George Tarlton is the brilliant winner of IGF’s London International Guitar Competition 2019 and a double alumni of IGF’s YAP, both as a member of the Housden-Tarlton Guitar Duo and the Mela Guitar Quartet. As a winner of LIGC 2019 he is a EuroStrings Young Artist in 2020. EuroStrings is a collaborative of 17 European guitar festivals with partners in China and America; the project focusses primarily on young artist development which creates opportunities for young professional guitarists.

Programme includes The Strange World of Spiders by young British/French composer Laura Snowden, especially commissioned for IGF’s London International Guitar Competition 2019.