we move:   new competition location  -  new web domain
9th competition in
MONHEIM (Germany)

 

Cristina Elena Ciortan (Romania), Competition 2008
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8th International Competition for Young Guitarists
«Andrés Segovia» 2014

NEW DOMAINs for the competition

Juli 2015

The International Competition for Young Guitarists «Andrés Segovia»
moved to two new domains as of July 2015:

 www.segovia-competition.com (English)
 www.segovia-wettbewerb.de (German)

Please use those two new domains as the old website
 www.gitarrevelbert.de  will not be actualized anymore!


The Competition moved to Monheim

July 2015

Dear young guitar talents all over the world,
highly estimated guitar lecturers,
much valued friends of the guitar!

The International Competition for Young Guitarists «Andrés Segovia» has left Velbert. We give our thanks to the citizens and the municipal administration of Velbert for 15 years of great support and hospitality. Since 2000 about 700 contestants with their accompanying persons came to Velbert and will hopefully keep a good memory in their hearts.

From 2016 the competition will take place in MONHEIM, a town situated on the river Rhine with good traffic connections to Cologne and Düsseldorf. The competition organizers had a proper look at the new circumstances to make sure to offer optimal conditions to future contestants as well. The positive signals from Monheim's town council and administration make us confident to see the good reputation of the competition spreading further out.

So in 2016 we will call the guitaristic youth of the world to Monheim.


Facebook

May 27th 2014

To make the communication among the participants more easy and also for other friends of the guitar we just now opened a facebook page.
HERE is the Link.


Master Guitar

April 23rd 2014
Luthier Constantin Dumitriu

The renowned Romanian Luthier CONSTANTIN DUMITRIU will come again to the Segovia Competition in Velbert. For the fifth time he will present new and valuable guitars from his workshop.
And again we are very pleased that he gives one of his masterpieces as a special prize to a finalist of his choice.


Record in applications

March 5th 2014

With 98 applications from 31 countries our competition establishes another record.

The incredible number of enrolments especially in Age Group 2 got the organizers into trouble. The problem was solved by prolonging the competition for this age group, so those candidates will have to go on competing on Saturday morning.

We are looking forward to greet you all in Velbert, together with your family, your teachers and your friends!


Enrolment closed

March 1st 2014

We are happy and proud about the echo from the guitar world.
In 4 weeks Velbert received applications from the following countries:

Banners     Belgium
        Germany
            Greece
                Japan
                    Croatia
                        Netherlands
                            Austria
                                Poland
                                    Portugal
                                        Makedonia
                                            Russia
                                                Switzerland
                                                    Serbia
                                                        Singapore
                                                            Kosovo
                                                                Ukraine
                                                                    Belarus
                                                                        Italy
                                                                            Moldavia
                                                                                Romania
                                                                                    South Korea
                                                                                        People's Republic of China
                                                                                            Finland
                                                                                                Indonesia
                                                                                                    Slovakia
                                                                                                        USA
                                                                                                            Israel
                                                                                                                Hungary
                                                                                                                    Lithuania
                                                                                                                        Vietnam
                                                                                                                            France

Events

September 2013

Thanks to recommendations of EGTA we will again provide for high-carat concerts:
Thursday, June 19th   ZORAN DUKIĆ
Friday, June 20th   RAFAEL CORTÉS TRIO


Jury

August 2013

The jury of the 8th Velbert Segovia-Wettbewerb will be staffed as follows :

Costas Cotsiolis (Greece)
Alfred Eickholt (Germany)
Dale Kavanagh (Canada/Germany)
Johannes Monno (Germany)
Jorgos Panetsos (Greece/Austria)
Gerhard Reichenbach (Germany)
Jürgen Rost (Germany)
Georg Schmitz (Germany)
Matthias Seidel (Austria)

The organizers thank those highly acknowledged artists and teachers that they are willing to bear the responsability to judge and advise those promising young guitar talents.

We will later announce even more jurors especially for the finals of age group 3.


Video Trailer 2010

April 2011

We tried to capture the atmosphere of the competition 2010 in a video clip of 3 minutes length. You find this clip under VIDEO to watch it or to download.


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