Interview for Elliot Simpson (February 2016) http://www.elliotsimpson.net/ The first question is always the classic one: how does it start your love and interest for guitar and what instruments do you play or have you played? Well, my parents first started me with piano lessons when I was very young, so I’ve been playing music for…
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#Interview with Mats Bergström (June 2018) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Mats Bergström (June 2018) Hello Mats, welcome back to Neuguitars blog. Last time we talked about Steve Reich and minimalism, now we will talk about… well, shall we call him the greatest composer? Johann Sebastian Bach, how did your interest for Bach start? Bach was always present when I grew up. My parents,…
#Interview with Kai Nieminem (June 2018) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Kai Nieminem (June 2018) Kai Nieminen (b. 17.3.1953) is a Finnish composer who cannot be classified under any particular school or style. Traces of impressionism, neo-romanticism and, fleetingly, even expressionism may be detected in his basically atonal music, and if necessary he is not against using devices of even more recent 20th century…
#Interview with Nico Soffiato (guitar) and Zach Swanson (double bass) (June 2018) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Nico Soffiato (guitar) and Zach Swanson (double bass) (June 2018) http://nicosoffiato.com/ http://www.nusica.org/web/label/12-dogwood-hecates-hounds/ How did you meet and how did start the idea to create your Duo? Nico Soffiato: Zach and I met through mutual friends and we are both active in the same musical circles. We met the same way a lot of…
#Interview with Nico Soffiato (April 2014) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Nico Soffiato (April 2014) http://nicosoffiato.com/ The first question is always the classic one: how does your love and interest for guitar start and what instruments do you play or have you played? My love for music and guitar began at home, in a small town in Italy. There was a guitar lying around…
#Interview with Volkmar Zimmermann and Kristian Gantriis (May 2018) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Volkmar Zimmermann and Kristian Gantriis http://www.gantriis.mono.net/ http://volkmarzimmermann.com/enter/ When did you start playing the guitar and why? What did you study and what is your musical background? We both started playing guitar as young kids. I started out ”classical” on the piano at eight before switching to the six-stringed at the age of 12 playing…
#Interview to Ronald Wiesauer (May 2018) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview to Ronald Wiesauer (May 2018) http://www.ronnywiesauer.com/Ronny_Wiesauer-_classical_guitar/Home.html When did you start playing the guitar and why? I started playing guitar at an age of 5 years old. My father was a good amateur-guitarist, so music has always been around, though my father never was into classical music. I had the luck to have a very…
#Interview with Marta Dolzadelli (April 2018) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Marta Dolzadelli (April 2018) Welcome to the Neuguitars Blog. I have the pleasure to know you and your music from a long time and I was impressed by the cd “ Rites & Shades guitarworks by Kai Nieminen”, how did start the idea to release it? After fingering, editing and premiering it in…
#Interview with Buck Curran (April 2018) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Buck Curran (April 2018) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Curran https://obsoleterecordings.bandcamp.com/ Welcome back to the Neuguitars Blog, Buck. Last time we met was in Venice in December 2016, a lot of things happened….now you live in Italy, you had a new son and a new album… Ciao Andrea…Thanks so much for taking the time to interview me again….
#Interview with Giacomo Fiore (April 2018) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Giacomo Fiore (April 2018) http://www.giacomofiore.com/ How did start the idea to work with Kenji Oh, how have you met? Kenji was in the first graduate music history course I taught at the San Francisco Conservatory, back in the fall of 2013. By the end of that school year I had heard some of…
#Interview with Kenji Oh (April 2018) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Kenji Oh (April 2018) http://kenjioh.wixsite.com/home What did you study and what is your musical background? I like singing since I was a small kid. High school choir was my first contact with an authentic music experience. This choir was very fine that I sang in national competitions. The first piece I sang there…
#Interview with Pertti Jalava (April 2018) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Pertti Jalava https://perttijalava.com/ What did you study and what is your musical background? I´ve studied music almost entirely without anybody elses guidance. For twenty years I learned music mostly by enjoying it by listening carefully. I bought the latest Jethro Tull album in 1971. I was 11 at the time and had saved one…
#Interview with Maria Kämmerling about Leif Christensen on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Maria Kämmerling about Leif Christensen (April 2018) When and how did you met Leif Christensen? I met Leif on a ….. guitarcourse in Germany …. in the late 60th. Listening to his records I was surprised to find a different kind of guitar player: he didn’t follow an ideal recital but he prefered…
#Interview with Rody Van Gemert (March 2018) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Rody Van Gemert http://www.pilfink.fi/en/artists/gemert+van+rody/ http://www.pilfink.fi/lataukset/rody/jjvcd182presseng.pdf When did you start playing the guitar and why? What did you study and what is your musical background? I started with the violin at age 5. The guitar came when I was a teenager and I stumbled upon an LP with a recording of Bach’s Prelude 997….
#Interview with Maria Kämmerling (March 2018) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Maria Kämmerling When did you start playing the guitar and why? I started play the piano when I was 8 years.The guitar came some years later,I think when I was 13 or 14 years but I knew that this was my instrument.At the conservatory in Köln I couldn´t just play guitar and piano,because you have…
#Interview for “LOST ISLANDS” BY Richard Parks Anderson (February 2018) on #neuguitars #blog
https://www.richardparkslostislands.com/ Interview for “LOST ISLANDS” BY Richard Parks Anderson (February 2018) When did you start playing the guitar and why? What did you study and what is your musical background? You could say it was a synesthetic experience I had when I was twelve, on a school trip to Versailles. I was separated from my…
#Interview with Pablo Marquez (February 2018) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Pablo Marquez (February 2018) http://www.pablomarquez.com/home-en/ Hello Pablo, in our last interview in March 2016, you said that “the next collaboration with ECM will be the first recording of Luciano Berios’s Chemins V for guitar and orchestra, with the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana conducted by Dennis Russell Davies.” Now, the moment has come: “Now, And…
#Interview with Yvonne Zehner (February 2018) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Yvonne Zehner (February 2018) http://yvonnezehner.net/de/ When did you start playing guitar and why? With that guitar do you play and have you played with? Actually I started rather late: I must have been around 12 years old. But I had started playing the piano very early at the age of 5. The piano…
#Interview with Rémi Jousselme (January 2018) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Rémi Jousselme http://remijousselme.com/ When did you start playing the guitar and why? What did you study and what is your musical background? I think I started around eight, there was a guitar at home because my dad liked to play some picking and sang songs with it. I went to the ‘conservatoire’, the…
#Interview with David Hansson of The Gothenburg Combo (January 2018) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with David Hansson of The Gothenburg Combo Dear David and Thomas… a new record! Still with a “scape” idea in your mind, it seems that sound environment is become a predominant part in your music….is it all David Toop’s fault? Haha,,, good question! To us, ”scapes” are just magical creatures: full of subtle complexities…
