“Here was a guitarist who knew how to laugh with the music and share the joke with his audience. But behind the entertainer lies a serious artist… Never was a standing ovation more richly deserved. Pavel Steidl had won the hearts and minds of a capacity crowd.“
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Pavel Steidl was born in Rakovnik, Czech Republic. Since he won first prize at the Radio France International Competition in Paris in 1982, he has become one of the most widely celebrated soloists in the world. Among the members of the jury in that competition were such artists as Alexander Tansman, Antonio Lauro and Maria Luisa Anido.
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Pavel Steidl studied with Milan Zelenka and Štěpán Rak in Prague. In 1987 he emigrated to the Netherlands, where after years of studying and gaining inspiration from many different artists, he created his own style, incorporating an authentic way of interpretation of 19th-century guitar literature on periodic instruments. In 2004 he moved back to the Czech Republic, and since 2015 has taught at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, and the Conservatoire in The Hague .
Steidl has worked with such artists as Leo Brouwer, Carlo Domeniconi, Paolo Paolini, John Williams, Miroslav Vitouš, Karin Schaupp, Edin Karamazov and others. In 2012 he formed the European Guitar Quartet with Zoran Dukic, Reentko Dirks and Thomas Fellow.
Pavel Steidl also composes, and his own compositions are often played in his concerts and in his recordings. He has played in more than 40 countries, including Canada, USA, China, India, Japan, Europe, South and Central America, and Australia. He was chosen as guitar player of the year (2004) by the readers of Italian Guitar Magazine
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. Pavel plays many instruments, but mainly Francisco Simplicio (1926), Walter Verreydt, Franz Butcher, Federico Sheppard; Romantic guitars include a copy of a J.G.Stauffer guitar made by B.Kresse, and original instruments from the beginning of the 19th century (Nikolaus G.Ries cca. 1830 and Johann Anton Stauffer cca 1840).
Andrea De Vitis is acclaimed for “the infinitely varied color palette he creates” (American Record Guide), the “absolute control over the details of the performance” (Silesia prezentuje) and for his “mature interpretations” (Musica) with “profound musicality” (Guitart).
Andrea De Vitis was born in Rome in 1985, and has established himself as a guitarist able to win over audiences with his extraordinary talent. His intense concert activity has included prestigious concert halls throughout Europe, USA, Mexico, China and Russia. Andrea frequently plays with orchestras including performances in Poland, Hungary, Russia, as well as with the Orchestra del Conservatorio Santa Cecilia and Orchestra Internazionale di Roma. De Vitis teaches masterclasses in numerous festivals, academies and conservatoires, and gives lectures on classical guitar repertoire and musicology.
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”, which includes the world premiere of newly discovered pieces, and urtext versions of the other published compositions. Andrea was the first to perform “3 Dances from Suite in modo polonico” by Alexandre Tansman and to compare all his published works with the original manuscripts. “
De Vitis carefully reinstates the composer’s original, even the movements considered by Segovia unsuitable for guitar. The result is sublime. His respect for the text of the music continues in his interpretation”
De Vitis has won more than 40 prizes in various international competitions. A supporter of new repertoire for guitar, he has numerous pieces dedicated to him, including “Sonatine en souvenir de Marcel Proust” and “Into the rose-garden – in memory of Julian Bream” by composer Angelo Gilardino. He has published his transcriptions of pieces such as Chaconne from Partita BWV 1004, Suite BWV 823 and Fantasia BWV 917 by Johann Sebastian Bach (Les Productions d’Oz).
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Anniversary of the birth of our founder, Eli Kassner. We are proud to dedicate the 2024 Toronto Guitar Weekend to a celebration of Eli and Ann, and of Eli’s enormous contributions to the classical guitar in Toronto, Canada, and the world.
The weekend opens on Friday evening with a tribute concert featuring a lineup of world-class artists, among them several of Eli’s most prominent students. On the program are Fabio Zanon, the renowned Brazilian soloist, conductor and prize winner at our Guitar ’87 Festival; the legendary and multi-talented Celso Machado; Laura Young, international performer and professor at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, who began lessons with Eli at age 9; Brian Katz, a long-time student of Eli and an acclaimed guitarist, pianist, improviser, composer, and professor at the University of Toronto; Vincea McClelland, also a student of Eli, who has performed world-wide for many years as a soloist and in duo with her husband Raymond Cousté; and soloist, conductor and composer Tim Phelan, yet another of Eli’s students and now a professor at Brock University.
