To close our season, we are delighted to welcome guitarist Sasha Savaloni back to MiWK. His fame has continued to spread after winning two of the most prestigious guitar competitions in Europe; the Sevilla International Guitar Competition (2018) and the New Elizabethan Award (2022). As a soloist he has given concerts across Europe and throughout the UK, performing recitals in venues such as the Wigmore Hall (London), Kings Place (London), Usher Hall (Edinburgh), Sage Gateshead, City Halls (Glasgow), Holyrood Palace (Edinburgh), DIT Conservatory (Dublin) and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland as well as at festivals such as the London Guitar Festival, St Magnus International Festival, Sul Tasto Paris, Festival de la Guitarra de Sevilla, Festival Corde d’Autunno, Les Garrigues Memorial Emili Pujol and Bath Guitar Festival.
Sasha’s programme for the evening can be downloaded here:
Sasha is a passionate advocate of new music and has been regularly active in expanding the guitar repertoire through performing and commissioning new works. To date he has been involved in the premiere of more than thirty new works. A committed Chamber musician, Sasha has worked with numerous musicians and ensembles, including collaborations with the Red Note Ensemble, guitarist Sean Shibe, mezzo-soprano Beth Taylor, trumpeter Mark O’Keeffe, guitarist Ian Watt, flautist Lee Holland and soprano Alison McNeill with whom he was a Chamber Music Scotland Resident Artist from 2015-2017.
Sasha is a Guitar Professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. In 2023 he also completed a doctorate at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the University of St Andrews focusing on performance of Schubert’s music on guitar.
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