Jonas Egholm (1997, Danmark) started playing the guitar at age seven, and by the time he was ten he went on his first concert tour around Denmark and Germany in connection with being awarded the 1st prize in the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra’s competition for young musicians. He has attained wide international recognition and performed in several countries in Europe including Germany, France, Spain, Faroe Islands, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro Hungary, China and Japan. He has performed with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, South Denmark Philharmonic Orchestra and others. In 2020 he won the first prize in the International Guitar Competition José Tomás Villa de Petrer, whereafter he is performing concerts in both Spain, Brazil, Argentina and Mexico as well as having recorded this CD.

Jonas has finished his Bachelor and Masters degree on the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, Denmark with highest marks, and is now completing the soloist programme for the most talented students of this Academy. He owes his significant musical achievements mostly to his guitar professor Jesper Sivebæk.

In 2020-2021, he studied in “Máster en Interpretación de Guitarra” in Alicante, Spain under some of the world’s leading guitarists (David Russell, Ricardo Gallén, Hopkinson Smith, Lukasz Kuropaczewski, Tilman Hoppstock, Roberto Aussel, Ignacio Rodés and others), where he graduated with highest marks and Honours.

Currently, Jonas is an active performer and teacher, tutoring guitarists of all levels and ages in Denmark.

Jonas has won more than 15 competitions and received numerous prizes and awards, most recently:

– 1st prize, Guimaraes International Guitar Competition, Portugal.

– The Jacob Gade Grand Award 2021, delegated to the most prominent musicians in Denmark.

– The Carl Nielsen & Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Talent Award 2021, delegated to the most prominent musicians in Denmark.

– Leonie Sonnings Talent Award 2020, delegated to the most prominent musicians in Denmark.

– 1st prize, International Guitar Festival José Tomás Villa de Petrer

– 1st prize, Sarajevo International Guitar Competition 2019 (Category V)

– Euro Strings Artist, 2019/2020

– 2nd prize, the Royal Danish Academy of Music Scholarship Competition, 2019

Winner of numerous international competitions, such as the Francisco Tárrega International Guitar Competition 2015 and the Vienna International Music Competition 2021, João Carlos Victor has been invited both as a performer and teacher to renowned festivals, concert series and radio and television programs in Switzerland, Norway, Spain, Brazil, Liechtenstein, Austria, Belgium and Romania.

His debut CD Guitar Recital was released by the Naxos label in 2016 and was praised by critics. The repertoire ranges from the Renaissance with three chromatic fantasies by John Dowland to the present day with the first recording of Répeter by Paulo Rios Filho, composed in 2014. In May 2023, João’s second CD I call to You with his own transcriptions of works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Robert de Viseé was released on the JSM Records label.

His interest in contemporary music gave him the opportunity to collaborate with composers of great reputation such as: Sofia Gubaidulina, Paulo Costa Lima, Wellington Gomes, Leonardo Boccia and Paulo Rios Filho. The piece Répéter, which resulted from the collaboration with the composer Paulo Rios Filho, was awarded at the X Boston GuitarFest composition competition (USA) in 2015.

João has also devoted his attention to Early Music, studying with specialists in this field such as: lutenists Peter Croton, Julian Behr and harpsichordist Bettina Seeliger. In addition, he attended also special courses and master classes with Paul O´Dette (lute), Eduardo Egüez (lute), Marieke Spaans (harpsichordist, the last student of Gustav Leonhardt) and the duo Maccari-Pugliese (guitar duo specialized in music from the XIX century).

João holds master’s degrees in Musicology, Music Performance and Specialized Musical Performance – Soloist (Soloist Diploma) from world-renowned universities such as the University of Bern (Switzerland), the Musikhochschule Basel (Switzerland), the Musikhochschule Luzern (Switzerland) and the Musikhochschule Nürnberg (Germany).

Currently he is Professor of guitar and chamber music at the LUCA School of Arts (Lemmensinstituut, Belgium) and maintains an international concert career.

Classical guitarist, arranger and orchestra conductor from Viña del Mar.

He graduated with the highest distinction in the career of Musical Interpretation, mention in Classical Guitar at the Institute of Music of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (Chile). As a performer, he has performed in Chile and abroad, giving concerts in Easter Island, Ireland, Germany, Spain, Argentina, Bolivia, among others. Highlights in his career include winning awards in various music performance competitions, the most recent being his First Place in the International Guitar Competition “Miguel Llobet” 2018 in Barcelona, one of the most prestigious classical guitar competitions in the world.

In 2014, he released his first solo album entitled “I: Chilean Composers”, a work in which he only includes premieres of works by national composers (many of them written especially for him). Together with Belstrings – Cuarteto de Cuerdas Moderno, the group he conducts, he has performed concerts in Chile and Spain, appearing in various national and international media, as well as premiering his album entitled “Te Amaré”. He also highlights his role as orchestra conductor, being in charge of the Orquesta del Gran Valparaíso and the Orquesta del PCdV, filming with the latter scenes of the movie “Love & Justice: In Footsteps of Beethoven’s Rebel Opera” by the American filmmaker Kerry Candaele.

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.