January - February - March
COUNTRY
TIME
FESTIVAL WEBPAGE
INFO
       
Canada
30Mar-2April 2008
Les Nuits de la Guitare. Montreal, Canada.
 
England
4 courses each year
Staffordguitar
Weekend courses in march - april -
october - november
Germany
14 - 21 March 2008
www.gitarrenfestival-gevelsberg.de/
8. Gitarrenfestival Gevelsberg.
  29 - 31 Jan 2010
19 - 21 Feb 2010
19 - 21 March 2010
www.gitarrenland.eu
Das europäische Festival der Gitarren-
kunst im Kuseler Musikantenland, im
Saarpfalz-Kreis und im Kreis Forbach.
Greece
3 . 6 jan 2008
Winter Guitar Festival, Volos.
Yorgos Foudoulis.
Italy
  ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE E MUSICALE  
“DE FALLA”  Bari-  Italy
 
  1-2 March 2008
Suoni Nuovi- Concorso Chitarristico per
Ragazzi.Latina, Italy
 
  Feb - May 2008
www.rightprofit.it/
Right Profit Guitar Festival.
Mexico
2 - 9 March 2008
5th Zihuatanejo International Guitar
Festival. Guerrero, Mexico
 
Peru
10 - 15 March 2008
XVI Festival Intenacional de Guitarra
ICPNA. Lima, Peru
 
Romania
2007
International Guitar Festival The Romanian
Radio Society
 
Serbia
7 - 14 Feb. 2009
www.gaf.co.yu/
10th GuitarArtFestival, Belgrade.
    2010 "JEUNESSES MUSICALES
COMPETITION". Belgrade, Serbia &
Montenegro
 
Spain
6 - 7 March 2010
Concurso Internacional Guitarra Clasica
"Comarca el Condado". Jaén, Spain
 
  25 - 29 March 2008
Guitarras Alhambra.
 
    2006 17 FESTIVAL DE GUITARRA DE
BARCELONA. Spain
 
    www.fundacioncajamar.es/
Certamen de Guitarra Julian Arcas -
Under "actividades socioculturales"
Sweden
29Feb -9March 2008
Malmö Gitarr Festival. Sweden
 
Thailand
     
Turkey
29Feb -3March 2008
  9th International Classical Guitar Festival,
Ankara Turkey
USA
  2006 4th Annual St. Joseph Int Guitar
Festival & Competition. Missouri, USA
 
  23 - 24 Feb. 2008
Columbus State University Guitar
Competition & Symposium. Georgia, USA
 
    2006 Mississippi Guitar Festival. USA
 
    2007 Southwest Guitar Festival. Texas, USA
 
  6 - 8 march 2008
Annual Texas Guitar Competition. Dallas,
USA
 
  6 - 9 march 2008
www.liu.edu/svpa/gfest/
16th Long Island GuitarFestival. USA
    2007 Portland GuitarFestival. USA
 
  28 - 30 march 2008
Guitar Festival. Los Angeles,USA
 
    2007 Rantucci Int. Guitar Festival &
Competition. New York,USA
 
    2007 15th Mid-America Guitar Ensemble
Festival. Indiana,USA
 
  26 - 29 march 2008
Brownsville Guitar Ensemble Festival. USA
 
  28 - 30 march 2008
South Bay Guitar Society -Guitar Solo &
Ensemble Festival. USA
 
  15 - 20 march 2008
Tennessee Guitar Festival. USA
 
  7 - 9 March 2008
www.guitarsint.com/concert_series.cfm
 
Aprile - May
       
COUNTRY
TIME
EVENT
INFO
       
Austria
5 -9 April 2009
www.v4m.net/GuitarFestivalRust/
International GUitar Festival Rust
Croatia
7 -12 April 2008
www.splitguitarfestival.com/en/
2nd International Guitar Festival in
Croatia.
France
19 - 26 April 2008
www.vendomeguitarfest.com/
12th International Guitar Festival.
Germany
5 - 12 May 2008
www.pfingstseminar.de/
16th Koblenz International Guitar Festival
& Academy.
    www.guitar-festival.com/
Heinsberg.
Greece
     
