February 16 and 23, 2019, will see the VII International Festival “Guitar. From Classics to Rock” held in the Moscow International House of Music.
Chai Wei LIN, classical guitar (Taiwan);
Alexander MIRONOV, seven-string guitar;
Yevgeniy POBOZHY, electric guitar, and the band;
Zoltan RENALDI, bass guitar (Indonesia).
"Guitar. From Classics to Rock” is the only guitar festival in Moscow, which is distinguished by stylistic contrasts and genre diversity. The classical guitar and bass guitar solos, electric guitar in jazz and Russian seven-string guitar - for the first time on one stage and in one project! Thanks to this unusual combination, the fans of rock music will discover Marin Marais, and classical music lovers will get a great opportunity to appreciate electric guitar, a serious music instrument with the richest possibilities. And it is wonderful!” – Eugene Finkelstein, the art director of the festival, emphasized.
The brightest virtuoso guitarists awarded the highest awards at contests and festivals will once again present the widest range of compositions to the public, from masterpieces of classical music to modern crossover and jazz-rock.

The festival will be opened by the phenomenally gifted virtuoso guitarist Chai Wei Lin from Taiwan - the winner of 15 international competitions in Austria, Germany, the USA, Holland, and other countries. Chai Wei Lin regularly gives concerts, both solo and with an orchestra. In the International House of Music, he is going to play the virtuoso "Devil's Capriccio" by Castelnuovo-Tedesco, the temperamental Sambadalu piece by Brazilian Marco Pereira and the suite "Cathedral" by Paraguayan composer Barrios Mangore, all of these on the classical guitar.
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The Russian seven-string guitar will be presented by Alexander Mironov, the winner of several first prizes at international competitions. The musician is the author of a number of brilliant transcriptions of world classics masterpieces, designed to demonstrate the unique harmonic and polyphonic possibilities, the technical merits of the Russian seven-stringed guitar. On top of all, the program of the Russian guitarist will include his own music compositions that have a vivid national flavor.

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The first day of the festival will be completed by the phenomenal young guitarist Yevgeniy Pobozhiy, a soloist of the Moscow Jazz Orchestra conducted by Igor Butman, and a member of hurricane fusion projects. Jazz, funk, hip-hop, blues, and ethnic - all these get organically intertwined in the play of Yevgeny Pogozhi.