About
Gwenyth Aggeler
Gwenyth Aggeler is a classical guitarist whose performances have been described by the Cultural Voice of North Carolina as “full of energy” and “striking.” She has received several accolades including first prize in the Alhambra Junior International Guitar Competition, the Peter Segal First Prize in the Philadelphia Classical Guitar Competition, first prize in the Chicago Guitar Competition, first prize in the GuitarFest West Guitar Competition, the National Federation of Music Clubs Classical Guitar Award, and first prize in the Domaine Forget de Charlevoix Guitar Competition. She has also received prizes in the Tino Andersen Guitar Competition and the Koblenz International Hubert Kappel Guitar Competition. In 2023, Gwenyth was chosen to perform in the inaugural edition of the Ex-Aequo Emerging Artists Initiative during which she premiered and recorded a piece for six guitars by Sergio Assad. She also recorded a movement of Assad’s Preludios Chopinianos as part of a collaboration between the composer and Knobloch Strings in which each movement of the work was recorded by a different woman guitarist across the globe. She performed on NPR’s radio program From the Top in 2019 and was later featured in their livestream series.