Holland
1 - 4 May 2008
www.twentsgitaarfestival.nl/
Twents Gitaar Festival.
Italy
24 - 25 May 2008
www.accademiasantoro.org
I° INTERNATIONAL GUITAR COMPETITION
"PREMIO ACCADEMIA SANTORO"
HOMAGE TO "JOAQUIN RODRIGO".
  15 - 20 April 2008
X Festival Internazionale della Chitarra
Niccolò Paganini, Parma.
 
    www.legnanifestival.it/
 
  22 may - 7 June
2008
www.guitarfestival.it/
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
    www.eonguitarquartet.com/festival.htm
 
    www.chitarrorchestra.it/
 
    www.ccmg.it/
Centro Chitarristico Mauro Giuliani.
  30 May - 8 June
2008
www.moisycos.jp/
6th Moisycos International Guitar Festival.
Mexico
7 - 12 April 2008
www.figmorelia.com/
XVIII Festival Intenacional de Guitarra de
Morelia.
Romania
5 - 10 may 2008
Sinaia International Guitar Festival
Carlo Marchione, Mir Ali, Gabriel Bianco...
NEXT FESTIVAL PLANNED IN 2010
Scotland
  www.p3music.com/kmgf/
 
Spain
  www.cpmcartagena.com/semana.htm
Semana de la Guitarra, Cartagena.
    www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/
 
Switzerland
  www.figf.ch/
Festival International de Guitare de
Fribourg.
    www.daniel-d-r-thomas.com/la-guitare-dan
slemonde.html
Festival International de Guitare de
Lausanne.
Thailand
     
USA
  sjvgs.org/events.html
Fresno Guitar Panorama.
  11 - 13 April 2008
www.music.appstate.edu/guitarfest/
Appalachian Guitar Fest and Competition.
    www.pepperdine.edu/arts/parkening/
Parkening International Guitar
Competition.
Festivals & Competitions
June - July
COUNTRY
TIME
EVENT
INFO
       
Australia
  Darwin International Guitar Festival
 
Chech
Republic
30 june- 4 july 2009
Kutna Hora Biennal Competition.
Hubert Kappel, Carlo Marchione...
  05 - 11 july 2009
GUITAR FESTIVAL MIKULOV Czech Rep.
Duo Melis, Marco Socias...
Crete
  International Guitar Competition of
Arhanes.
?? website or festival lost ?? send info
Croatia
  Festival El Mar y la Guitarra Vrsar.
Last festival in 2006?
England
  London International Guitar Festival.
?? website or festival lost ?? send info
  24 june- 8 august 2009
Bath International Guitar Festival.
mainly for rockeros,
but also some classical...
Estonia
15 - 20 june 2009
Tallinn Guitar Festival.
Duo Melis, Carle Costa...
Finland
31 may- 7 june 2009
Tampere Guitar Festival.
David Russell, Ricardo Gallen, Alex
Garrobe...
France
28 june- 4 july 2009
Festival Guitare "Lambesc". Pays d'Aix.
Gerard Abiton,
Jorge Cardoso...
  may 2009
Concours international de guitare
"Bartoli".
Aix en Provence.
National competition in 2009, concerts by
  22 july- 1 august 2009
Guitar Course at Chateau de Ligoure.
at webpage of Eleftheria Kotzia
Germany
29 may- 1 july 2009
Zevener Guitar Festival. Zeven.
 
  19 - 26 july 2009
Gitarre und Natur, Erlbach.
 
  18 - 26 july 2009
Rotenburger Gitarrenwoche.
Thomas Muller-Pering, Pavel Steidl..
 
30 july- 07 august2010
Nürtingen Gitarren festival.
 
