http://www.modernguitars.com/archives/classical_guitar_news classical guitar, classical guitars, classical music en-us news@modernguitars.com 2007-11-23T06:41:06-06:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.modernguitars.com/archives/004028.html Guitarist Cem Duruöz will give premiere performances of Concerto Anatolia in Turkey in January and the United States in February, 2008. The four-movement guitar concerto, written by American composer David Hahn and dedicated to Duruöz, features a variety of Turkish and Middle Eastern melodies and rhythms. The world premiere performance takes place January 18, 2008, with the Antalya State Symphony Orchestra, in Turkey. The U.S. premiere will be part of the Fourth International Guitar Festival at Round Top in Texas on February 16, 2008. Following the premiere performances of the guitar concerto, Cem Duruöz returns to Carnegie Hall next May for a solo recital titled “Guitar in Turkey” presenting his own arrangements of Turkish guitar music as well as the works of emerging Turkish composers. Turkish-American guitarist Duruöz is described by Sharon Isbin as having “virtuosic technique and elegant artistry.” His innovative recital program incorporates the French Baroque music of Marin Marais, solo tango classics from Argentina and most recently, music of his native country, Turkey. More » 4028@http://www.modernguitars.com/ News Archive 2007-11-23T06:41:06-06:00 http://www.modernguitars.com/archives/003049.html Press release Source: Asia Music International Ltd. (AMI) Sweet WordsAMI Records is proud to announce the release of Sweet Words, the second Royal CD & Musical Score Book project to feature world-renowned guitar maestro Hucky Eichelmann playing the magical melodies... 3049@http://www.modernguitars.com/ Press Release Archive 2007-03-30T06:45:37-06:00 http://www.modernguitars.com/archives/003000.html Concert appearances by Roland Dyens (March 17) and Michael Nicolella (March 18) serve as the centerpieces for this weekend's festival at the LMU campus located in Westchester, California, a Los Angeles County city close to the Pacific Ocean. In addition to the main concert events, the festival offers a number of workshops, master classes, and a showcase of luthiers. Today features a workshop with Michael Nicolella on improvisation and tomorrow will see Roland Dyens conducting a master class. Visit the festival website for more information. 3000@http://www.modernguitars.com/ News Archive 2007-03-17T08:17:45-06:00 http://www.modernguitars.com/archives/002928.html At 6:30 p.m. on February 22, 2007, the Hearing Loss Association of Greater Baltimore (website) will present a classical guitar program by Charles Mokotoff at The Hearing and Speech Agency (5900 Metro Drive, Baltimore, Maryland). Through the use of assistive listening loop technology (photo), the performance will be accessible for most, if not all, regardless of the listener's degree of hearing loss. Assistive listening systems deliver sound directly to the ear, are able to separate sounds from background noise, and reduce what's known as the "speech to noise" ratio. Mokotoff is, himself, hearing impaired, having become deaf at the age of 15. Despite this impairment, he has pursued a career as a professional musician. Mokotoff's program will include solo guitar music by Bach, Scarlatti, Yocoh, Barrios and others. Story. 2928@http://www.modernguitars.com/ News Archive 2007-02-22T08:46:45-06:00 http://www.modernguitars.com/archives/002810.html Press release Source: Bridge Records David StarobinBridge Records has been honored with four Grammy nominations in 2007. Two of the nominations focus around composer Peter Lieberson, 'Best Classical Album' and his wife, the late mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, 'Best Vocal... 2810@http://www.modernguitars.com/ Press Release Archive 2007-01-22T17:43:28-06:00 http://www.modernguitars.com/archives/002756.html On January 16, the Phu Nhuan District Cultural Center in Ho Chi Minh City hosted The Guitar Festival, a concert program held in conjunction with the Tet Lunar New Year's Eve. Flamenco musician Tran Van Phu performed his composition, "Allegrias", for solo guitar, and Nguyen Xuan Hoan, Tran Hoai Phuong, and Duong Kim Dung played pieces from Albeniz, Jirmal, D.Moreno, and popular Vietnamese songs. Three students from the HCMC Conservatory performed "Trio for Guitar" by Mauro Giuliani. 2756@http://www.modernguitars.com/ News Archive 2007-01-16T18:51:13-06:00 http://www.modernguitars.com/archives/002475.html by Tom Watson. The career of classical guitarist and educator Lily Afshar can be summed up by the phrase "the world is her oyster". Born in Tehran, Iran, she emigrated to the United States in 1977 and now lives in Memphis, Tennessee, where she serves as the head of the guitar department of the University of Memphis. In July, 2006, her fourth album, Hemispheres (Archer Records), was released and the following month found her giving master classes at the Tehran Conservatory of Music and solo recitals at one of Tehran's premier concert venues... 2475@http://www.modernguitars.com/ Feature Stories 2006-10-30T14:37:49-06:00 http://www.modernguitars.com/archives/002411.html Present in more than 75 countries, the Goethe-Institut is dedicated to the promotion of the German language and culture outside of German-speaking nations. Earlier today, the Hanoi, Vietnam, chapter hosted a program of classical guitar featuring Nguyen Duc Hung who recently graduated with honors from the University of Fine Arts in Berlin where he studied under Rainer Feldmann. In 2000, Hung received third prize in the German national Jugend musiziert competition. Story. 