The Llobet Contest has come of age at a difficult time in which we yearn for a return to the desired normality. But in the meantime, and with the sanitary measures applied, we have relived one of those exciting moments to which we were used to. And what better place than the Municipal Conservatory of Music of Barcelona, ​​official headquarters since 1995, where the event was named after Maria Luisa Anido, the Great Lady of the Guitar, and who herself wanted it to be named after her teacher, Miquel Llobet. In 2014, due to improvement works, he had to move to the Barcelona Auditorium.

The final of the XVIII International Guitar Contest of Barcelona Miquel Llobet began with the presentation in the room of the quartet of the Terrassa 48 Chamber Orchestra by the actor Jaume Comas, conductor of the evening, who began to give way to the finalists in the established order initiating the act the representative of Mexico, Christopher Avilez, interpreting the work “Usher-Waltz Fantasia” by the Russian composer Nikita

Koshkin. Next, the representative of Romania, Ana Maria Iordache, performed the work “Quintet no 1” by the young Slovenian composer Nejc Kuhar. Finally, the representative of Russia, Vladislav Fedorov, again performed the play “Usher-Waltz Fantasia” by his compatriot, the teacher Koshkin. A fifteen-minute pause allowed the moment of popular voting, where the public exercises the right to decide which interpretation of the three finalists they prefer to be eligible for the public award.