The Greek-born guitarist Antigoni Goni was first prize winner in the 1995 International Guitar Foundation of America Competition, her success leading to a fifty-recital North American concert tour and her present recording contract with Naxos. In 1991 she took first prize in the Julian Bream Competition and was a prizewinner in the 1995 Stotsenberg International Competition, the 1993 Artists International Competition and the 1988 International Guitar Competition in the Cuban capital of Havana. Antigoni Goni studied with Evangelos Assimakopoulos at the National Conservatory in Athens and, with John Mills and Julian Bream, at the Royal Academy of Music in London and subsequently with Sharon Isbin at the New York Juilliard School of Music. As a soloist and recitalist she has appeared in Moscow and St Petersburg and extensively throughout Europe and North America. She is now head of the guitar department of The Juilliard Pre-College Division.