I’d like to personally thank Marcus Dominelli for this wonderful and educational guest post. Last year I bought a Dominelli guitar (spruce/indian) and love it. You can see photos of my guitar here. I didn’t order this guitar, I just visited Marcus and decided to buy this one which he had in the shop. I [...]
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Jérôme Ducharme at McGill University
It is with great pleasure that I welcome Peter Powell as a contributor to the site. Peter is an excellent guitarist and a person that you’ll certainly want to keep an eye on. I met him a few years back at the Northwest Festival and through a mutual acquaintance, the wonderful teacher and guitarist Murray [...]
End of the week in links and a big thank you to the Guitarfestwest faculty (11 Sept 2011)
This has been a great week of articles by the Calgary crowd celebrating the tremendous success of Guitarfestwest 2011. These post were largely made possible by Calgary contributor Murray Visscher. A big thank you to the contributors: Murray Visscher, Daniel Bolshoy, Brett Gunther and also to faculty of Guitarfestwest shown below. Here are the posts: Interview with Daniel [...]
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Interview with Daniel Bolshoy
This post is by Calgary contributor Murray Visscher from a series of posts pertaining to Guitarfestwest 2011 also see: Daniel Bolshoy’s Website INTERVIEW WITH DANIEL BOLSHOY August 28th, 2011 1. Can you remember where and how you decided to be a performing classical guitarist? Where did you study and what were the early days of your career like? My [...]
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Concert Review: Oberon Guitar Trio at Leacock Theatre, Mount Royal University
This is a guest post by: Brett Gunther, artistic director of the Classical Guitar Society of Calgary from a series of posts pertaining to Guitarfestwest 2011 The Oberon Guitar Trio (Murray Visscher, Brad Mahon, Ralph Maier) Monday, August 8th, 2011 Leacock Theatre, Mount Royal University The first Guitarfestwest festival got started off on the right note [...]
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Daniel Bolshoy Interviews Murray Visscher at Guitarfestwest 2011
This post is a guest post by Daniel Bolshoy from a series of posts pertaining to Guitarfestwest 2011 What could be better? A professional guitarist interviewing another! I’d like to thank both Daniel and Murray for this post and the other posts in the series. – Bradford Daniel Bolshoy Interviews Murray Visscher This conversation took place as [...]
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Concert Review: Jerome Ducharme at Leacock Theatre, Mount Royal University
This post is by Calgary contributor Murray Visscher from a series of posts pertaining to Guitarfestwest 2011 Jerome Ducharme Wednesday, August 10th, 2011 Leacock Theatre, Mount Royal University Having been invited to teach and perform at five consecutive festivals in 2011, Jerome Ducharme is having the busiest summer of his career. At his Wednesday evening performance at Calgary’s [...]
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End of the week review (3 September 2011)
Over the next week or two the site will be featuring the Calgary scene with five guest posts by Murray Visscher, Daniel Bolshoy, and Brett Gunther! I’d like to thank them for their contribution. I would also like to announce to that I have invited a number of people to become official contributors to the [...]
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Concert Review: Daniel Bolshoy at Leacock Theatre, Mount Royal University
This post is by Calgary contributor Murray Visscher from a series of posts pertaining to Guitarfestwest Daniel Bolshoy Thursday, August 11th, 2011 Leacock Theatre, Mount Royal University For the closing concert of Guitarfestwest 2011, Calgary was treated to an intimate evening with Canadian guitarist Daniel Bolshoy. Daniel may be considered a fresh face in Western [...]
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Classical Guitar in Calgary & Guitarfestwest by Murray Visscher
I’ve known Murray Visscher for years and he was one of my first “real” classical guitar teachers after moving to the coast when I was eighteen. He’s inspired and produced many great students and is a fine player himself. You can purchase his latest recording here: Murray Visscher - The Early Romantic Guitar (de fossa, Giuliani, [...]
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