L’Art de la Rose: A Whirlwind History of Guitar Rosettes BY MICHAEL WRIGHT | FROM THE FALL 2019 ISSUE OF CLASSICAL GUITAR Most guitarists give little thought to...
VIdeo Pick of the Week: Katalin Koltai Plays Bartók’s ‘The Night’s Music’ (and check out her single-string capo invention) In the past, we’ve posted videos featuring Hungarian guitarist Katolin Koltai both solo (such as this performance of...
Cleveland CG Festival Expands with New, Lucrative Youth Competition (and the Entry Deadline is Looming!) The James Stroud Classical Guitar Competition will boast the largest award purse of any U.S. youth contest By...
Video Pick(s) of the Week: It’s Our Annual Birthday Celebration of Roland Dyens! How sad it is that Roland Dyens (1955–2016) is not around to celebrate his 64th birthday on October...
Alec Holcomb: A Young Guitarist on Finding and Developing His Own Voice BY MARK SMALL | FROM THE FALL 2019 ISSUE OF CLASSICAL GUITAR The summer of 2019 was a...
Recent Album releases by Sharon Isbin, Jason Vieaux, Les Frères Méduses, and the Edenwood Duo Some weeks we take a peek at recent albums or sheet music releases. Here are four CDs I...
Video Pick of the Week: Amanda Cook Plays George Shearing’s Jazz Standard ‘Lullaby of Birdland’ I was in a jazzy mood today for some reason, so I went lookin’ for a cool jazz-classical...
Celebrating the Centenary of Jack Duarte: An Appreciation of the Composer and Classical-Guitar Champion BY PAUL FOWLES | FROM THE FALL 2019 ISSUE OF CLASSICAL GUITAR Longtime CG writer Paul Fowles’ connection...
Video Pick of the Week: Alexandre Lagoya Plays Luigi Mozzani’s ‘Feste Lariane’ Truth be told, keeping up with the inundation of new classical guitar album releases doesn’t give me a...
Between Cultures: A Rare Interview with Visionary Composer and Guitarist Carlo Domeniconi BY ANGE TURELL | FROM THE FALL 2019 ISSUE OF CLASSICAL GUITAR “The time of the self-deprecating ‘classical’...