June 28, 2015 by gtrfound
After much anticipation the IYC Junior and Senior Competition results have been announced.
For the Junior division the results were as follows:
1st Place Sedona Farber (U.S.A.)
2nd Place Nadja Jankovic (Montenegro)
3rd Place Shilong Fan (China)
4th Place Sebastian Robles (Canada)
The Senior division results were as follows:
1st Place Hao Yang (China)
2nd Place José Daniel Salceda Velasco (Mexico)
3rd Place Audra Vigil (U.S.A.)
4th Place Thanapot Lerttham (Thailand)
Congratulations to all of the competitors in this year’s Guitar Foundation of America International Youth Competition!
下面是來自吉他沙龍弦歌樂彩徐強先生發回的報導：
GFA 6月27日：北京弦歌樂彩徐強美國報導
1. 技術課：今早楊雪霏演示並講解了每天她是如何進行熱身練習的。左手的不同形式的運指，換把。強調集中注意力，每個手指都要有感覺。另外也回答了各種問題。她的人氣在這裡還是挺高的。
2. 吉他演示（GuitarShow Case）: 上午和下午各半場，兩位演奏家一起同時對24把吉他進行了演奏，大家可以根據吉他的編號找自己喜愛的琴。八神和我覺得有3把琴不錯，分別又去彈，巧碰Pavel大師也在找琴比較。我們隨他進琴房，他也彈了八神帶來了西班牙母獅琴，上手就彈恰空全曲，表現力特強，還哼唱著，挺喜歡這把琴。Pavel像個大小孩。
3. GFA少年組和青年組比賽：今天進行GFA14歲以下少年組和18歲以下青年組的初賽，共有37名選手參加角逐，各取4名進入明天的決賽。
4. 中午的音樂會：
（1） DimitrisKotronakis: 他看上去很學究，但獨特的左右手彈奏方法和對現代音樂完美的詮釋，讓我們嘆為觀止，稱他為神人。其技術和Pavel一樣超級棒。他會在7月底到中國參加瀋陽國際吉他節，在國內還有3場巡演，大家千萬別錯過！
（2） Tariq Harb:此演奏家博士研究的是巴洛克的音樂，將其研究成果應用到西班牙的音樂之中，旋律很美。但無法和Dimitris相比。
5. GFA少年組和青年組決賽名單：按比賽順序,只有一名美國選手入圍決賽，中國有2位選手入圍決賽，我們為他（她）們加油！ 明天賽出好成績！GFA賽事也成為媒體的報導。
少年組： Nadja Jankovic
Shilong Fan (範世龍，中國，中央音樂學院附中)
Sebastian Robles,
Sedona Farber
青年組：Hao Yang（楊灝，中國，美國柯蒂斯音樂學院）
Jose Daniel Salceda Velasco
Thanapot Lertham
Audra Vigil （USA）
6. GFA此次增加了現場視頻直播決賽功能，大家可以登入GFA網站看直播：www.guitarfoundation.org點擊GFA圖標下的CLICK HERE字樣即可，具體正式比賽中國時間如下：
6月28日晚上10:30少年組
6月29日凌晨2:30青年組
6月29日早晨7:30藝術家組
7. 下午音樂會由昨晚吉他協奏大放光彩的西班牙帥哥Pablo Sainz Vilegas演出，他的音樂表現力太好了，維拉羅伯斯的前奏曲在他手上完全是藝術品，好聽極了。他將達曼的聲音達到極限，現場像裝了擴音器式的，還沒聽過有人用如此大的音量演出。整場他用旅行的方式把我們帶到巴西和南美。他的音樂比他人更帥，絕對的頂級高手。
8. 晚上的音樂會：今晚的演出由著名的阿薩德兄弟二重奏進行，他們倆在一起彈琴已有50年了。上半場是西班牙音樂，下半場是巴西作曲家音樂。他們那種血液裡的默契和骨子裡的節奏，如同多聲部創意曲，旋律和伴奏來回交織在一起，讓音樂有了生命，音樂鮮活的展現出來。聽現場音樂比CD裡的要強上N多倍，言語已無法形容。
Convention Day 5
Xuefei Yang taught today’s technique workshop to an eager group of participants in the Kirkpatrick Auditorium at 9:00 in the morning.
