27th Guitar Festival 2018 Iserlohn
8th International Guitar-Competition Iserlohn 2018
MARTINEZ-Competition - Prize of the Sparkassenstiftung

Welcome to the web-site of the 27th International Guitar-Festival Iserlohn - one of the largest Guitar Festivals in Europe - and to the 8th International Guitar-Competition Iserlohn 2018 (MARTINEZ Competition / Prize of the Sparkassenstiftung).
The 27th International Guitar-Festival and the 8th International Guitar-Competition takes place from Sunday, July 22nd to Sunday, July 29th 2018 (early arrival possible on Saturday, July 21st).
Highlights
The Highlights of the 27th Guitar-Festival:
- Concerts on eight evenings in Iserlohn
- More than 600 individual lessons
- Four lectures
- Guitar orchestra with Gerald Garcia (England)
- Yoga with Danielle Cumming
- Massage with Katharina Köhler
Venue for the events is newly renovated, historically grown building complex Haus Villigst (in Schwerte, 8 km from Iserlohn), whose origins go back to a manor of the 12th century. In 1948 it was taken over by the Evangelical Church of Westphalia and established one of the first convention centers after the Second World War in Germany. Villigst offers comfortable rooms, well equipped group and meeting rooms and an experienced team that is at your side from the reception of the organization to the technical service.
All concerts will still take place in Iserlohn (Parktheater Iserlohn, Goldsaal Schauburg and Oberste Stadtkirche) - free transfers with busses will be organised by the festival.
You can sign up here for the 27th International Guitar-Festival.
The way to the Festival und the Competition: How to find
The Teachers 2018
- 4 Times a Lady
- Boris-Björn Bagger
- Bandini & Chiacchiaretta
- Costas Cotsiolis
- Danielle Cumming
- Aniello Desiderio
- Admir Doçi
- Zoran Dukic
- Duo Exaudi
- Gerald Garcia
- Frank Gerstmeier
- Bruce Holzman
- Hans-Werner Huppertz
- René Izquierdo
- Tom Johnson
- Dale Kavanagh
- Thomas Kirchhoff
- Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
- Thomas Müller-Pering
- Juan Carlos Navarro
- Luciano Pompilio
- He Qing
- He Shunhua
- Meng Su
- Ulrich Stracke
- Tantalus Quartet
- Andrea Vettoretti
- Laura Young