Rapidly achieving international recognition as one of the leading guitar ensembles of the new generation, Salzburg Guitar Trio engages its audiences with their energetic presence and deeply emotional performances. Their unique repertoire includes newly commissioned works for guitar trio and transcriptions of orchestral and keyboard works by the finest composers.

As recent first prize winners at the Guitar Foundation of America International Ensemble Competition, the trio will tour the US in the 2022-23 season. They have also won first prizes at the Ciutat d’Elx Guitar Festival’ in Spain, the ‘Corelli-Savarez Chamber Music Competition’ in Salzburg, and ‘Valle dei Laghi Guitar Festival‘ in Italy. At ‘Gorizia Guitar Competition’ and ‘Paganini Guitar Festival’, Parma, the ensemble received second and third prizes respectively.

Salzburg Guitar Trio is comprised of Katie Lonson (Canada), Stefan Volpp (Germany) and Andrew Booth (England). The ensemble was originally formed with Izan Rubio (Spain) whilst finalizing their postgraduate solo guitar studies at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, Austria, and was joined by Stefan Volpp in 2020.

A master class with the Salzburg Guitar Trio will be held on Sunday, March 12th at 1:00PM at the 560 Music Center recital hall. Local area guitar students will perform.