Giulia Ballaré (1987, Italy) now is considered one of the most promising soloists of her generation.

She is regularly invited to play all over the world in prestigious venues. She has performed in Brazil, Mexico, Russia, Florida, Spain, Switzerland, France, Poland, Ireland, England, Austria, Portugal, Montenegro, Estonia, Croatia, Hungary, Bosnia Herzegovina, Romania, Finland, Bulgaria, Sweden, Germany, and Italy.

She is professor at Conservatoire de Musique de Genève (Switzerland) and Conservatorio “A. Vivaldi” in Alessandria (Italy). She also organizing an annual masterclass in Novara in “Nova”.

In 2013 she released her first album with the label dotGuitar titled “Lyrically Spain” and in 2019 “Untuned Guitar” with the Spanish label JSM Guitar Records. In 2019 she founded the “Gauthey Ballarè Duo” with the French guitarist Pauline Gauthey. In 2023 they released their first album ” Lo Que Vendrá” with the label JSM Guitar Records.

When she was 20 years old, after Erasmus’s experience in Spain, she devote everything to the guitar; in 6 years (2013/2018) she has won more than 30 prizes in international competitions among them, first prize: Andrès Segovia (Linares, 2018), Ciudad de Coria (Spain, 2017), Forum Gitarre Wien (Austria, 2016), Mottola (Italy, 2013); second prize: J. Tomàs-Petrer – 1st not awarded – (Spain, 2018), Enrico Mercatali (Gorizia, 2017/8), Thessaloniki Guitar Competition (Grece, 2017) Mertz Competition, (Bratislava, 2016), Montenegro International Competition, (Podgorica, 2016); third prize: M. Pittaluga International Competition (Alessandria, 2017), A. Frauchi International Competition (Moscow, 2017),  J. Tomàs-Petrer (Spain, 2017), Sevilla (Spain, 2017), Emilio Pujol concorso Internazionale (Italy,  2017).

She started playing guitar at nine years old and she graduated in 2012 with maximum from the conservatory in Novara with M° Guido Fichtner.

She attended masterclasses with the most important figure of the classical guitar world like Oscar Ghiglia, David Russell, Pavel Steidl, Paolo Pegoraro, Marcin Dylla, Judicael Perroy, Aniello Desiderio, Adriano Del Sal.

Composed by the Italian Giulia Ballarè and the French Pauline Gauthey, the GautheyBallareDuo debuted in 2019.

They have performed in Switzerland, France, Spain, Germany, and Italy. Giulia and Pauline use chamber music to extend their repertoire to other styles, they explore the classical and popular guitar repertoire.They will release their first CD in 2023 with the Spanish label JSM Records, composed of Spanish music (De Falla, Albeniz), South American music (Piazzola, Bellinati, Gismonti, Ginastera), and Italian opera (Rossini).

They had masterclasses with the most influential personalities in the world of classical guitar such as Marcin Dylla, Judicael Perroy, Carlo Marchione.

Ema Kapor was born in 1998 in Belgrade (Serbia) where she graduated from primary music school and music high school “Stanković” in the class of Professor Boris Đujić. Afterwards, she completed two years of studies at the Koblenz International Guitar Academy (Germany) in Professor Hubert Käppel’s class. In 2021, she successfully attained her Bachelor diploma at the University of Music and Dance in Cologne, also in the class of Professor Hubert Käppel. Currently, she is studying for a master’s degree at the University of Music and Media “Robert Schumann” in Düsseldorf, in the class of Professor Joaquin Clerch.

In 2014, she completed a course of the Summer Academy at the University of Mozarteum in Salzburg (Austria), in Professor Marco Tamayo’s class. In 2019, she completed a course at the International Music Academy – MusicAlp in Tignes (France) in the class of Professor Judicaël Perroy. She participated at the Zbaszyn International Masterclass (Poland), held by Professor Lukasz Kuropaczewski, in 2019 and 2020.

Furthermore, she has attended masterclasses with many famous guitarists and pedagogues such as Oscar Ghiglia, Pepe Romero, David Russell, Costas Cotsiolis, Aniello Desiderio, Zoran Dukić, Alvaro Pierri, Marcin Dylla and others.

Elena Ortega is an outstanding guitarist from Madrid, the city where she was born and where she completed her higher studies. Her extensive performing career includes concerts in prestigious auditoriums in different cities of the Spanish geography. The CentroCentro Cibeles, the Círculo de Bellas Artes, the Ateneo de Madrid or the Pabellón de Juventudes Musicales de Sevilla have successfully received each of his performances. He has also participated in several cycles and festivals in Spain and abroad, such as the Sonidos del Alcázar held in Seville, the Andrés Segovia International Guitar Festival in Madrid, the Mediterranean Guitar Festival in Barcelona, Conciertos de Palacio in Medinaceli (Soria), the Hanoi International Guitar Festival in Vietnam or the Guanacaste Guitar Festival in Costa Rica. He has also performed as a soloist with the Orquesta Sinfónica Ciudad de Getafe and with the Athanor Orchestra in Split (Croatia), with which he performed the Concierto de Aranjuez. He is also a member of various chamber ensembles, such as the Artemisa duo with flutist and conductor Jorge García Cuenllas.

His support for training complements his experience in various pedagogical projects such as the Commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the Concierto de Aranjuez organized by the SGAE, the Escuela Popular de Madrid and the Camerata Musicalis orchestra. In recent years, he has also been interested in cultural management and is a founding member of the Madrid International Guitar Festival. 

Recently, she won an international award in the ‘Best Instrumentalist’ category of the 2023 InterContinental Music Awards with the piece ‘Capricho Catalán’ by Isaac Albéniz included in her album ‘Rumores del Mediterráneo’. She has also been selected to give a concert in the 2024/2025 season of the MusaE Project, organized by the Ministry of Culture, Acción Cultural Española and Juventudes Musicales de España. 

Elena began to show a deep interest in music at an early age. After obtaining a degree in Chemical Engineering at the UPM and a Guitar Degree at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid with maestros Gabriel Estarellas, Iliana Matos and Tomás Campos, her eagerness to improve herself both artistically and technically led her to attend the I Master of Classical Guitar Performance in Seville directed by maestro Francisco Bernier, with the participation of maestros Judicaël Perroy, Zoran Dukic, Pablo Márquez, Paolo Pegoraro and Lorenzo Micheli.

Subsequently, she has also studied a Master’s Degree in Soloist Performance of Spanish Music at the Centro Superior Katarina Gurska with masters Àlex Garrobé and Laura Verdugo del Rey, inspired by the deep admiration she has always felt for this repertoire and its relationship with some popular music such as flamenco. She has also received master classes from other great interpreters and guitar figures such as Leo Brouwer, David Russell, Manuel Barrueco, Pepe Romero, Ricardo Gallén, Aniello Desiderio, Joaquín Clerch and Eduardo Fernández.