Antigoni Goni

As a performing artist who has lived and worked in both the U.S. and in Europe, the Volterra Project’s Founder and Artistic Director, Antigoni Goni, has experience with both the cultural differences between these societies, and with the universal climate of competition that exists in traditional guitar training programs. She enjoys a truly international career, performing extensively in Europe, Russian, North and South America and the Far East, both as a recitalist and soloist.

Antigoni Goni’s career blossomed in the mid-90s when to her long list of competition prizes was added the first prize of the Guitar Foundation of America Competition. Her victory resulted in some 65 concerts in North America and a contract with Naxos Records, for whom she has recorded three highly successful CDs.

Antigoni Goni regularly performs in concert halls such as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Covent Garden and the Wigmore Hall in London, Gasteig Hall in Munich, the Athens Megaron and the Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Acropolis (Athens) as well as the Philharmonic and the Cappella Sale in St. Petersburg and the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. Across the Atlantic her US engagements bring Ms. Goni every year to concert halls such as the Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and the Juilliard Theater in New York City, Spivey Hall in Atlanta, Benaroya Hall in Seattle and Herbst Theatre in San Francisco.

Having studied with great masters such as Evangelos Assimakopoulos, John Mills, Julian Bream, Sharon Isbin and Oscar Ghiglia, she brings her internationally acclaimed expertise to universities and music academies around the world through regular seminars and master classes.

She is Professor of Guitar at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels as wells as Associate Professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She was the founder and chair of the Guitar Department at the Juilliard Pre-College Division, where she also taught for 10 years. Also, she is currently an Artist in Residence with San Francisco Performances, where she works to connect the greater Bay Area community to the guitar through semi-annual performances, master classes and workshops with a diverse group of students and audiences.