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Posted By Connie Sheu,
Thursday, November 15, 2012
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The Philadelphia Classical Guitar Society is proud to announce the 2013 Philadelphia Classical
Guitar Competition, which will take place at the 2013 Philadelphia Classical Guitar Festival in April 2013. In
addition to the competition, the 2013 Philadelphia Classical Guitar Festival will feature a recital by William
Kanengiser, performances by local artists and ensembles, workshops and masterclasses, student recitals and
more.
1. The Adult Division is now a national competition open to advancing classical guitarists
up to 30 years of age residing in the United States and features a $1000 Peter Segal prize and an
invitation to perform at the 2014 Philadelphia Classical Guitar Festival for the first place winner.
2. The High School Division is open to students in grades 9 ‐ 12 residing in PA, NJ & DE.
The competition will divided into three rounds. Participants must submit their completed competition
application, application fee and recorded repertoire for the Preliminary Round by February 15, 2013.
The Semifinal Round will take place in Philadelphia on Saturday, April 13 at 1pm. Advancing finalists
will be announced during intermission of the William Kanengiser recital later on Saturday evening.
The Final Round will take place on Sunday, April 14 and winners will be announced later the same day,
at the end of the Philadelphia Guitar Festival.
Required repertoire, application forms and instructions are available online at:
http://www.phillyguitar.com/2013competition.html
Applications and recordings are DUE February 15, 2013.
Contact: Ross Mann and Brian Pearson, competition co-directors
competition@phillyguitar.com
Philadelphia Classical Guitar Society
2038 Sansom St
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Posted By Connie Sheu,
Thursday, November 15, 2012
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On October 16th
Eli Kassner, founder and Artistic Director Emeritus of The Guitar Society of
Toronto, attended a ceremony presided over by The Honourable Bob Rae, where he
was presented with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. The medal was presented "By Command of
Her Majesty The Queen”…"in commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of Her
Majesty’s Accession to the Throne and in recognition of your contributions to
Canada.”
The Queen
Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal is a tangible way for Canada to honour Her
Majesty for her service to this country. At the same time, it serves to honour
significant contributions and achievements by Canadians.
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Posted By Connie Sheu,
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
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Guitar Salon International (GSI) is proud to announce the release of the
new CD IN DULCI JUBILO ("In sweet rejoicing”), by German-born classical
guitarist Eva Beneke. On the disc Beneke brings together a winning
combination of timeless Christmas music, top-notch performers, and the
sound of a historic Herman Hauser guitar.
By special arrangement with David Collett of GSI, Beneke recorded IN
DULCI JUBILO on what is believed to be the very last guitar built by famed
German luthier Herman Hauser Sr. (1882-1952). Hauser is considered
Germany’s most important luthier and is numbered among the world’s
greatest guitar makers.
The tracks on the album include solo and ensemble arrangements of
melodies spanning six centuries and including German traditional songs,
carols beloved by American audiences, and such classics as Händel’s
"Hallelujah Chorus” and selections from J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio.
The sound of the Hauser guitar is especially spotlighted on the
recording’s four solo numbers. Elsewhere, Beneke is joined by Grammy-
winning guitarist Scott Tennant of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet for six
duets and by top Los Angeles chamber musicians for four ensemble
settings.
Beneke is a virtuoso guitarist who recently earned her doctorate in guitar
performance the University of Southern California in Los Angeles after
studies at Franz Liszt Hochschule in Weimar, Germany. She has won
prizes at international guitar festivals in The Netherlands, Italy and the
U.S, and has performed on internationally broadcast radio and television
programs. Her career highlights include appearances with the German
Symphony Orchestra; invitations for festival appearances in Peru,
Germany, Lithuania, the U.S. and Canada; and a televised performance
with famed singer Carrie Underwood. In September 2012, Eva Beneke
joined the faculty of McNally Smith College of Music in St. Paul,
Minnesota. For more information on this recording, click here.
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Posted By Connie Sheu,
Sunday, October 14, 2012
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Federico Cordero, concert guitarist, composer, and educator,
passed away on October 9, 2012. He died at home in Puerto Rico of natural
causes. His family is deeply affected by his untimely death.
