Masterclass with Aniello Desiderio
Clarke Recital Hall, University of Miami 5501 San Amaro Drive, Coral Gables, FL, United StatesIn 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 […]
Open Competition Wave 2
Gusman Concert Hall, University of Miami 1314 Miller Drive, Coral Gables, FL, United States10 competitors will play their choice of music for 7 minutes each.
Youth Competition Round 1
Clarke Recital Hall, University of Miami 5501 San Amaro Drive, Coral Gables, FL, United StatesYouth competitors will play their choice of music for 7 minutes each.
Open Competition Wave 3
Gusman Concert Hall, University of Miami 1314 Miller Drive, Coral Gables, FL, United States10 competitors will play their choice of music for 7 minutes each.
Meng Su
Clarke Recital Hall, University of Miami 5501 San Amaro Drive, Coral Gables, FL, United States“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
Open Competition Semifinals
Gusman Concert Hall, University of Miami 1314 Miller Drive, Coral Gables, FL, United States8 players will play 10 minutes of free repertoire in the competition semifinals.
Masterclass with Meng Su
Gusman Concert Hall, University of Miami 1314 Miller Drive, Coral Gables, FL, United StatesMultifaceted 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
Gusman Concert Hall, University of Miami 1314 Miller Drive, Coral Gables, FL, United States3 Youth competitors will play 15 minutes of free repertoire that must include at least 2 contrasting works.
Competition Finals
Gusman Concert Hall, University of Miami 1314 Miller Drive, Coral Gables, FL, United StatesThree (3) competitors will play 20 minutes of free repertoire in the FGF Competition Finals.
Aniello Desiderio
Clarke Recital Hall, University of Miami 5501 San Amaro Drive, Coral Gables, FL, United States"...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