Interview with Tim Brady http://www.timbrady.ca When did you start playing guitar and why? What did you study and what is your musical background? Like almost all North American baby boomers (born: 1956), it was the Beatles that got me interested in guitar. I bought the first Beatles record available in Canada (I was 7 years…
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#Interview with Christoph Funabashi (July 2017) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Christoph Funabashi http://www.christophfunabashi.de/home_en.html When did you start playing the guitar and why? I started playing when I was 13. A good friend played the drums and I was very fascinated by that. In order to form a band I picked up the guitar. What did you study and what is your musical background?…
#Interview with Enrico Merlin and Valerio Scrignoli (July 2017) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Enrico Merlin and Valerio Scrignoli Valerio … I know Enrico already, shall I ask a couple of questions directly to you?How was born your interest about guitar? With what guitar do you play and have played before? What is your music background? (Okay, there are three questions actually) Valerio: A sister’s friend played…
#Interview with Enrico Merlin (April 2015) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Enrico Merlin When did you start playing guitar and why? I was fourteen. At eleven I bought with a friend of mine, the Beatles’ White Album. The reasons for this choice still remains a little mystery, but looking back in my remote memory, I can say that one of the first indelible memories…
#Interview with Arnaldo Volani (July 2017) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Arnaldo Volani Dear President, welcome to the Neuguitars blog. Reading your curriculum on the italian website of the Associazione Mozart Italia (http://www.mozartitalia.org/en/arnaldo-volani/) I was struck by the fact that you seem to combine love for music (a love that goes from jazz to Mozart), new technologies for building, communication, entrepreneurship, and computing. Your…
#Interview with Agustin Castilla-Avila (July 2017) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Agustin Castilla-Avila http://www.castilla-avila.com/ When did you start playing the guitar and why? What did you study and what is your musical background? I remember in one vacation that my uncle left his guitar on the bed. I went to it when I was around ten. I secretly played it; I was so fascinated…
#Interview with Enea Leone (June 2017) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Enea Leone http://www.enealeone.com/ Welcome to Neuguitars, Enea. So … a new record with Stradivarius? Yes, a new disc and a new project related to a baroque era that until now, at least, I had never touched before, discographically. How did start the idea of this eighteenth-century repertoire and how did you choose the…
#Interview with James Moore (June 2017) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with James Moore http://www.jamesmooreguitar.com/ When did you start playing the guitar and why? I took piano and clarinet lessons from a younger age, and it was my older sister who had the guitar (a small nylon-string on which she strummed Cat Stevens tunes.) I think I was 13 when I first dug it out…
#Interview with Marco Caiazza (May 2017) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Marco Caiazza When did you start playing the guitar and why? What studies did you make and what is your musical background? I started playing the guitar at nine years old, thanks to my father, a person with an incredible artistic sensibility. His teachings on sound, phrasing and songwriting are still valid to…
#Interview with Rüdiger Krause (October 2015) on #neuguitars #blog
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? My father used to play different instruments. One of them was an bordeaux sunburst archtop guitar with drop shaped soundholes. Because this kind of guitar seemed…
#Interview with Tatiana Stachak (May 2017) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Tatiana Stachak http://tatianastachak.pl/ The first question is always the classic one: how does it start your love and interest for guitar? I started when I was 12 years old (not so early so). My first guitar was bought by my older brother. It was communist times in Poland and shops were usually empty,…
#Interview with Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete (May 2017) on #neuguitars #blog
Interview with Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete https://www.chavarria-aldrete.com/ When did you start playing the guitar and why? What did you study and what is your musical background? I started quite late indeed. I was 14 years old; that’s when my uncle (who was a guitar child prodigy and one of the few active students of Andrés Segovia at…
