Giulia Ballaré: Solo Classical Guitar Recital

Giulia Ballaré (1987, Novara, Italy) is considered one of her generation’s most promising classical guitar soloists and performs regularly in prestigious venues worldwide. She is currently a guitar professor at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève in Switzerland and has also taught at the Alessandria Conservatory in Italy.

Her first album, Lirically Spain, was released in 2013 on dotGuitar. She later released Untuned Guitar (2019) and Lo que vendrá (2023), a duo recording with French guitarist Pauline Gauthey, both on the Spanish label JSM Records. In 2025, she released Heitor Villa-Lobos: Complete Solo Guitar Works with Da Vinci Classics.

Giulia began playing guitar at age nine and graduated in 2012 from the Conservatory in Novara under Maestro Guido Fichtner. She has attended masterclasses with many leading figures in the classical guitar world, including Oscar Ghiglia, David Russell, Pavel Steidl, Paolo Pegoraro, Marcin Dylla, Judicaël Perroy, Aniello Desiderio, and Adriano Del Sal.

At age twenty, after participating in the Erasmus study-abroad program in Spain, she decided to devote herself fully to the guitar. Between 2013 and 2018, she won more than 30 prizes in international competitions, including first prizes at the Andrés Segovia (Linares, 2018), Ciudad de Coria (Spain, 2017), Forum Gitarre Wien (Austria, 2016), and Mottola (Italy, 2013) competitions; second prizes at the J. Tomàs–Petrer (Spain, 2018), Enrico Mercatali (Gorizia, 2017/18), Thessaloniki Guitar Competition (Greece, 2017), Mertz Competition (Bratislava, 2016), and Montenegro International Competition (Podgorica, 2016); and third prizes at the M. Pittaluga International Competition (Alessandria, 2017), A. Frauchi International Competition (Moscow, 2017), J. Tomàs–Petrer (Spain, 2017), Sevilla (Spain, 2017), and Emilio Pujol Concorso Internazionale (Italy, 2017).

She is a Savarez and Tonebase Artist and plays a Roberto De Miranda guitar.

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