IGF YAP aims to help young guitarists in the critical phase between the final stages of music education and the concert platform. Come and hear the future stars of the guitar!

This concert is 50 minutes long, with no interval. Each artist will play for 25 minutes.

Marco Carta is an Italian classical guitarist. His resume includes several awards in various guitar competitions and many courses with acclaimed Masters (Oscar Ghiglia, Eliot Fisk, Lorenzo Micheli, etc). He is the co-founder of The Goya Project, based on the first absolute meeting between the Capricci by Goya and the Caprichos by Castelnuovo-Tedesco.

Guitarist Alexander Hart is an alumnus of the Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music supported by the Blyth Watson trust. A finalist of a number of international competitions including London International Guitar Competition and the Manuel Barrueco Prize, his beginnings were as a blues and session guitarist and this he brings into his programming with crossover music with singer Alex Sesenton. Alex is currently working with celebrated British composer Joseph Phibbs and the Audentia ensemble commissioning a new guitar concerto.