About Gitaristenpodium Zwolle

It is always our goal, as the Dutch Guitar Foundation, to spread some guitar love. That is why we are now working hard on the third season of Gitaristenpodium Zwolle! Through performances from international masters of the instrument, these concerts aim to bring the best music the guitar has to offer to the Netherlands. Last season, we heard the acclaimed guitarists Jack Hancher, Vojin Kocić, and Kristina Vårlid.
This year, we are opening up our concert series to even more classical guitarists! If you would like to be among our soloists for the coming season, scroll down.
Stay tuned and look forward to an amazing season full of exciting guitar music, right in the heart of Zwolle!
Perform at Gitaristenpodium Zwolle!

All you have to do is to send us:
- A video of yourself performing, not older than one year.
- A concert program
- Promo pictures
- Your biography
- A fee of 30 Euros.
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Upcoming Artists

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Previous Artists

2022 / 2023

Jack Hancher
28th of October 2022
Described by Gendai Guitar Magazine as a “poet and a painter, colouring sounds out of the guitar as if his imagination and the guitar were one”, Jack Hancher is a rising star of the classical guitar. In 2022, he won the Royal Overseas League Competition Strings Section, which was preceded in 2021 by a tour of several European Guitar Festivals as a EuroStrings Artist. In 2020, Jack won a string of awards at various guitar competitions, including First Prize at both the Zagreb Guitar Festival Competition and the Plovdiv GuitArt Festival Competition and in 2021, he was awarded Second Prize at the Altamira International (read more..)

Vojin Kocić
3rd of February 2023
Thanks to his musicality and expressive playing, virtuosity, guitar music interpretation from the Renaissance to the music created in the 21st century, Vojin Kocić belongs to the very summit of the international guitar scene. Critics call him ‘Maestro of Gentle Tones’ (SRF, Switzerland). He studied in a class of leading professors like prof. Darko Karajic, prof. Srdjan Tosic in Belgrade, and prof. Anders Miolin in Zürich, Switzerland. Vojin was perfecting his playing in 2007, 2010, 2014 and 2015 with Maestro Oscar Ghiglia at “Accademia Chigiana” in Siena, Italy, where he received “Diploma d’Onore” for his artistic (read more…)

Kristina Vårlid
14th of April 2023
Kristina Vårlid (b. 1994) from Stavanger, Norway is already an internationally acclaimed classical guitarist after winning several competitions and awards. Among others she got the 1st prize in Antwerpen International Guitar Competition 2017, finalist and winner of the Koblenz International Guitar Academy Award at the Koblenz International Guitar Competition 2018 and finalist in Tokyo International Guitar Competition 2018. She was named the best music student in The Netherlands in 2017 when she won Grachtenfestival Conservatorium concours. In 2018 she became a part of the prestigious (read more…)
2021 / 2022

Oman Kaminsky
10th of December 2021
Originally from Mexico City, Oman Kaminsky is one of the leading guitarists of his generation. In 2008 he received from the President of Mexico the National Youth Award in the field of arts. He earned his bachelor’s degree with the highest honors in the Escuela Superior de Música from the National Institute of Fine Arts, where he studied under the supervision of Isabelle Villey. After his studies in Mexico he went to The Netherlands to study a Master’s degree in guitar and chamber music at the “Koninklijk Conservatorium” in The Hague, where he studied with Maestro Zoran Dukic. (read more..)

Campbell Diamond
29th of April 2022
Thanks to his musicality and expressive playing, virtuosity, guitar music interpretation from the Renaissance to the music created in the 21st century, Vojin Kocić belongs to the very summit of the international guitar scene. Critics call him ‘Maestro of Gentle Tones’ (SRF, Switzerland). He studied in a class of leading professors like prof. Darko Karajic, prof. Srdjan Tosic in Belgrade, and prof. Anders Miolin in Zürich, Switzerland. Vojin was perfecting his playing in 2007, 2010, 2014 and 2015 with Maestro Oscar Ghiglia at “Accademia Chigiana” in Siena, Italy, where he received “Diploma d’Onore” for his artistic (read more…)