"HOW TO BE A SUCCESSFUL GUITARIST" - INTERVIEW WITH MATT WITHERS
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GUITAR TREK TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM - PREORDERS AND OTHER REWARDS AVAILABLE
Guitar Trek have launched a Pozible crowdfunding campaign to facilitate the release of their next album. You can help contribute by pre-ordering your copy or even hosting them in a home recital as one of the "rewards" from their campaign. More info HERE
"Dear friends!
Guitar Trek was launched in 1987 to showcase the Guitar Family (treble, standard, baritone & bass). Almost 30 years later, Tim Kain and members continue to reinvent the quartet medium.
With your kind support, Guitar Trek will be recording in June and releasing a brand new disc in October this year. On this disc we venture into new territory with an array of shorter pieces from many different countries and corners of the repertoire – be prepared for a few surprises! This will be a disc of pieces we all love, and aiming to appeal to wide range of music lovers."
CAMPBELL DIAMOND WINS INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
Australian guitarist Campbell Diamond recently won the 2014 Calcutta International Guitar Competition "Roland Dyens". Such a great achievement! Campbell has been awarded several places in various other international competitions during 2014. After studying in Canberra under Tim Kain and Minh Le Hoang for several years, Campbell is now based in Germany where he is studying with Hubert Kappel.
ANDREY LEBEDEV TO PREMIERE TWO NEW WORKS ON DEC 4, 2014
Australian guitarist Andrey Lebedev will be premiering "Sonata No 5, Ars Combinatoria" (The Art of Combination) by Leo Brouwer and "Beyond the White Hand - Construction with guitar player" by Harrison Birtwistle on Dec 4 at St John's Smith Square, London.
Here is a fantastic video interview with journalist Guy Travis: .
ANDREW BLANCH INTERVIEW ON CUTCOMMON
Our partner in crime, Andrew Blanch, has completed an honest and raw interview over at CutCommon. If you'd like to know why he says "no one's going around putting up billboards of H. G. Wells or releasing sex tapes of Charles Dickens," I guess you'll just have to click this link HERE.
STEPHANIE JONES WINS "YOUNG VIRTUOSO OF THE YEAR"
Congratulations to the fantastic guitarist who has been awarded the "Young Virtuoso of the Year" through the Classical Music Broadcasting Association. Stephanie has just completed her Honours year in Music Performance at the ANU (Canberra) with Tim Kain.
This is an annual multi-instrumental event, where the major component is the live-to-air broadcast of the semifinalists' recitals. Selected by audition, the performers prepare a recital of 45 to 50 minutes in duration, which must include at least one Australian work. Go Steph!!! Read about it all in limelight magazine HERE.
MATT WITHERS PREMIERES NEW AUSTRALIAN WORKS
Matt Withers, head of guitar at Canberra university and PHD candidate has recently run the inaugural "Matt Withers Young Australian Music Composition Competition" which aims to generate new Australian music and support the next generation of composers. He premiered the three winning works in a special concert at the National Arboretum Canberra on November 23rd. For a great review of this concert by City
News click HERE. For information about the 2015 composition competition visit Matt's website.
VLADIMIR GORBACH JOINS STAFF AT SYDNEY CONSERVATORIUM
We would like to warmly welcome , 2011 GFA winner, to Australia as he takes up a permanent teaching position as Head of Guitar at the Sydney Conservatorium in 2015.