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Gear Review: La Cañada Model 115 is a Fine New Guitar Based on an Antonio de Torres Classic

BY ADAM PERLMUTTER | FROM THE SUMMER 2018 ISSUE OF CLASSICAL GUITAR The German luthier Edmund Blöchinger is...

Recent Albums by Otto Tolonen, Duo Tenebroso, and Kevin J. Cope

Some weeks we take a peek at recent albums or sheet music releases. Here are three of the...

Lesson: Use Giuliani’s ‘Studies’ to Increase Right-Hand Development

BY ADAM PERLMUTTER The following article was written for our sister publication, Acoustic Guitar magazine, with steel-string guitarists...

A Lo Cubano! A Report from This Year’s Miami International GuitART Festival

BY DR. SAM DESMET In 2016, the first edition of the Miami International GuitArt Festival started out with...

Video Pick of the Week: Cuban Guitarist Alí Arango Plays ‘His Escenas Del Des-Equinoccio’

I’m an unabashed fan of Cuban guitarist and composer Alí Arango, so when something new comes in from him...

Russell, Goss, Starobin and More at 3rd Altamira Shanghai Guitar Festival

BY STEVE MANN for CLASSICAL GUITAR In China now, there are many guitar festivals, with my guitar teacher...

Romero Sunday #3: Los Romeros Play Gerónimo Giménez’s ‘El baile de Luis Alonso’ at 50th Anniversary Concert

Hard to believe that next year will mark the 60th anniversary of the Los Romeros guitar quartet; remarkably,...

Read About Australian Luthier Greg Smallman and His Innovative Design Ideas!

Australia’s CutCommon bills itself as a magazine about “The New Generation of Classical Music.” A couple of months...

Video Pick of the Week: Nadja Janković Plays the Allegro Risoluto from Paganini’s ‘Grand Sonata’

Here’s a wonderful piece, played beautifully by 17-year-old Montenegrin guitarist Nadja Janković. The Grand Sonata by Niccoló Paganini (1782–1840)...

Important Vienna Guitar Festival & Competition Coming Next Month!

If you’re in Europe or planning to be there in late August, you really owe it to yourself...

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Profile: Classical Guitar Great Raphaella Smits

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