At the same time, lecturer Fernando Araújo discussed Interpretative Aspects of Brazilian Music: An Approach Based on Newly Discovered Manuscripts of Francisco Mignone. He discussed the implications of certain ways of interpreting Mignone’s music, and what his works can tell us about Brazilian music as a whole.
Next Bryan Burns approached questions of the Baroque aesthetic by applying evidence of rhetorical principles in the Baroque era to specific musical examples from the repertoire in his presentation Sophisticated Bach: Rhetorical Paradigms for Baroque Binary Forms.
The Luthier Showcase enabled participants and builders to listen to the best guitars at the convention anonymously. Colin Diebert and Andrew Wilson each played a short contrasting excerpt to showcase individual guitars ranges and capabilities.
Dimitris Kotronakis began the first concert of the day with Bach’s Chiaconna from Partita in D minor for solo violin, BWV 1004. He then quickly transitioned to a much more contemporary set of pieces, consisting of Fantasia Carioca by Sérgio Assad, Toryanse Tales by Atanas Ourkouzounov, and finally Balalaika by Rak.
Tariq Harib continued the concert with Joaquin Rodrigo’s En Los Trigales, Les Soirées d』Auteuil, Op. 23 by Napoléon Coste, his own arrangement of Allemande from Violin Partita No. 1, BWV 1002 by Bach, Paganini’s Grand Sonata in A Major, Torroba’s Madroños, Pujol’s Seguidilla, and finally Pasaje Abierto by Edin Solis.
Scott Borg spoke on the topic of Rethinking Guitar Orchestra Arrangements, addressing the sonic ramifications of the guitar, how it can be used to enhance a piece, and other new ways of approaching the Guitar Orchestra as a medium.
Pablo Sáinz Villegas performed an incredible concert in the early afternoon that featured works by Villa-Lobos, Rodrigo, Gerhard, Barrios, John Williams, and Elías Gutiérrez. The audience was eager to hear him after the amazing premiere of Sérgio Assad’s Concerto last night and enjoyed the performance immensely.
The evening concert featured the Assad Brothers, Sérgio and Odair. They opened the greatly anticipated performance with Córdoba from Cantos de España, Op. 232 by Isaac Albéniz. They were without fail in sync physically and musically, hardly having to glance at each other to maintain the energy that carried through the pieces. They took advantage of the full range of the guitar’s dynamic and color range, perfectly exhibiting the dense intimate textures that make the guitar duo such a unique and popular medium. The first half of the concert continued with Ochoe valses poeticos by Granados, Bandonéon and Zita from Suite Troileana by Piazzolla, and Egberto Gismonti’s Palhaço and Baiao malandro.
The second half of the concert featured works bye Pernambuco, Américo Jacomino 「Canhoto」, Aníbal Augusto Sardinha 「Garoto」, Dilermando Reis, Baden Powell, Paulo Bellinati and finally Sérgio Assad. Their bows were met with a roar of applause from the audience and a standing ovation, an incredible end to another packed day here at the GFA!
The IYC finalists were announced during intermission and will perform tomorrow in the following order:
Junior Division:
Nadja Jankovic
Shiong Fan
Sebastian Robles
Sedona Farber
Senior Division:
Hao Yang
Jose Daniel Salceda Velasco
Thanapot Lerttham
Audra Vigil
Convention Day 4
Today Dimitri Illarionov taught the morning technique workshop. Despite their early hour, these workshops have remained as popular as the rest of the events here at the GFA. The stage was full as he discussed various methods for warming up. He emphasized the importance of making sounds in the morning and listening closely because after all, that is what playing music is about.
Simultaneously Matthew Dune spoke on Entrepreneurship for Guitarists to a full crowd. He covered challenges that the modern professional guitarist faces, and how to exploit one’s own strengths for career purposes.
