Classical Guitar
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Guitar Radar has 18 stories tagged Classical Guitar, collected here from across every section of the site. Most of it sits under players, music and learn. The most recent story, from Oct 5, 2026, is “Cristina Galietto wins the 58th Michele Pittaluga International Guitar Competition”. Coverage here goes back to Sep 1, 2026.
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Cristina Galietto wins the 58th Michele Pittaluga International Guitar Competition
The Italian guitarist earned first prize in Alessandria with Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez and secured a recording opportunity and international tour.
Oct 5, 2026
Asia International Guitar Festival Opens Its 26th Edition in Bangkok
The October 2–4 program marks the festival's 25th anniversary with concerts, competitions, masterclasses and a luthier exhibition.
Oct 3, 2026
GuitArt X Marks Its 10th Edition in Plovdiv With Vlatko Stefanovski, Yamandu Costa and a Classical Guitar Final
The Bulgarian international guitar festival runs October 1–4, combining recitals, a classical-guitar competition final and concerts by Vlatko Stefanovski Trio and Yamandu Costa.
Oct 2, 2026
Cádiz launches a new international guitar festival with 13 free concerts
The first Ángel G. Piñero International Guitar Festival will run across Cádiz, Jerez, El Puerto and Rota from October 22 to November 8.
Sep 23, 2026
58th Michele Pittaluga International Guitar Competition opens in Alessandria
One of classical guitar's longest-running international competitions is underway through September 26, with orchestral collaborations and more than €30,000 in prizes.
Sep 22, 2026
Silesian Guitar Autumn names second-round players for the Jan Edmund Jurkowski competition
The September 18 list moves the international field from video preliminaries to live auditions in Tychy on October 20–21, ahead of an orchestral final on October 24.
Sep 20, 2026
Guitarras del Mundo returns across Argentina for its 32nd edition
The free festival begins September 23 and runs through October 4, with its 2026 edition also paying tribute to the late Argentine guitar master Roberto Aussel.
Sep 18, 2026
Tampere Guitar Festival opens with four days of classical and flamenco guitar
The Finnish festival runs September 16–19 with Desiderio and Dukić's first Finnish duo appearance, Francisco Bernier, period instruments, flamenco and free masterclasses.
Sep 16, 2026
Felixstowe Classical Guitar Festival opens its first edition with concerts, masterclasses and lutherie and composition competitions
The new two-day UK festival puts classical guitar performance, teaching, composition and instrument making under one roof, with Alexandra Whittingham and Laura Snowden among the headliners.
Sep 14, 2026
Filip Mišković wins the 2026 Francisco Tárrega International Guitar Competition
The Croatian classical guitarist took first prize in Benicàssim, with fellow Croatian Luka Lovreković finishing second.
Sep 7, 2026
Tárrega's 1888 Antonio de Torres guitar returns to the stage in Málaga
Jacob Kellerman performed on the historic Torres instrument once owned by Francisco Tárrega during Málaga's international guitar festival.
Sep 6, 2026
Igor Klokov and Hao Yang receive the 2026–27 GSI Foundation classical-guitar scholarships
The two classical guitarists have been named the newest scholarship recipients at USC Thornton, extending a program focused specifically on advanced classical-guitar study.
Sep 5, 2026
Francisco Tárrega competition names four finalists for its 2026 Benicàssim final
Filip Mišković, Sohta Nakabayashi, Luka Lovreković and Francisco Luís reached the final of one of Spain's longest-running international classical-guitar competitions.
Sep 5, 2026
Music
Renee Perez and Svitlana Remniakova release violin-and-guitar album ‘A Touch of Sound’
The September 18 classical release pairs violin and guitar in arrangements and repertoire spanning Torelli, Vivaldi, Vaňhal and Paganini.
Sep 19, 2026
Paganini’s own guitar reunites with his string instruments on new Goldmund Quartet album
Carlotta Dalia joins the Goldmund Quartet for a recording that reunites five historical instruments once owned by Paganini, including his guitar.
Sep 19, 2026
Hugo Moltó releases Sonatinas, tracing three centuries of classical-guitar sonata writing
The Spanish guitarist’s new JSM Records album pairs Diabelli, Moreno Torroba and Brouwer in a compact survey of how the guitar sonata changed across three musical eras.
Sep 7, 2026
An Tran's Ilumina is 13 new classical guitar works written for him
The Vietnamese guitarist's Prima Classic album collects world-premiere pieces from composers he has personal ties to.
Sep 1, 2026
