Jacobs School first guitar festival winners announced

With 26 competitors from around the world, the Jacobs School of Music has completed its first annual Guitar Festival and Competition by announcing not one first-place winner, but two.

Eduardo Binozzi Coasta from Brazil and Edel Munoz from Cuba were each awarded $1,000 in prize money.

The two second-prize winners were Americans Jordon Dodson and Cameron O’Conner, each awarded $750.

The competition’s jurors were Camen Helena Tellez, director of the Jacobs School’s Latin American Music Center; Elzbieta Szmyt, associate professor of harp; Elisabeth Wright, professor of early music; Luke Gillespie, associate professor of jazz; Petar Jankovic, adjunct lecturer in guitar; and Atanas Tzvetkov, director of the guitar department’s pre-college program.

The guitar department also presented recitals by Erol Ozsever, Guido Sanchez, Nemanja Ostojic and guest William Yelverton.