We are very excited to announce the album that our 2014 Guitar Winner, Antal Pusztai recorded a track on, “A Twist Of Rit” has been submitted for the 58th annual GRAMMY award nomination consideration in the following 5 categories:

For your GRAMMY Consideration:

– Contemporary Instrumental Album
– Improvised Jazz Solo for WORKIN’ IT (1:55 – 3:35)
– Instrumental Composition for PEARL
– Instrumental Arrangement for SOARING (John Beasley)
– Best Non Classical Production (Don Murray)

This Sunday in Los Angeles!  Former Six String Winner Alexander Sill will be performing in his band Trifield Quintet!

Message from Lee Ritenour : “Hi everyone… I’m looking forward to hanging out this coming Sunday, August 16th, at Vibratos in LA . This is Herb Alpert’s very beautiful club up in the Bel Air area. A very cool band called the Trifield Project will be featured. It includes my son, Wesley on drums and my good friends, Alex Sill on guitar & Otmaro Ruiz on piano. Rumor has it… that I’ll be sitting in for a few tunes as well! Come on by if you can…Rit”

Facebook Event Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/892950784118471/

Our 2014 Six String winners perform at the July 2014 Montreux Jazz Festival and we are so proud of how great they did!   This playlist has 3 songs from their opening set for Lee Ritenour’s concert.  Six String Music winners: Giorgi Mikadze (keys), Kenneth Salters (drums), Tony Pusztai (Guitar) and Andres Rotmistrovsky (Bass) Also performing was Leandro Pelligrino, who was the 2013 Montreux Jazz Festival Competition Guitar winner.

 

The 2014 Six String Theory winners went to Montreux, Switzerland July 4-July 8, 2014 to perform as the Opening Show for Lee Ritenour’s Concert at the Montreux Jazz Festival!  Performing at the 2014 Montreux Jazz Festival was part of their prize winning package and their show was a big hit and the crowd cheered them on!

Performing together were:  Tony Antal Pusztai (SST Guitar Winner), Giorgi Mikadze (SST Piano Winner), Kenneth Salters (SST Drum Winner), Andres Rotmistrovsky (SST bass 1st Runner Up), and Leandro Pellegrino (MJF Guitar Winner 2013).  Our 2014 Bass Winner, MonoNeon, was not able to go to Switzerland due to previous booked concerts so our Andres was invited to join as he was the 2014 1st Runner Up. The SST winners performed with the Montreux Jazz Festival Guitar winner 2013, Leandro Pellegrino.  We will have video posted soon and more photos are posted on the 2014 photos tab.

 

4 GRAND PRIZE WINNERS (1 in each instrument):

 

GUITAR: Antal Pusztai — Budapest, Hungary | Video #1 | Video #2

PIANO: Giorgi Mikadze — Tbilisi, Georgia (Boston) | Video #1 | Video #2

BASS: Dywane Thomas Jr. “MonoNeon” — Tennessee, USA | Video #1 | Video #2

DRUMS: Kenneth Salters — New York, USA | Video #1 | Video #2

 

GUITAR CATEGORY WINNERS/FINALISTS:

CLASSICAL GUITAR:

Classical Winner:  Antal Pusztai  — Budapest, Hungary | Video #1 | Video #2

• 1^st Runner Up: Silviu Ciulei  — Florida, USA  (Romania) | Video #1 | Video #2
• 2^nd Runner Up: Mak Grgic — California, USA | Video #1 | Video #2
• 3^rd Runner Up: Jonathan Smith — Florida, USA | Video #1 | Video #2
• 4^th Runner Up: Ray Zhou — Connecticut, USA | Video #1 | Video #2
• 5^th Runner Up: Katrin Endrikat — Connecticut, USA | Video #1 | Video #2

JAZZ/FUSION GUITAR:

Jazz Winner:  Roman Nochevnyy — Ashgabat, Turkmenistan | Video #1 | Video #2

• 1^st Runner Up:  Lake Jiroudek — Oregon, USA | Video #1 | Video #2
• 2^nd Runner Up:  Djalma Barbosa de Lima Filho — Sao Paulo, Brazil | Video #1 | Video #2
• 3^rd Runner Up:   Naoto Suzuki — Tokyo, Japan | Video #1 | Video #2
• 4^th Runner Up:   Marcio Philomena — Porto Alegre, Brazil | Video #1 | Video #2
• 5^th Runner Up:  Teemu Viinikainen — Helsinki, Finland | Video #1 | Video #2

ROCK GUITAR:

