Siccas Luthiers Artist Program
Choose an artist whose playing you admire and use their code when you purchase a guitar from the Siccas Luthiers range.
Enter the artist’s code at checkout and €50 is deducted from your order. The artist receives a share of the sale, at least 2.5 %. Both happen automatically — you pay less, and part of your purchase goes directly to the artist.
For musicians
You play or teach classical guitar, and you would recommend instruments to your audience that you genuinely stand behind. The program works by invitation, and we look at every enquiry personally. Write us a few lines about who you are and where you perform, and we will be in touch.
An award-winning Australian guitarist known for her versatility and expressive playing. She studied with Timothy Kain at the Australian National University and completed her Master's degree and Konzertexamen with Thomas Müller-Pering in Weimar. Now based in Germany, she teaches at the University of Augsburg and is among the most widely followed classical guitarists online.
Brandon Acker began on electric guitar in metal bands and found his way to early music almost by accident. Alongside the classical guitar he now specialises in the lute, the baroque guitar and the theorbo, performing in Chicago with leading period ensembles. Few musicians have done as much to introduce a broad audience to the sound of early plucked instruments.
A Vietnamese classical guitarist whose playing joins the Western canon with the traditional music of her home country. She passed the entrance examination at the National Conservatory in Hanoi at the age of seven, the youngest student ever admitted there. Her concerts have taken her across North America, Britain, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
Born in Aveiro in 2004, Beatriz Pinto came across the guitar at a neighbourhood street festival at the age of seven. She has since won more than twenty-five international prizes, among them first prize at CIGA Jr. in Valencia, and reached the semi-finals of Got Talent Portugal. She now studies with Ricardo Gallén at the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar.
Born in 1997, Milena Šolcová began her guitar studies in 2012 at the Janáček Conservatory in Ostrava and graduated from the Pardubice Conservatory in 2018. She took first prize at the International Final Competition in Kutná Hora and second prize at the Bratislava Guitar Competition. Alongside performing she teaches in Odry and Přelouč.
Born in Stavanger in 1994, Kristina Vårlid studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, at the Prince Claus Conservatoire in Groningen, where she graduated cum laude, and at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. She won first prize at the Antwerp International Guitar Competition and has appeared as a soloist with the Bergen Philharmonic and the Stavanger Symphony. Her debut album “An Idea” was released on Simax Classics.
Born into a musical family, Donia Foglia discovered the guitar early and was winning regional competitions by her teenage years. She studied at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, and her repertoire reaches from Bach through Tárrega and Villa-Lobos to Leo Brouwer. Alongside performing she gives masterclasses across Europe and is currently preparing her first studio album.
Nadja Grdinić comes from Kolašin, a small mountain town in northern Montenegro, and today studies at the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg with Marco Tamayo. Her foundations were laid by her teacher Milena Vračarić and later shaped by Dražen Joković, and she has taken part three times in the Guitar integrations masterclass programme in Herceg Novi. She has recorded for our channel more than once, most recently the Cavatina by Stanley Myers on a 1994 Andrea Tacchi guitar.
Duo Vona was formed in 2022, when Hope Cramsie from the United Kingdom and Ingrid Horvei Lyslo from Norway met in the guitar community in Brussels. They expand the duo repertoire through their own arrangements and through commissions, with a particular focus on music by women composers. For our channel they recorded Night Triptych by the Iranian composer Golfam Khayam, on a Siccas Luthiers Creation Doubletop Triptych and a Coclea Thucea by Andrea Tacchi.
Robert Kwiędacz comes from Radom in central Poland and took up the guitar at the age of seven. His entire training took place at the Oskar Kolberg School of Music in his home town, first with Zbigniew Woźny and later with Paweł Kwaśny. He has been winning prizes across Europe since 2015, among them first prizes in Katowice and at the Radom Guitar Summit, and he took sixth prize at the European Bach Guitar Award 2025. For our channel he recorded the Preludio en Do menor by Agustín Barrios Mangoré on a 2025 guitar by Daniele Chiesa.
