User:Kuzmaz/sandbox/VOJVODINA GUITAR FEST International guitar festival and competition

In the years seventies and eighties of the last century, at the time when the classical guitar as an instrument was still emerging in the music centers of Vojvodina, there was a practice of organizing provincial competitions for young guitarists. Twenty years later, the Guitarists Association of Vojvodina, with the aim of renewing the Provincial Guitar Competition, will start the Vojvodina Guitar Fest in 2007. Shortly after the successful premier edition and excellent reception with the pedagogues and participants of the competition, Guitarists Association of Vojvodina decides that from the next year the festival competition will carrie the name of its honorary president and doyen of the classical guitar, prof. Dr. Jovan Jovičić. After the Museum of Vojvodina, the Pavle Beljanski Gallery and the Matica Srpska Gallery, the Ceremonial Hall of the „Isidor Bajić“ Music Highschool is established as the place of the Festival, and the French company „Savarez“ becomes the main sponsor of the awards for the winners of the competition at the Festival. In 2010, an exclusive project in the shape of the Internet competition for classical guitarists World Guitar Competition, launched the Vojvodina Guitar Fest among the prestigious international festivals, and a year later the field of performance of the WGC expanded to composers as well, with the help of the German publishing house „Chanterelle -Verlag“. WGC brings together guitarists and composers from nearly 100 different countries: Australia, USA, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Italy, UK, Hungary, France, Greece, Spain, the Netherlands are just some of them … Due to the significant interest of guitarists from Serbia and region, the competition „dr Jovan Jovičić“ in 2011 finally turned into international and attracted, in addition to new competitors from music schools all over Serbia, guitarists from the whole region: Hungary, Romania, Montenegro, Croatia, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, and even Poland. In addition to all the most eminent domestic professors, composers and guitarists, in the past years, the Vojvodina Guitar Fest has hosted some of the world’s most prominent names of classical guitar including: Aniello Desiderio, Egberto Gismonti, Nikita Koshkin, Zoran Dukić, Gaëlle Solal, Edin Karamazov, Giampaolo Bandini, Vojislav Ivanović, Anton Baranov, Antal Pusztai, Goran Krivokapić, Danijel Cerović, Marko Topchii, Sabrina Vlaškalić, Sanel Redžić and many others. Today, Vojvodina Guitar Fest has its well-deserved place on the world map of guitar festivals, and with the name of the competition, keeping alive his legacy and remembering prof. Dr. Jovan Jovičić.

External links

• VOJVODINA GUITAR FEST Novi Sad