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Katalin Koltai and Hope Cramsie play work by women composers including two new IGF commissions – Three Dots by Atefeh Einali and Waves caress the skin of an ancient rock… by Electra Perivolaris.

[Update: Hope Cramsie will no longer be able to appear at the Guitar Summit. Eleanor Kelly will now perform, with a programme that includes pieces by Phyllis Tate, Teresa de Rogatis and Carmen Guzmán.]

Katalin Koltai is an internationally acclaimed guitarist, soloist, and chamber musician, performing regularly with major orchestras and constant champion of contemporary music. She records for North/South Recordings, Naxos, Hungaroton and Genuin.

Katalin gained degrees from the Budapest Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, Royal Conservatory of Bruxelles, and the Conservatorium Maastricht, taught by József Eötvös, Antigoni Goni, Raphaella Smits, Carlo Marchione, and José María Gallardo Del Rey.  She is a PhD researcher at the International Guitar Research Centre, University of Surrey. Since the autumn of 2018, she focuses on guitar transcription and new music for guitar supervised by Steve Goss and Tom Armstrong. She invented a new magnet capo system and a new guitar prototype. As a researcher, she published in Soundboard Scholar, Lute Society of America Quarterly, Bloomsbury Academic and gave talks at GFA Convention, 21st Century Guitar Conference Portugal, Dublin Guitar Symposium. Currently a FASS Scholarship Holder, Katalin is a former fellow of the Dutch Cultural Ministry and winner of the Hungarian Junior Prima Prize.