Damien Theux

Switzerland

Friday 12 of July 2024

Sarah Métrailler

Switzerland

Friday 12 of July 2024

David Pavlovits

Hungary

Friday 19 of July, 2024

The guitarist and composer David Pavlovits is one of Hungary's leading guitarists and guitar teachers, currently working as associate professor, head of one of Hungary's most successful guitar class at the University of Szeged.

He and his students have won a great number of international and national competition prizes. His former students have become also successful performers and active teachers in U.K., France, New Zeeland or Denmark. As a performer, he has played in over 30 countries including the Carnegie Hall of New York, the Cairo Opera House, the
Shanghai Conservatoire, and the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, travelling in Europe, Middle-East, Africa, Asia and the Americas. As a composer, he has published dozens of original works and arrangements for guitar, including
two sonatas, chamber music, and several suites and studies.

Vladimir Dotsenko

Ukraine

Friday 26 of July 2024

Volodymyr Dotsenko (1962, Ukraine, Kharkiv) - famous guitarist, teacher, one of the founders of the modern school of classical guitar in Ukraine, professor at the Kharkiv National University of Arts named after I.P. Kotlyarevsky, Honored Artist of Ukraine, laureate of international competitions, member of the presidium of the National All-Ukrainian Musical Union (Association of Guitarists of Ukraine).

Volodymyr Dotsenko is a regular participant and jury member of many European
international competitions and festivals (for example, the 24th Szeged IGF; the
XIII Joagin Rodrigo Olsztyn Guitar Festival and others). He gave concerts and
master classes in many countries of the world - Germany, Austria, Spain, Hungary,
Poland, Ukraine, Turkey, Romania, Moldova.

In 2024, as part of the Erasmus+ program, Professor Margarita Escarpo invited
Volodymyr Dotsenko to conduct master classes for students of the Conservatory
Superior (Vigo, Spain)

The author of an original teaching methodology, thanks to which his students
became laureates of various international competitions more than 100 times, many
of them teach and give concerts in European countries. Among them is the world
famous guitarist Marko Topchii.

The musical activity of Volodymyr Dotsenko was highly appreciated by the world
famous philanthropist Duke Antal Esterhazy.

 Victoriia Tkachenko

(1973, Ukraine) - guitarist, laureate of international competitions, teacher, candidate of art history (Ph.D.), associate professor at the Kharkiv National University of Arts named after I.P. Kotlyarevsky, member of the Presidium of the Association of Guitarists of Ukraine.

Victoriia Tkachenko graduated from the Kharkiv State University of Arts named after I. P. Kotlyarevsky (1992-1997, class of Professor V. Dotsenko), as well as an assistant internship (performing graduate school) at KhNUM named after. I. P. Kotlyarevsky (2000-2003, class of Professor V. Dotsenko).

Her students have repeatedly become laureates of many international competitions in Ukraine, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Poland. Its graduate, Oleg Chukhleb, received a bachelor's degree from the Higher School of Music and Theater in lute and theorbo in Munich (Germany).

In 2019, Victoria Tkachenko conducted master classes with students of the branch of the Vienna Conservatory (Budapest, Hungary).In 2024, as part of the Erasmus+ program, Professor Margarita Escarpo invited Victoriia Tkachenko to conduct master classes for students of the Conservatory Superior (Vigo, Spain).

She has performed both in solo concerts and as part of ensembles in Ukraine, Poland, Hungary and Germany: the guitar quartet of the Kharkov Philharmonic, the municipal string quartet “Slobozhansky”, the guitar duet “Fiesta”, the guitar duet with Volodymyr Dotsenko.

Victoriia Tkachenko was also a member of the jury of many international competitions.

Dimitri Illarionov

Russia

Friday 3 of August 2024

Joao Carlos Victor

Brasil

Friday 9 of August 2024

Cédric Meyer

Switzerland

Firday 14 of August 2024