Welcome ...

Welcome to the 5th annual City of Derry Guitar Festival, set in the beautiful grounds of the University of Ulster Magee Campus, in the historic walled city of Derry, Northern Ireland. This unique festival is an offering to guitarists of all levels irrespective of age. Here you will have the opportunity to participate in master classes, workshops, ensembles, solo performances and much more, in a relaxed atmosphere. The festival is renowned for the accessibility of its tutors and the informality of its learning environment.

We have assembled for you an array of some of the top international guitarists of our time, crossing the genres of classical, acoustic, electric and flamenco, with their knowledge and experience they will help you discover and develop new skills over four days of truly intense guitar therapy. The sole purpose of this course is to help you as an enthusiastic amateur or a committed professional to utilize your skills to their full potential.

Complementing the central focus of guitar performance there is plenty on offer for composers with the competition course. For performers and composers alike there is an opportunity to develop skills in constructive analysis of standard repertoire with the Analysis workshops.

During your time at the City of Derry Guitar Festival you will meet and befriend other musicians and you will take away many valuable experiences from the course; one thing you can be sure of is that the knowledge that you will be exposed to cannot be found in text books.

Look forward to seeing you all there.

Sean Woods
Artistic Director

“Loved it, loved it, LOVED it.”

“The highlight for me was Carlos and Clive's Asturias duet which was amazing.”

“Thanks to all who organised!”