Hamburger Gitarrentage & Hanse Guitar Festival

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Hamburg's series of events centered on the acoustic guitar

The Hamburg Guitar Days have been held since 2003. Over the years, these events have firmly established themselves in the local music scene with top-notch concerts, courses, and workshops centered on the acoustic guitar, attracting numerous internationally renowned artists from a wide variety of genres to the Hanseatic city. Since 2004, the Hanse Guitar Festival —formerly the Hamburg Guitar Festival—has also been held every two years as part of the Hamburg Guitar Days. In 2022, the HANSE GUITAR CUP, a competition for young talent, was even added to the lineup.

The organizer, GitarreHamburg.de gemeinnützige GmbH, is responsible for several successful guitar-related projects in Hamburg. These include the Hamburg Youth Guitar Orchestra (first-prize winner of the German Orchestra Competition in 2025 and 2012, first prize in the state orchestra competition “Orchestrale” in 2011, 2015, 2019, and 2024) and the youth orchestra “JGOH-Juniorteam” (prize winner at Orchestrale in 2011, 2015, and 2019), it offers Hamburg’s children and young people two professionally organized and completely free ensemble opportunities. In addition, as part of the Hamburg Guitar Days and the International Hamburg Guitar Festival (recipient of the Hamburg-Nord Culture Prize in 2010), affordable or free concerts, courses, and workshops are organized with internationally renowned guitarists representing a wide variety of musical styles. Completely free open masterclasses are held regularly with top guitarists such as Pepe Romero, the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, Carlo Marchione, and many others. From 2003 to 2019, the young guitarists supported by the program went on to win approximately 350 prizes in the “Jugend musiziert” competition, including first-place national awards with perfect scores. The website www.gitarrekonkret.de also offers a wealth of information about the guitar. More information about GitarreHamburg’s programs is available at www.gitarrehamburg.de and on the websites of the individual projects.