Émissions radio
100,7
Émission « Resonanzen » 10.05.2022
Interview de Hany Heshmat à propos du festival
https://www.100komma7.lu/program/episode/397336/202205101410-202205101416
Émission « Resonanzen » 12.05.2022
Interview de Manou Schreiner à propos du « Concert-présentation du luth »
https://www.100komma7.lu/program/episode/397398/202205121410-202205121416
Émission « Resonanzen » 13.05.2022
Interview du luthier Renzo Salvador à propos de son atelier « Initiation à la lutherie »
https://www.100komma7.lu/program/episode/397395/202205131410-202205131416
Émission « Resonanzen » 17.10.2022
Interview de Hany Heshmat à propos du festival
https://www.100komma7.lu/program/episode/414924/202210171440-202210171446
Radio Ara
Émission « Bistrot » 06.05.2022
Interview de Hany Heshmat à propos du festival
Émission « Bistrot » 18.10.2022
Interview de Hany Heshmat à propos du festival
RTL Today
Émission « The Home Stretch » 13.05.2022
Interview de Josip Dragnic à propos du festival
https://today.rtl.lu/culture/music/a/1912765.html
Émission « The Home Stretch » 13.10.2022
Interview de Josip Dragnic à propos du festival
https://today.rtl.lu/culture/music/a/1978113.html
Radio Latina
Émission « Musicarte » 22.10.2022
Interview du finaliste au concours international Francisco Luis
RTL Radio
Émission "Am Takt" 24.10.2022
Interview de Hany Heshmat pour le bilan du festival et l'annonce des résultats du concours international
Past events
2023
2nd Luxembourg Guitar Festival
The 2nd edition of Luxembourg Guitar Festival will take place from 12th to 14th May 2023 at the Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg, with top level concerts, masterclasses, lectures, instrument exhibition, national youth competition and international competition for young professionals born in 1991 and after.
Saturday 22. and Sunday 23.4
Morning & afternoon - 1st round of the international competition (public / click here for info)
Friday, 12.5.
Afternoon - National youth competition
2pm - Guitar masterclass with Giampaolo Bandini
2pm - Accordeon masterclass with Cesare Chiacchiaretta
Saturday 13.5.
All day - Guitar exhibition by Tomáš Honěk
Morning & afternoon – National youth competition
3pm - Lecture on lutherie by Tomáš Honěk
7pm - Argentinian music concert with Duo Bandini– Chiacchiaretta (guitar - bandoneon),
followed by a reception sponsored by the Embassy of Italy
Sunday 14.5.
All day - Guitar exhibition by Tomáš Honěk
10am - Formation continue for teachers with Giampaolo Bandini and Cesare Chiacchiaretta
Afternoon - National youth competition
3pm - Lecture on lutherie by Tomáš Honěk
5pm - Finals of the International competition
7pm - Awards ceremony
ADMISSION TO ALL EVENTS ARE FREE
Recital with the duo Bandini - Chiacchiaretta (Italy)
Saturday 13th May / 7pm
Auditorium (Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg)
Free entrance / Without reservation
The guitar and bandoneon duo Giampaolo Bandini - Cesare Chiacchiaretta honors Argentinean music through the charm and magic of its most representative instruments. They are immensely successful in the international concert circuit thanks to their great communicativeness and extraordinary charisma. Invited by the most important festivals and concert halls in the world, they have toured through more than 50 countries and received outstanding critical and audience acclaim.
Concert followed by a reception of the Embassy of Italy in Luxembourg.
Finals of the international guitar competition
Sunday 14th May / 5pm
Auditorium (Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg) & Online stream
Free entrance
The second edition of the international classical guitar competition organized in Luxembourg is open to any student of higher education or young professional. Organized in two rounds, four candidates will be chosen by the jury to compete in the public final. This will be followed by the awards ceremony.
Lutherie exhibition and lecture by Tomáš Honěk (Czech Republic)
Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th May / 3pm
Instruments museum (Conservatoire de Musique de Luxembourg)
Free entrance (without registration)
Tomáš Honěk is a guitarist, guitar teacher and luthier and will offer a lecture on lutherie for young guitarists (in English).
Tomáš Honěk will also exhibit his instruments throughout the duration of the festival.
