Masterclass #4

Description: 

There is no doubt: Asturias is one, if not THE most famous piece in the guitar repertoire. 

Many of you have certainly begun to study our instrument in order to one day perform this masterpiece (as I did). 

But what makes this piece so special? And how can one arrange it for guitar without losing the essential elements that Albeniz points out to us in the original score for piano, while maintaining its playability and adding to the original the wonderful colours of our instrument? This, and much more, is what this lecture offers you.

✅ Here's what you will learn:

1) What is the history of Asturias?

2) Knowing its history: which piano edition is best to use?

3) Complete analysis of the essential elements of the piece: articulation, dynamics, phrasing, rhythm, general structure.

4) Different transcription proposals for particularly complex and interesting passages.

5) Reappropriations of the guitar colors present in the piano score.

6) Use of particular and unorthodox techniques to solve the most difficult passages.

and much more!

Duration: 1h30min aprox (including Q&A)

MFA Members: Students and MFA Learning Group members get a 100% discount on the ticket. Please log in when registering for the event so that the discount gets automatically applied during checkout.

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Co-host: Carlo Marchione

Carlo Marchione, winner of seven major prizes at international competitions, has been part of the leading group of classical guitarists of the last 30 years. Carlo has performed as a solo guitarist, with orchestras and chamber music ensembles. Nowadays he is a professor and regularly leads master classes at various European Conservatoires as well as being a regular guest at Festivals throughout Europe. For his outstanding contribution to the development of the guitar, in 2017 he has been awarded with one of the most prestigious international prizes for the didactic, the Golden Guitar.

Besides that, he has inspired composers such as A. Carlevaro, C. Domeniconi, S.Iannarelli, K.Vassiliev, A. Ourkouzounov, G.Drozd and John Duarte to write pieces for him. Always looking for new ideas for his repertoire, he discovered almost forgotten compositions which come out like jewels through his genial transcriptions. Highly praised by the press of his editing Violin Fantasies 12 by Georg Philipp Telemann, which is released as a CD and music book.

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