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Congratulations to our four finalists of the Ninth Annual David Russell Bach Prize: Andres Pantoja, Giovanni Accadia, Ignacio Mondaca and Facundo Martinez!

Ana Maria Iordache performs for the Schulman Award Recital

Congratulations to the finalists of the 41st Annual Sholin International Guitar Competition: Facundo Martinez for his audience prize and his third prize, to Andrés Pantoja for his second prize and to Ana Maria Iordache and Giovanni Accadìa for their first prizes ex aequo

Congratulations to all the finalists of the 2022 Beeston Guitar Competition: Andrés Pantoja, Ignacio Mondaca, Giovanni Accadía and Ana Maria Iordache

Congratulations to Giovanni Accadía for winning the Grand Award of the 2022 Beeston Guitar Competition

Congratulations to all the finalists of the 2022 Wolfe Guitar Competition: Robert Rogers (Grand prize guitar winner), Julio Arenas, Fernando Martinez and Dante Olita

Congratulations to all the finalists of the 2022 Sholin Guitar Competition: Everton Maia, Ana Maria Iordache, Yihui Wang and Andres Pantoja

Congratulations to Ana Maria Iordache for receiving the grand award of the Eighth Annual David Russell Bach Prize - a Dennis Tolz guitar!

Julia Pernet being honored by the Assads and Bolton Guitar Studies with a new piece written for her by Sergio Assad, A Bouquet for Julia

Professor Thomas Patterson being honored by the Assads with a new piece written for him by Sergio Assad and premiered by the Tucson Guitar Quartet - "An American in Bahia"

Congratulations to Misael Barraza-Diaz for taking first place in the 20t​h​ Annual Guitar Symposium and Competition in Columbus, GA!

Congratulations to all the finalists of the 2019 Beeston Competition: Ignacio Mondaca (fourth place), Andrea Roberto (Special prize guitar winner), Ana Maria Iordache (second place), Grace Sheppard (third place) and Misael Barraza-Diaz (first place)

Congratulations to Andres Pantoja on receiving the Grand Prize in the David Russell Bach Competition!

Misael Barraza-Diaz with composer Leo Brouwer after winning first prize in the First International Classical Guitar Competition of Finland the holding the prize guitar built by Finnish luthier, Keijo Korelin

Congratulations to all the finalists of the 2019 Wolfe Guitar Competition: David Oregon, Isaac Brodkin (Special prize guitar winner), Yhihui Wang, Grace Sheppard

Congratulations to all the finalists of the 38th Sholin Competition! Andres Pantoja (4th place), Nicholas Epple (5th place), Steven Lerman (3rd Place), Ana Maria Iordache (2nd Place), Misael Barraza-Diaz (1st Place)

Congratulations to all the finalists of the 2019 Schaeffer Guitar Competition: First place and Marilyn Chase Special Award- Grace Sheppard, Second place- Yihui Wang, Third place tie- David Oregon and Samantha Holmes

Congratulations to Steven Lerman for taking First Prize in the Josepfina P. Tuason International Guitar Competition in Denver, CO!

Congratulations to Misael Barraza-Diaz on receiving the Grand Prize in the 2020 David Russell Bach Prize Competition!

Congratulations to Ana Maria Iordache for taking the First prize in the 2020 Madrid International Competition!

Congratulations to Misael Barraza-Diaz on performing the world premiere of the piece Concertino de Culiacan by Simone Iannarelli!

Congratulations to Ana Maria Iordache for winning the first prize and three special awards in Certamen Llobet, Barcelona (Spain)!

Congratulations to Misael Barraza-Diaz for being a Grand Prize winner and the Special prize winner for the best interpretation of a work by Leo Brouwer in the Ex-Aequo International Guitar Competition!

Congratulations to Ana Maria Iordache for being a Prize winner in the 2020 New York Guitar Competition!