Greece
8 - 12 july 2009
International Guitar Festival - Naxos.
Desidero Aniello, Zoran Dukic, David
Starobin, ...
  12 - 16 july 2009
Hermoupolis Guitar Festival.
Festival and Competition.
  13 - 15 july 2009
International Guitar Days of Lafkos
Artistic Director Eva Fampas.
Hungary
20 - 27 june 2009
International Guitar Festival-
Balatonfüred
.
Zoran Dukic, Thomas Muller-Pering...
Holland
5 - 8 july 2009
GitaarFestival Rotterdam
Carlo Marchione, Anette Kruisbrinck...
Ireland
1 - 5 july2009
Waltons Guitar Festival of Ireland-
Dublin
.
David Russell, Los Romeros....
Italy
-
Summer Study in Italy. The Guitar on the
Mediterranean.
?? last study in 2006 ?? send info
  14 - 29 june 2009
Brescia Chitarra
 
  23 - 30 june 2009
Mediterranean Guitar Festival
Lorenzo Michelli, Matteo Mela, Jeffrey
McFadden, Andrew Zohn...
  -
Music Master Classes, Siena.
 
  4 - 12 july 2009
International Guitar Festival Mottola.
Roland Dyens, Maximo Diego Pujol...
  Moved to November
Friuli Venezia Giulia.
 
  -
Sor Concorso. Rome.
?? last concorso in 2007 ?? send info
  11 - 18 july 2009
Suonarte Masterclasses - Scandiano
Masterclasses in violin, cello, piano,
clarinet, percussion, viol, guitar (Michael
Lewin)...
  -
Festival Internazionale di Chitarra
"Mauro Giuliani" Bisceglie.
?? WEBSITE HACKED, seriously ??? send
info
  27 july- 2 august 2009
Concorso int "Giovani Talenti" "Premio
Rovere d'Oro". Imperia.
Young Talent Competition
  -
Concorso Musicale Internazionale "Città
di Guardiagrele".
 
  14 - 26 july 2009
soundSCAPE Festival - Pavia
"sound, composition & performance
exchange"
  10 - 18 july 2009
the Volterra Project Summer Guitar
Institute
Nubes de Buenos Aires, Antigoni Goni...
Liechtenstein
4 - 11 july 2009
Liechtensteiner Gitarrentage
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, Alvaro Pierri,
Carlo Domeniconi, Paul O´Dette, Jorge
Cardoso, Dale Cavanagh...
Norway
24 - 29 June 2009
Bergen International Guitar Festival.
Sergio & Odair Assad, Graham Anthony
Devine, Mario Ulloa...
Peru
28 - 31 july 2009
Festival Internacional de Guitarra
Arequipa
Roberto Pachari.
Poland
21 - 30 july 2009
Summer Guitar Workshop 'Letni Kurs
Gitary'. Krzyzowa.
 
  11 - 13 july 2009
Międzynarodowy Festiwal Gitarowy
Trzęsacz 2009
Festival and competition.
  11 - 19 july 2009
VI International Guitar Course and
Competition in Olsztyn
Rolf Lislevand, Lukasz Kuropakcewski,
Goran Krivokapic, Gabriel Bianco, Zoran
Dukic, Marcin Dylla...
Scotland
11 - 13 July 2008
Dundee Guitar Festival.
?? website or festival lost ?? send info
  10 - 13 july 2009
Classical Guitar Retreat, Millport.
Mathew Mcallister, Amanda Cook...
Spain
23 - 27 june 2009
Encuentro Intenacional de Guitarra
"Ciudad de Torrent"
Jorge Orozco, Pavel Steidl, Carlos
Bonell, Oscar Herrero, Jayme Marques.
    Festival Internacional de Guitarra del
Mediterráneo.
?? festival lost ?? send info
  6 - 19 july 2009
Semana de la Guitarra - Petrer. Alicante.
Festival & Competition.
  1 - 18 july 2009
Festival de Cordoba.
Rock, jazz, classical, flamenco...
  13 - 22 july 2009
Curs Int "Felippe Pedrell", Tortosa.
Xavier Coll.
  17 - 22 july 2009
Festival de Guitarra Ciutat d'Elx.
Alvaro Pierri, Margarita Escarpa, Eduardo
Baranzano.
  17 - 27 july 2009
Julian Arcas International Classical
Guitar Competition
 
Sweden
26 july- 1 august 2009
'Liten Gitarrakademi'. Värmland.
Gary Ryan.
Thailand
18 - 21 june 2009
Asia International Guitar Festival and
Competition
 
USA
31 may- 04 june 2010
JoAnn Falleta Concerto Competition,
New
York.
 
