Guitar Conversations Podcast

I chat with guitar icon Milos Karadaglic who has been performing classical guitar around the globe over the last decade as an artist for Deutche Grammaphone. He shares insights and learnings from his time in the guitar limelight. These include recording his award winning albums, and in particular Concerto Aranjuez and his new concerto collaborations. We also go into detail about how he forged his unique path towards an international guitar career. I really enjoyed my chat with Milos I hope you do too, please let me know your thoughts on my insta page or facebook page @sergioguitarist. 

Thanks for joining me for episode 42 of Guitar Conversations. It has been a while since my last podcast episode as I decided to take a break from this project to focus on other things. As you may know, I run a busy guitar program at a school in Melbourne, I have an active performing career and examining schedule(not during a pandemic) and publish a lot of teaching content on Latin Guitar Mastery.com. I really enjoy connecting with other guitarists who are doing interesting things so I'll continue publishing episodes as often as I can. If you'd like to stay in touch with my activities you can follow me on @sergioguitarist on Instagram.

Irina Kulikova is a Russian classical guitar virtuoso of international acclaim. She has won numerous guitar competitions and has also recorded for Naxos. She has a powerful and engaging playing style and a great passion for music and the guitar.

I had a lovely interview this week with Irina Kulikova. We talked about her early guitar experiences, competitions, her playing style and iconic tone, mindfulness, overcoming injuries and her Kickstarter campaign that runs till the end of May.

Hope you enjoy!

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Adam Del Monte is a grammy award winning flamenco and classical guitarist. He teaches at USC Thornton School of Music and alongside his busy touring schedule has written a flamenco guitar concerto, collaborated with artists such as the LA Guitar Quartet and written and recorded for numerous films.

In our conversation we talk about his intriguing story so far, and his views on flamenco and classical guitar worlds, guitar education, writing for film and lots more. I hope you enjoy my conversation with Adam Del Monte.

Chrystian Dozza is a Brasilian guitarist/composer living in Sao Paolo.I saw Chrystian last year at the Adelaide Guitar Festival and also attended his guitar workshops. He has an infectious appetite for music having performed around the world and written a solid body of work and is developing a strong a devoted following. In our interview we talk about his beginnings, the music of Brasil and his influences. He also plays some excerpts from his latest compositions!

"I really like to bring to my musical universe, music from all over the world, guitarists, composers and folk Muisc" Chrystian Dozza

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Sergio

The Beijing Guitar Duo are recognized as one of the worlds leading classical guitar duos. Both Meng Su and Yaming Wang have studied under and collaborated with the legendary Manuel Barrueco. They  continue to tour extensively internationally and have released number of CDs the latest  one called Bach to Dan Dun.

I caught up with the duo on their recent visit to Australia and had a quick chat about their amazing guitar journey.

I hope you enjoy my conversation with Meng Su and Yameng Wang.

My guest this episode is Derek Gripper who is a classically trained guitarist who has made waves in the guitar and world music scene with his ground breaking guitar arrangements of west African folk music. I ran into Derek at the Adelaide Guitar Festival last month and I found his stories fascinating. In our chat we explore some of the West African oral musical traditions and how they relate to this mystical 21 string harp called the Kora. We talk about Derek's recent collaborations with John Williams and kora virtuoso Toumani Diabate and how he managed to notate the highly complex and virtuosic kora music. Please enjoy my conversation with Derek Gripper.

Martha Masters is an internationally acclaimed classical guitarist. She is currently on the guitar faculty of Loyola Marymount University and California State University Fullerton, and is president of the Guitar Foundation of America. She has five recordings on the Naxos and GSP labels, and has published books three books with Mel Bay Publications and Alfred Music.  

I caught up with her at the Adelaide International Guitar Festival last week where she was a featured performer. In our chat we talk about her recent collaborations and her current work with GFA, please enjoy my conversation with Martha Masters.

Stephen Goss needs little introduction in classical guitar and music circles having written a large body of works for guitar, choir, chamber, and orchestra. He is currently Professor of Composition and Director of Research in the Department of Music and Media at the University of Surrey, UK, and also a Professor of Guitar at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He is the Director of the International Guitar Research Centre, which he founded with John Williams and Milton Mermikides in 2014

He was in Melbourne last week for a week long residency at Melbourne University working alongside Head of Guitar Ken Murray and the guitar students. Last Friday I caught up with Steve before the end of week concert presented by staff and student featuring Steve's works. 

We chat a bit about his writing for guitar and some interesting projects he has worked on.  Please enjoy my interview with Stephen Goss.

Piece: V. Walt Disney Concert Hall

Album :Frozen Music

Composer: Stephen Goss

Performed by : Menuhin School pupils.

Piece: Sonata for Guitar: II. Toccata

Album :Frozen Music

Composer: Stephen Goss

Performed by : Michael Partington

Hi and welcome to GC, my name is Sergio and this podcast is dedicated to bringing guitarists together from diverse fields and sharing guitar music related ideas.

Starting from July 2018 I will be publishing 2 episodes a month, the first episode featuring an interview with a guitarist from the world of classical, jazz, fingerstyle or Rock. The second episode will feature a Guitar Conversation topic. I will be dipping into previous episodes to extract some wisdom and interesting ideas. If you'd like to suggest a guitar topic or guitarist to interview you can go to www.guitarconversations.com and leave me a message. 

Now to the featured interview. Brett Garsed is an Australian guitar legend having been involved in the music industry for many decades now. He has had success as a solo fusion guitarist but also as guitarist for John Farnham and the US group Nelson. He shares valuable insights and stories from his fascinating career.

Thanks for listening to Guitar Conversations podcast. Help support this podcast by joining my newsletter at www.guitarconversations.com or leave a rating comment on iTunes. 

Thanks for listening

Sergio

Earlier this year I caught up with Melbourne jazz guitarist Stephen Magnusson. Stephen is one of Australia's leading jazz guitarists undertaking a busy performing and session career. He currently has a number of projects on the go including a trio with Dave Beck and Frank Di Sario called MAG, and Boundaries with Frank Di Sario. Recent highlight include a jazz prize with his Quartet MAGNET and an ARIA award winning album with Katie Noonan and the group Elixir.

We had to finish our chat a bit earlier than expected so this episode will form part 1 of our conversation and we will have a part 2 soon.

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