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An Tran’s Ilumina introduces a personal collection of new guitar music
Released on 28 August, Ilumina brings together music by six composers, with a booklet and listening links for repertoire explorers.
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Alexandra Whittingham and Laura Snowden headline Felixstowe Guitar Festival
Harvest House, Felixstowe, Suffolk
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Tampere welcomes Desiderio and Dukić for its September guitar festival
Tampere and Pirkkala
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GuitArt International Guitar Festival
Plovdiv
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The three newest episodes from our four-show podcast feed. Fresh conversations, checked weekly.
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Classical Guitar Dispatch
S1 Ep 6: LAGQ Part 1 Eh, Go Ahead...Meet Your Heroes
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Classical Guitar Heroines
Series 3 Episode 5: Vincea McClelland
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Classical Guitar Dispatch
CGD Book Club: "Julian Bream, A Life on the Road" Livestream
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Discover festivals, competitions and places to hear the guitar live.
Browse the event directory ↗Festival coverage
Previews and stories from the festival circuit, with publication dates kept visible.
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View all ↗From the archive: conversations with the people behind the music.
Interviews
Interview with Tariq Harb
Tariq Harb discusses teaching, his guitars and recording the Sor studies in this interview from 2016.
Interviews
Ricardo Gallén and the Bach Lute Suites
An interview with Ricardo Gallén exploring his musicianship and his recording of Bach’s lute works.
Interviews
An interview with Gabriel Bianco
A video interview with classical guitarist Gabriel Bianco from the Classical Guitar Review archive, published in 2012.
The listening room
View all ↗Selected performances with artistry worth your time.
Videos
Drew Henderson plays Vivaldi in John Williams’s solo arrangement
A new performance of Vivaldi’s Concerto in D, RV 230, with a direct link to John Williams’s freely available score.
Videos
Vera Danilina plays Yarn by Michael Abels
An internationally recognised younger artist introduces Michael Abels’s Yarn in a recent Siccas Guitars studio performance.
Videos
Jorge Caballero plays Bach’s Allemande, BWV 1013
A recent studio performance of Bach’s solo-flute Allemande, reimagined on guitar by Naumburg winner Jorge Caballero.