Luxembourg Guitar Festival
2nd International Classical Guitar Competition
Results
1st prize (Award of the City of Luxembourg):
Emanuele Pauletta (Italy)
2nd prize (Award of the Luxembourg Ministry of Culture):
Nino D'Amico (Italy)
3rd prize (Award of the Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg):
Yuki Saito (Japan)
4th prize (Award of the Luxembourg Guitar Festival):
Filippos Manoloudis (Greece)
Audience prize:
Yuki Saito (Japan)
Lecture on lutherie by Tomáš Honěk (Czech Republic)
Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th May / 3pm
Instruments museum (Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg)
Free entrance (without registration)
In English
Topics of the lectures
Saturday
Evolution of the guitar from baroque period up to 20th century.
Description of wood and design of the guitars, especially about constructions in the 20th century (traditional, double top, lattice...)
Sunday
Guitar making step by step, the crucial moments in the process which affect the playability, sound and tuning of the instrument.
Maintenance of the guitar.
Tomáš Honěk will also exhibit his instruments throughout the duration of the festival.
Tomáš Honěk, born in 1985, took up playing guitar at the age of 10 at the Primary School Of Arts in Semily. From 2000 he has been studying guitar at the Music Conservatory of Pardubice under Stanislav Juřica. In 2010, he obtained his master’s degree at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno, where he studied with Martin Mysliveček and Vladislav Bláha.
Tomáš participated in various music festivals and attended masterclasses with Aniello Desiderio, Costas Cotsiolis, Zoran Dukić, Pablo Márquez, Leo Brouwer, Marco Socias, Paolo Pegoraro and others. He has received a number of both Czech and international awards.
Joining Lucia Fulka Kopsová (violin), he has been a member of Duo Teres since 2007. The duo has been successful in numerous international chamber music competitions, receiving the 1st prize in Gorizia (2009), the 1st prize in Vidnava (2010) and the 3rd prize in Aschaffenburg. They have released three CDs on Arco Diva. Duo Teres has premiered works of many renowned composers, including J. Freidlin, L. Hurník and M. Brunner.
From 2013 to 2018 Tomáš studied classical guitar making in the studio of master luthier Martin Šuk in Poděbrady. Since 2018 he has been working in his own workshop in Prague and also teaching guitar playing at the Music School Taussigova in Prague.
2022
1st International Classical Guitar Competition
First round
Sunday, September 25 - online in a video form.
The first round will be public and can be watched on our YouTube channel on September 25 from 10am on.
Final round
Sunday, October 23 – Finalists’ concert at the Auditorium of the “Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg”.
The final round will also be streamed online.
Deadline for registrations: Sunday, September 11
Money prizes for the 1st International Classical Guitar Competition
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1st prize: 2500 €
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2nd prize: 1500 €
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3rd prize: 800 €
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4th prize: 400 €
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5th prize: 400 €
Mandolin masterclass with
Caterina Lichtenberg and Mike Marshall
Saturday 22nd October / 2-5pm
Studio (Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg)
Free entrance / Open to the public
In collaboration with the Ensemble à Plectre Municipal of Esch/Alzette
Masterclass for advanced students of the conservatories and music schools in Luxembourg.
Recital with Zoran Dukić
Saturday 22nd October / 7pm
Auditorium (Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg)
Free entrance
Zoran Dukić, a guitarist trained in his native Zagreb and in Cologne, has won an impressive number of international competitions. His unique expressiveness and poetry on the guitar, in addition to a brilliant technique, make him one of the most renowned guitarists of our time. For his recital he will perform major works by composers such as Weiss, Piazzolla, Llobet and Bogdanović.
2021
Finals of the international guitar competition
Sunday 23rd October / 5pm
Auditorium (Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg) & Online stream
Free entrance
The first international classical guitar competition organized in Luxembourg, with no age limit, is open to any student of higher education or young professional. Organized in two rounds, four candidates will be chosen by the jury to compete in the public final. This will be followed by the awards ceremony.
Recital par Cristina Galietto (Italy)
Saturday 14 May 19:00, Auditorium (Conservatoire de Musique - Luxembourg)
(free entrance)
Cristina Galietto is a young guitarist from Naples and winner of the 2021 Eurostrings guitar competition. Her outstanding playing has led her to travel throughout Europe where she has given numerous concerts and master classes.