Astrid Mertens studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp with Omán Kaminsky and Roland Broux, completing her master's degree Magna Cum Laude. She has worked in masterclasses with Sérgio Assad, Antigoni Goni, Zoran Dukić and Pavel Steidl, and in 2023 she was selected for the Volterra Project in Italy. Alongside the Spanish concert repertoire, above all Joaquín Rodrigo, her work centres on contemporary music: she is a member of Ensemble XXI and co-founder of the guitar duo Duo Otare. For our channel she recorded the Fantasía sobre el Paño by Julián Arcas on a 2009 double-top guitar by Antonius Müller.
Valeria Galimova began playing at the age of eight with Dmitry Milovanov in Kamensk-Uralsky. At fourteen she was invited to an international festival in Puebla, where she both performed and sat on the jury. She studied at the Gnessin College and the Gnessin Academy in Moscow with Artyom Dervoed, completed her master's degree with Ricardo Gallén in Weimar and continues her studies in Dresden with Thomas Fellow. Her awards include a Prize of the President of the Russian Federation, the gold medal at the Delphic Games 2014 and ten first prizes at national and international competitions. She has recorded for our channel several times, including on instruments from the Siccas Luthiers range.
Nino D’Amico studied at the San Pietro a Majella Conservatory in Naples and completed his second-level diploma with Aniello Desiderio in Avellino with full marks and honours, followed by a postgraduate master’s with Lucio Matarazzo. He was named EuroStrings Artist for 2019/20 and received the Chitarra d’Oro 2021 as Revelation of the Year, and he has won more than fifty international competitions. His recordings include an album of works by Agustín Barrios and one of twelve Domenico Scarlatti sonatas, which he transcribed and revised himself for Ut Orpheus Edizioni. He teaches masterclasses, sits on competition juries and is a D’Addario Artist.
The Ukrainian guitarist began his training at home and continued in Germany and Switzerland, with Reinbert Evers and Tomasz Zawierucha and with Andreas von Wangenheim at the Lucerne University of Music. He took fourth prize at the Guitar Foundation of America competition and second at the London Guitar Competition, and won first prizes at the Asia International Guitar Competition and at Ligita in Liechtenstein. His playing is known for its range of colour and its sense of phrasing.
Born in Italy in 1997, Aurora Orsini is one of the most promising voices in today’s classical guitar scene. Her expressive performances and refined sound have earned her recognition across Europe and North and South America. With the soprano Sofia Celenza she forms Estra Duo, whose album “Songs of the Land” won the Golden Guitar 2026 for best guitar CD of the year.
Born in 2000, Cristina Galietto learned her first notes from her father Alberto and entered the San Pietro a Majella Conservatory in Naples at the age of ten. She completed her studies with Lucio Matarazzo in Avellino, graduating with honours, and holds two master’s degrees; a third took her to the Kunstuniversität Graz, to Paolo Pegoraro and Łukasz Kuropaczewski. Her competition record includes the Alexis Rago in Stuttgart, the Andrés Segovia in Monheim am Rhein, Uppsala and the EuroStrings competition at Petrer in 2021, the year she also received the Golden Guitar.
Antonia Haslinger studied performance and instrumental pedagogy at the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg with Eliot Fisk, and completed a master’s degree in performance with Paolo Pegoraro at the Kunstuniversität Graz in 2022. She has won prizes at numerous national and international competitions and has performed at the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Salzburg Residenz and Schloss Höch. In masterclasses she has worked with Alvaro Pierri, Roland Dyens, Pepe Romero, Badi Assad, Dušan Bogdanović, Andrew York, Ricardo Gallén, Ana Vidovic and Thomas Müller-Pering. Alongside her solo work she is an experienced chamber musician.
Pietro Locatto trained under Stefano Grondona and went on to work with Frédéric Zigante, Oscar Ghiglia and Lorenzo Micheli. He took first prize at the Gianni Bergamo Music Award in Lugano and at the Adelaide International Guitar Competition, and was awarded the Chitarra d’Oro as a young promise in Milan. His records for Stradivarius, Naxos and Evidence range from early twentieth-century Spanish repertoire to Bach transcriptions and monographs on Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Barrios and Matiegka. Since 2019 he has been the collaborating guitarist of the Teatro Regio in Turin and teaches at the Conservatory of Trapani; he plays instruments built by his father, the luthier Luigi Locatto.
