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Koblenz International Guitar Competition Hubert Käppel
Next edition
No future edition is announced on the official pages we could check.
Overview
An annual international classical guitar competition held in Koblenz as part of the Rhine Guitar festival. Candidates play three rounds of free-choice programmes and compete for cash prizes and concert engagements.
- Organiser
- Rhine Guitar International Festival & Academy Koblenz
- Instruments
- Classical Guitar
- Category
- Solo guitar
Rules & repertoire
Registration & fee
Programmes for Rounds 1 and 2 were due 3 May 2026 (12:00 CET) in 2026.
Rounds & time limits
- Round 1: 10 minutes
- Round 2: 20 minutes
- Final: 30 minutes
Repertoire
Free choice; pieces played in one round cannot be repeated in another. Special prizes for Rodrigo, Barrios, J.S. Bach and David Kellner repertoire.
Jury & prizes
Jury
- Alfred Eickholt
- Alexander S. Ramirez
- Fabian Hinsche
- Günter Schillings
- Russell Poyner
- Kristina Vårlid
- Wu Bing
- Fabio Zanon
- Julia Trintschuk
- Campbell Diamond
- Gabriel Bianco
Prizes
- 1st: EUR 3,000 plus festival concert, CD and video production, German concert tour, concerts in Brazil, strings
- 2nd: EUR 2,000 plus strings
- 3rd: EUR 1,000 plus strings
- Special prizes EUR 500 each (Rodrigo prize EUR 800)
Past editions
- 2026 — Koblenz source
1st: Rémy Patel (France); 2nd: Shilong Fan (China); 3rd: Kiwon Choi (Korea) - 2025 — Koblenz source
1st: Virgile Barthe (France); 2nd: Timothée Vinour (France); 3rd: Suvan Agarwal (USA) - 2024 — Koblenz source
1st: Hao Yang (China); 2nd: Samrat Majumder (Great Britain); 3rd: Gwenyth Aggeler (USA)
Summarised from official sources, last checked 10 Nov 2026. Main source