Classical Guitar Review Blog
The Paris Guitar Foundation have a new video documentary up of Bosnian guitarist (as well as video and audio producer) Sanel Redžić. Sanel is an extraordinary artist—he’s won prizes in twenty-nine international competitions and, most...
Several years ago, after Thomas Viloteau won the GFA competition (2006), he released a DVD with Mel Bay as a part of his winner’s package. On that DVD were a couple of stunning transcriptions...
Here’s part 2 of the video we shared yesterday. This is Scott Tennant again playing on that stunning 1969 ex-Segovia Ramirez from GSI’s Cleveland Collection. Scott plays a bit of Eduardo (not to be...
We’ve now shown you Celil Refik Kaya and Rupert Boyd each making some wonderful music with a fantastic 1969 Ramirez guitar formerly owned by Andrés Segovia in GSI’s Cleveland Collection. So this week here...
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...