Ivor Mairants Guitar Award

Established in 1997, this is a competition for the performance of jazz-influenced music on the Classical Guitar. The award was endowed by Liveryman Ivor Mairants and then supported by leading companies of the related instrument industry.  It was generously sponsored until 2017 by the D’Addario Foundation.

The next competition will take place in April 2025 .

Recent winners:

2023 Hope Cramsie
2021 Jianhao Zhou
2019 Dimitrios Soukaras
2017 Giacomo Susani
2016 Michael Butten
2015 Bradley Johnson
2014 Laura Snowden
2013 Armen Doneyan
2012 Francesco Scelzo
2011 Manus Noble
2009 Sean Shibe
2008 Sanja Plohl
2007 Fabricio Mattos
2006 Nicholas Papin
2005 Dimitris Dekavallas
2004 Luis Leite
2003 Carl Herring
2002 Jorgan Skogmo
2001 Milos Karadaglic
2000 Xuefei Yang
1999 Hayley Savage
1997 Amanda Cook