Alice Brandão and Maja Kralj founded the Daniyah Guitar Duo in 2022 at the Haute École de Musique de Genève, in the class of Judicaël Perroy. They took second prize at the Guitar Foundation of America International Ensemble Competition in 2025. Their concerts across Europe and South America combine the classical tradition with contemporary influences, and they work with composers such as Sergio Assad and Florian Colombet to expand the repertoire for two guitars. Since 2024 they have been part of the Knobloch Strings artist family.
A Spanish guitarist and composer, he is the founder and director of the chamber orchestra Ensemble XXI. He is known for the expressive quality of his playing and for his own works for guitar and ensemble. Through his project Guitar in Ensemble he shares his compositions and scores worldwide, free of charge. For our channel he has recorded his own piece Samsara as well as duos with Ana Cambra and Jorge Jiménez.
Ioanna Kazoglou is studying for her master’s degree at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf with Joaquín Clerch. She won first prize at the Festival Internacional de la Guitarra in Málaga, worth 5,000 euros and five concert engagements, against more than twenty players from ten countries. Shortly before that she had taken first prize at the 38th Athens International Guitar Festival and second prize at the Festival Mundial de la Guitarra in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
Laura Verdugo del Rey graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid, continued in Barcelona and completed a master’s degree in Maastricht, working with Carlo Marchione among others. She has appeared as a soloist with orchestras in Spain, the Netherlands and Honduras and took first prize at the Los Angeles Golden Classical Music Awards. Composers including David del Puerto and Tomás Marco have dedicated works to her, and her album “Brisas, Preludios y Tientos” was selected by the Latin Grammys as best classical album. She teaches at Forum Musikae in Madrid and directs the Madrid International Guitar Festival.
An Israeli guitarist based in Geneva, he took second prize at the Guitar Foundation of America International Concert Artist Competition in 2026. He studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and at the Haute École de Musique de Genève with Judicaël Perroy. His repertoire combines romantic and contemporary works with lesser known pieces and new transcriptions.
Born in 2009, Samuel Solomon began playing at the age of six and was soon admitted to the Lyubomir Pipkov National School of Music in Sofia. At ten he became a student of Hubert Käppel at the Koblenz International Guitar Academy, where he studies today. He has won prizes at numerous international competitions and performs as a soloist, chamber musician and with orchestras in Bulgaria and across Europe, with a particular interest in Baroque music.
The Romanian guitarist studied on a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Michael Lewin, Stephen Goss and Fabio Zanon. She has played at the George Enescu Festival in Bucharest and given online concerts for the Texas Guitar Society and the Instituto Romeno in Venice. Alongside performing she works on the visibility of the classical guitar in social media: she is a ToneBase Artist and collaborates with D’Addario, Guitarlift and Soundbrenner.
Daniel Danielyan is a young Armenian guitarist who started playing at the age of seven and now studies at the Romanos Melikyan State Music College in Yerevan with Prof. Hakob Jaghatspanyan. He has won prizes at the Art Music, Art Set and Poqrik Qayl competitions, took first prize at both the Art Music Competition and the 17th World Open Music Competition in 2026, and reached the semi-finals of the CGWC in the same year. Alongside competitions and masterclasses he performs as a soloist across Armenia and teaches at music schools.
An Argentine guitarist, composer and teacher based in Buenos Aires, and professor of guitar at the Conservatorio Superior de Música Manuel de Falla, where he studied with Juan Falú, Carlos Moscardini and Roberto Calvo. His own music grows out of Argentine folklore and tango and joins them to a contemporary approach to the instrument. He has released three albums of his compositions, published among others by L’Empreinte Mélodique in France and Tin-tonton in Germany, and has performed across Argentina and Europe.
A Slovak classical guitarist and associate professor at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. He performs internationally in solo recitals, as a soloist with orchestras and in chamber music, with a repertoire reaching from Bach and the nineteenth-century Romantics through the Spanish literature to contemporary works. Alongside performing, his work includes recordings, research into historical guitar performance practice and the promotion of Slovak guitar music.
Praised for her versatility, her immaculate sound and her technique, the Italian guitarist has played the Vienna Musikverein, the Tallinn Philharmonic Concert Hall, the Marlow Guitar Series in Washington and the Philadelphia Classical Guitar Society, and recently toured eight cities in China. A EuroStrings Artist and a recording artist for Naxos and Da Vinci Records, she released the duo album Music Gardens of the World with Antigoni Goni in 2026, with three solo albums to follow. She is an active researcher and professor assistant to Antigoni Goni at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel.