Rock Winner:  Damir Puh — Tetovo, Macedonia | Video #1    Video #2

• 1^st Runner Up:   Pablo Romeu  — Pernambuco, Brazil | Video #1 | Video #2
• 2^nd Runner Up: Aleksandar Dordic — Serbia (Boston, MA) | Video #1 | Video #2
• 3^rd Runner Up: Timo Somers — Drunen, Netherlands | Video #1 | Video #2
• 4^th Runner Up: Keven Eknes — Rogaland, Norway | Video #1 | Video #2
• 5^th Runner Up: Brandon Brown — Hamilton, UK | Video #1 | Video #2

ACOUSTIC GUITAR:

Acoustic Winner:  Max Godman — Mumbai, India | Video #1 | Video #2

• 1^st Runner Up:  Maneli Jamal — Toronto, Canada | Video #1 | Video #2
• 2^nd Runner Up: Gary Lutton — Belfast, UK | Video #1 | Video #2
• 3^rd Runner Up: Raf Qu — Puglia, Italy | Video #1 | Video #2
• 4^th Runner Up: Ian Lam — Petaling Jaya, Malaysia | Video #1 | Video #2
• 5^th Runner Up: Kyle Horn — New York, USA | Video #1 | Video #2

 

COUNTRY GUITAR:

Country Winner: Brooks Robertson — Oregon, USA | Video #1 | Video #2

• 1^st Runner Up: Calum Graham — Toronto, Canada | Video #1 | Video #2
• 2^nd Runner Up: Jamie Dupuis — Ontario, Canada | Video #1 | Video #2
• 3^rd Runner Up: Brad Bailey — North Carolina, USA | Video #1 | Video #2
• 4^th Runner Up: Jonathan Brown — Tennessee, USA | Video #1 | Video #2
• 5^th Runner Up: Trevor Collins — New York, USA | Video #1 | Video #2 

 

BLUES GUITAR:

Blues Winner-   Johan Borgh — Stockholm, Sweden | Video #1 | Video #2

• 1^st Runner Up: Noe Socha — Massachusetts, USA | Video #1 | Video #2
• 2^nd Runner Up: Sam Shepherd — Queensland, Australia | Video #1 | Video #2
• 3^rd Runner Up: Sebastian Fernandez | Video #1 | Video #2
• 4^th Runner Up: Tom Euler — Virginia, USA | Video #1 | Video #2
• 5^th Runner Up: Gary Cain — Ontario, Canada | Video #1 | Video #2

 

PIANO/KEYBOARDS:

Piano Winner: Giorgi Mikadze  — Tbilisi, Georgia (Boston) | Video #1 | Video #2 

• 1^st Runner Up: Niccolo’ Ielasi — Naples, Italy (Boston) | Video #1 | Video #2 
• 2^nd Runner Up: Francisco Morales — Caracas, Venezuela (Netherlands) | Video #1 | Video #2
• 3^rd Runner Up: Riyoko Takagi — Tokyo, Japan | Video #1 | Video #2 
• 4^th Runner Up: Eric Finland — New York, USA | Video #1 | Video #2
• 5^th Runner Up: Misha Bigos — California, USA | Video #1 | Video #2

BASS:

Bass Winner: Dywane Thomas Jr. “MonoNeon” — Memphis, TN, USA | Video #1 | Video #2

• 1^st Runner Up: Andres Rotmistrovsky — Buenos Aires, Argentina (NY) | Video #1 | Video #2
• 2^nd Runner Up: Francisco Ojeda — Florida (Boston) | Video #1 | Video #2
• 3^rd Runner Up: Trevor James — California, USA | Video #1 | Video #2
• 4^th Runner Up: Bryan Ladd — New York, USA | Video #1 | Video #2
• 5^th Runner Up: Taylor Lee — North Carolina, USA | Video #1 | Video #2

DRUMS:

Drum Winner Kenneth Salters — New York, USA | Video #1 | Video #2 

• 1^st Runner Up: Jordan Rose — New York, USA | Video #1 | Video #2
• 2^nd Runner Up: Tito Pascoal — Cascais, Portugal (Tennessee) | Video #1 | Video #2
• 3^rd Runner Up: Adrian Cota — Guasave Sinaloa, Mexico | Video #1
• 4^th Runner Up: Daniel Nadeau — Massachusetts, USA | Video #1 | Video #2
• 5^th Runner Up: Daniel Susnjar — Dianella, Western Australia | Video #1 | Video #2

*Please Note about BERKLEE scholarships:  Applicants considered by Berklee for the scholarships that indicated interest on the registration form includes all winners, semi-finalists as well as applicants not placed in the semi-finals. Berklee will contact applicants directly inviting them to apply.