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Parkening International Guitar Competition
Next edition
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Overview
A classical guitar competition associated with guitarist Christopher Parkening and held at Pepperdine University in Malibu, usually every three years. It has a main competition and a Young Guitarist competition and awards a gold medal, silver and bronze.
- Organiser
- Pepperdine University (Christopher Parkening)
- Instruments
- Classical Guitar, Young Guitarist
- Category
- Solo guitar
Rules & repertoire
Registration & fee
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Jury
Not published on the official pages we could check.Prizes
- Gold medal (Jack Marshall Prize / Stotsenberg Prize in earlier editions)
- Silver
- Bronze
Past editions
- 2015 source
Gold: Meng Su (China); Silver: Rovshan Mamedkuliev (Russia); Bronze: Tengyue Zhang (China) - 2012 source
Gold: Petrit Çeku (Kosovo); Silver: Rafael Aguirre (Spain); Bronze: Florian Larousse (France) - 2009 source
Gold: Emanuele Buono (Italy); Silver: Ian Watt (Scotland); Bronze: Juuso Nieminen (Finland) - 2006 source
Gold: Pablo Sáinz Villegas (Spain); Silver: Petrit Çeku (Croatia); Bronze: Roberto Morón Pérez (Spain)
Summarised from official sources, last checked 10 Nov 2026. Main source