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Fabio Zanon has a new CD set to come out with Guitar Coop featuring Romantic music, with works by Liszt, Bobrowicz, and Schumann (all first recordings), and Mendelssohn, Coste, and Regondi. Check out this nice teaser...
Born in Russia and raised in Israel, now-San-Francisco-based guitarist Yuri Liberzon is an advocate for new music that also appeals to audiences, and is working to push the classical guitar’s repertoire to new limits (and...
Thanks in no small measure to the artistic direction and organizing efforts of Fotis Koutsothodoros, the third edition of the Thessaloniki Guitar Festival is coming up just this week, March 16–20. The festival will host...
The JoAnn Faletta International Guitar Concerto Competition, named after the conductor and music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, has quickly become over the last several years one of the most important classical guitar competitions,...
Western classical music once relied on and thrived from the patronage of aristocrats and royalty. While many things have changed in the classical music world since the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this apparently is not...
By Dave Belcher The information age has caused an explosion of new technologies that bring all kinds of things to light that may have otherwise remained hidden—like cute cat videos. It has also made many musicians...
Jason Vieaux is one of the only classical guitarists ever to win a Grammy. (That’s just something you have to say when talking about Jason—that’s a huge accomplishment.) This week the popular Classsical Guitar...
The Concurso Internacional de Guitarra Clásica GSD in Madrid, Spain will be held on May 3–8, 2016. The artistic director of the festival is the esteemed composer and guitarist Joaquín Clerch. The following guest...
Paris Guitar Foundation has been putting out some excellent, professionally produced videos recently and their most recent one with Judicaël Perroy playing Johann Dubez’s “Fantasia on Hungarian Themes” is well worth the watch. Dubez...
Aaron Green is a luthier working out of New York City (and Boston—really the woods of Groton, MA) who makes some really solid, incredible-sounding instruments in his own right. In addition to crafting his own...
