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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...
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...
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...
