Tuscan Guitar Duo
Promising talents of their generation, Gabriele Lanini and Chiara Festa perform during concert seasons in Italy and abroad, enjoying great success with audience and critics alike. Since 2015, the Duo have obtained international awards in many contests like the “LIGITA International competition” in Liechtenstein, one of the most important contests for guitar duos in the world, where they won 2nd prize. They also won 1st prize at: “International Selection Young Performers” in Valle Ossola, “Giulio Rospigliosi” in Lamporecchio, “Ansaldi” national contest in Mondovì, “Andres Segovia” contest in Pescara; moreover, they won 2nd prize at the “Braga international competition” in Portugal and 3rd prize at “Mercatali” international contest in Gorizia. In addition, they reached the final and won 3rd prize at the “Massimiliano Antonelli” chamber music contest in Latina, where they were the only guitar duo participating.

The Tuscan Guitar Duo is one of the few guitar groups to have presented the whole version of J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations to the public, which has been part of their repertoire since 2019.

This partnership between Gabriele and Chiara started in 2014 during their studies with M° Giampaolo Bandini at the Conservatory L. Boccherini in Lucca (Italy) where they both graduated with top marks and honours. They attended lots of masterclasses, both together and as solo performers, with internationally renowned musicians like Trio di Parma (Enrico Bronzi, Alberto Miodini, Ivan Rabaglia), Pierpaolo Maurizzi, David Russell, Zoran Dukic, Oscar Ghiglia, Duo Melis, Marcin Dylla. Since 2015 they have attended higher education studies at Segovia Guitar Academy in Pordenone with M° Paolo Pegoraro, and in 2019 the duo were accepted for the (2nd level) master's in chamber music at the “Arrigo Boito” Conservatory in Parma where they both graduated with top marks and honours. The duo play guitars built for them by the English luthier Philip Woodfield.