John Schneider is an American classical guitarist. He performs in just intonation and well-temperament, including Pythagorean tuning, including works by Lou Harrison, LaMonte Young, John Cage, and Harry Partch. He often arranges pieces for guitar and other instruments such as harp or percussion.
Soundboard or sound board may refer to:
David Starobin is a highly honored figure in the world of classical guitar. Called “arguably the most influential American classical guitarist of the 20th Century” (Soundboard), Starobin was inducted into the Guitar Foundation of America's "Hall of Fame" in 2011. He is the only guitarist to have been awarded Lincoln Center's "Avery Fisher Career Award" (1988), and is the dedicatee of more than three hundred new compositions including music by composers Elliott Carter, George Crumb, and Gunther Schuller. David Starobin performs on both nineteenth century and modern guitars, and has received Grammy nominations as guitarist and as "Classical Producer of the Year". In 1981 he founded Bridge Records, a record company which has been honored with 32 Grammy nominations. Mr. Starobin is a co-founder of the guitar department at the Curtis Institute of Music, and also teaches at Manhattan School of Music, where he was the holder of MSM's "Andres Segovia Chair". David Starobin studied guitar with Manuel Gayol, Alberto Valdes Blain and with Aaron Shearer at the Peabody Institute. His musical compositions are published by Editions New Rochelle and Edition Wilhelm Hansen (Copenhagen) and he records for Bridge Records.
Manuel Barrueco is a Cuban classical guitarist. During three decades of concert performances he has performed and recorded across the United States and has been involved in many successful collaborations. In addition, he teaches at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.
A flamenco guitar is a guitar similar to a classical guitar but with thinner tops and less internal bracing. It usually has nylon strings, as opposed to steel. Usually, it has a livelier sound compared to the classical guitar. It is used in toque, the guitar-playing part of the art of flamenco.
This article lists classical guitar related media works.
Plucked string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by plucking the strings. Plucking is a way of pulling and releasing the string in such a way as to give it an impulse that causes the string to vibrate. Plucking can be done with either a finger or a plectrum.
An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the guitar family, that projects the sounds of its vibrating strings acoustically through the air. Originally just called a guitar, the retronym 'acoustic guitar' came in use to distinguish it from an electric guitar, that relies on an electronic amplification system. The sound waves from the strings of an acoustic guitar resonate through the instrument's body, amplifying the sound. Typically, a guitar's body is a sound box, of which the top side serves as a sound board that enhances the vibration sounds of the strings. In standard tuning the guitar's six strings are tuned (low to high) E2 A2 D3 G3 B3 E4.
Robert Phillips is an American classical guitarist.
Scott Tennant is a Grammy Award-winning American classical guitarist. He is a member of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet and is the author of the Pumping Nylon series of instructional books, repertoire supplements, and DVD.
The Gümüşlük International Classical Music Festival is held in the small fishing village of Gümüşlük, Bodrum, on the southwest coast of Turkey. It began in 2004 and between 2006 and 2012 was organized by Bodrum Klasik Müzik Derneği, founded in 2006 for this purpose. In 2016 the festival expanded its programming to include a dedicated guitar week and a series of jazz concerts. The Gümüşlük Festival Academy is organized annually parallel to the festival.
Guitar Foundation of America is an American classical guitar organization that was founded in 1973 at the National Guitar Convention sponsored by the American String Teachers Association. The company offer various services ranging from guitar lessons, to a guitar shop, competitions, and events. The company is a nonprofit organization that relies on donation, events, and advertising on its web site.
Martha Masters is an American classical guitarist. She won the 2000 Guitar Foundation of America international solo competition. Masters is the Executive Vice-President of the GFA.
Ronald Charles Purcell was an American guitarist, with degrees from the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music and California State University, Northridge. He was Professor Emeritus of the Department of Music at California State University, Northridge and Director of the International Guitar Research Archive, considered one of the finest guitar archives in the world. His major teachers included Andrés Segovia, Emilio Pujol, Macario Santiago Kastner, Alirio Diaz and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, whose Hommage to Purcell, Op. 170, No. 38 is dedicated to him.
A lute guitar or German lute is a stringed musical instrument, common in Germany from around 1850. The instrument has a regular six-stringed guitar setup on a lute bowl, however there are many theorboed variants with up to 11 strings.
Lichty Guitars is an American company based in Tryon, North Carolina, that has been making custom acoustic guitars and ukuleles since 2009. It was founded by musician Jay Lichty, who honed his craft with luthier Wayne Henderson.
Tolgahan Çoğulu is a Turkish classical guitarist, arranger and designer of the adjustable microtonal guitar. He built a unique repertoire of works for microtonal guitar by arranging Anatolian folk music and Ottoman maqam music and by commissioning the leading and emerging composers. In 2014, he won the 1st prize at the prestigious Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition at Georgia Tech. He also won the jury award at Donizetti Classical Music Awards in 2014.
Stanley Yates is an English-born classical guitarist and a prolific editor of 19th- and 20th-century music for the guitar.
Jérémy Jouve is a French classical guitarist. He was one of six Frenchmen to win the Guitar Foundation of America International competition.
Vladimir Gorbach is a Russian classical guitarist.
