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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...
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 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...
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...
The inaugural edition of the San Diego Guitar Festival will be happening just next month, April 22–24, 2016, and fulfills a worthwhile goal: This festival is intended to provide free concerts and master classes...
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...
You probably know well the 1986 Segovia Masterclass at the University of Southern California for its legendary confrontation between the maestro Andrés Segovia and then up-and-coming young player Michael Chapdelaine over fingering choices. But you...
The Taiwan International Guitar Festival and Competition will be held on August 6–14, 2016 with an array of international talent. In addition to local artist Shih-Yu Liu—artistic director of the festival—TIGF will be bringing...
