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Big Guitar Weekend

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Big Guitar Weekend Course 2025
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The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland presents:

Big Guitar Weekend Course 2025

Part of Big Guitar Weekend


BGW: Jonathan Leathwood Masterclass
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The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland presents:

BGW: Jonathan Leathwood Masterclass

Part of Big Guitar Weekend


Big Guitar Weekend: Jack Hancher & Kristina Vårlid
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Classical Music

The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland presents:

Big Guitar Weekend: Jack Hancher & Kristina Vårlid

Part of Big Guitar Weekend



Big Guitar Weekend returns!

Big Guitar Weekend returns! This year it showcases the talents of a line-up that includes Laura Husbands, Jonathan Leathwood, Jack HancherKristina Vårlid, Thomas Vilotea, Sasha SavaloniTim Beattie and the BGW Guitar Orchestra BGW artists. Our annual festival celebrates the instrument’s wide-ranging appeal.

From classical virtuosity to cutting-edge innovation, experience the guitar’s rich and diverse qualities in a variety of events across a full weekend of music and performance.

The Big Guitar Weekend Course runs alongside the festival and provides guitarists of all abilities the opportunity to study with our world-class faculty at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. It is open to guitarists from nine years of age to adult and is designed to support guitarists of all ages and abilities, including the most serious/advanced young pre-professional/professional guitarists in training.

Book your place on the course now!