  24 july- 23 august 2009
Aspen Music Festival
Sharon Isbin...
    MIAMI’S II INTERNATIONAL GUITAR
COMPETITION AND ASSEMBLAGE.
?? 2009 ?? send info
  21 june- 16 july 2009
Masterworks Festival. Indiana.
 
  22 - 27 june 2009
The Hartt School Guitar Festival - CT.
Jason Vieaux...
  10 - 14 june 2009
Boston GuitarFest.
 
  26 june- 2 july 2009
Classical Minds Festival - TX.
Competition & Festival; Douglas James,
Elliot Frank, Randall Avers...
  8 - 12 july 2009
New York Seminar at Mannes.
Fabio Zanon, Benjamin Verdery......
    "Shenandoah Performs".
?? 2009 ?? send info
  moved to October
Ten String GuitarFestival. CT.
 
  11 - 14 july 2009
ECU Summer Guitar Workshop. NC.
Workshop & Competition. Elliot Frank,
Jason Vieaux, Adam Holzman...
  19 - 25 july 2009
Mid America Guitar Camp. New Haven.
 
  5 july - 4 august 2009
National Guitar Summer Workshop.
Guitar Heroes;)
  10 - 12 july 2009
New Mexico Classical Guitar Festival
 
    Alexandria Guitar Festival.
?? 2009 ?? send info
    East Carolina University Summer
Festival.
?? 2009 ?? send info
  12 - 24 july 2009
NCSA Summer Guitar Workshop
 
  17 - 21 June 2008
Miami Int. Guitar Festival.
?? 2009 ?? send info
 
22 - 27 june 2010
Guitar Foundation of America
Convention and Competiton
 
August - September
COUNTRY
TIME
NAME OF EVENT
INFO
       
Austria
30aug- 5 september 2009
Forum Gitarre Wien
Competition and festival; Massimo Delle
Cese, Thomas Muller Pering, Alvaro
Pierri...
  28sep- 2 october 2010
Internationaler Gitarrenwettbewerb
Karl Scheit
Info at www.guitarfoundation.org/
Belgium
26.09 - 04.10.2008
Printemps de la Guitare
11th competition - Age limit 32 years
France
5 - 10 august 2009
Guitar France Summer Course
With Gary Ryan and Craig Ogden.
Germany
9 - 16 august 2009
Guitar Symposium. Iserlohn.
Los Romeros, Alvaro Pierri, Oscar Ghiglia..
  25 - 27 september 2009
Open Strings Internationales
Gitarrenfestival
 
  25 - 27 september 2009
4. Internationalen Friedberger
Gitarrentage
La Volta, Gruber & Maklar, Carlo
Marchione.
Hungary
2 - 9 august 2009
Esztergom Gitarren Festival
Leo Brouwer, Paul Galbraith, Alvaro
Pierri...
Italy
20 - 22 august 2009
ChitarraFestival
Courses & Competition
 
21 - 26 september 2009
Michele Pittaluga
42nd international guitar competition!
  23aug - 5 september 2009
Incontri Chitarristici Gargnano
Oscar Ghiglia, Elena Papandreou.
The competition is held from 2nd - 5th of
september.
  6 - 13 september 2009
SIRACUSA - XIV Festival
Internazionale Della Chitarra Classica
Festival & Competition. Pavel Steidl, Trio
Andaluso, Adriano del Sal...
Portugal
03 - 06.09.2008
9º CONCURSO E FESTIVAL
INTERNACIONAL DE GUITARRA
CLASSICA SERNANCELHE
 
Romania
17 - 22 august 2009
Transilvania International Guitar
Festival
International festival & Competiton. Duo
Melis, Judicael Perroy, Gerhard
Reichenbach...
Spain
3 - 10 august 2009
XII Festival Internacional de
Guitarra "Ciudad de Coria"
I´ve removed the link as my antivirus
alerted that the webpage contained a
trojan virus!? still want to risk it? the web
is www.guitarracoria.com
  17 - 22 august 2009
III Curso Internacional de Guitarra
"Aureo Herrero"
Ma Luisa Benito Serrano. In El Barraco,
Ávila.
 
