Savarez-Corelli Competition
Overview
On 9 November 2025, the internal Savarez-Corelli Competition for Chamber Music with Guitar, founded by Professor Maria Isabel Siewers de Pazur, will take place for the 11th time. All ensembles with one or more guitars are invited to register. The prize will be awarded to the best interpretation in the field of guitar chamber music.
Savarez-Corelli Competition:
Internal competition for chamber music with guitar
Contact
Maria Isabel Siewers, artistic director
maria.siewers@moz.ac.at
+43 676 5319 055
About
Traditional guitar chamber music, with its most prominent representatives Giuliani, Paganini, Diabelli and Schubert, reached its peak in the 19th century.
Thanks to guitarists such as Andrés Segovia and Julian Bream, composers such as Villa Lobos, Castelnuovo Tedesco, Britten, Rodrigo, Webern, Stravinsky, Takemitsu, Kurtag, Henze, Boulez, Crumb, Petrassi, Donatoni, Gnattali, Guastavino, Brouwer, Piazzolla and many others have been inspired to incorporate the guitar into ensembles, often in unusual combinations.
The students of the guitar classes enthusiastically participated in 10 editions of this competition (which we were able to organise until 2019 thanks to the support of the French string company Savarez-Corelli). We are delighted to present a new edition of the competition as part of the Mozarteum International Guitar Festival in November 2025!
XI Savarez-Corelli Competition 2025
- Registration deadline: 17 October 2025 at 12:00 noon
- Registration form (PDF)
Conditions of participation:
The following are eligible to participate:
- Regular students of the Mozarteum University
- Alumni*Alumna who completed their studies at the Mozarteum University in 2024 and 2025
- External musicians may participate provided that at least one ensemble member is a student or alumnus/alumna of the Mozarteum.
The order of participants will be announced on 2 November.
The jury reserves the right to select individual movements or parts of movements on an equal basis for all participants.
The decisions of the respective jury are final.
All participants undertake to be present at the award ceremony.
Registration:
The registration form must be submitted by email to maria.siewers@moz.ac.at by 12 noon on 17 October 2025.
- Price: 600 euros
- Price: 400 euros
- Price: 200 euros
Savarez and Corelli strings (for guitar and string instruments)
A freely selectable programme with a playing time of approx. 20 minutes.
This programme can be performed by an ensemble or in combination with a smaller group: e.g. the ensemble ‘Con Fuoco’ (guitar, violin, cello) plays a trio (10 minutes) and two members play a violin-guitar duo. In this case, the prize is awarded to the entire ensemble.
with the kind support of
Archiv
I Savarez-Corelli Gitarre-Kammermusik Wettbewerb 2005
1. Preis: Schubert Duo (Alessandro D’Amico, Bratsche und Jonas Nordberg, Gitarre)
2. Preis ex aequo: Duo Do Re (Doris Panzl, Violine und Reinhold Schmid, Gitarre)
2. Preis ex aequo: „The British Music Consort" (David Bader, Andreas Bernhofer, Rafael Davila, Georg Lachner, Uschi Pompernigg, Gitarren und Thorsten Büttner, Tenor)