Federico was a child prodigy when he began studying the
guitar at age eight in his native Puerto Rico. He continued his classical
guitar studies in Spain under the tutelage of Maestro Miguel Rubio, a distinguished
disciple of Andrés Segovia. He also studied flamenco guitar with Andalusia’s
foremost virtuoso, the late Manuel Cano.
Besides performing in Puerto Rico on a regular basis, he played
concerts in Argentina, Spain, Switzerland, Portugal, the Dominican Republic,
Cuba, Aruba and St. Croix; and throughout the United States. Federico performed
at the Guitar Foundation of America conventions held at the University of Akron
(1988) and SUNY Buffalo (1993). He served on the Board of Directors of GFA along with the Pablo Casals Music Festival.
Cordero was formerly a professor of Law and Economics at the
University of Puerto Rico, as well as a member of the House of Representatives
of Puerto Rico. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Puerto Rico
Law School and also held a Masters Degree in Economics from Columbia University
along with a Doctorate in Law from Yale University.
Funeral services took place on October 14, 2012 in his
hometown of Carolina, Puerto Rico. A post-cremation mass in his honor will take
place at the Catholic Church of San Fernando Carolina on October 20, 2012 at 7pm. He is survived by his wife, Alice Terrill.
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Posted By Connie Sheu,
Thursday, October 11, 2012
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By Thomas Heck
Alessandria, Italy.
The 2012 edition of the Concorso
Internazionale di Chitarra "M. Pittaluga,” held in Alessandria, Italy, the
week of September 24-29, 2012, attracted 27 competitors from the four corners
of the world. Eight were selected for the semifinal round.
The jury discerned three finalists from among the
semifinalists: Pavel Kukhta
(Byelorussia), Lazar Cherouana
(France), and Ekachai Jearakul
(Thailand). These three played in the final (ensemble) phase of the competition
on Saturday night in the Cathedral of Alessandria. Each was accompanied by the Perosi Ensemble, a string quartet of
high repute and wide recognition, having deep roots in the region of
Alessandria. The first and third finalists performed the Quintet for Guitar and
Strings by Leo Brouwer, while Mr Cherouana elected to perform the Fourth
Quintet of Boccherini (G. 488).
The jury awarded
First Prize to Lazhar Cherouana (France). At just 23 years of age, he became the second French winner
of the prestigious Pittaluga Competition (after Gaelle Chiche, in 1998). Lazhar
lives in Salzburg presently, where he is completing his musical studies at the
Mozarteum.
On the evening following his victory, Mr. Cherouana was
hosted in the nearby town of Tortona by its "Friends of Music Society” for an
intimate winner’s concert. There
was standing room only in the salon where it was held, and his reception was
more than enthusiastic -- clamorous.
The Second Prize went
to a young Thai, Ekachai Jearakul, widely acclaimed in his homeland as an
emerging talent. A gifted Byelorussian
competitor, Pavel Kukhta, took Third Prize.
This year’s international jury was comprised of Frédéric Zigante of Italy (President), the
Norwegian Stein-Erik Olsen, the Venezuelan Alfonso Montes, the Frenchman
Bernard Maillot, the American Thomas Heck, and the Italians Paolo Ferrara and
Micaela Pittaluga.
The Composition Prizes were discerned during the evening of
the Finale by a kind of referendum: a unique system of public audition of the
three scores selected earlier by a jury for the final round. The public’s
voting was based entirely on the scores as heard, synthesized from the scores, with
no human interpretation involved.
"Path of History,” by the Venezuelan Luis Fernando Ochoa Graterol, was voted to be the winner of the 10th
"M. Pittaluga” International Composition Competition, while the Polish composer
Janko Raseta’s score, "Little Chant,” won the second or
"Public Prize.” The Third Prize
winner was the composition "Macumba,”
by Angel Gutierrez Faxas, of Cuba.
The evening’s proceedings were recorded and have been posted online, where they can be viewed through the Competition’s Web site, www.pittaluga.org.
