Category — Artists blog

Martha Masters - Guitarist, International prize winner and teacher, takes the WYGF 20 second interview. [Read more →]

Guitarist, International prize winner and teacher, Mark Ashford takes the WYGF 20 second interview. [Read more →]

Guitarist, composer, teacher, and musical innovator, Gary Ryan takes the WYGF 20 second interview. [Read more →]

Helen Sanderson talks about her work directing the World Youth Guitar Festival, what WYGF students will be getting up to whilst at the festival, the final WYGF student concert, 13.30 14 August at the Bacon Theatre, and the promise of some kind of WYGF event in 2010! More on that final thought soon!

WYGF Artistic Director Mark Eden reports on how preparations for WYGF’s guitar ensemble showcase concerts are going:

Just under a month ago I organised a rehearsal and concert in Winchester for my Junior Guildhall Guitar Ensemble, and private guitar students to get together for a day and play through the piece which we will be showcasing at WYGF. [Read more →]

WYGF 2009 Guest Artist Martha Masters took time out of her busy schedule at the GFA Convention in Ithaca NY to talk to Mark Eden.  Martha is a major figure in the North American guitar scene and is a performer and teacher with impressive credentials: GFA Competition winner in 2000; CD and DVD recordings with Naxos, GSP, and Mel Bay; teacher at the Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles; and also Vice President of the Guitar Foundation of America. [Read more →]

Helen Sanderson, our illustrious WYGF Director, nabbed me for a chat on the WYGF09 channel about some of the highlights for the World Youth Guitar Festival 2009 and about our new venue Dean Close School in Cheltenham, and the Bacon Theatre where all the big concerts will be held. [Read more →]

On September 6th, the Eden Stell Guitar Duo gave a workshop and joint concert with the Corinium Players, a group of young guitarists, aided and abetted by a few equally enthusiastic adults from Cirencester, Gloucestershire, UK.  This workshop also provided an opportunity to ‘fine-tune’ the ensemble’s programme and optimise their chances of achieving a winning place at the GOFI contest in Germany which they were competing in later that month (GOFI blog coming soon). [Read more →]