Consistent with its established appointment, the International Guitar Festival of Patras continues for the 31st year to offer its friends a rich and extremely interesting program.

This year's guests are the Polish Marcin Dylla and the Belgian Johan Fostier, 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 Manolis Vrontinos and Yiannis Giakoumakis as well as the talented young artists Konstantina Malapani and Dinos Papadimitriou 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 two lectures given by University professor Thomas Noutsopoulos and researcher and guitarist Yiannis Efstathopoulos.

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

The 31st International Guitar Festival of Patras warmly thanks the Philharmoniki Foundation Conservatory of Patras for its hospitality, Nikolas Ioannou and the Music House “Panasmusic” for their generous contribution to the guitar competitions and finally all those who support this institution.

                               Evangelos & Liza

The Program of the Festival

Friday, April 26th 2024 

11:00 Evangelos & Liza: Master Class

15:00 Special department: Teaching young students

16:00 Marcin Dylla: Master Class

16:00 Johan Fostier: Master Class

20:30 Dinos Papadimitriou: Guitar recital with works by Telemann, Henze, Sor, Iannarelli, Walton

21:30 Konstantina Malapani: Guitar recital with works by Dowland, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Sor, Ginastera

 Saturday, April 27th 2024

10:00 Liza Zoe: Master Class

10:00 Evangelos Assimakopoulos: Master Class

10:00 Marcin Dylla: Master Class

15:00 Special department: Teaching young students

18:00 Thomas Noutsopoulos: Lecture on "The classical guitar in the age of artificial intelligence"

     20:30 Manolis Vrontinos: Guitar recital with works by Latin American composers

21:30 Johan Fostier: Guitar recital with works by Kramskoi, Ponce, Pujol, Llobet, Asencio, Brotons

 Sunday, April 28th 2024

10:00 Liza Zoe: Master Class

10:00 Evangelos Assimakopoulos: Master Class

10:00 Johan Fostier: Master Class

15:00 Special department: Teaching young students

18:00 Yannis Efstathopoulos: Lecture on "the guitar during the 19th century”

20:30 Yannis Yakoumakis: Guitar recital with works by Barrios, Granados, Albéniz, Tadik, Yakoumakis, Theodorakis

21:30 Marcin Dylla: Guitar recital with works by Weiss, Matiegka, Piazzolla

Monday, April 29th 2024

12:00 Guitar Competition: Category A

14:00 Guitar Competition: Category B

16:00 Guitar Competition: Category C

19:00 Awarding Awards & Diplomas to the students of the Festival