92 Street Y features every year a guitar serie, The Art of the Guitar, and a guitar marathon, both of great interest for us guitarists. The director of both is Benjamin Verdery, a wellknown American guitarist. Before each concert Ben lead a conversation with the artists, that are selected among some of the instrument’s finest players. A couple of weeks ago the UES institution, with the support of D’Addario, made some of the best talks available online! I feel excited as unfortunately, as many of my collegue, I missed the talks because they start one hour before the concert, usually at 7pm, and I always felt guilty!
Here is the list of the interviews and the link where you can watch them! 92Y.org/GuitarTalks
GUITAR TALKS WITH BENJAMIN VERDERY
May 9, 2015 – Assad Brothers 50th Anniversary
Interviewed: Sérgio Assad
March 28, 2015 – American Guitarist-Composers
Interviewed: Andrew York, Gyan Riley, Frederic Hand and David Leisner.
November 22, 2014 – Pepe Romero
April 24, 2014 – Eliot Fisk & Paco Peña
March 22, 2014 – David Russell
October 26, 2013 – An American Tribute to Andrés Segovia with Christopher Parkening
Interviewed: Christopher Parkening.
Related on 92YOnDemand: Prior to the concert, Benjamin Verdery was invited to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to view the two Segovia guitars in its collection and talk with the curators.
March 23, 2013 – Raphaella Smits
February 9, 2013 – Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
November 3, 2011 – Paul O’Dette
April 23, 2011 – Tribute to Leo Brouwer
Interviewed: René Izquierdo, Mark Eden (Eden–Stell Guitar Duo), Raphaela Smits, Philip Candelaria (Canadian Guitar Quartet), Christopher Stell (Eden–Stell), Louis Trépanier (CGQ) and Ricardo Cobo.
March 1, 2008 – Tribute to Julian Bream
Interviewed: Scott Tennant, David Leisner, David Tanenbaum, William Kanengiser and Frederic Hand.
Musician, musicologist and entrepreneur, Isabella Abbonizio has a Ph.D. in Musicology and M.A. in Guitar Performance. A passionate and in-demand music and guitar teacher, she is co-founder and CEO of DalMaestro and a member of The Royal Conservatory College of Examiners. A guitar advocate she is the co-founder and artistic director of Lanciano International Guitar Seminar.