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3 unusual facts about Classical guitar


Antonio Lauro

Antonio Lauro (August 3, 1917 – April 18, 1986) was a Venezuelan musician, considered to be one of the foremost South American composers for the guitar in the 20th century.

Charles Etienne Boniface

In Cape Town, Boniface learnt German, Dutch and English and set himself up as a language and music teacher, particularly playing the French and Spanish guitars.

Gerard Corben

Went on to study Performance & Solo Classical Guitar to Degree Level and in 1997 & 1998, graduating with Distinction.


Carlo Carfagna

Carlo Carfagna (born in Guarcino, Italy, 1940) is an Italian classical guitarist, author of many musical publications.His musical education takes place at the Conservatory of Rome and Naples, under the guidance of Mario Gangi, which subsequently will be teaching colleague for many years at Santa Cecilia.

Cavatina

Probably the most popular cavatina is a melody for classical guitar by Stanley Myers that was subsequently used as the theme for The Deer Hunter.

Élie Ossipovitch

Élie Ossipovitch (1987) a is French western classical guitarist, who studied in the Conservatory of Chambéry, and followed private lessons with prominent French classical guitarists.

Guitar Foundation of America

Guitar Foundation of America (GFA) is the America's leading classical guitar organization founded in 1973 at the National Guitar Convention sponsored by the American String Teachers Association (ASTA).

Leda Battisti

Born in Poggio Bustone, Rieti, Battisti graduated in classical guitar at the conservatory of Rieti, then in 1992 she won the Pippo Baudo's television show Partita doppia.

Leo Brouwer

Juan Leovigildo Brouwer Mezquida (born March 1, 1939 in Havana) is a Cuban composer, conductor, and guitarist.

Mediterrânic Ensemble

José Carlos Severino (Mandolin, Laud & Effects) and Mário Bacelar (Nylon String Guitar & Effects) are join in the Spring of 2004 and with them the Mediterrânic Ensemble, original World/Folk Fusion Music is born.

Nicola Hall

Nicola Hall, born in 1969 in England, is a British classical guitarist.

Pablo Márquez

Pablo Márquez is an Argentine classical guitarist born in San Pedro de Jujuy in 1967.

Pavel Steidl

Pavel Steidl (born June 24, 1961) is a classical guitarist who was born in Rakovnik, Czechoslovakia (now in the Czech Republic), but has lived in the Netherlands for many years.

Rooibaardt

Rooibaardt uses a wide variety of sounds and instruments: classical, electric and bass guitars, violin, colongo, mbira, pan pipes, pennywhistle, harmonica, concertina, melodium, trumpet, keyboard, jaw harp, didgeridoo, saw, samplers, djembe and clay pots.


see also

Alto guitar

Six-string alto guitar, a classical guitar with light strings and a small body, designed to be tuned higher than the normal classical guitar.

Anthony Phillips

After leaving Genesis, Phillips studied classical music (especially classical guitar) and made recordings in collaboration with Harry Williamson, Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins, among others.

Barnegat High School

Intro to Film, and 20th Century Music, Music Theory I, AP Music Theory and Classical Guitar Workshop.

David Ross Macdonald

Born into a musical household in Millicent, Australia, David Ross MacDonald says of his childhood, “There were always instruments to muck around with at home. I played piano as a kid and took some classical guitar lessons as a teenager.”

Dimitri Fampas

He lectured on the history of the classical guitar over the Greek National Radio and TV, the BBC, and on several stations in Hungary, in Czechoslovakia, in the US and elsewhere.

Enrique Granados

It is commonly transcribed for classical guitar as presented here by Sharon Isbin at the White House Classical Music Student Workshop Concert (2009-11-04)

Friedemann Riehle

After violin lessons at a young age he studied classical guitar in Stuttgart as well as orchestra conducting at the Meistersinger Academy in Nuremberg and in Vienna at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst (now Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien).

Gil Gutierrez

At age fourteen he began playing classical guitar in restaurants in Oaxaca and caught the attention of German born guitarist Wolfgang “Lobo” Fink of Willie & Lobo.

Julian Byzantine

He now lives in Australia, where he is head of classical guitar studies at Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University.

Leonid Haydamaka

He occasionally attended meetings of the NY Society of Classical Guitar, which was led by his pre-revolutionary friend from Kharkiv - Vladimir Bobri.

Love over Gold

Knopfler used several guitars during the sessions, including four Schecter Stratocasters—two red, one blue, and one sunburst—a black Schecter Telecaster, an Ovation classical guitar on "Private Investigations" and "Love Over Gold", a custom Erlewine Automatic on "Industrial Disease", and his 1937 National steel guitar on "Telegraph Road".

Noize MC

In 1997 he moved with his mother to the city of Belgorod, where he twice won the regional competition for classical guitar: 1st place in 1998 and 2nd in 2000.

Paul Jabara

Jabara's cousin and close friend Jad Azkoul is also a Lebanese-American musician specialising in classical guitar.

Robb Royer

Soon the trio became a quartet with the addition of Stephen Cohn, who had previously graduated from Valley State's music department, giving a senior recital in classical guitar.

Someone Else's Deja Vu

Joe Knapp (as Joseph Knapp) - Snare, Whistle, Vocal Cuica, Classical Guitar, Electric Guitar, Vocals, Drum Kit, Analog Synth, Broom, Snare, Cymbal, Wood Block, Piano, Electric Bass, Glockenspiel, Acoustic Guitar, Tarpaulin, 12-String, Cabasa, Knee-Slaps, Mellotron, Hand Claps, Mouth Noises, Fake Strings, Rhodes

Su Meng

She started studying classical guitar in 1997 under the tuition of Chen Zhi of the Central Conservatory of Music.

The Black Decameron

:Not to be confused with "El Decameron Negro", a classical guitar suite composed by Leo Brouwer.

Trio de Cologne

Trio de Cologne are a classical guitar trio: either with Zoran Dukić (Croatia), Laura Young (Canada) and Pablo Márquez (Argentina)
or with Zoran Dukić, Laura Young and Ceca Madzarevic.

Yalil Guerra

Afeter some time he moved to Spain and obtained a Master Degree in Classical Guitar at the Royal Conservatory of Music "Queen Sofía" in Madrid, Spain, with professor and concert master Gabriel Estarellas.

Zane Banks

Subsequently he completed a Bachelor of Music degree with First Class Honours on the classical guitar at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with Gregory Pikler and Phillip Houghton, and he is currently undertaking Doctoral studies there under the supervision of Richard Toop and Matthew Hindson.