4th Saturday

28th of February 2026
Cristina Galietto,
Hugo Gonzales Zurita

RECORDING TECHNIQUES

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Did you ever wonder, how you could record all the compositions, you spend so much time practicing at home, without breaking the bank? It is definitely possible and Hugo Fernando González, a teacher at the University of music in Graz, will show us how! Learn the basics of home recording with him at this Guitar Styria Saturday and take masterclasses with Hugo or with Cristina Galietto, a young up and comer of the European guitar scene. In the afternoon concert, we will be able to hear her musicality.

Timetable and application at the bottom.

Cristina Galietto

Cristina Galietto is a classical guitarist from Naples, Italy. She is appreciated for her strong stage presence, stylistic flexibility and mellow tone, for combining technical virtuosity with a natural musicality that connects across different audiences and cultures.

Her debut album Avant l’Aube (Timespan Recordings, 2020) features works by Joaquín Rodrigo, Domenico Scarlatti, and Alexis Rago, highlighting her sensitivity to both historical and modern repertoire.

Cristina has performed solo, with chamber groups, and as a soloist with orchestra across Europe, the UK, the USA, and China. She has appeared at festivals and venues such as Kings Place (London), Theatre Traversière (Paris), Kammermusikfest Lockenhaus, the Tenri Cultural Institute (New York), and toured extensively in China. In Italy, she has played, among others, at Paganini Guitar Festival, Segovia Guitar Week, and Festival del ‘700 Napoletano at Maschio Angioino’s Sala dei Baroni.

She began her studies at the age of seven with her father, Alberto, and soon after won numerous international competitions. Highlights of her career include EuroStrings 2021 (Petrer), Uppsala Guitar Competition, and the Andrés Segovia Competition (Monheim am Rhein). In 2021 she received the Golden Guitar award at the International Guitar Meeting in Milan.

Cristina holds three master’s degrees in classical guitar, the most recent from the Kunst Universität Graz, where she studied Concert Performance under Paolo Pegoraro and Łukasz Kuropaczewski. She plays a guitar by Alessandro Marseglia and maintains a steady international concert schedule.

Cristina combines early career awards with wide touring experience, a refined sense for curating stylistically diverse programmes, and a capacity to engage meaningfully with both audiences and fellow performers.

Hugo Fernando González

Hugo Fernando González (Österreich/ Venezuela) was born in Venezuela in 1968. He started his musical education with Armando Yánez Caicedo at the “Academia Superior de Música” and with Rito Mantilla (music theory and composition) at the “Centro de Educación Musical Integral CEMI” in Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela.

With the support of the President of the Republic of Venezuela, he traveled to Austria in 1991 to study guitar with Leo Witoszynskyj at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz. He attended various master classes with Alirio Díaz, Manuel Barrueco, Josef Eötvös, Abel Carlevaro, Pavel Steidl, Álvaro Pierri, and Eduardo Fernandez, among others. 

He has numerous radio and television recordings as well as concerts in Europe and Venezuela. Various artists in Europe and South America also play his compositions, as he was commissioned to write many compositions and arrangements, including for the opening of La Strada Festival 2010, Styriarte Psalm Festival 2011 and 2014.

In 1994 he was awarded 1st prize at the VII. International Guitar Competition “KUTNÁ HORA 94” (Czech Republic) in 1994. Among other things, he participated as musician and arranger in the Sony Classical International production of Juan Diego Flórez “Besame Mucho” (2018).

Since 2005 Lecturer at the Austrian Urania for Styria. Since 2006 Senior Lecturer at the KUG University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. Guitar teacher at the Gratwein Music School since 2010.

Who is it for?

This Club day is for all guitar students, teachers and enthusiasts, interested in a general deepening of their guitar knowledge. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to learn. If you would like to apply, fill out the application form below.

What does it cost?

  • Organization contribution:
    Early-Bird (until February 21st):     20€ (Guitar Styria Musikverein members pay only 10€. Find out how to become a member here)
    Regular: 30€ (Guitar Styria Musikverein members pay only 20€)
  • Masterclass with Cristina Galietto (voluntary!): 45€ for 45 minutes (listening is free of charge)
  • Masterclass with Hugo Fernando González (voluntary!): 45€ for 45 minutes
  • Masterclass with GS Team (voluntary!): 45€ for 45 minutes
  • Concert: VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTION

Timetable

28. 2. 2026
Johann-Joseph-Fux Konservatorium Graz
(Nikolaigasse 2, 8020 Graz)

8:30 – 9:00 / Welcome : Coffee & Tea
9:00 – 9:50 / Technique with the GS Team
10:00 – 12:15 / Masterclasses with Cristina Galietto
10:00-12:15 / Recording workshop with Hugo Fernando González
11:00 – 12:15 / Guitar orchestra with GS Team (for children)
12:15 – 13:00 / Lunch break
13:00-15:00 / Masterclasses with Hugo Fernando González
13:00 – 15:00 / United Guitars Rehearsal
16:00 – 16:25 / Concert of pupils
    16:30-17:30 / Concert of Cristina Galietto

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Applications will open here on January 17th
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