II Savarez-Corelli Gitarre-Kammermusik Wettbewerb 2006
1. Preis: Gitarrenduo Gorgios Nousis und Konstantinos Tosidis
2. Preis ex aequo: Schubert Duo (Alessandro D’Amico, Bratsche mit Jonas Nordberg, Gitarre)
2. Preis ex aequo: Cecilio Perera mit José Gómez Pérez
Förderpreis: Wind and Strings (Jerica Pavli, Flöte, Jonathan Mauch, Oboe, Makiko Kurabayashi, Fagott mit David Bader, Gitarre)
III Savarez-Corelli Gitarre-Kammermusik Wettbewerb 2007
2. Preis: Guitar Quartet Miscelanea (Alejandro Díaz Bandrés, Kostas Tosidis, Tanausú Luis Díaz and Giorgos Pervolarakis)
IV Savarez-Corelli Gitarre-Kammermusik Wettbewerb 2008
1. Preis: Gitarrenquartett Miscelanea (Alejandro Díaz Bandrés, Kostas Tosidis, Tanausú Luis Díaz und Giorgos Pervolarakis)
2. Preis: Ada Mainich, Bratsche mit Federico Jesús Díaz Páez
Sonderpreis: Dada und Freunde (David Gruber, Flöte, Yuki Meuthen, Violine, Gundula Leitner, Violoncello mit David Bader, Gitarre)
V Savarez-Corelli Gitarre-Kammermusik Wettbewerb 2009
1. Preis: NOIZ Guitar Duo (Dora Nakou und Pedro Izquierdo)
2. Preis ex aequo: Claudia Michel, Gesang mit Juan Carlos Aguilar
2. Preis ex aequo: Duo Grazioso (Marie-Therese Schwöllinger und Elina Salzmann)
Förderpreis: Gitarrenquartett (Bernardette Ober, Kathrin Pichler, Birgit Islek, Barbara Sprüderer)
VI Savarez-Corelli Gitarre-Kammermusik Wettbewerb 2011
1. Preis: Guitar & Opera (Corina Reithuber, Gesang und Tal Hurwitz, Gitarre)
2. Preis: Fabian Bertoncello, Violine und Nedyalko Petkov, Klarinette mit Edgar Ocampo und Jonas Kublickas, Gitarren
3. Preis: Duo Maklar-Simão (Petruška Maklar, Querflöte und André Simão, Gitarre)
Sonderpreis: Gitarrentrio „DaRaBe“ und Freunde (David Bader, Beni Doß und Raúl Rolón)
VII Savarez-Corelli Gitarre-Kammermusik und II Harfe-Kammermusik Wettbewerb 2013
1. Preis: Agustín Nazzetta und Gustavo Camacho Gómez (Gitarren)
VIII Savarez-Corelli Gitarre-Kammermusik und II Harfe-Kammermusik Wettbewerb 2015
1. Preis ex aequo, Salzburger Ensemble für Französische Musik (Dolores Rauter, Harfe, Tamara Sutanja und Vita Venko, Flöten, Franziska Wallner, Klarinette, Vera Otasek und Moisés I. dos Santos, Violinen, Clemens Gordon und Jorge Pérez-Pérez, Bratschen und Anne Keckeis, Violoncello)
1. Preis ex aequo, Gitarrenduo Gustavo Camacho Gómez und Agustín Nazzetta
Förderpreis Preis: Cubit Duo (Maeve Feinberg, Violine und Jonas Kublickas, Gitarre) mit Carlos Goicochea, Klavier
Live Music Preis: Gitarrentrio Johannes-Beni-Sebastian (Johannes Bauer, Beni Doß und Sebastian Pointner)
IX Savarez-Corelli Gitarre-Kammermusik und III Harfe-Kammermusik Wettbewerb 2017
1- Preis: Salzburg GuitarTrio (Andrew Booth, Izan Rubio Soria und Katie Lonson)
2. Preis: Ensemble "67" (Milića Pasic, Dominika Hučka, Bogdan Bikicki, Maja Backović, Gusté Barbora Butvydaite, Leonie Trips und Ema Kobal)
X Savarez-Corelli Gitarre-Kammermusik und IV Harfe-Kammermusik Wettbewerb 2019
1. Preis: Mozaik Guitar Quartet (Álvaro García Peón, Utkan Aslan, Hannelore Van der Elst und Michael Lochery)
2. Preis: Harfenduo Leonor Maia, Lara Hrastnik
Förderpreise: Haizea Duo (Isabel Carmona, Flöte und Claudia Besné, Harfe), Duo Boreal (Eva Calvo, Gitarre und Claudia Besné, Harfe