34th INTERNATIONAL GUITAR FESTIVAL J. K. MERTZ

21. – 26. june 2009
The Hall of Mirrors in Primatial palace
Music and Dance Faculty VŠMU Bratislava

Festival takes place within the Summer of Culture and Castle Festivities Bratislava 2009

34th INTERNATIONAL GUITAR FESTIVAL J. K. MERTZ

Program of the festival

21/6 - Margarita Escarpa (ESP)
22/6 - Henry Tóth (HU), Juraj Burian (SK)
23/6 - Marco Socías (ESP)
24/6 – Bratislava Guitar Quartet (SK)
25/6 – Evening with laureates of international guitar competitions
Petra Poláčková (CZE), Harold Gretton (AUS), Irina Kulikova (RUS)
26/6. - Carlo Domeniconi (ITA), Marco Socías (ESP)

Accompanying events

22 – 25.6.
Mastership courses and seminars
(Marco Socías, Margarita Escarpa)
Trade fair of new materials, books for guitar, CD, DVD, guitar strings etc., publisher CHANTERELLE, (DE)
Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Music and Dance Faculty
Zochova 1, Bratislava

Special concerts

24.6.2009, Wednesday, 16:00
Concert of the winner of Slovak Competition of the Conservatory Students
Karol Samuelčík
Concert hall Dvorana, Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Music and Dance Faculty

25.6.2009, Thursday, 16:00
Concert of Stuents of Music and Dance Faculty of Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts
Jana Babuljaková, Zuzana Bednárová, Štěpán Honc, Michal Slezák, Dušan Vrúbel,
Hana Výtisková
Concert hall Dvorana, Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Music and Dance Faculty

History and Present

International guitar festival of J. K. Mertz is an event with thirty years long history and inherently belongs to renowned events of the Summer of Culture in Bratislava. Besides Slovak artists which are regular participants of the festival the festival is visited also by dozens of guest artists from all over the Europe, Asia or America. The festival is annually organized since 1976 and therefore it belongs to the oldest festivals of its kind in the world. Thanks to constant support from Bratislava city the festival brings world-class guitar art at those places where J. K. Mertz, a composer, guitar player virtuoso and author of many opuses of early-romantic guitar music, was brought up and recorded first successes 200 years ago. Besides full-length concerts organized in representative premises of Old Town accompanying events are organized in the premises of the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts which are dedicated to professional audience, students and fans of guitar music. They can visit mastership courses lead by foreign guests, afternoon concerts of young artists as well as seminars and exhibitions concerning guitar music. Festival’s aim is to bring interesting and various dramaturgy every year which is in few past years also oriented on other than classical positions of guitar like old music, jazz or flamenco. International guitar festival of J. K. Mertz is every year visited by large audience consisting of guitar fans, ordinary tourists and incidental visitors.
Further information: www.jkmertz.com

More information

www.jkmertz.com

Promoter: BKIS
Organizer: Spoločnosť J. K. Mertza
Co-organizers: Music and Dance Faculty of Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts

Festival is organized thanks to financial support of the Ministry of Culture of Slovak Republic