Guitarists You Should Know: Kevin Loh
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...
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Fabio Zanon, “The Romantic Guitar” (upcoming CD)
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...
Yuri Liberzon Plays Vassiliev
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 Plays Albéniz
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...
Thessaloniki Guitar Festival
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...
RIP Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
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...
JoAnn Faletta International Guitar Concerto Competition, 2016
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,...
Brussels International Guitar Festival, 2016
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...
Guitarists You Should Know: Denian Arcoleo
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...
Southern Guitar Festival
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...
