the 19th century did—racing through breath-taking changes of register, acrobatic arpeggios and scales of extraordinary brilliance and elegance like a Ferrari." - Stuttgarter Zeitung