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.

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Past Winners:

 

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 - Giancomo Susani