Established in 1997, this is a competition for jazz performance on the Classical Guitar endowed by Liveryman Ivor Mairants and now supported by leading companies of the related instrument industry.
For twenty years the IMGA was awarded annually, but in 2018 a new award, The New Elizabethan Award for guitarists and lutenists (The NEA) was established and designed to alternate biennially with the IMGA.
An article which first appeared in Preserve Harmony Issue 16 is presented below, click on the image to load the page.
Past Winners:
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1997 - Amanda Cook
1998 - No award
1999 - Hayley Savage
2000 - Xuefei Yang
2001 - Milos Karadaglic
2002 - Jorgan Skogmo
2003 - Carl Herring
2004 - Luis Leite
2005 - Dimitris Dekavallas
2006 - Nicolas Papin
2007 - Fabricio Mattos
2008 - Sanja Plohl
2009 - Sean Shibe
2010 - No Award
2011 - Manus Noble
2012 - Francesco Scelzo
2013 - Armen Doneyan
2014 - Laura Snowden
2015 - Bradley Johnson
2016 - Michael Butten
2017 - Giacomo Susani
2019 - Dimitris Soukaras
2021 - Jianhao Zhou
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