Antigoni Goni during the recital in Badalona playing with the guitar Marian, by José Luis Romanillos.

Antigoni Goni Antigoni Goni presented the Medio Siglo project in Badalona at the Teatre Margarida Xirgu on Saturday 17 June in front of 200 people. The presentation began at 5:30 p.m. with the screening of the documentary MEDIO SIGLO, The art and sound of José L. Romanillos. Then, at 7 p.m., the Greek guitarist gave a classical guitar recital in which she performed with mastery and skill some of the pieces contained in the album, completing the repertoire with pieces by Agustín Barrios and Dusan Bogdanovic.

Image of the Teatre Margarida Xirgu in Badalona, before the start of Antigoni Goni's concert.

Antígoni Goni performed her concert with two original Romanillos guitars: the Marian guitar and the mythical Medio Siglo, which had been brought from Sigüenza by Marian Harris, the luthier's widow, who attended the concert with her son, Liam Romanillos.

In José Luis Romanillos' own opinion, the Medio Siglo was the best guitar he had built in his career, both for its beauty and its sound. In fact, he never varnished it for fear of altering the sound of the instrument. Today we have been able to listen to it in Badalona and we appreciated its great acoustic quality and we have also noted that it is still unvarnished. 

Antigoni Goni during the recital in Badalona playing with the guitar Medio Siglo, by José Luis Romanillos.

 

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Antigoni Goni

She is one of the great classical guitar performers of today, acclaimed worldwide.

She studied with Evangelos Assimakopoulos at the Athens National Conservatory, with John Mills at the Royal Academy of Music in London and received master classes from Julian Bream, Sharon Isbin and Oscar Ghiglia.

In the 90's she garnered a long list of prizes in prestigious competitions. Her career blossomed in 1995, winning the GFA (Guitar Foundation of America) contest, which earned her 65 concerts in North America and a contract with Naxos Records. She recorded three successful CDs.

Since then she has performed in the best auditoriums in the world, such as Carnegie Hall (New York), Bolshoi Hall (Moscow), Wigmore Hall (London), Odeon of Herodes Atticus, (amphitheater under the Acropolis in Athens) and in prominent Guitar festivals. throughout Europe, Russia, South America, Malaysia and Japan.

Antigoni Goni founded the Juilliard Pre-College Division Guitar Department at the Juilliard School in New York, which she chaired for 10 years. She was an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University in New York, an Honorary Associate Professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and a member of the Board of Advisors of the Guitar Foundation of America.

Since 2005 she is the director of the Guitar Department of the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, dividing her time between both coasts of the US, Brussels and Athens.

In 2007 Antigoni Goni founded the Volterra Project Summer Guitar Institute, a successful international workshop that Classical Guitar Magazine has defined as "pioneering" and has become an indisputable international reference in the field of classical guitar.

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