34th Guitar Festival Mikulov 2022

We would like to ask you for any financial support that we can use to cover the tuition fees for this year's Guitar Festival for students who had to leave their schools in Ukraine because of the war. We want to enable them to continue to develop their talents and to experience a pleasant, meaningful week in a stimulating and creative environment together with young people not only from the Czech Republic.

The Guitar Festival Mikulov belongs to the most significant events of its kind not only in the Czech Republic but also in the Central Europe. Its 34th year will traditionally include seminars, lectures, workshops and masterclasses. A very important part of the festival is a number of afternoon and evening concerts for general public. Therefore, the participants will have an opportunity to observe the invited tutors both during their masterclasses and live performances.

The main goal of the festival is to introduce world’s top classical guitarists to Czech and foreign participants and to provide them with the information about the latest trends in the area of guitar composition and interpretation. The organizers believe that the festival will contribute to better artistic education and orientation of Czech participants. We also aim to introduce concert guitar in a picturesque and inspirative environment which will enrich not only Mikulov region but also the whole course of national and international cultural events. Next important goal is to give an opportunity to rising generation to play in front of the professional public and under the leading of top artists which represents unique and valuable experience for their future career.

The festival in 2022 will customarily proceed in two levels. The first is intended mainly for the active participants but after previous arrangement will be open for general public too. This part of the festival consists of masterclasses, seminars, lectures and various workshops including guitar orchestrarehearsals.The second, level for public, consists of twelve afternoon and evening concerts in Mikulov castle. The component part of the festival are sales exhibitions of musical instruments and accessories, sheets, books, CDs and DVDs.

The performances of the evening concerts will include top guitarists from all of the world like Hopkinson Smith (Switzerland/USA), Zoran Dukić & Petrit Ceku Maroje Brčić & Tvrtko Sarić (Croatia), Judicael Perroy (France), Francois Xavier Dangremont (France), Campbell Diamond (Australia), Štěpán Rak (Czech Republic), Sönke Meinen & Bjarke Falgren (Denmark, Germany), Carlo Marchione (Italy).

The masterclasses will take place every day from 9.00 to 12.30 in the areal of High school (Gymnázium), Komenského 7 in Mikulov. At the same place will take place seminars, lectures, workshops and guitar orchestra rehearsals during afternoon hours. The participants of masterclasses will have an opportunity to show the results of their work during the afternoon concerts open for general public. 

Every year the festival welcomes about 120 active participants. They are mainly students of conservatories, musical colleges and universities, primary musical schools and conservatory teachers or amateurs from the Czech Republic or abroad. The total number of concert-goers is about 2000 people.