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The Canadian Guitar Quartet plays the third movement of Radamés Gnattali’s Quatro Movimentos Dançantes. Gallery: Laroche/Joncas, Belgo center, Montreal. The quartet has had many members over the years but is currently made up of Julien Bisaillon, Renaud Côté-Giguère, Bruno Roussel,…
Arturo Parra, guitarist and composerTerra IncognitaSeven sound portraitsNovember 2013 © ARTURO PARRA℗ LA GRENOUILLE HIRSUTEMade in Canada Artist Website: Arturo ParraLabel Website: La Grenouille Hirsute Columbian born but Canadian based guitarist and composer Arturo Parra released this gem last year November. You…
There’s a great video of my friend and trio partner Adrian Verdejo playing the beautiful piece “In a Room” by Vancouver composer Rodney Sharman. Vancouver Review Media disabled the embed codes so I can’t post it here but you can…
Victoria Guitar Trio with Adrian Verdejo, Michael Dias and Bradford Werner perform Temporal Waves by Vancouver composer Jordan Nobles. As I prepare for a trio concert in Vancouver this weekend I thought I’d share one of the pieces we are playing…
Soliloquies and Dreams (For Janice)Artist website: Alan RinehartAlbum Programme Notes and samplesNovaScribe Editions / Alan Rinehart, 2014. Buy the Album via Amazon: Soliloquies and Dreams I’ve had the plesure of meeting Canadian guitarist Alan Rinehart on a number of occasions but…
The Sharpe-Zohn Guitar Duo play Bach Invention no. 8 in F major. Arranged by Andrew Zohn for two guitars. In my searches for daily posts I’m finding everything connected to Drew Henderson to be gold. Nice video work Drew. Fantastic…
Canadian guitarist Michael Kolk plays La fille aux cheveux de lin by Claude Debussy (1862-1918). FYI to my younger students, this is originally for piano from Debussy’s first book of Préludes, written between late 1909 and early 1910. The French…
A nice and clean performance of Jobiniana No. 1 by Sergio Assad (b.1952) by Canadian group Altius Duo (Adam Batstone & Chad Yacobucci). These young guys recently emerged via the University of Toronto and have been putting out some great vids with…
Drew Henderson plays Capriccio no. 2 by Luigi Legnani on his brand new Sigurdson Guitar. Drew has a really amazing balance of sweet tone but with plenty of clarity. He is definitely one of the great young stars in Canada…
Mosaic: Classical Guitar Favouritesby Michael Kolk Artist Website: michaelkolkguitar.comALMA Records: almarecords.com Buy the album or listen to samples: Mosaic via AmazonOr check out his website for more purchase options. Review by Bradford Werner, thisisclassicalguitar.com I’m a big fan of Canadian guitarist…
Congrats to all the excellent students and teachers of Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada for their wonderful performances in the Whitehorse Rotary Music Festival where I was the adjudicator. Every student played very well and all the students had good foundation music…
I guess today the site is called this is electric guitar! My good friend and colleague Adrian Verdejo has just released a brilliant recording of new music and modern works for electric guitar. Adrian is an excellent classical guitarist but…