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Recording of my recent piece “Once Upon A Time In Russia”
Today was a recording of a few pieces for the Presentation of our Guitar Duo. To edit the recording is taking its time: working until 02.00 am… Here is a part of the result – excerpts from my recent piece for two guitars! 🙂 Hope you like it! Many thanks to a great player and guitar…
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I love Savarez Alliance Corum
This time decided to buy a bit more, than only four sets 🙂 Here is work at least for one year. These high quality strings I use already for over more than 10 years and never switched to any other type (I tried several other, but this one is the best for me):
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New piece for guitar duo is coming
Two weeks ago, after my Indian music lesson I was walking home, when suddenly in my head was born a concept of a new piece for two guitars. All the road I was singing the melodies, trying not to forget them. After arriving at my place, I immediately took a pencil and started to write them down,…
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Master class with Arturo Tallini
Today with my guitar duo partner we had a master class from amazing guitarist and teacher Arturo Tallini, who is an expert of modern and contemporary music. We played Piazzolla’s Tango Suite. He helped us to understand better the style of Piazzolla’s music by saying how one could approach this music (since it is quite specific),…
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Composition exam was great!
Yesterday was very nice concert-exam of our class. Pieces of all students were very original and different from each other, which created unforgettable experience of the event. Performance of my new piece for two guitars was also great! Thanks a lot to my partner and great player – Angelito! We made a good job, as always.…
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Composition exam
Three weeks ago I received a task from a teacher to compose a piece, using some composing tools of Bela Bartok. Thinking about the new piece and it’s structure I soon came up with an idea of a composition consisting of four small pieces, each of a different character. So next time at the lesson I…
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Guitar duo exam, Piazzolla
Even though we played very well Piazzolla on our guitar duo exam and got high points for that, the best compliment for me was of Argentinian bandoneon player, who told us: it’s not necessary to travel back to Argentina to listen some nice tango music 😉
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New piece, different ways of composing
Composing is basically construction: got inspired by something(1), wrote down a phrase(2) and after just adding bricks and giving shape to a piece(3). Before I didn’t take too seriously studying different ways of composing. Those of Berg, Messiaen, Bartok… Now I started. As a result – wrote one new piece for two guitars called “Once…
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New pieces for solo guitar
One month vacation is passing away! For me it meant (as always) working/studying on my own and preparing for some exams. Few new pieces are already under construction. Also, decided to learn write better poetry and more interesting texts for my songs, so currently dedicating some time it (texts yet in Russian, but soon will try also…