Who is your favorite modern composer...

[tree-hugger]

Richard Charlton, Gerald Garcia, Maximo Diego Pujol, and Jaime Zenamon.

George.

[lemppari]

Kimmo Hakola

[Pragueguy]

...who has written several pieces for our instrument! I'll start:

Toru Takemitsu
Marlos Nobre
Per Nørgård

Hope this can be fun!

Yours is a quite interesting list in my view. I don't know Per Norgard so I will have to find out about this Danish or Norwegian composer (I think dansk..).

I would add Francisco Mignone to the list due especially to his 12 estudos composed for Barbosa-Lima and his 12 Valsas in every (minor) key written for Isaias Savio but fingered by Barbosa-Lima, and also Radames Gnattali who composed really many terrific pieces for guitar. However they are surprisingly little-known still, I have the impression.

[ryanmarod]

Villa-Lobos

Garoto (Antonio Saldanha)

[George Crocket]

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[aachroach]

just discovered Marek Pasieczny and have enjoyed his compositions immensely

[randalljazz]

Villa-Lobos

Garoto (Antonio Saldanha)

err... "Anibal Sardinha"

and welcome!

[chinyc]

Carlo Domeniconi
Rodrigo

[tprather]

David Qualey
Peo Kindgren
Maria Linnemann
JF Raymond
etc...

You certainly have three of my top three, Kindgren, Qualey adn Linnemann. I would add Marek Pasieczny to the list.

[davidos]

just discovered Marek Pasieczny and have enjoyed his compositions immensely

Same here! He's a great musician!

[Vlad Kosulin]

Koshkin.
Unfortunately many modern pieces sound too strange/unpleasant for my poor mind. Not the case with Nikita.

[David_Norton]

David Qualey
Peo Kindgren
Maria Linnemann
JF Raymond
etc...

I think you mean JM (Jean-Marie) Raymond. Absolutely top-shelf in my estimation.

Qualey's music hasn't done much for me, perhaps I haven't encountered the right examples. All I have is his LP from 30-40 years ago. I very much enjoy Maria Linneman's music, and I know she and Qualey work together. Peo Kindgren is excellent, though his music tends to be too introspective. A little goes a long way, lack of variety. He's certainly well-established on YT as a very successful video artist.

In this same vein, I would add Miroslav Loncar, Thierry Thisserand, Mark Houghton, Yves Carlin, Yvon Demillac, Roque Carbajo, and Delcamp's own Giorgio Signorile. All of these composers write at about the same Grade Level (mid-range) and are not reluctant to compose a memorable melody from time to time.

[carlEdwards]

...who has written several pieces for our instrument! I'll start:

Toru Takemitsu
Marlos Nobre
Per Nørgård

Hope this can be fun!

Wow-- I am do excited to make Marlos Nobre's aquaintence! Thank you for that and for the great conversation you started.

[Jeremiah Lawson]

I'd say Bartok counts as modern but not contemporary. After all, music composed during the years when T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound were writing their poetry would fit modernist tendencies. It is too bad Bartok didn't write for the guitar but Hoppstock did a nice transcription of the fugue from the solo violin sonata.
If we just decided what "modern" was based on a timeline rather than stylistic considerations by now we might as well say that Lutoslawski, Xenakis, and Varese wrote golden oldies that get played on the same radio stations as Buddy Holly songs. It doesn't quite work like that, though if it did I'd actually listen to the radio again.

I don't think I could pick a favorite. It's not possible.

[wingarratta]

Stephen Dodgson also deserves to be mentioned in this thread!

More than once!