If someone said that there would be such a collection of top guitarists, without much financial support from big sponsors, the initiation and experts of the guitar world at least would not believe it, rather they would think of something about the loss of judgment. The festival grew, more and more people were coming, and the soloists had and had such an interest in the festival that it was something to choose from. Due to the increasing interest of guitarists and accommodation conditions, the festival moved to Brno in 1998, while the leadership, organization and character of the festival remained fully preserved. Today, the festival is considered to be one of the most important guitar festivals in Central Europe by a professional foreign press (eg Classical Guitar – England, Guitart – Italy etc.). He gained his solid background thanks to the support of the city of Brno, which, among other things, lends to the concerts a magnificent historical hall with baroque extensive paintings on the ceiling in the building of the New Town Hall in Brno and the South Moravian Region, and takes part in a very active cooperation with the Brno Cultural Center.

Teachers and soloists who worked at the festival from 1992 to 2011

Rafael Andía, Roberto Aussel, Vladislav Bláha, Remi Boucher, Brněnské instrumentální trio, Julian Byzantine, Jorge Cardoso, Companía Flamenco Andaluz, Javier Conde y Grupo, Rafael Cortéz y Grupo, Arnoldo Garcia, Rafael Cuén Garibi, Luciano Damiani, Anielloo Desiderio, Melodie Dickerson, Jiří Dobeš, Uroš Dojčinovič, Zoran Dukič, Arnaud Dumond, Zdeněk Dvořák, John W. Duarte, Roland Dyens, Loraine Eastwood, Roger Eon, Kathryn Evans, Robetro Fabbri, Juan Falú, Massimo Felici, Jevgenij Finkelstein, Karel Fleischinger, Eric Franceris, Laurentiu Ganea, Boris Gaquere, Nicola Giuliani, René Gonzales, Antigoni Goni, Giovani Grano, Duo Guitarnet, Duo Guitacord, Guanajuato Guitar Quartet, Gabriel Guillén, Guitar Project Trio: Paolo Devecchi, Salvatore Falkone, Salvatore Seminara, Victor Monge „Serranito“y grupo, Oscar Gurmán y grupo, Yaron Hasson, Harvey Hope, Heinz Irmler, Simone Iannarelli, Jiří Jirmal, Masayuki Kato, Dale Kavanagh, Nikita Koshkin, Chris Kilvington, Miloslav Klaus, Jarema Klich, Frank Koonce, Francis Kleynjans, Georg Kugi, Ján Labant, David Leisner, Ezther Lencsés, Trio Lenz, Jana Lewitová, Michele Libraro, Maria Linnemann, Claudio Liviero, El Macareno y grupo, Enric Madriguera, Sabine Madriguera, Carlo Marchione, Vladimír Merta, Vladimír Mikulka, Sanja Milutinovic, Carlos Molina, Vania del Monaco, Jorge Morel, Martin Mysliveček, Gianluigi Muti, Gregory Newton, Nigel North, Gerardo Nuňez, Pražské kytarové kvarteto, Matanya Ophee, Juan Francisco Ortiz, Rafael Padrón, Real Duo, Stefano Palamidessi, Alfredo Panebianco, Sándor Papp, Paolo Pegoraro, Krzysztof Pelech, Jovan Pesec, Jorge del Pino, Ramiro Martínez Piňa, Sonja Prunnbauer, Máximo Diego Pujol, Štěpán Rak, José Antonio Rodriguez, Michel Rolland, Maria Isabel Siewers, Mina Sasaki, Tadashi Sasaki, Igor Shoshin, Silesian Guitar Octet, Jim Skinger, Hopkinson Smith, Sandro di Stefano, Pavel Steidl, Peter Stuart, Tracy Stuart, Finn Svit, Ernesto Tamayo, Andrés Tapia, Milan Tesař, Scott Tennant, Daniel Thomas, Luciano Tortorelli, Viva Flamenco Group, Andrea Vettoretti, Stefano Viola, Katarzyna a Franciszek Wiaczorek, Rex Willis, Leo Witoszinskyj, Andrew York, Jaromír Zámečník, Salvatore Zema, Jorge Luis Zamora, Dagmar Zsapka, Jozef Zsapka

Festival participants’ countries

Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Belarus, Bulgaria, Brazil, Czech Republic, Chile, Croatia, the Netherlands, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Italy, Israel, Ireland, Canada, Costa Rica, Lithuania, Liechtenstein, South Africa, Japan, Yugoslavia, Cuba, Mexico, Germany, Peru, Poland, Austria, Romania, Russia, Greece, Slovakia, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Tchai - Wan, Ukraine, USA, United Kingdom, Venezuela

Masters Guitarists 1992 – 2010

Olivier Fanton d´Andon / Francie, Peter Barton / Anglie, Jiří Dobeš / ČR, Frank-Peter Dietrich / Německo, Noel Callaert / Holandsko, Armin Gropp / Německo, Hanika / Německo, Jeroen Hilhorst / Holandsko, Johanes Hoffer / Rakousko, Veit Jacob / Německo, Janis&Thasos Koukourigos / Řecko, Petr Matoušek / ČR, Stefano Robol / Itálie, Masaki Sakurai / Japonsko, Jan Schneider / ČR, Joachim Schneider / Německo, Michal Schneider / ČR, Robert Schneider / ČR, Václav Svoboda / ČR, Martin Šuk / ČR, Klaus Vogt / Německo, Fabio Zontini / Itálie

Premiers of the compositions performed at the 1992-2010 Festival by composers

John W. Duarte, Nikita Koshkin, Francis Kleynjans, Boris Gaquere, Štěpán Rak, Milan Tesař, Miloš Štědroň, Rex Willis, Jan Šimíček, Miroslav Větrovec

Soloists of concerts of the Czech Society of Classical Guitars 1986 – 2010 Concerts organized by ČSKK in 1986-2010 outside guitar festival Koncerty pořádané ČSKK v letech 1986-2010 mimo kytarový festival

Aightetta Quartett, James Bogle, Arnie Brown, Abel Carlevaro, Rafael Catalá, Joaquin Clerch (ve spolupráci), Costas Cotsiolis, John Dowdall, Duo W. Anderson – J. Forsyth, Duo Arianne, Duo Evans – Madriguera, Duo V. Křivá – M. Hovorková, Duo Violara: Fister & Palier, Duo I. Perragallo – J. Pedroni, Duo Š. Rak – J. Svěcený, Duo Š. Rak – A.Strejček, Duo P. Štefal – P. Bauer, Jevgenij Finkelstein, Duo P. Zeoli – K. Navosack, Libor Fišer, Alexandr Frauči, Freiburg Guitar Quartet, Gerald Garcia, Gorizia guitar Orchestra, Jana Holáňová, Jana Chocholáčová, Jakob Christensen, Toshiji Ishii, Roman Jedlička, Jaromíra Ježková, Stanislav Juřica, Miloslav Klaus, Daniel Kropáček, Thierry Lebre, Paco de Lucia (ve spolupráci), Milan Matoušek, Alois Menšík, Vladimír Mikulka, Martin Mysliveček, Gregory Nisnevich, Eva Nysik, Raúl Olmos, Hans Palier, David Parsons, Pražské marimbové trio, Red Cedar Trio, David Russel, Rolando Saad, Michel Sadanowski, Ben Salfield, Gergely Sárközy, Petr Seidl, Pavel Steidl, David Sussman, Vladimír Tomčányi, Trio de Paris (ve spolupráci), Aleš Trnka, Denisa Veškrnová, Franciszek Wieczorek, Brian Wright, Milan Zelenka, Jozef Zsapka, Jan Žáček