Tolga has been around for some time now, with a guitar with movable fretlets in channels under the strings to produce 9th tones and more. He gave a mindbending lecture at the GFA and also played some Ba?lama music as well as examples by contemporary composers.
Spectral Dreams : Concerto
First Performance at GFA Louisville Kentucky on Sunday!
Tantalus quartet and Gerald Garcia with the GFA orchestra
Official GFA blog+
GFA
These posts are becoming something of an AG (acronymic graveyard).
I am now in Kentucky at the Guitar Foundation of America (GFA) International Convention. I was lucky enough and honoured to be invited Continue reading
Biberian’s Sonata 2 finally recorded!
Now here’s a thing. This is a piece I have loved for 28 years. I played it when Gilbert Biberian first wrote it. It has had a chequered history Continue reading
Whoa!!! Viv and Scarlatti
Alexi and Roope do their thing with ease and concentration. Bet the Katonas wish they played electric guitars! Compare and contrast the (hair)styles of these bad boy duos!
FGS
JFCAHBBH!? Another acronym?
More guitarists playing together – in this case, 50 of them, from different guitar societies across the UK. The Federation of Guitar Societies
I had the privilege of meeting these dedicated souls,
BYGO
Not some fancy way of saying to bring your own drink on a party invitation, but this is the Berkshire Youth Guitar Orchestra, whose genial conductor, Steve Christmas, invited me to their Wigmore Hall recital in London today.
For Bach lovers
Not the Cello Suites, as you might expect, but the violin sonatas, played on viola da gamba by one of today’s greatest exponents of the instrument. Continue reading
Forging Perseverance – Focal Dystonia and Loving Patience
Here is an article I wrote some time ago now – it may resonate with some guitarists who have suffered from a non-painful but debilitating syndrome called “focal dystonia”.