Classical Guitar Festival May 28 - 31, 2015
The 15th Annual Cleveland International Classical Guitar Festival May 28 - 31, 2015 Vieaux, USA Steidl, Czech Republic Melis, Greece & Spain Galbraith, Scotland Gallen, Spain Hatzinikolaou, Greece North, England Kondonassis, USA De Jonge, Canada Davin, USA Guitar Exhibition Presented by Collins, USA GUITARS INTERNATIONAL in cooperation with the GUITARSINT.COM CLEVELAND, OHIO USA 216-752-7502 Paris THE LIMITED EDITION Fait Main en France • Hand Made in France www.bamcases.com Welcome Welcome to the fifteenth annual Cleveland International Classical Guitar Festival. In presenting these events it has been my honor to work with Cleveland Institute of Music Guitar Department Head and 2015 GRAMMY Award Winner Jason Vieaux, one of the world’s indisputably great classical guitarists, musicians, and teachers. It has also been my honor to be assisted by Tom Poore, a highly devoted, energetic guitar teacher, a superb writer, and an indefatigable supporter and critic of all things associated with fine music making and the classical guitar. Our reasons for presenting this Festival are fivefold: (1) to help increase the awareness and respect due artists whose exemplary work has enhanced our lives and the lives of others; (2) to entertain; (3) to educate; (4) to encourage deeper thought and discussion about how we listen to, perform, and evaluate fine music; and most important, (5) to help facilitate heightened moments of human awareness. In our experience, participation in the live performance of fine music is potentially the highest social end toward which we can aspire as performers, music students, and music lovers. For it is in live, heightened moments of musical magic—when time stops and egos dissolve— that we often become most conscious of our shared humanity.
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