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The 5th International Guitar Competition and Festival “Guitar Time” was held in Moscow with the support of the Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives.

 

The competition-festival was attended by 250 musicians from 47 cities of Russia, Belarus, Turkey, Mexico, France and China. Auditions, master classes and concerts of the festival were held from November 27 to December 1, 2024 at the Moscow State Conservatory named after P.I. Tchaikovsky, Niko Gallery, the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Anglican Church of St. Andrew, the Moscow Museum of S.V. Rachmaninov.

 

"It was a great pleasure for me to meet Russian musicians and share the joy of creativity with them on one stage. I thank the entire festival team for the brilliant organization, I found real friends here, this is an invaluable experience that I will never forget. The level of young musicians in Russia is very high, as are the achievements of scientists, doctors, athletes, this country is very rich in talent," says the chairman of the jury, professor of the guitar class at the University of Music and Fine Arts in Ankara Ayşegül Koca.

 

The festival included a creative meeting with Ayşegül Koca at the Moscow Conservatory, where the professor gave master classes for guitarists from Donetsk and Mariupol. In total, the jury members held more than 20 free master classes at the festival, including for guitarists from the DPR and LPR. In the second round of the professional category, the mandatory works of the winners of the composers' competition "Time of the Guitar" were performed: Toccata "Continuum" by Vyacheslav Morgunov and 4 bagatelles for guitar by Grigory Seredin.

 

Results of the competition in the category of professionals:

The first prize was awarded to Vyacheslav Shugaev (Moscow, Gnessin Russian Academy of Music), the second prize was shared by Denis Shipulin (Nizhny Novgorod) and Mikhail Korotkov (St. Petersburg), and also students of the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music Sergey Gudelev and Gleb Samsonov received the third prize of the competition.

Tatyana Tsyberman (MGIM named after A.G. Schnittke) won in the category "Russian seven-string guitar".

A guitar duo from Belarus (Nazar Malyshev and Tatyana Kanarskaya) received first prize in the category "Chamber ensembles".

The winners will receive cash prizes, 5 handmade concert guitars, strings, and other professional guitar accessories from the festival partners, and will also perform in concert programs of the Moscow International Association of Guitar Art in the current concert season.

The Guitar Time festival featured performances by famous guitarists, members of the competition jury. The festival opening was dedicated to concerts for guitar and orchestra. On November 27, guitarists Ayşegül Koca, Victoria Naletova and Pavel Yevseyev performed solo with the Moscow Sinfonietta orchestra conducted by Dmitry Borodayev in the Roman Catholic Cathedral. Works by Robert de Visé, Vivaldi and Ponce were performed. At the end of the evening, the conductor from China, Siqing Zhang, took the orchestra stand and performed a large-scale 10-part concerto, Madrigal by Joaquin Rodrigo, with soloists (Dmitry Borodayev, Gleb Okunev). That evening, the largest Kuhn organ in Russia also played in the cathedral: the winner of the All-Russian “Organist of the Year” award, Elizaveta Borodaeva, performed Bach’s famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor.

The chamber program of the festival featured famous guitarists, laureates of international competitions: Roman Zorkin, Sergey Rudnev, Ayşegül Koca (Turkey), Dmitry Murin, Dmitry Borodaev and soloist of the State Chamber Orchestra of Russia Alexey Neberikutin (violin). The program of works by Albéniz, Turina, Domeniconi, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Piazzolla, Rudnev and Orekhov sold out the halls of the Niko Gallery and the Anglican Church of St. Andrew.

Artistic director of the festival, guitarist, conductor and composer, president of the Moscow International Association of Guitar Art Dmitry Borodaev: "We are grateful to the Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives and all partners for supporting "Time of the Guitar". This year we managed to significantly expand the geography of the festival and give the opportunity to young guitarists of Donbass and their teachers to come to the competition. Many of them were in Moscow for the first time, and, you know, the smiles of these talented guys at the festival are a real reward for us and the main sign that the festival was a success."

The organizer of the competition-festival "Time of the Guitar" is the Moscow International Association of Guitar Art. The sixth festival is planned for November 2025.

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