28aug - 4 september 2009
XLI Certamen Internacional de
Guitarra "Francisco Tárrega"
Click "Ayuntamiento" and click "Cultura"
and click "festivals i actes" and you
might get there;) (town page of
benicassim) or just click
here!)
Switzerland
23 - 30 august 2009
7e Atelier de musique ancienne
 
USA
25 - 27 september 2009
La Guitarra California
Manuel Barrueco, Los Angeles Guitar
Quartet, Carlos-Barbosa Lima...
  7 -9 august 2009
Sierra Nevada Classical Guitar
Festival & Competition
Ricardo Cobo, Evan Hirschelman, Arina
Burceva, Daniel Roest..
October - November - December
COUNTRY
TIME
EVENT
INFO
       
Australia
29 Nov- 7 Dec 2008
www.adelaideguitarfestival.com.au/
Adelaide International Guitar Festival.
Brazil
17.11 - 2009
Festival Villa-Lobos
Every year beginning around nov. 17th
Bolivia
2006
CONCURSO Y FESTIVAL
INTERNACIONAL DE GUITARRA
 
Canada
30 Oct - 01.11.2008
Aaron Brock Memorial
 
Denmark
9 - 17 october 2009
8th International Guitar Festival Aarhus
Marcin Dylla, Hopkinson Smith, Wang
Yameng & Su Meng, Dusan Bogdanovic...
England
07 - 23.11.2008
International Guitar Festival of Great
Britain
 
  4 courses each year
Staffordguitar
Weekend courses in march - april -
october - november
France
13 - 16.11.2008
Festival International de Guitare de
Paris
 
  12 - 14 november 2009
Concours International de Guitare
Classique Robert Jean Vidal
In Barbezieux , in Poitou-Charentes.
Germany
31.10-02.11.2008
Hamburger Gitarren Festival
The guitar festival +++
Holland
4 - 8 november 2009
Guitar Festival Zwolle
Odair Assad, Leo Brouwer...
Israel
25.10 - 29.10.2009
Guitar Gems, Netanya.
International guitar festival & competition.
Italy
2006
27° Concorso internazionale di chitarra
"Mauro Giuliani"
 
  21 - 23.11.2008
Augustin Barrios International  Guitar
Competition
Age limit 35. Obligatory pieces by Barrios
+++
  19.10 - 14.12.2008
CASSINO GUITAR FESTIVAL
 
  11.2007
Concorso nazionale di Esecuzione e
Composizione per chitarra "Città di
Seveso"
Only open to Italians or residents in Italy
  2 - 4 October 2008
www.assochitarra.it/
15th Emilio Pujol Competition.
  13.11 - 20.11.2009
Friuli Venezia Giulia.
 
Japan
20 - 22 november 2009
52th TOKYO INTERNATIONAL GUITAR
COMPETITION
Preliminary round in August (recording)
Poland
04 - 11.10.2008
Silesian Guitar Autumn
Biannual
  04 - 09.11.2008
Tansman Competition, Lodz
 
Romania
Every year in december
Eduard Pamfil Festival
Dedicated to young guitarists
Singapore
08- 14.12.2008
Guitar Festival Far East Plaza
Tomas Music Consultant - Festival,
Competition and recitals
Spain
17-22.11.2008
Certamen Andres Segovia, Herradura
link at town page of Almunecar
  04 -16.11.2008
Encuentro Internacional de Guitarra
Ciudad de Linares  "ANDRÉS SEGOVIA"
Course and competition - inscription
deadline; november 1st.
  Moved to May
XVII CONCURSO INTERNACIONAL DE
GUITARRA S.A.R. LA INFANTA DOÑA
CRISTINA
Ajofrin, Toledo.
  25 oct- 8 november 2009
VI CERTAMEN INTERNACIONAL DE
GUITARRA DE BARCELONA "MIQUEL
LLOBET".
 
Sweden
14 - 17 october 2009
Uppsala VI International Guitar Festival
John Williams, Inti-Illimani, Andy Mckee,
Duo Assad, Marcin Dylla, Ralph Towner,
Jorge Cardoso, Johannes Möller...
Thailand
09.10 - 12.10.2008
Thailand International Guitar Festival
masterclasses, courses and competition
USA
  Ten String GuitarFestival. CT.