Montreux Jazz Festival Electric Guitar Competition

For these two guitarists both participants in the berklee global jazz institute the 2013 montreux jazz festival electric guitar competition is the opportunity of a lifetime.

Montreux jazz festival electric guitar competition.

Le montreux jazz festival se déroule durant deux semaines chaque été en suisse au bord du lac léman. After the fall of the berlin wall solo piano guitar and voice competitions were held to encourage musicians from these regions to come to western europe. But it was actually a bit of a last minute thing for me to apply. Juin 2016 fondation du festival de jazz de montreux.

Tell us about that experience. Since its early days the festival has invited international musicians to participate in competitions. Congratulations on the win at the montreux jazz festival. Born in sao paulo brazil pellegrino is a berklee global jazz institute bgji participant who will enter his final year at the college this fall.

Big names like george benson diana krall and take 6 who will enrich a lineup of hundreds. Big bands of the great american universities have spread the name of montreux in the native land of jazz. The most popular solo piano electric guitar and voice contests in the world montreux jazz festival competitions unveil tomorrow s young talents. It is a chance to showcase their chops at the same festival as their heroes.

The montreux jazz festival opened on 18 june 1967 and was founded by claude nobs géo voumard and rené langel with considerable help from ahmet and nesuhi ertegun of atlantic records the festival was first held at montreux casino the driving force is the tourism office under the direction of raymond jaussi. It lasted for three days and featured almost exclusively jazz artists. Berklee college of music guitar student leandro pellegrino was named the winner of the prestigious 2013 montreux jazz festival electric guitar competition by the festival s judges on july 19.