Emmanuel Sowicz

Emmanuel Sowicz’s work explores the classical guitar through performance, new music, and the art of transcription.

He won First Prize by unanimous decision at the London International Guitar Competition, leading to a European tour across eight countries, and First Prize and the Audience Award at the Dr Luis Sigall International Music Competition. Emmanuel has performed throughout Europe, Latin America, and Asia as a soloist and chamber musician. Highlights include solo appearances with the Chilean National Symphony Orchestra, a performance of Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez at the Buckingham Music Festival, and the world premiere of Timothy Bowers’ Concerto for Guitar, commissioned by the Royal Academy of Music.

He has also given solo performances for Arvo Pärt, Sting, and His Majesty King Charles III. As an orchestral musician, he has performed as part of the Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Chineke! Orchestra, and Garsington Opera. His collaborations with composers encompass over a dozen commissions and more than twenty premieres. His arrangements have been recorded on the Decca label and published in Gendai Guitar.

Teaching guitar at Junior Academy, Emmanuel draws on his experience of the instrument in solo, chamber, and orchestral settings, delivering systematic technical foundations that enable students to increase their musical agency and nurture their individual artistic voice. His teaching experience includes masterclasses across Europe, teaching as part of the Rachmaninoff Music Academy, and collaborations with tonebase.co producing lessons, lectures, and workshops for their online music education platform. Emmanuel graduated from the Royal Academy of Music with distinction, receiving the DipRAM, Regency Award, and Dove Prize. Elected an Associate of the Academy in 2025, he is undertaking doctoral research at the University of Oxford on arrangement and transcription in the classical guitar tradition. Emmanuel is a Savarez artist and performs on a Carsten Kobs guitar.