33rd International
Guitar Festival Iserlohn 2025

27th of July - 2nd of August 2025

with the 14th MARTINEZ Guitarduo Competition

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Guitarduo Competition

14th International MARTINEZ Guitarduo Competition Iserlohn 2025

Wettbewerb Teilnehmer und Preise - Iserlohn Guitar Festival

A look back: 2024, participants and prizes. Photo ©: Gerald Garcia

Dale Kavanagh - Kaleidoscope Op. 17 for two guitars / für zwei Gitarren - Iserlohn Guitar Festival
Dale Kavanagh - The ghost of Peggy's cove - Iserlohn Guitar Festival

Set piece in first round: One of two compositions by Dale Kavanagh "The Ghost of Peggy’s Cove" or "Kaleidoscope, op. 17".

Martinez Godoy3

Zoran Dukic, Aniello Desiderio and Amadeus Guitar Duo with the Martinez Godoy3 - this guitar ist part of the 1st prizes.

Thomas Kirchhoff on Martinez Guitars

Thomas Kirchhoff on Martinez Guitars.

1st round

The first round will take place on Monday, July 28th, 2025 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Aula (Forum) of the Stenner-Gymnasium (Stennerstrasse 5).

15 guitar duos will be accepted - first come, first serve. You need to register as an active participants (Variant 4 - 300 Euros for the duo – 2 people) by March 31st the very latest.

Set piece – one of two compositions by Dale Kavanagh "The Ghost of Peggy’s Cove" or "Kaleidoscope, op. 17" plus free duo program of a maximum 10 minutes – in total 17 to 19 minutes playing time. Both pieces will be sent to you after you have signed up.

2nd round

The second round will take place on Wednesday, July 30th, 2025 from 9.30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Free guitarduo program of a maximum of 15 minutes - no pieces from the first round may be repeated

3rd round - final

The third round, and thus the finale of the competition, will take place on Friday, August 1st, 2025 at 7.00 p.m. in the Oberste Stadtkirche Iserlohn.

This is a public concert, the finalists present a guitarduo program of at least 25 minutes and a maximum of 28 minutes in length. All pieces of the first two rounds may be repeated.

The prizes will then be awarded by the jury.

Participants of the competition will receive 3 duo lessons (on days without competition rounds) with teachers of their choice. (please understand that capacity is limited - we ask you to cross a section of 4-5 teachers of your choice).

Iserlohn Guitar Festival - Competition - Part of 1st prize: Leona Case, Qingchuan Li

Part of 1st prize: A Case from Qingchuan Li.

Prizes

1st prize

2nd prize

3rd prize

4th prize

5th prize

The Jury

The winners 2004 – 2024

2004

Goran Krivokapi, Serbia

2006

Su Meng, China / Fabian Hinsche, Germany

2008

Irina Kulikova, Russia

2010

Artyom Dervoed, Russia

2012

Oman Kaminsky, Mexico

2014

Chia Wei Lin, Taiwan

2016

Andrea de Vitis, Italy

2018

Bang Jeseok, Corea

2019

Si Wenji, China

2021

Marco Topchii, Ukraine

2022

Vera Danilina, Russia

2023

Francisco Luis, Portugal

2024

Samrat Majumder, Scotland