St. Louis Classical Guitar Society Opens 50th Season with Jason Vieaux
Wed, 09/25/2013 - 2:36pm
Jason Vieaux will perform at the St. Louis Classical Guitar Society's opening season event on Saturday, September 28, 2013. The St. Louis Classical Guitar Society is celebrating it's 50th season this year, and Jason Vieaux first made his debut there 10 years ago in 2003.
"The Guitar Society has a really wonderful history. It’s one of the longest-running purely classical guitar series in the United States, if not the longest-running.” - Jason Vieaux (click here to read more from Jason's interview with St. Louis Today)
Jason will be playing a classical guitar piece from composer Benjamin Britten, who in 2013 would have turned 100. The piece, “Nocturnal After John Dowland”, was originally written for the great classical guitarist Julian Bream, who first performed it in 1964.
For tickets and more information about the show visit the St. Louis Classical Guitar Society's Website.
Classical Guitar: Segovia Scales
Fri, 08/23/2013 - 5:07pm
As the father of modern classical guitar, Andrés Segovia is without question one of the greatest guitarists of all time. If you have ever studied classical guitar, chances are that you've not only heard of him, but you've also studied his techniques whether you realize it or not. Segovia's contributions to the genre have to helped multiple generations of students learn how to play classical guitar, among them being our own classical guitar teacher Jason Vieaux.
In this video from his classical guitar lessons at his online guitar school, Jason goes over some the guitar scales which are commonly known as the "Segovia Scales", due to the fact that Segovia himself published these in a book he titled Diatonic Major And Minor Scales (1980).
Jason Vieaux on Pat Metheny & Classical Guitar Performance
Tue, 06/04/2013 - 11:30am
Our resident classical guitar teacher Jason Vieaux was interviewed recently by KING FM in Seattle Washington. The interviewer Sean MacLean is obviously a big fan of Pat Metheny because starts off with asking Jason about his Pat Metheny tribute CD, "Images of Metheny", which came out in 2005. They discuss the influence Pat Metheny has on Jason's playing and how it manifests with his classical guitar playing. When asked why he chose to do a Pat Metheny tribute CD, here's what Jason said:
"The emotional content of the music I think is sometimes missed by a lot of his detractors, because the music on the surface sounds very nice a lot of the time. But there's just something about it… I think a lot of emotions are evoked in the best of his music, and they're very subtle." - Jason Vieaux
Check out the classical guitar performance below and click here to listen to the interview.
Matt Hinsley Leads New Generation to Classical Guitar
Tue, 05/14/2013 - 5:11pm
While in Austin for the SXSW music festival last month, I took a break from the festival's famous rock and roll extravaganza to meet up with Dr. Matthew Hinsley, the Executive Director of the Austin Classical Guitar Society (ACGS). I learned about Matt from Jason Vieaux, who in addition to his extensive performance career also teaches classical guitar lessons online here at ArtistWorks. Jason explained to me that under Matt's leadership the ACGS has become the largest guitar society in the United States, and is now one of the largest guitar societies in the world.
I met up with Matt just outside of Austin's SXSW festival area for breakfast and a chat, and here are a few things you need to know about him. Matt is master guitar teacher and educator, virtuoso performer, and an energetic popularizer of the classical guitar as a concert instrument. He has devoted his entire adult life to the classical guitar, and it was clear to me after only a few minutes with Matt that he is probably one of world's greatest evangelists of the instrument. Under Matt's leadership, the ACGS has become the epicenter of a major resurgence in interest in the classical guitar.
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