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International Jan Edmund Jurkowski Memorial Guitar Competition
Next edition
No future edition is announced on the official pages we could check.
Overview
A classical guitar competition held within the Silesian Guitar Autumn festival in Tychy. It has no age limit and culminates in a final with orchestra, performing a guitar concerto.
- Organiser
- Municipal Culture Centre in Tychy (Silesian Guitar Autumn festival)
- Instruments
- Classical Guitar
- Category
- Solo guitar
- Age limits
- No age limit
Rules & repertoire
Registration & fee
Online at guitar.tychy.pl by 31 August 2026; fee EUR 80.
Rounds & time limits
- Preliminary (video): 10-15 minutes, 3-17 September 2026
- Second round: 30-35 minutes, up to 20 participants
- Final: guitar concerto with orchestra, up to 6 participants
Repertoire
Second round: a 20th/21st-century original guitar sonata plus free programme. Final: Castelnuovo-Tedesco Concerto No. 1 Op. 99 or Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez. Second round and final from memory.
Jury & prizes
Jury
Not published on the official pages we could check.Prizes
- 1st: EUR 8,000
- 2nd: EUR 4,000
- 3rd: EUR 2,000
- Other finalists: EUR 500 each
Past editions
- 2026 — Tychy source
Summarised from official sources, last checked 10 Nov 2026. Main source