A British guitarist with a deep affinity for the Spanish repertoire, above all Albéniz and Mompou. She studied at the Royal College of Music with Gary Ryan and Christopher Stell and was named International Guitar Foundation Young Artist for 2022/23. She performs standing, which suits her direct and communicative stage presence. For our channel she has recorded on a Siccas Luthiers Creation as well as on a 1927 Hermann Hauser I.
A Slovenian guitarist, known for his musicality and precision. He took his bachelor’s degree at the mdw in Vienna with the highest grade and is now studying for his master’s with Nejc Kuhar. His competition record runs from VelEspaña and Alirio Díaz in 2023 to first prizes at FORUM Gitarre Wien and the Altamira Competition in 2025; with Kamil Anioł as Duo Chameleon he won the 33rd Iserlohn International Guitar Festival. He has played at the Musikverein and the Konzerthaus in Vienna, at the Slovenian Philharmonic and at Cankarjev dom, and teaches at festivals and universities in Austria.
Born in Winnipeg, Canada, Devon Rempel took up the guitar at seven and has not put it down since. He won prizes at competitions in his home town and later in Germany, where he completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies with Prof. Dr. Thomas Offermann and Prof. Hubert Käppel. His heart belongs to the Baroque and to the Spanish repertoire. He has performed in Canada, Austria, Germany, France and the Netherlands, and now lives in Baden-Württemberg.
A Canadian guitarist, educator and choral conductor whose work centres on the music of his own time. A graduate of the master’s programme at the Schulich School of Music at McGill, he collaborates with composers to create new works for the guitar. He was named to the CBC 30 under 30 list and received the ArtsNL Emerging Artist of the Year award, and took first prize at GuitarFest West in Calgary in 2026. His concerts range from solo recitals to his symphonic debut with the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra Sinfonia.
The Ecuadorian guitarist had given more than 300 concerts at home and abroad before leaving the country, and was named a Member of the Culture House of Ecuador in 2016. She studied in Vigo with Margarita Escarpa, graduating with the highest honours, and took her master’s degree with Thomas Müller-Pering in Weimar with distinction; since 2025 she has been studying for the Konzertexamen with Ricardo Gallén. Her own project Salgado en seis cuerdas brings the music of the Ecuadorian composer Luis Humberto Salgado to the guitar, in her own transcriptions.
Born in Moscow and now living in Italy, Vasilina Shashkova studies at the Conservatorio Domenico Cimarosa with Maestro Aniello Desiderio. Her competition record is unusual even in a field full of competition winners: 19 Grand Prix awards and special prizes across twelve countries, from Russia and Italy to Serbia, Albania and South Korea. In 2023 she recorded the album Musical Poetry for DotGuitar and her Altamira Home Concert; her solo concert appeared on our channel in the summer of 2025.
The Slovenian guitarist studied at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Vigo with Margarita Escarpa and at the Mozarteum University Salzburg with Laura Young, and is finishing her degree in instrumental pedagogy at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana with Tomaž Rajterič. She has won prizes at the Ida Presti International Guitar Competition, the Slovenian national competition and competitions in Spain, Portugal, Montenegro, Italy, Croatia and Germany. Alongside her solo work she plays in the award-winning duo AdArt with Staš Čakš, and she teaches at the Arsem music school in Ljubljana.
The Serbian guitarist studies at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad and is at home in two traditions at once, the classical guitar repertoire and the expressive language of flamenco. Inspired by Paco de Lucía, she works at the meeting point between flamenco forms and the harmonic language of jazz. She has been recognised in both fields, most recently with an award at the Guitar Art Festival through the Erste Bank competition and an appearance at Suma Flamenca Joven in Madrid, one of Spain's leading festivals for emerging flamenco artists.
The Scottish guitarist has performed in many of the world's leading halls, from the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam to the Purcell Room in London and Cenart in Mexico City, as a soloist and in duo with the guitarist and composer Matthew Cochran. He records for Baros Records, teaches classical guitar at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and is Director of the Classical Guitar Retreat. His technique tutorials, several of them filmed here in Karlsruhe, have become a reference point for players well beyond his own students.
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