Canadian-born Dale Kavanagh is one of the guitar world’s most gifted interpreters. Between 1986 and 1988 she was a top prize-winner in Spain’s Segovia Competition, Italy’s Gargnano Competition, Switzerland’s Neuchatel Competition and First and Special Prize winner in Finland’s Scandinavian International Guitar Competition.

Dale Kavanagh received her Bachelor’s degree in Music at Dalhousie University in Canada studying with Eli Kassner and Carol van Feggelen, then completed her graduate studies with the Solisten Diplom at the Musik Akademie der Stadt Basel with Oscar Ghiglia in Switzerland.

Dale Kavanagh performs internationally as a soloist and in the Amadeus Guitar Duo with German guitarist Thomas Kirchhoff and has given over 1,300 concerts in more than 60 countries.

She is a regular recitalist and teacher in guitar and music festivals in Canada, Turkey, Poland, Germany, Holland, Sweden, Hungary, England and the US and has given more than 500 solo concerts around the world.

Many composers have written works for Dale Kavanagh such as Carlo Domeniconi, Roland Dyens, Jaime M. Zenamon, Stephen Dodgson, Stephen Funk- Pearson, Bruce Shavers, Christian Jost and Harald Genzmer.

Her recordings have received outstanding reviews in international magazines including Classical Guitar Magazine, Fono-Forum, Hi-Fi-Vision, Gendai Guitar, Gitarre & Laute, La Cahir de la Guitare, Musikblatt, Staccato, Soundboard Magazine, Gitar och Luta and many others. She is a teacher at the Musikhochschule in Detmold, Germany, and is the founder of the International Guitar Symposium Iserlohn (www.guitarsympoisum.com) one of the world’s leading classical guitar festivals.