Her recital will feature major works of composers such as Paganini, Tarrega or Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
Concert-presentation of the lute Manou Schreiner (Luxembourg)
Sunday 15 May 10:00, Salle polyvalente (Conservatoire de Musique - Luxembourg) (free entrance)
Manou Schreiner is a Luxembourgish guitar and lute player, former student of the CVL and currently pursuing a Master’s degree in lute at the Conservatory of Amsterdam.
His concert-presentation will make us discover the lute, what developments and modifications it has undergone during its long and exciting history, and who were the main performers and composers of this fascinating instrument.
MASTERCLASS WITH CRISTINA GALIETTO
Sunday 15 May 9:00-12:00 and 14:00-17:00 - Salle de conférence (Open to the public) - Conservatoire de Musique Luxembourg
Masterclass for advanced students of the Luxembourgish conservatories and music schools.
Cristina Galietto - An enchanting sensitivity and attention to detail, elegance and technical dynamism, all accompanied by a wide timbral and dynamic palette, are what emerges in her playing and fully captures the audience.
Cristina Galietto is a classical guitarist from Naples, Italy, whose career has taken her all over Europe for concerts as well as masterclasses with artists such as Aniello Desiderio or Carlo Marchione. Among the numerous international competitions she has won, a highlight is the Eurostrings competition 2021 which awarded her a tour through Europe, the United States and Asia in 2022/2023. In addition, she won First Prizes at the Rago International Guitar Competition in Stuttgart, the International Competition for Young Guitarists “Andrés Segovia” in Monheim am Rhein and the Uppsala International Guitar Festival competition in Sweden. Cristina has given solo concerts in several European countries, including Germany, Serbia, Romania, Sweden, Slovenia, the UK (at the prestigious Hall One at Kings Place) and Italy.
She began her musical studies at the age of seven with her father, a guitar teacher, and then attended the Music High School “Margherita di Savoia” in Naples where she studied with Enzo Amat. She completed her studies, with honors and a special mention, at the Conservatory of Music “San Pietro a Majella” of Naples as well as the Conservatory of Music “Domenico Cimarosa” in Avellino in the class of Lucio Matarazzo. She is currently studying with Paolo Pegoraro and Lukasz Kuropaczewski at the “Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst” in Graz, Austria.
Her new album “Avant l’Aube”, released at the end of 2020 (Timespan Recordings), features music by composers such as Joaquín Rodrigo, Domenico Scarlatti and Alexis Rago, all of whom are representative of an intimate, delicate and passionate musical universe.
Cristina is playing a guitar made by master luthier Alessandro Marseglia (Pozzuoli) with a spruce double top andsides and back made in Indian rosewood.
MASTERCLASS AVEC MANOU SCHREINER
Sunday 15 May 14:00-17:00 - Salle polyvalente (Open to the public) - Conservatoire de Musique Luxembourg
Masterclass on the interpretation of lute music for guitar, for guitar students of the Luxembourgish conservatories and music schools.
Manou Schreiner - At the age of fifteen, Manou fell in love with the electric guitar. Inspired by virtuosi such as Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and Yngwie Malmsteen, he soon began to practice the instrument intensively. Eager to embrace all facets of the guitar, he also attended classical guitar classes at the Luxembourg City Conservatory (Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg – CVL) where he obtained his advanced diploma.
During his guitar studies, Manou naturally became interested in the lute repertoire. Curious to discover the original instrument, he acquired his own baroque lute a few years later.
A true osmosis was born between this ancient and noble instrument and Manou who, in 2017, decided to dedicate his musical journey to it. In 2021, he obtained his Bachelor's degree in lute and theorbo at the Amsterdam Conservatory (Conservatorium van Amsterdam – CvA) where he is currently pursuing his Master's degree.
Introductory workshop to lutherie by Renzo Salvador (Belgium)
Saturday 14 May and Sunday 15 May, 14:00-16:00
Studio (Conservatoire de Musique de Luxembourg)
The Belgian luthier Renzo Salvador is specialized in the making and restoration of plucked string instruments: guitars, lutes, theorbos, old harps...
He will offer an introductory workshop to lutherie for young guitarists and will exhibit his instruments throughout the weekend.
Saturday
Raoul Stefanetti (2personnes)
Louis de Lemos
Jirka Petr
Carlo Mori
Armand Metry
Guy Theisen
Laura Dombrovschi
Sunday
Pietro Pagani (2personnes)
Pietro Marchesini
Catherine David (2 personnes)
Alexis Tomas (2 personnes)
Samuele Bruschella
Odile