Celil Refik Kaya Plays Valses Poeticos

ByBradford Werner
2016

Turkish born but New York based guitarist Celil Refik Kaya playing Spanish composer Enrique Granados’ (1867–1916) Valses Poeticos on a beautiful new 2015 Kenneth Brogger ‘1890 Torres’ classical guitar via the Guitar Salon International showroom in Santa Monica, CA. You can also check out the GSI on their YouTube channel. As I’ve mentioned before, Kaya is an exciting player with risky tempos but he keeps his cool and pulls it off nicely. Impressive reflexive virtuosity, light but shocking and caffeinated. Also some nice sweet moment too. “Born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1991, Celil began his interest in classical guitar at the age of six…” read more of his bio.

Bradford Werner

Bradford Werner is a classical guitarist and music publisher from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He originally created this site for his students at the Victoria Conservatory of Music but now shares content worldwide. Curating guitar content helps students absorb the culture, musical ideas, and technique of the classical guitar. Bradford also has a YouTube channel with over 94,000 subscribers and 13 million views. He taught classical guitar at the Victoria Conservatory of Music for 16 years and freelanced in Greater Victoria for 20 years and now dedicates much of his time curating content online and helping connect the classical guitar community. See more at his personal website.