All That Guitar
All That Guitar - Loutraki Guitar Festival starts its 4th summer trip from 5 to 9 July, under the guitar soloist Yorgos Bechilvanoglou's artistic direction. with a variety of activities, such as concerts, seminars, lectures, exhibitions of manufacturers and shops, as well as a guitar orchestra and classical guitar and ensemble contest, which started last year with great success and continues this year.
Honorable guest, a well-known guitarist, the internationally renowned Polish Poet Krzysztof Pelech, director and organizer of "Guitar Masters," one of the world's largest guitar contests and festivals.
This year's All That Guitar - Guitar Festival of Loutraki introduces for the first time three-day workshops on the various types of guitar, with leading teachers of the genre. The All That Guitar 4th Edition program promises five days of music. Analytically,
Thursday 5/7
19.00 - 20.00: Demetris Kotronakis Seminar on the Right Hand Technique "Pick technique" (Cultural Center of Loutraki)
REESITAL - CONCERTS
Thursday 5/7: Classical guitar recital by Krzysztof Pelech
(Alexandrio Congress Center, 21:00)
With the support of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Athens.
Friday 6/7: Part I Jazz concert by Thodoros Kotsifafas - 2nd part concert Blues by Yannis Raptis (Peace Park - Loutraki Beach Park, at 21:00)
Saturday 7/7: 1st part of classical guitar recital by Dimitris Kotronakis - 2nd part of flamenco concert by Christos Tzifakis (Cultural Center of Loutraki at 21:00)
Sunday 8/7: 1st class concert guitar concert - Duo Zefxis piano and 2nd class guitar concert - Duo StringLa cello
(Cultural Center of Loutraki at 21:00)
Monday 9/7: Celebratory ending concert with the workshops and the guitar orchestra in the 1st part and the second part the winners of the classical guitar and ensembles of the All That Guitar 2017 M. Competition and the guitarist Orchestra of the Old Faliro (Alexandrio Congress Center, 18.00)
DAILY FROM FRIDAY 6/7 TO SUNDAY 8/7
10.00 - 14.00: Seminars (Cultural Center of Loutraki)
16.00 - 20.00: Guitar Exhibitions (Beau Rivage)
17.00 - 20.00: Jazz, Blues, Flamenco, Fingerstyle - Acoustic, Brazilian and rehearsal guitar orchestras
MONDAY 9/7
10.00: Contest of classical guitar & ensembles, at the Alexandrio conference center in Loutraki.
PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION
On the occasion of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the independence of the Polish state, an exhibition called "About Polska" will be held at the Alexandria Conference Center on Thursday July 5, along with the concert. The exhibition presents modern Polish cities, their history and culture.
"All That Guitar Guitar Festival of Loutraki"
Artistic Director: Giorgos Bechilvanoglou
Renowned soloist in Greece and abroad, George Behlivanoglu has collaborated with orchestras, such as the Symphonic Orchestra of Craiova, the State Orchestra of Athens, the Contemporary Music Orchestra of ETR, the Orchestra of Colors, Camerata - Armonia Atenea among others, and has he has performed recitals in many cities in Greece and abroad, as well as in international festivals such as Liège, Sinaia, Craiova, Volos, Athens Concert Hall, Corfu, Veria etc. He has recorded for radio, TV, EBU (European Broadcasting Union), but also for EMI.
Loutraki, a city of incomparable natural beauty with centuries of history, built in the northern part of the gulf of the Corinthian Gulf and at the foot of the mountain range of Gerania, hosts for the fourth time this July a guitar festival "written" in variants for a guitar and ... many guitar players!
More information about the Festival at allthatguitar.com
Contact with the Festival:
Music School of the Municipality of Loutraki-Perachora-Ag.Teodoron
Tel: 27440 67000 | Email: msloutraki@gmail.com
Contact Artistic Director:
Tel. 6937049973
email: g.bechli@gmail.com
Organization and communication: specs 'n' arts
Efrosini Triandafyllidou
email: efytrian@specsnarts.gr
Production: Arte Atene
Tel. 2109767984 & arteatene@yahoo.gr
Communication Sponsor: Μουσικό διαδικτυακό περιοδικό TaR