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Portsmouth Music Festival
The hago cup
For the best performance
on two or more guitars
The hago cup
Music festivals are a wonderful way to hear music of all standards, to enjoy playing alongside other musicians of similar ability and to be inspired by those who play so well.
Within striking distance of Havant, there are annual festivals in Portsmouth and Chichester.
Following hago's first place in the Portsmouth Music Festival's Guitar Ensemble category and our subsequent invitation to play the closing item at the Winners' Concert, the PMF Chairman asked us to consider donating a cup for the Guitar Section.
Reaching out
Our 2003 concert with Cambridge Guitar Orchestra made it possible for us to purchase and donate "the hago cup". We are pleased to be able to support the festival in this way - it ties in with our aim of reaching out into the community and promoting guitar more widely.
Intended to stimulate and to encourage ensemble classical guitar here on the South Coast, the engraved cup is awarded annually for the best performance on two or more guitars.
PMF
The guitar section of the PMF is usually held in February each year.
We send everyone who enters the festival in a section for two or more guitars our very best wishes - good luck!
The cup was first presented in 2004. hago is delighted to congratulate the very first recipients of the cup - Amber Ward-Saunders and Graham Cleaver - for their confident and musical performance of Suita Karussel by Milan Tesar.
Adjudicator for the day was Michael Hulmes.
Contact details for the Portsmouth Music Festival here.