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Changsha Guitar Festival

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Zoran Dukic

Sanel Redzic in Changsha

Zoran Dukic and Sanel Redzic at the Changsha Guitar Festival in China.

The Changsha Guitar Festival is an annual, international guitar festival which aims to promote world class guitar music in China. This Summer I visited the festival for the second time, taking advantage of the opportunity to personally deliver a guitar ordered by the chairman of the festival, Qingxiang Li.

At the festival of which Xuefei Yang is the artistic director, I bumped into Kuang Junhong. He is a student of Manuel Barrueco now and happened to have grown a lot since the last time he visited us.

Kuang Junhong

Sanel Redzic

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Sanel Redzic

This is Sanel Redzic performing in the documentary ‘An extraordinary life’ made by the Paris Guitar Foundation. Sanel Redzic tells about the coincidence that played an important role in his life, what taking part in competitions meant for him and about his study in Weimar.

Augustin Pesnon, founder of the Paris Guitar Foundation shot the documentary himself as you can see in his vlog.

last weekend

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Along with the series we organized a competition for guitarists under eighteen years old. First price was being the support act before the concert of Sanel Redzic. Fourteen year old Ruben Silva Kas won the competition. In this picture both players, back stage, after the concert.

ruben silva kas and sanel redzic after the concert

ruben silva kas and sanel redzic after the concert

winners #2

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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.

results of the Tokyo International Guitar Competition 2012

results of the Tokyo International Guitar Competition 2012

Nos vemos

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The objective of the Barrios WorldWideWeb Competition is to promote and spread awareness about the works of Paraguayan composer and guitarist Agustín Barrios.

Taking part means uploading video’s on youtube.

There were many contestants among which Sanel Redzic and Tariq Harb. Tariq made it to the final and will be going to Paraguay in December to play in the final.

Here his beautiful interpretation of Barrios’ Mazurka Appasionata which brought him there.

 

winners

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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.

The other winner is Tariq Harb. He won the first prize a the Montreal Guitar Competition in Canada. I have only heard him play on youtube which I liked very much and wrote about earlier. Of course congratulations to him as well! And for the guitar facts likers : Tariq plays a spruce / rosewood built in 1996.

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