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This is a list of classical guitarists. Baroque (17th and 18th centuries) Name Born Country Antoine Carré ...
Maria Kämmerling (born 1946), specializing in contemporary classical guitar music, educator in Denmark; Ursula Kurze (born 1963), classical guitarist, singer, composer and music educator, now based in Dresden; Heike Matthiesen (1964–2023), international soloist and chamber musician, specializing in female composers
The guitar instrumental version became a worldwide hit single when it was used as the theme tune to the Oscar-winning film The Deer Hunter (1978). Between 1978 and 1984, Williams was a member of the instrumental fusion group Sky , with whom he recorded six successful albums and scored a UK Top Five single with "Toccata".
The first was titled The Music of Francisco Tárrega - A Guitar Recital, vol. 1 SMC-516 and the second was The Music of Fernando Sor - A Guitar Recital, vol. 2 SMC-517. While it is believed that Andrés Segovia may have been the first to record the F. Sor studies, it was Rey's recordings of these important studies that first made it to vinyl. [ 6 ]
The classical guitar, also known as Spanish guitar, [1] is a member of the guitar family used in classical music and other styles. An acoustic wooden string instrument with strings made of gut or nylon, it is a precursor of the modern steel-string acoustic and electric guitars, both of which use metal strings.
In the 4th Santo Tirso International Guitar Festival, held in 1997, he played four guitar concertos in one night with the Cordoba orchestra, conducted by Leo Brouwer. Most recently, he is active in the guitar quartet Kazuhito Yamashita + Bambini. This quartet, consisting of Yamashita and his children, has performed at two international ...
Jason Vieaux co-founded the guitar department at the Curtis Institute of Music in 2011 and has taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music since 1997, heading the guitar department since 2001. [ 15 ] In 2012, the Jason Vieaux School of Classical Guitar was launched with ArtistWorks , [ 16 ] a technological interface that provides one-on-one ...
Boyd was born in London and grew up in Toronto. [5] Her father grew up in Bilbao, Spain, and her mother in Stoke-on-Trent, England.Her grandmother was from Linares, Spain, the birthplace of the "king of the classical guitar", Andrés Segovia.