2411@http://www.modernguitars.com/ News Archive 2006-10-07T11:13:45-06:00 http://www.modernguitars.com/archives/002390.html On September 26, 2006, the Latin Recording Academy announced the nominees for the 7th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards, which will be bestowed at an award ceremony on November 2, 2006, at Madison Square Garden (for the first time, tickets to the event will be available to the public). Nominees include Manuel Barrueco (Best Classical Album), Luis Salinas (Best Instrumental Album), Cacho Tirao (Best Folk Album), and Vicente Amigo (Best Flamenco Album). Barrueco was nominated for Concierto Barroco, which includes two pieces written for him by Roberto Sierra: "Concierto Barroco" and "Folías". "Concierto Barroco" represents an imaginary jam session among Baroque composers Scarlatti, Handel, and Vivaldi and was inspired by Cuban author Alejo Carpentier’s novel Concierto Barroco. Full list of nominnes. Press release » 2390@http://www.modernguitars.com/ News Archive 2006-09-27T07:50:01-06:00 http://www.modernguitars.com/archives/002381.html The Vietnam-Spain Friendship Association, the Centre for the Support of Talent, the Hanoi Conservatory and the Khuyen hoc & Dan tri newspaper have established the Vietnam-Spain Guitar Club in Hanoi that will open in November with a program showcasing Vietnamese guitarists. According to Hanoi's Nhân Dân newspaper, the organization will associate with clubs in Spain to organize performance and training exchanges between the two countries and hopes to develop a greater interest in guitar playing among high school and university students in Vietnam. Story. 2381@http://www.modernguitars.com/ News Archive 2006-09-24T03:36:57-06:00 http://www.modernguitars.com/archives/002357.html Press release Source: Julia Crowe Self-Portrait by David Leisner David Leisner’s new solo album, Self-Portrait, has just been released on the Azica label. The album is a collection of his complete solo guitar compositions. It features his sonata, "Nel Mezzo",... 2357@http://www.modernguitars.com/ Press Release Archive 2006-09-16T17:52:43-06:00 http://www.modernguitars.com/archives/002356.html The Manhattan School of Music presents Guitar Discovery, "a festival of new and unusual music", on Sunday, September 24, Wednesday, September 27, and Thursday, September 28, 2006, each night at 7:30 p.m. at the school's Greenfield Hall. The concert series features faculty members Oren Fader, David Leisner (the festival's artistic director) (photo) and Mark Delpriora. Fader's program is titled New Music for the Classical and Electric Guitar (Sunday); Leisner's is Wenzeslaus Matiegka (1773-1830), the Beethoven of the Guitar (Wednesday); and, Delpriora (Thursday) will present Music from the Andres Segovia Archives, comprised of music written for, but never performed by, Segovia. Admission to each performance is free. Press release » 2356@http://www.modernguitars.com/ Press Release Archive 2006-09-16T17:23:47-06:00 http://www.modernguitars.com/archives/002337.html This week's edition of the Classical Guitar Alive! radio program, hosted by Tony Morris, celebrates National Classical Music Month (September, U.S.) with a Pepe Romero interview and the broadcast of Bizet's "Carmen Suite: Prelude" performed by Los Romeros and Pepe Romero's rendition of "Three Venezuelan Waltzes" by Antonio Lauro. Recordings by guitarists Paul Galbraith, Kazuhito Yamashita, and Erling Moldrup are also featured in this edition of the program. Classical Guitar Alive!, now in its tenth year, is broadcast weekly by over 200 stations in the U.S., throughout Europe via the European Broadcasting Union, and online courtesy of radio station KMFA (FM 89.5, Austin, Texas), which also offers a program archive. Program website. 2337@http://www.modernguitars.com/ News Archive 2006-09-10T06:15:08-06:00 http://www.modernguitars.com/archives/002314.html Music is a language of its own, a non-verbal language (if we discount song lyrics) able to convey the gist of experiences and feelings that fall between the cracks of words. "Indeed, the language of music is often able to articulate complex and abstract emotions that words could never express," says the author of a recent article about classical guitarist Christoph Barnett appearing in the Cayman Net News. The article discusses how music in general and the guitar in particular serve as vehicles for non-verbal self-expression. Story. 2314@http://www.modernguitars.com/ Other News and Information 2006-09-03T07:47:47-06:00 http://www.modernguitars.com/archives/002219.html The Magee Campus of the University of Ulster (Ireland) will host the 5th annual City of Derry Guitar Festival, August 24-27, 2006. The festival features both guitar education and performances. Class instructors include: Karin Schaupp Carlos Bonell and Alan Banks on classical guitar; Dr. Frank Lyons on composition; Clive Carroll on electric and steel string acoustic, and Sean Woods (photo), the festival's artistic director, on flamenco guitar. Performing artists include those giving classes plus Carlos Bonell. Festival website. 2219@http://www.modernguitars.com/ Other News and Information 2006-08-10T09:18:11-06:00