With the "Concert Studies," a cycle of pedagogical - and not only - books for the guitar comes to a close, which began with the series "Recital 1" up to "10". In these four books, the "foundations" of Guitar Art and the basic teachings of the great teachers who gave the guitar its current position are gathered. They start from older composers, such as F. Sor and F. Carulli, and end with newer ones, such as J. Sagreras and A. Barrios.

The title of the collection ("Concert Studies") is not accidental. The majority of the studies you will encounter here are melodic in nature and therefore can easily be presented as concert pieces. Of course, they remain studies, with primarily pedagogical value and role.

The classification of the studies was done based on their degree of difficulty, so that each of these books corresponds to a conservatory class (No. 1 - Preliminary, No. 2 - Lower, No. 3 - Middle, No. 4 - Upper). For this reason, the studies of a composer are published here scattered. Thus, according to the logic of these books, the studies of M. Carcassi or F. Sor, for example, which start from the Lower level and reach the Upper level, are listed each in a different series and in a different book.

It was not possible, of course, to include in this collection all the studies of the selected composers. Therefore, those that - in our opinion - are the most beautiful musically but also the most useful pedagogically were included.

Efforts were also made to ensure that the fingering for both hands is as simple and understandable as possible.

(from the preface by Vangelis Boudounis)