Immediately after, the space filled for the Guitar Research Round Table with Thomas Heck, Stephen Goss, and Jan de Kloe. Goss introduced the new International Guitar Research Centre, of which he is the director. He discussed the goals and objectives of the Research Centre, what resources it hopes to provide, and showed a video on the first conference that was held in March of last year. Jan de Kloe showcased the demo of his improved Soundboard Index, an ongoing project to qualify the information in the publication Soundboard for research purposes. To finish off the hour Thomas Heck discussed the upcoming issue of the new Soundboard Scholar, and reviewed a number of very helpful research tools for guitar scholars and how to access them.
Meanwhile across the building a hushed crowed witnessed the marathon of virtuosity and musicality that was the of the ICAC semifinal round. The competitors chose works by Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Ascencio, Morel, Aguado, Dubez, Albéniz, Giuliani, Regondi as well as the set piece Hans Werner Henze’s 「Sir Andrew Aguecheek」 from Sonata No. 2. The players wowed the audience with their diversity of musical personalities and styles. The semifinals jury consisted of judges Sérgio Assad, Amanda Cook, Artyom Dervoed, Mark Eden, Pavel Steidl, Otto Tolonen, and Xuefei Yang.
During the afternoon Odair Assad conducted a masterclass, giving students insight into the finer nuances of interpretation, both on the solo and duo levels.
Ensembles received coaching in the nearby Kirkpatrick Auditorium throughout the afternoon.
International Youth Competition meeting.
The 4:00 PM concert today was last year’s GFA ICAC winner, Ekachai Jearakul. The first piece was Leo Brouwer’s Rito de los Orishas. His playing spoke out clearly and powerfully. He moved along with the dancelike rhythms of the piece, shifting with incredible ease between the weighty pesante of the main theme to the quick flying cadenzas around the neck of the guitar. When he began on the sonata immediately one could recognize the incredible rang of Ekachai’s playing. The slow, rich, warm sound of the introduction exhibited a completely different side of his playing. The concert was a pure enjoyment for all involved. Sitting in the audience you could not help but be charmed and captivated by his performance and the obvious joy he felt playing the music. It was infectious. The pieces and the playing were both thoroughly enjoyable.
Carlos Barbosa-Lima started off a historic night with his own arrangement of Handel’s Concerto in A Major for Guitar and String Orchestra, which was originally a harp concerto. The Guitar Foundation of America Convention Orchestra and Conductor Donald Crockett adapted beautifully to the guitar. Barbosa-Lima also played Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra by Francisco Mignone. The piece was originally written for Carlos Barbosa-Lima, and he premiered when it was firs composed. The instrumentation was interesting throughout, and well suited to the guitar. The flute and percussion parts played an important role in the composition playing with the guitar. Barbosa-Lima let the melodies sing out as he played with a smile on his face the whole time.
The ICAC finalists were announced during intermission and will play on Sunday in the following order: Chiawei Lin (Taiwan), Armen Doneyan (France), Andras Csaki (Hungary), and Thibaut Garcia (France).
The second half of the program began with Francisco Bernier performing the Concerto for Guitar and Small Orchestra Heitor Villa-Lobos. He entranced the crowd with the amazingly colorful and cinematic composition.
The night finished off with soloist Pablo Sáinz Villegas performing the premiere of Sérgio Assad’s Concerto Popular do Rio, Commissioned by the Guitar Foundation of America and Córdoba Guitar Festival. Both the piece and the soloist were nothing short or incredible. Because of the natural dynamic shifts that were ingrained in the piece, the guitar’s entrances and exits were natural and never felt fragmented. Villegas soared through the piece, wonderfully showcasing the versatility of the guitar as he doubled many different sections of the orchestra at differed times. The guitar was the binding feature within the texture of the orchestration. The slow nostalgia of the second movement continued the dialogue between the players, then slowly developed into an incredibly virtuosic guitar solo. The piece finished off with energy and momentum, and was met with an immediate standing ovation. Sérgio Assad joined Donald Crockett and Pablo Sáinz Villegas on stage and they all graciously acknowledged the audience at the end of what was a historic night at the GFA!