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Classical guitar videos by professionals and emerging artists. Watching pros play can improve your technique, musicality, and repertoire awareness.

Irina Kulikova plays Torroba Sonatina

Russian born guitarist, now based in the Netherlands, Irina Kurikova plays plays Sonatina by Spanish composer Federico Moreno Torroba (1891-1982) at the “Altamira Night” concert in Shanghai Oriental Art Center. This is via Altamira Guitars and their YouTube. Super crisp…

Alex Park plays Gigue by Ponce

Alex Park playing the Gigue from Manuel Ponce’s Suite in A Minor. This comes via the great Guitar Salon International and their YouTube Channel. I love how clean and rhythmic this performance is. At first I though his might be a…

Eduardo Egüez plays Jácaras by Santiago de Murcia

Eduardo Egüez plays Jácaras by Spanish Baroque composer/guitarist Santiago de Murcia (1673–1739). Via the Lute Society of America on their YouTube, “Taken from a performance by Eduardo Egüez at the Lute Society of America 2014 Lute Festival, in a section…

Heike Matthiesen plays Elegie by Sylvie Bodorová

Heike Matthiesen plays Elegie by Sylvie Bodorová on a 2014 Roy Fankhänel. This comes via the wonderful Siccas Guitars and their YouTube channel which is keep this blog alive! Heike Matthiesen is a very active performing guitarist from Germany and…

Kevin Loh Plays La Vie en Rose

The young Singapore guitarist Kevin Loh plays La Vie en Rose (cover) arranged by Chet Atkins. Nice to see Loh branching out and keeping his YouTube channel alive and kicking! He’s in good form here with a cool and relaxed…

Canadian Guitar Quartet Play Comme un Tango by Roux

The fantastic Canadian Guitar Quartet play Comme un Tango by Patrick Roux. The quartet has had many members over the years but they are currently concertizing with Julien Bisaillon, Renaud Côté-Giguère, Bruno Roussel, and Louis Trépanier. You can check out some of their…

Altius Guitar Duo Play Tedesco

Altius Duo (Adam Batstone & Chad Yacobucci) play Prelude and Fugue no. XV in A major by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895 – 1968). Audio and Video Produced by Drew Henderson. Guitars by Bruno Boutin and Greg Byers. Tedesco was an Italian…

Michael Partington and Stephen Stubbs Play Diabelli

Michael Partington and Stephen Stubbs performing Anton Diabelli’s Op. 57, on two period guitars. Brechemin Auditorium, University of Washington School of Music, Seattle. January 12, 2014. This is such a coincidence because I recently saw Stubbs perform in Victoria twice…

Michael Partington Plays Johanson

Michael Partington performing Open Up Your Ears by Bryan Johanson (b. 1951), UW Milwaukee, April 4, 2014 on a Martin Blackwell guitar. Partington is a fantastic player based in the Seattle area. I’ve seen him play on a number of…

Xingye Li plays Allegro BWV 1003 by Bach

Xingye Li plays Allegro BWV 1003 by J.S. Bach (1685-1750) on a 2014 Roy Fankhänel guitar. This is from Bach’s Violin Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003. This video is via the excellent Siccas Guitars and their YouTube…

Emma Rush plays Phantasia in A major by David Kellner

Canadian guitarist Emma Rush plays Phantasia in A major by David Kellner (1670–1748). Kellner was a German lutenist and composer of the baroque era as well as a significant music theorist. Rush plays with a great clarity and nice unfolding…

Tariq Harb and Brent Crawford with U of T Guitar Ensemble

Tariq Harb and Brent Crawford with the University of Toronto Guitar Ensemble directed by Jeffrey McFadden perform Jan Bartlema‘s ‘Concertino’ at Walter Hall. Excellent playing by Harb & Crawford and some nice ensemble work overall with McFadden keeping the group…