This major cultural event was made possible by the following
sponsors: The Italian Ministry of
Culture, the Piedmont Region, the Province and Municipality of Alessandria, the
"Consiglio Regional,” the "CRAL and CRT” Foundations along with the Rotary Club
of Alessandria, the Soroptimist Clubs of Alessandria and of Acqui, the "Inner
Wheel” of Alessandria, the D’Addario Foundation, Savarez Strings of Lyon,
Paglieri Perfumes, the Beldent Group, Guala Closures, Metlac s.p.a., Restiani
s.p.a., the "Collegio Costruttori,” various Hotels and families who hosted the
competitors, and the many friends who support and promote the Competition.
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Posted By Connie Sheu,
Monday, October 8, 2012
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Tune into All Strings Considered, a new free internet radio show about all things strings. Hear music and get behind the scenes with today's great guitarists and related disciplines. First episodes include practice advice from Scott Tennant, Roland Dyens on composition, Martha Masters on performing vs. recording, Adam Del Monte and the Segovia flamenco connection, and lots more! Subscribe to the show on iTunes here, or stream from the host Scott Wolf's website here.
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Posted By Connie Sheu,
Thursday, September 27, 2012
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Congratulations to guitarists Pepe Romero, Leo Brouwer, and Berta Rojas for being nominated for a 2012 Latin Grammy. The 13th Annual Latin Grammy Awards will be held on November 15, 2012 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Best Classical Album:
Cordero: Caribbean Concertos For Guitar And For Violin
Guillermo Figueroa, I Solisti di Zagreb & Pepe Romero; Kresimir Seletkovic, producer [Naxos]
Best Classical Contemporary Composition:
Quartet # 4 - Rem Tene Verba Sequentur (Know The Matter And The Word Will Follow)
Leo Brouwer, composer (Havana String Quartet) Track from: The String Quartets - String Trio [Zoho Music] Best Instrumental Album:
Día Y Medio
Paquito D'Rivera & Berta Rojas [On Music Recordings]
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Posted By Connie Sheu,
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
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INCONTRI CHITARRISTICI DI
GARGNANO 2013
With ~ OSCAR GHIGLIA ~
Assistant: ELENA PAPANDREOU
including a guitar and lute course
especially for music of the Renaissance and Baroque.
Instructor: MASSIMO LONARDI
from August 25thto
September 7th 2013
Artistic Director and Coordinator:
ALESSANDRO CALZONI
The courses will be held from August 25th
to September 5th 2013 and will be
concluded by a student concert. The students will receive certificates of
attendance.
Students may attend the course as active participants
standing an admission test with a piece of their choice. The admission test
will be held the first day of the course at 3.00 p.m.
Students who intend to participate in the competition
are not allowed to present in the courses pieces that are part of their
competition program.
REGISTRATION FEES FOR THE COURSES:
Performers, € 190
Auditors, € 90
These fees will be payable on Monday the 26th
of August 2013 at the local branch of "Banco di Brescia”.
For further information call (+39) 0365/72625 – (+39)
0365 /7988307.
38th
GARGNANO INTERNATIONAL GUITAR COMPETITION
6th
– 7th September 2013
1st
Prize: € 4.200
2nd
Prize: € 1.800
3rd
Prize: € 800
For Italian and Foreign competitors born after October
1st 1978.
The contest is divided into three rounds:
I. Round (eliminatory):
The competitors are
required to upload on YouTube a 10 minute long unedited video recording with a
free choice program including a Renaissance work.
The link of this video,
together with the applicant’s name and e–mail address must be sent, no later
than the 15th of July to the artistic director Mr. Alessandro
Calzoni alessandrocalzoni@yahoo.it
The registration fee of
€ 50 for the competition must be also sent by the 15th of July to (BANK INFO…).
The payment receipt must
be either faxed to (+39)
0365-71354 or scanned and e-mailed
to Mr. Calzoni. Without proof of payment, the application will not be accepted.
Competition applicants
will be notified the result, no later than July 31st. A maximum of 12
competitors will be admitted to the Semifinal.
