Introduction
The first Twente Guitar Festival was quite a success for me. I enjoyed every concert and learnt a great deal from workshops and masterclasses. The festive atmosphere around the guitar stirred my enthusiasm for the classical guitar, a feeling that I felt waning a bit after a few years of playing without guitar lessons. At the time of the festival I was in fact in the middle of a deadlock with respect to my guitar playing, but this meeting with a bunch of guitar fans provided quite a stimulation.
I would go on! Thanks to the festival, I found a guitar teacher. Since then I have enjoyed the enthusiasm of my teacher Robert Horna, which is clearly visible by the notes and scribblings on the scores of the pieces I played this year. I started to work again on the subtleties of the finishing touch (definitely not my strongest point) and public performance. I started some new pieces and reworked some very old material. Finally I am feeling myself the remedial student, Aaron Shearer speaks about in his Learning the Classic Guitar.
Another benefit from the festival was the relisation of the idea of the guitar circle, Jolanda and I came across. The Guitar Circle has been established and will have its final meeting of the first season in July. We hope that there will be many seasons to come!
Bearing pleasant memories in mind, my expectations of the second Twenthe Guitar Festival were high! A perfect start for writing the report of this second edition.