Saturday is dedicated to Eli’s legacy as a teacher and performer, with presentations by Dr. Jack Silver, Guitar Society archivist and Eli’s biographer, on Eli as a performer, highlighted by rare audio and video, and by Dr. Laura Young, who will share her insights on Eli as a legendary teacher and inspiration. Saturday also includes a mini festival of film and video, including the Rhombus Media film
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Episode on luthier Patt Lister, centred on the Eli Kassner Guitar Academy; Eli’s Order of Canada award ceremony; and a short documentary on Eli’s 80
Saturday evening, we will present the world-famous Manuel Barrueco, a prize winner at the first International Toronto Guitar Festival, whose electrifying performances triggered the beginning of his illustrious career.
Eli Kassner as a performer, featuring excerpts of video of Eli rehearsing with Malka and Joso and Leo Brouwer, Eli’s 1957 lesson with Segovia, excerpts of recordings/CBC broadcasts of Eli performing solo and accompanying Isabelita Alonso and Malka, interspersed with a brief account of his performing career.In addition, there are commercial recordings of Malka and Joso where Eli and Rafael Nunez accompanied the singers.
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Mini film festival of several documentaries involving Eli will be shown, among them a special showing of the Rhombus Media film “Guitar, ” a captivating panorama of Guitar ’87; the 1967 “Telescope” episode on the luthier Patt Lister, centred on the Eli Kassner Guitar Academy; the award ceremony of Eli being awarded the Order of Canada; and a short documentary on Ann and Eli made by Jeff Cipin for the 2004 celebration of Eli’s 80
A lecture on Eli Kassner as a teacher, his methods and approaches to the art, and with video clips of Eli teaching.
Legendary guitarist Manuel Barrueco is internationally recognized as one of the most important guitarists of our time. His unique artistry has been continually described as that of a superb instrumentalist and a superior and elegant musician, possessing a seductive sound and uncommon lyrical gifts.
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His career has been dedicated to bringing the guitar to the main musical centres of the world, and his commitment to contemporary music and to the expansion of the guitar repertoire has led him to collaborations with many distinguished composers.
Manuel Barrueco has appeared on a wide array of television programs including “CBS Sunday Morning, ” A&E’s “Breakfast with the Arts, ” and “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.” He was featured in a Lexus car commercial, and his work in music inspired Michael Lawrence’sbiographical documentary: “Manuel Barrueco: A Gift and a Life.”
, which includes Barrueco’s arrangement of the ballet by flamenco guitarist Manolo Sanlúcar, both received a Latin Grammy nomination for “Best Classical Album.” His latest release is
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Manuel Barrueco began playing the guitar at the age of eight in his native Cuba and he immigrated with his family to the United States in 1967 as a political refugee.He completed his advanced studies at the Peabody Conservatory, where he now shares his love for music with a small number of exceptionally gifted young guitarists from all over the world.
Lauded for their “immensely colourful, lyrical and expressive playing” (Laura Snowden), Quartet Malamatina is an international guitar quartet featuring Tim Beattie, Finlay Hay, Ross Morris, and Lenny Ranallo.
First converging around Leo Brouwer’s Cuban Landscape with Rain for a performance with film at the 2021 UN Climate Conference, Quartet Malamatina is an international guitar quartet featuring Tim Beattie (Canada), Finlay Hay (Scotland), Ross Morris (England), and Lenny Ranallo (United States).
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Equally comfortable on the concert stage as in the local community centre, Quartet Malamatina takes a socially-conscious approach to programming and presentation, sharing the expressive potential of concert music and forging new audiences in the process.
Quartet Malamatina is building upon the culturally diverse and longstanding traditions of music for guitar ensemble through a wide range of commissioning, arranging, multidisciplinary collaboration, education, and community engagement activities.
Lauded for their “immensely colourful, lyrical and expressive playing” (Laura Snowden), Quartet Malamatina have worked with some of the most exciting young filmmakers and composers in the UK, developing programmes that challenge conventions of genre classification and presentation.
Gfa Hall Of Fame Inductee Sharon Isbin Has Expanded The Reach, Reputation, And Repertoire Of The Classical Guitar
Quartet Malamatina’s 2023 UK Tour included a residency at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, an appearance on BBC Radio Scotland, and concerts at the Beacon Arts Centre (Greenock), Billiard Room Sessions (Govan), Carlisle Cathedral (Carlisle), Gatehouse Music Society (Dumfries), Festival Drayton Centre (Market Drayton), and Stevenson Hall
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