II. Round (semifinal):
performance of a 15-20 minute free choice program, including one or more movements
taken from a work by Johann Sebastian Bach transcribed for guitar.
III. Round (final): a 25-30 minutes
free choice program, including one work of the 19th century (classic
or romantic) and one work of either the 20th or the 21st
century, both originally written for guitar.
Works performed in the II Round (Semifinal) may not be
included in the program of the Final.
The semifinalists will gather on Thursday September 5th,
2013 at 7.00 p.m. at the Centro Civico Multifunzionale "Andrea
Castellani" - Via Teatro, 14, Gargnano, in order to draw the number
determining the order of their appearance.
A maximum of 6 competitors will be admitted to the
Final round.
Each competitor must provide the Jury the scores of
the works he will perform. First prize winners or competitors twice awarded the
second prize in previous editions are not allowed to enter the contest. The
semifinal and the final shall be held on September 6th and 7th
respectively and will be open to the public.
REGISTRATION FEE FOR COMPETITORS:
€ 50, to be sent by the 15th
of July.
Information and Registration:
INCONTRI CHITARRISTICI DI GARGNANO 2013
VIA ROMA 47 – 25084 GARGNANO,
LAGO DI GARDA,
ITALIA
TEL. (+39) 0365 -7988307 – (+39) 0365-72625 FAX
(+39) 0365-71354
e-mail: biblioteca@comune.gargnano.bs.it
elpa@elenapapandreou.gr
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Posted By Connie Sheu,
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
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The Ottawa Guitar Society mourns the passing of Ed Honeywell. Ed was a real estate lawyer, who uniquely established a successful second career in the field of music. He was passionate guitarist who taught his instrument at the University of Ottawa, and was a founding executive member of the Ottawa Guitar Society, spending many years in the position of President. His former students include Sylvie Proulx, Laura Young, Roddy Ellias, and François Fowler. Ed was the driving force behind hostting Ottawa appearances for the world's top classical guitarists spanning several generations, such as John Mills, Manuel Barrueco, David Russell, and Fabio Zanon, among many, many others. His longstanding dedication and passion to presenting these world class concerts and masterclasses shaped the education and career paths of Ottawa guitarists for 30 years. After his time in the OGS executive, he remained a major sponsor and supporter, attending virtually every event we presented. Ed left an indelible mark on our community continuing to this day, and his passing represents a great loss to us, as well as all that were close to him. -Ottowa Guitar Society
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Posted By Connie Sheu,
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
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Internationally renowned guitarist Martha Masters has joined the faculty
at Cal State Fullerton, coaching chamber music and teaching private
lessons. The comprehensive program
at CSU Fullerton offers both BM and MM degrees in guitar performance. Classes
in guitar history and guitar literature complement the student’s individual
instruction. In addition, the guitar performance workshop and the guitar
chamber ensembles provide frequent opportunities for performance, both solo and
with groups of various sizes. State-funded lessons are available, as is
scholarship assistance in various forms.
Martha Masters won first prize in the Guitar Foundation of
America (GFA) International Solo Competition, including a recording contract
with Naxos, a concert video with Mel Bay , and an extensive North American
concert tour. In November of 2000, she also won the Andrés Segovia
International Guitar Competition in Linares , Spain and was a finalist in the
Alexandre Tansman International Competition of Musical Personalities in Lodz ,
Poland. Prior to 2000, Martha was a prizewinner or finalist in numerous other
international competitions, including the 1999 International Guitar Competition
"Paco Santiago Marín" in Granada , Spain , the 1998 Tokyo
International Guitar Competition and the 1997 GFA International Solo
Competition.
In addition to leading the guitar program and the LMU Guitar
Festival at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Martha teaches annually
at the National Guitar Workshop Classical Summit in Connecticut , and on
WorkshopLive.com. Masters is also the President of the Guitar Foundation of
America (GFA), dedicated to supporting the instrument, its players and its
music in the US and throughout the world.
For more information about the guitar program at CSU
Fullerton, see the website at http://www.fullerton.edu/arts/music/programs/classicalguitar.html
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