Daniel Bolshoy is one of Canada’s best known classical guitarists, with half a dozen CD’s to his credit, and appearances in two documentary films about his performances and career. Over the last decade, he has been touring Canada and the world, performing with most of the leading orchestras, giving solo recitals in some of the [...]
Archive | August, 2011
Article on Guitarist David Jacques in La Scena Musicale
Download the PDF of the free issue of La Scena Musicale (from: www.scena.org) A nice article about David Jacques titled “Guitarist Without Boarders” by Caroline Rodgers in La Scena Musicale in both English and French. Here’s a little video of David playing some tango music in ensemble.
End of the Week – August 27th, 2011
Another good week of online content. Seems like classical guitarist’s are getting online and sharing content more and more. I spent the week cleaning up the web server and tweaking the site design so I wouldn’t have to do that during the upcoming school year. Other than that, this weekend I plan to add a [...]
Daniel Bolshoy invites you to the VSO School open house
For anyone living in Vancouver, head down to the VSO School (Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Music School) for their open house and see a free demo lesson and more from Daniel Bolshoy. I’d love to let everyone know about the new VSO school, and the open house we’re holding this Saturday. There are free mini concerts, [...]
End of the week in Canada – August 20th, 2011
Here’s the week folks. I’ve spent the week debugging this site and others from a webserver hack which was redirecting people to Russian gambling sites. If you ended up doing any gambling I hope you won some money! Besides that I’ve been working on this: Classical Guitar Concerts & Events 2011, check out your town or [...]
A Basic Guide to Better Practicing
This post is from The Practicing Musician Blog. The Practicing Musician is a blog about inspiration and personal development in daily music practice. There is one juicy post per week by yours truely. The post was written for beginner students or intermediate students that could use some motivation. Hopefully some of the professionals who read this [...]
Jesus is Coming by Jacob TV arr for guitars by Alexander Dunn
Movie Night posts happen every Wednesday…despite this being Thursday. My web server got hacked last week and it’s been taking me forever to clean things up. Sorry to anyone who got redirected to Russian gambling sites over the past week (unless you had a blast gambling). All fixed now… Anyway, last spring Alexander Dunn, Michael [...]
Raffi Altounian’s Top Five Pieces to Learn on the Guitar | RCM Blogs
A blog post from the RCM with videos and more… In the first in a series of posts, we asked classical guitarist and Conservatory faculty member Raffi Altounian which pieces he recommends all guitar players learn. Here’s what he told us. READ THE FULL ARTICLE: Raffi Altounian’s Top Five Pieces to Learn on the Guitar | [...]
End of the week in Canada – August 13th
After years of making individual concert posts I’ve created an events page: Visit the new Concerts and Events : 2011 Events Objectives: To post concerts by guitar societies, music series, or individual artists. Help me update this page by emailing: admin@classicalguitarcanada.ca A useful tool for artists and agents planning to concertize in Canada allowing them to see [...]
31 Days to Better Practicing – The Free Ebook by Chris Foley
A 65 page free ebook on better practicing by Chris Foley of the Collaborative Piano Blog. What more can be said? Get it while it lasts students! Get the Free ebook here: 31 Days to Better Practicing – The Free Ebook – Chris Foley’s Posterous.
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