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One of the most significant guitar festivals and competitions in the US is just around the corner. The GFA (Guitar Foundation of America) will be hosted in Denver, Colorado at Metropolitan State University June...
With summer just around the corner we’re already in the heat of guitar festival and competition season. This past weekend saw the conclusion of the San Diego Guitar Festival with amazing guest artists like...
Remember that 1969 ex-Segovia Ramirez guitar we featured in last week’s video with Celil Refik Kaya? Well here’s that same guitar—from GSI’s Cleveland Collection—in the hands of Aussie (now New Yorker) guitarist Rupert Boyd....
Check out Celil Refik Kaya playing Egberto Gismonti’s “Agua e Vinho” on an ex-Segovia Ramirez guitar from 1969.
The Paris Guitar Foundation just released a beautiful short feature documentary on Yamandu Costa, Brazilian guitarist and composer. Yamandu has some really intriguing things to say about the way that music stands “above” the “distinctions and...
The Brownsville Guitar Ensemble Festival, organized by Michael Quantz, is coming up at the end of this week. Brownsville Guitar Ensemble Fest hosts the only dedicated guitar ensemble competition in the US, and they regularly...
By Dave Belcher There is certainly no dearth of great young classical guitarists out there. Any of the many international competitions will give you a taste of just how high the level of talent—in...
Álvaro Pierri is one of the most inspiring guitarists of his generation. He is a musician of incomparable talent and his interpretations are always fresh and intriguing. Pierri recently did a six-part interview with...
Today, at the age of eighty-one, one of the greatest composers of our time, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, passed away. Davies was a celebrated and prolific British composer and conductor who worked closely with...
The Southern Guitar Festival, hosted annually by artistic director Marina Alexander (South Carolina University), will be held June 11–12, 2016. This year the featured artists will be previous year’s first-prize winner, Janet Grohovac, and Amaral...
