The Program of the Festival

Consistent with its established appointment, the International Guitar Festival of Patras continues for the 32nd year to offer its friends a rich and extremely interesting program.

This year's guests are the Russian Vladimir Gorbach and the Croatian Lovro Peretić, two of the leading soloists of their generation.

The two artists who will also teach in Master classes, have to their credit countless honors and awards (among them the GFA), multiple appearances at Festivals as well as participations as soloists with symphony orchestras.

The program of concerts also includes our distinguished soloists Orestis Kalambalikis and Ioanna Kazoglou as well as the talented young artists Oktavia Bujnowicz and Vassilis Poulios who won respectively the 1st and 2nd Prizes at last year's competition of the International Guitar Festival in Patras.

The Festival program is completed with a lecture-master class that will be given on Sunday by guitarist and composer Orestis Kalambalikis, who will talk about the art of arranging works for guitar from other instruments, after the lecture by Evangelos Assimakopoulos on Saturday, will have preceded the 100th anniversary of the birth of the late Ida Presti.

Finally, it is already known that Monday, the last day of the Festival, mainly belongs to the competitions of the three categories which will have our invited soloists and teachers as committee members.

The 32nd International Guitar Festival of Patras warmly thanks the Patras Conservatory Philharmonic Society for its hospitality, Nicholas Ioannou and the Music House 'Panasmusic' for their generous contribution to the guitar competitions and finally all those who support this institution.

Evangelos & Liza