My friend emailed me a page from the NY times on piano competitions, but it's all relevant to guitar competitions. I mean it's pretty obvious, but people forget how it's so very hard to become well known unless you've won a few of these. These guys who win are a particular type of player - [...]
Tag: Guitar competition
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Sean Shibe 