Obsession and Profession: Making a Living as a Classical Guitarist For most guitarists, it isn’t easy piecing together a full-time career in music By Blair Jackson (This article...
Rare Guitars to Be Auctioned in Paris (and Online) The prestigious Paris-based auction house Castor-Hara is offering well over a 100 guitars—classical, folk, and electric—plus a few banjos,...
Lily Afshar on Playing and Teaching Classical Guitar in Her Native Iran The extraordinary Iranian guitarist Lily Afshar emigrated to the United States two years before the 1979 revolution that...
New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes Boasts Impressive Lineup The early registration deadline for this year’s New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes ends fairly soon—March 31—and with...
2016 Guitar Foundation of America International Convention and Competition Sponsored Story The 2016 GFA International Convention and Competition will be held at Metropolitan State University in Denver,...
English Composer/Conductor Peter Maxwell Davies Dies at 81 One of Britain’s most famous (and occasionally controversial) contemporary composers, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, has died at the...
The Guitar Makers of Madrid From the Spring 2016 Issue of Classical Guitar | STORY AND PHOTOS BY JOHN W. WARREN On a trip to Madrid...
Mid-May New York Guitar Festival Details Announced This year’s edition of the bi-annual New York Guitar Festival, taking place in several locations around Manhattan between...
The Importance of Repertoire: 5 Classical Guitarists Weigh In By Blair Jackson In the grand scheme of things, nothing is more important for classical-guitar professionals, and those...
Video Pick of the Week: Antonis Hatzinikolaou Plays Astor Piazzolla’s ‘Romantico’ from ‘Cinco Piezas’ Classical-guitar lovers, meet Antonis Hatzinikolaou. Antonis is Greek, a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London,...
