Last Summer I had some photos taken by the Academy's photographer, Ken Dundas - they're pretty good so they're up now.
Author: Sean Shibe
Success in ROSL Strings
Last Tuesday evening I played in the final of the strings category in the Royal Overseas League annual music competition and won. The final with the winners of all the categories will be held in the Queen Elizabeth Hall in the South Bank Centre on Tuesday the 17th May. All is well and my overdraft [...]
New Video
There's a new video put up by those nice folk at the GitaarSalon in Enkhuizen, of me playing the Malcolm Arnold Fantasy. I'm embedding it below and on the videos page. It should feature on the Brava HDTV European network later this year along with another video of Ian Watt playing the Giuliani Sonata op. [...]
A few more concerts
I've added to the Forthcoming Concerts page the details of, well... some forthcoming concerts. It seems that these first few months of 2011 will be busy. Oh and I also added in a wee quote given by those nice EGTA guys to the quotes page re: a wee half recital I gave in England for [...]
What I’ve been up to
As usual it's been a while too long for me to have left the blog without a post. Aaaaaanyway I've just uploaded a new video to youtube which you can see here: It's just a wee video that's part of a competition application I'll be sending away this week. I've been doing a little bit [...]
Long Overdue
OK so I've finally uploaded some more videos to my youtube channel, but under a different channel - the other one will be unused from now on. You can view it here. I stuck on some videos of the China visit of last year, too. Hope you enjoy 🙂
Photo
I got facebooked an after concert photo taken by the organisers of our gig in Eindhoven, so here it is.
Chinese links
I've also been told that the link I posted to a chinese page doesn't connect to a page any more. I'm sorry about this, and I'll put up another one asap.
Concerts in Eindhoven last December
Ian Watt and I also gave a recital in Eindhoven, in the Phillips Hall, in mid December on the weekend after our return to China. The programme was basically the same one given in China, and again it seemed to be a success, so we were pleased with how it went. We will return in [...]
China visit ’09
I visited China in December last year, playing a couple of concerts (One in the Ni-er hall, and one in the Schezuan Conservatory Concert Hall) in the Schezuan. It was with a colleague of mine, Ian Watt - we sometimes play duets together, and the Academy wanted us to go and play so people could [...]
Concerts with the Scottish Flute Trio
I'm going to be playing with them in mid-Argyll on the Sat 13th, Sun 14th and Mon 15th of March. The Programme includes: Western Light - Edward McGuire Histoire du Tango - Astor Piazzolla St KildaÂąs Parliament - Kenneth Dempster "Water V"Â from The Waterfall of Time Suite - Joji Hirota The Great Train Race - [...]
Ivor Mairants guitar award
I won this last year during the end of November, and I think that a review of the competition itself will feature in an issue of Classical Guitar Magazine later this year. I played Slow Blues and Finale from Evocacion for Joe Pass, Sarabanda de Scriabin and La Toccata de Pasquini from Brouwer's Sonata, and [...]
Concert Valentine’s day
Just to say that I'll be performing in Glasgow on February 14th at 1530 for an hour. It'll be a programme of romantic music, but nothing specifically romantic itself. Schubert: 6 songs (arranged by Mertz): Lob der Thranen, Liebesbothschaft, Aufenthalt, Standchen, Die Post, Das Fischermadchen Villa - Lobos - 5 Preludes J. S. Bach - [...]
New stuff
I've been quite busy for however long it's been since I've put a post on this, and I'm going to be be busy for a while after this post. So basically this post is really to say that I'm still alive, and I'll update this when I can.
Ligita
Yeah so I played and got to the final and won 2nd prize which was a surprise but hey ho you know it's all good. It's a really nice festival though, and I had masterclasses with Alvaro Pierri and Dieter Kreidler. Kreidler was on the jury along with Dale Kavanagh, Stephan Hackl, Carlo Domeniconi, Jorge [...]
Upcoming stuff
So yeah, on Thursday I will be performing the Rodrigo Concierto D'aranjuez in Hull with the Isle of Axholme Symphony Orchestra, and that should be good. After that on Monday I fly to Liechtenstein to participate in a guitar competition so I must work for that as well.
Concert next Monday
I will be performing the Sequenza again in the final guitar department concert this Monday coming (I think it's the 25th), and I think most of the department will be playing as well. So yeah, come along if you can.
Plug concert review
So Michael Tumelty from the Herald reviewed the lunchtime concert of that last Friday after having been there, and it was published today. "Then came utter magic in Marek Pasieczny's guitar Sequenza, which took the guitar into little-explored, often exotic and always beguiling territory, and played by, I believe, the finest acoustic guitarist I have [...]
Brouwer masterclass
I am planning to perform in the Leo Brouwer masterclass in West Dean Guitar Festival. He will be, I think, in his 70th year, and it would be an amazing experience to learn from him. The first of the 3 masterclasses are open to people who are not on the festival course itself (ie. me), [...]
George Duthie
He has a myspace account, so you can see that here (if the link doesn't work it's http://www.myspace.com/georgeduthiepiano). You can hear a couple of recordings of him playing Janacek, Bach, Chopin and Rachmaninov. So yeah, take a look. He's good.
Sean Shibe 