The artists who perform the concerts during the Twents Gitaarfestival also give guitar lessons. These are also public for spectators!
For the lesson, it is useful if you have rehearsed a piece in advance that you have mastered well, that you can play during the lesson and that you can work on together. Everyone, regardless of age or level, can participate. It is nice if you bring the sheet music to class.
Cristina Galietto
Cristina Galietto is a 23-year-old classical guitarist from Naples, Italy, whose guitar playing has taken her to many countries in Europe, where she has given concerts, attended master classes with artists such as Aniello Desiderio and Carlo Marchione.
Among the many international competitions she has won, highlights include winning first prizes at the European EuroStrings competition, Rago International Guitar Competition in Stuttgart, International Competition for Young Guitarists ‘Andrés Segovia’ in Monheim am Rhein and the Uppsala International Guitar Festival competition in Sweden.
She began her musical studies at the age of seven with her father, a guitar teacher, and then went to the “Margherita di Savoia” music school in Naples and studied with Enzo Amat. She completed her studies at the Music Conservatory “San Pietro a Majella” of Naples and the Music Conservatory “Domenico Cimarosa” in Avellino in the class of Lucio Matarazzo with distinction and special mention. She is currently studying with Paolo Pegoraro and Lukasz Kuropaczewski at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, in Graz.
Her album Avant l’Aube, released in late 2020 (Timespan recordings), features music by composers such as Joaquín Rodrigo, Domenico Scarlatti and Alexis Rago, all of which are representative of an intimate, delicate and passionate musical feeling – characteristics that stand out in her playing and to which her audience is drawn.
Vladislav Fedorov
Vladislav Fedorov was born in Karaganda, Kazakhstan, and studied at the Gnessins College in Moscow, at the Accademia Chigiana di Siena in Italy and from 2012 to 2019 at the Universität für Musik in Cologne, where he received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Prof. Roberto Aussel.
Nikolai Studenikin
Nikolai Studenikin was born in Simferopol, Ukraine, and initially studied at Gnessins College in Moscow with Anastasia Bardina. As of 2015, he was in the class of Prof. Hans-Werner Huppertz at the HfMT Cologne/Aachen, where he earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees with top marks.
Nikolai Studenikin and Vladislav Fedorov have known each other since their student days in Moscow and have been performing successfully as a guitar duo for several years. They have won awards at several international guitar competitions. In 2023, they won the first prize in our “Chamber Music with Guitar Competition” at the Twents Gitaarfestival.
They are currently studying for a master’s degree in chamber music with Prof. Hans-Werner Huppertz at the HfMT Cologne / Aachen and perform regularly at events, festivals and own concerts. Their repertoire includes original works for guitar duo as well as transcriptions for this instrumentation.
