Guitar maker Amsterdam
This is Matthijs van Delft, a young, Dutch guitarist, studying at the Royal Conservatory in Den Haag with Fernando Cordas in his Young Talent Class. Matthijs came to the workshop together with his father to buy a new guitar. Less than a month later he sent me an email, telling me that he is very happy with his guitar and won the junior competition of the Antwerpen Guitar Festival as well as the Leo Brouwer prize!
Well done Matthijs!! Congratulations!
Maroje Brčić is a Croatian guitarist who works as a professor at the Academy of Arts in Split and Dubrovnik. At this picture he is teaching Andrija Lazarevic, winner of the first prize in category IV of the competition of the Sarajevo International Guitar Festival. Category IV is for competitors born in or after 1994. The first prize included a D’Addario gift box, the participation fee for the next festival and a guitar.
The two young guitarists Sanel Redzic and Tariq Harb are both doing very well in the world of competitions. I wrote about them earlier and I am doing it again because they won the first and second prize at the Tokyo International Guitar Competition. Congratulations to both of them. Last September Tariq played in our series in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Coming March Sanel Redzic will give his recital. Looking forward.
Last Sunday Tariq Harb won a shared first prize – with Chen Chan – at the Barrios World Wide Web Competition. Congratulations!
Two winners of competitions in the last two weeks.
Sanel Redzic won the first prize of the competition of the Guitarmania Festival in Lisabon, Portugal. He is doing great! Winning competitions al the time and giving concerts al over the place. Congratulations Sanel! For the guitar facts likers among us, Sanel plays a cedar/coco bolo guitar, built in 2010. See more of him on youtube.
