A list of amazing classical guitarists from the Featured Artists category.
Maya Lončar performs Danse Rythmique by Ida Presti (1924-1967). This comes via Guitar Salon International and their YouTube channel and performed on a Cynthia H. Burton classical guitar. You can also subscribe to Lončar’s YouTube channel. Great performance by Lončar with some excellent rhythmic…
Canadian guitarist Emma Rush performs The tall grass bends to listen by Annette Kruisbrink (b.1958). This comes via Rush’s YouTube channel. Kruisbrink is Dutch composer and guitarists with over 450 works which you can explore here. As Rush mentions, “The composition and video are in memory of…
Duo Diversitas with Marisa Minder (guitar) and Evgeniya Spalinger (Flute) perform the third movement Allegro from Sonata in G minor, BWV 1020 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). This comes via Minder’s YouTube channel. This is originally for flute and obbligato harpsichord and arranged…
Evangelina Mascardi performs London Suite IV in G major by Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1686–1750) on Baroque lute in Orte, Italy. This comes via Mascardi’s YouTube channel. I adore Weiss and Mascardi’s performance is wonderfully elegant. The combination of a strong rhythmic character and flowing galant lines…
The Beijing Guitar Duo with Meng Su and Yameng Wang perform a live concert at St. Marks Lutheran Church in San Francisco, CA with repertoire by César Franck, Enrique Granados, and Astor Piazzolla. This comes via the Omni Foundation online series and their Youtube channel.…
Hao Yang performs Air varié de l’opera de Bellini I Capuleti e i Montecchi (1845) by Giulio Regondi (1822–1872). This comes via Guitars International via their YouTube channel with video and recording by Drew Henderson. One of the most amazing…
ViennaDuo with Desislava Dobreva (flute) and Bozhana Pavlova (guitar) play their arrangement of Romanian Folk Dances by Béla Bartók (1881-1945). This comes via ViennaDuo on YouTube. Originally for piano and later orchestrated by the composer. Great performance and arrangement by ViennaDuo with beautiful melodic phrasing and…
Canadian classical guitarist Nicole Payie performs Mirándote by Eduardo Martín (b.1953) and La Paloma (The Dove) by Sebastián Iradier (1809-1865). This comes via Payie’s new YouTube channel (go subscribe now). Nicole is a good friend and colleague of mine and…
Korean classical guitarist Seungyeon Lee performs a selection of Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) by Robert Schumann (1810-1856). Kinderszenen is originally for piano and arranged here by Johan Smith. This comes via Matthew McAllister’s Gallery of Guitar on YouTube for his…
Evangelina Mascardi (Vihuela) performs Fantasia VII by Alonso Mudarra (1510–1580) from Tres libros de musica en cifras para vihuela. This comes via Mascardi’s YouTube channel. Beautiful performance with excellent voice entries, phrasing, and rhythmic delivery. I learn so much about a natural delivery of…
Irene Gómez performs Se Sya and Fughetta pour elle by Amos Coulanges (b.1954). This comes via Gómez’s YouTube channel and Siccas Guitars and their YouTube channel. Great performances by Gómez with an excellent rhythmic delivery and sensitive voice independence in the Fughetta. Haitian composer and…
Austrian classical guitarist Antonia Haslinger performs mini concert of works by female composers including Annette Kruisbrink, Julia Malischnig, and Cláudia Montero. This comes via Siccas Guitars and their YouTube channel where you can also see which guitars are being played. Nice performance by Haslinger with beautiful…