Alecu Ciapi & Sergiu Hudrea - laureats of 12th Guitar Art Festival, Belgrade
70 young guitarists from all over the world participated in the 2011 GAF competition. In the final stage Alecu Ciapi earned the highest score awarded by juries in all age groups, 95.2/100 points.
The jury of II and III age categories, formed by Relja Turudić (Serbia), Darko Bageski (Macedonia), Srđan Tošić (Serbia), Neno Munitić (Croatia) and Gay Traviss (The Great Britain) selected Alecu Ciapi and Sergiu Hudrea as the first prize winners of their age categories.
Alecu and Sergiu were also among the nine guitarists selected to attend the master class of classical guitar virtuoso, Maestro Pepe Romero. The two young Romanian guitarists will perform on the GUITAR ART LAUREATE festival 2012 and they are invited to participate at Sarajevo International Guitar Festival in April 2011 and Guitar Art Festival 2012.
NOTE: to be mentioned that Stefan Trifan from Cluj Napoca, the vice-president of TRANSILVANIA Guitar Association, is the only teacher in Guitar Art Festival whose pupils have won two First Prizes in two different age categories.