#1 Sarajevo International Guitar Festival
Posted: 28/02/2011 19:14
Sarajevo International Guitar Festival 2011 (06.04. - 10.04.2011)
The organizer of the First International Sarajevo Guitar Festival is the Guitarists Association of the Federation of B&H. The Association was established to respond to the need for an organized and systematic approach to music and art scene. The date chosen for the opening ceremony of the Festival is April 6th the day on which the city was liberated from the Nazis in 2nd World War, and which has since been celebrated as Sarajevo Day. After all the terrible events in the recent past of the city, our aim is to help transcend borders and support and promote cultural and artistic diversity. Since music is a universal language, this Festival aims to become a festival of freedom and an opportunity to present Sarajevo as a cultural junction of East and West. The main goal of the Festival is to revive the music and cultural scene in Sarajevo and Bosnia and Herzegovina by presenting top classical guitarists to B&H audience and giving an opportunity to young artists to exchange artistic experiences and learn from world-renowned guitarists and guitar professors.
Years of isolation have brought about a state of affairs where many generations of classical guitarists who have completed their elementary, secondary and tertiary education do not have any experience or any incentive of this kind. Exchange of knowledge, practice and experience, as well as getting to know the local and global developments in contemporary guitar education and concert practice is another important goal of this project. Therefore, the Festival has great educational, cultural, and psychosocial importance for the participants, and the region in general.
The program of the Festival consists of concerts, master classes and a competition program with seven categories. Concerts will be given by world-renowned guitarists: Alan Thomas (USA/UK), Alexander Swete (Austria), Roland Dyens (France) and Ryuji Kunimatsu (Japan). The final night of the Festival will host great Bosnian musicians Amira Medunjanin and Boško Jović. The Competition program and master classes will be organized every day of the Festival and, apart from the artists performing at the Festival, jury will comprise guitarists and other music professionals from the region and beyond, including: Xhevdet Sahatxija (Croatia/Kosovo), Žarko Ignjatović (Slovenia), Belma Tuzović-Mujkić (B&H), Srđan Tošić (Serbia), Thomas Offermann (Germany), Dr. Tolgahan Cogulu (Turkey), Stefan Trifan (Romania), Samra Gulamović (B&H), Vojislav Ivanović (B&H), Sanel Sabitović (B&H), Predrag Stanković (B&H). Also, pieces composed especially for this Festival will have their world premiere.
www.sigf.ba
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The organizer of the First International Sarajevo Guitar Festival is the Guitarists Association of the Federation of B&H. The Association was established to respond to the need for an organized and systematic approach to music and art scene. The date chosen for the opening ceremony of the Festival is April 6th the day on which the city was liberated from the Nazis in 2nd World War, and which has since been celebrated as Sarajevo Day. After all the terrible events in the recent past of the city, our aim is to help transcend borders and support and promote cultural and artistic diversity. Since music is a universal language, this Festival aims to become a festival of freedom and an opportunity to present Sarajevo as a cultural junction of East and West. The main goal of the Festival is to revive the music and cultural scene in Sarajevo and Bosnia and Herzegovina by presenting top classical guitarists to B&H audience and giving an opportunity to young artists to exchange artistic experiences and learn from world-renowned guitarists and guitar professors.
Years of isolation have brought about a state of affairs where many generations of classical guitarists who have completed their elementary, secondary and tertiary education do not have any experience or any incentive of this kind. Exchange of knowledge, practice and experience, as well as getting to know the local and global developments in contemporary guitar education and concert practice is another important goal of this project. Therefore, the Festival has great educational, cultural, and psychosocial importance for the participants, and the region in general.
The program of the Festival consists of concerts, master classes and a competition program with seven categories. Concerts will be given by world-renowned guitarists: Alan Thomas (USA/UK), Alexander Swete (Austria), Roland Dyens (France) and Ryuji Kunimatsu (Japan). The final night of the Festival will host great Bosnian musicians Amira Medunjanin and Boško Jović. The Competition program and master classes will be organized every day of the Festival and, apart from the artists performing at the Festival, jury will comprise guitarists and other music professionals from the region and beyond, including: Xhevdet Sahatxija (Croatia/Kosovo), Žarko Ignjatović (Slovenia), Belma Tuzović-Mujkić (B&H), Srđan Tošić (Serbia), Thomas Offermann (Germany), Dr. Tolgahan Cogulu (Turkey), Stefan Trifan (Romania), Samra Gulamović (B&H), Vojislav Ivanović (B&H), Sanel Sabitović (B&H), Predrag Stanković (B&H). Also, pieces composed especially for this Festival will have their world premiere.
www.sigf.ba
evo nesto pozitivno u nasem gradu
