The sixth edition of the TRANSILVANIA International Guitar Festival will take place in Cluj-Napoca during 18-23 August 2008. The registration period for the Solo Guitar Competition and the Guitar Chamber Music Competition is opened until 1 August 2008.
The festival addresses to contestants of all ages and proposes to promote professional instrumentalists and to stimulate young talents.
The Transilvania International Guitar Festival has four components which cover the sides of artistically education:
- Recitals of famous interpreters
- Master-classes of noted international professors finalized by a Master Diploma
- Lectures, seminars and instrument gallery
- International competitions of classical guitar
There are a few changes in the Contest's Regulations, compared to the previous editions. These changes intend to fairly evaluate the contestant’s performing by two means: by performing works that are representative for the guitar repertory and by establishing clear criteria for evaluating participant’s performance.
One of the major changes of the Regulations is the list of representative guitar composers that ACT build for the competitors to choose their stylistically representative authors of their repertory. The list of composers can be enlarged by requesting the organizers for a certain author that is not listed.
The purpose of the list is to eliminate the ambiguities regarding the stylistic affiliation of authors from the competitors’ repertory. Also, the organizers do not claim that this list is the only valid list of composers by stylistic period, but it’s the one that is chosen for the competition of TRANSILVANIA International Guitar Festival.
Please consult the Contest’s Regulations for other changes and also the Program of the Festival.
