Gitarrenkonzert | Tour de Billstedt - 4. Etappe
2026-06-23 17:00 | Möllner Landstraße 31, 22111 Hamburg
From June 19th to 27th, 2026, a new event format will premiere as part
of the 6th edition of the ?Guitar Days in Billstedt.? With a
guitar-themed ?Tour de Billstedt,? the children and young people
of the project will perform short concerts of approximately 30 minutes
throughout their neighborhood for a week in various ensembles. Venues
include the Billstedt Center, HASPA bank, the library, the
multigenerational center, and the Rauhe Haus in the neighboring
district of Horn. The week will culminate in a grand concert featuring
all the young guitarists on June 27th, 2026, at the Kultur Palast
Hamburg.

Guitar Billstedt | The passion for nurturing young musical talent
among children and teenagers, and the firm belief that all children
can develop equally when given the same opportunities, inspired the
"Guitar Billstedt" project. In 2018, the Kultur Palast Hamburg, the
St. Paulus and Am Schleemer Park schools, and GitarreHamburg.de gGmbH
(a non-profit limited liability company) combined their expertise in
education and cultural outreach to establish a functioning orchestral
program and sustainable, successful instrumental instruction for
children and teenagers. Since then, children have had the opportunity
to receive free guitar lessons and play in guitar orchestras.
Instruments are also provided free of charge.

Successes | Numerous prizewinners of the "Jugend musiziert"
competition have emerged from the project, the junior guitar orchestra
"JGOH-Juniorteam Ost" won a prize at the 2024 State Orchestra
Competition "Orchestrale," and the children and young people involved
in the project have garnered attention through exciting concert
performances. Last year, among other things, an entire music theater
project was presented on the stage of the Kultur Palast Hamburg:
https://youtu.be/IDR0CmQVCRA?si_DM3AZ4tmyD8dDj

Further information: www.gitarrebillstedt.de

The project sponsor | GitarreHamburg.de gGmbH (a non-profit limited
liability company) is the sponsor of several successful projects
focused on promoting young guitarists in Hamburg. With the Hamburg
Youth Guitar Orchestra (JGOH) and the JGOH Junior Team East, founded
in 2020, it organizes three free ensemble opportunities for children
and teenagers in Hamburg. This support for young talent is
complemented by concerts, courses, and workshops as part of the
Hamburg Guitar Days and the Hamburg Guitar Festival. At the heart of
its work with young musicians is the Hamburg Youth Guitar Orchestra
(JGOH), which brings together Hamburg's best young guitarists. In
recent years, its members have won around 350 prizes in the "Jugend
musiziert" competition, including numerous first prizes in the
national finals. In 2025, the JGOH was awarded first prize in the
German Orchestra Competition, and in 2011, 2015, 2019, and 2024, it
won first prize four times in a row at the state orchestra competition
"Orchestrale." In addition to concerts at the Elbphilharmonie and
Laeiszhalle, and tours both in Germany and abroad, the young ensemble
has garnered attention with six self-produced CD and DVD releases.
With the JGOH Junior Teams East and North, it has two of its own
junior ensembles, where children can prepare for later participation
in the "senior" JGOH.

Further information: www.gitarrehamburg.de
