Good luck to this year's JAMES STROUD NATIONAL CLASSICAL GUITAR YOUTH COMPETITION PRELIMINARY ROUND APPLICANTS. This year's thirty accomplished students come to us from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Stroud Competition Semi-Finalists will be announced by March 5, 2023. The Semi-Final and Final Rounds will take place live during the 23rd annual Cleveland International Classical Guitar Festival: June 1-4, 2023 at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

JUST ARRIVED: A wonderful new 2022 Gregory R. Miller cedar top classical guitar. We are delighted to offer Gregory Miller's beautiful concert guitars to our customers. Mentored by world-renowned guitar maker Jeffrey R. Elliott, Gregory Miller is an exceptional talent. This magnificent sounding, visually stunning guitar has impressive reserves of power. It is also quick to project the quietest, most delicate pianissimos. Its  smooth, creamy trebles and firm, deep basses are round, clear, and responsive to a wide range of color and attack. Its fundamental tones are uniformly solid while beautifully complemented by rich, well controlled overtones in all registers. The result: This guitar's perfectly balanced sound sparkles up and down and across the fingerboard. Voice separation is excellent as is harmonic blending... 

JUST ARRIVED: A new 2022 José Gonzalez Lopez (Granada, Spain) classical guitar. This lovely concert guitar has a deep, elegant, traditional, colorful, well-balanced sound with excellent sustain, clarity, projection, a quick response, and easy playability. A protege and workshop mate of renowned master guitar maker Antonio Marin Montero, José Gonzalez Lopez now an esteemed master in his own right crafts guitars which represent an outstanding musical value...

JUST ARRIVED: A rare new 2022 Antonio Marin Montero classical guitar. We have been honored to represent this illustrious master for over thirty years. This stunning concert guitar has a wonderful deep, bell like musical sound; is very precise with powerful trebles, mid-range, and bass; has excellent sustain, balance, and separation of voices, and a quick response to a particularly wide range of color and attack. It is also a dream to play...

Just Arrived: 1979 Robert Ruck Concert Model #199. By any standard this well maintained, one owner concert guitar is a superb example of Robert Ruck's finest work. Its deep, powerful, clear, full bodied, well balanced, colorful sound combined with its perfect neck contour and low easy action make this iconic concert instrument an inspiration to play and hear...

NEW: Petra Polácková (Czech Republic) performs El testament D'Amelia on a 2021 Jeffrey R. Elliott (USA) classical guitar

View: The 22nd annual Cleveland International Classical Guitar Festival forty page program book. This June we look forward once again to sharing world class classical guitar concerts, premieres, master classes, lectures, private lessons, and exhibits, with old friends and new from around the USA and beyond in a celebration of the classical guitar and art music: solo and ensemble, old and new.

RECENTLY ACQUIRED: A rare vintage 1966 spruce/CSA Ignacio Fleta e hijos (Spain) classical guitar from this great Spanish master's golden period. The magnificent deep sound of this iconic instrument recalls the musical attributes of a miniature organ... 

RECENTLY ACQUIRED: 1926 Domingo Esteso (Spain) classical guitar. This remarkable vintage classical guitar has an unusually pure, powerful, deep, woody concert sound with excellent sustain... 

JUST ARRIVED: A new 2022 ACHIM PETER GROPIUS double top classical guitar, Elegantly proportioned, lovely to look at, great fun to play - Gropius' powerful double top classical guitars possess a particularly lyrical traditional musical sound capable of pin point projection and a wide palette of color and attack...

JUST ARRIVED: A new 2022 MICHAEL CADIZ (Austria) Torres/Romanillos Model concert guitar: Lovely, deep, rich, focused, traditional sound; quick responsive dynamic range; unusually wide pallet of color and attack; strong fundamental tones throughout all registers; excellent balance; eye popping materials, visual aesthetics, and workmanship. In short, a musical jewel...

JUST ARRIVED: A pre-owned, one owner Joshia de Jonge double top concert guitar - cedar/Nomex/cedear/pale moon ebony - magnificent sound, stunning materials and workmanship...

JUST ARRIVED: A new Jeffrey R. Elliott classical guitar. The concert guitars of Jeffrey R. Elliott are exceptional works of art - magnificent concert guitars possessing unsurpassed musical refinement, purity and beauty of sound: quick powerful warm singing trebles, firm deep resonant basses, a particularly broad palette of colors and evenness of sound...

JUST ARRIVED: A magnificent new 2021 Gary Southwell (England) reproduction of the 1940 spruce/Ind. Hauser I (Augustine/Bream) classical guitar. Performed upon by Julian Bream in his "Great Estates Tour" of England, these magnificent concert guitars have been designed, built and refined - starting in 1995 and extending over fourteen years - in close collaboration with the late master guitarist Julian Bream...

Just arrived: A wonderful new 2021 Daniele Chiesa (Spain) spruce/ziricote classical guitar. (Learn more)

Just arrived: A wonderful new 2021 Daniele Chiesa (Spain) cedar/Indian classical guitar. (Learn more)