JS: How did IGF start and how long has it been going?
TK: It started in 1993 with the idea of organising a guitar festival and summer school and we started planning our first one in 1994, the same year we set up as a registered charity and non-profit company. My friend and co-founder Philip Castang, now CEO at Music For Youth - which is one of the major charities for music education in the UK - and myself both lived in London, but our first festival was at Bath Spa University. The first Festival and Summer School was only classical but the next year we introduced other styles. In the early noughties we opened further events
