After the long dry spell of pandemic and lockdowns,
Global Guitar Gita 2022 was a wonderful chance to listen to world class musicians once again LIVE!
© Global guitar Gita
The
All India Finger Style Competition as usual saw some very talented artists. We are happy to announce the
winner of the All India Finger Style 2022
Siddharth Sarangi. Siddharth is 18 and his family comes from Nayagarh, Orissa.
Congratulations Siddhart!
Conceptualised and organised by our long-standing partner and renowned guitarist
Konarak Reddy,
Global Guitar Gita is a platform for guitarists, created by a guitarist. The aim is to bring best guitarists from all over the world to come and share their mastery of guitar craft and their individual styles and techniques with Bangalore audiences, in an intimate environment and thereby expand the language and imagination of guitar playing. The musicians perform solos, duets, trios and more. The range of styles and genres is scintillating and a must for all music lovers.
This year the festival took place over the span of
three days, from
December 2 to 4, 2022 at different venues. Multiple events were organised in and around Bangalore featuring a diverse group of artists like
Julia Lange (Classical, steel string, funk),
Konarak Reddy (Indian Jazz-Rock),
Antoine Boyer (Gypsy Jazz),
Samuelito (Flamenco) and
Yeore Kim (Jazz).
Schedule:
December 2 and 3:
Concerts |
8.00 p.m. |
Windmillscraftworks
Price: INR 1000, INR 500
December 3:
Guitar Clinic |
10.00 a.m. - 2.00 p.m. |
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore
Price: INR 5000 (for Ages below 16 years there is a 50% discount)
December 4:
Global Guitar Gita competition and
festival |
11.00 a.m. onwards |
Infinite Souls Farm
Price: INR 1000 (Festival)
© Julia Lange
Julia Lange is a young German crossover guitarist. She started at the age of 8 when she saw her older brother playing. In the following years she took classical guitar lessons with Elisabeth Becker, Fritz Ludwig and finally from 2011 to 2015 with Stephan Werner at the Dr. Hoch’s Conservatory in Frankfurt before she started her studies at the Musikhochschule Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden (Germany).
She appears equally at ease playing classical, steel string and funk. Versatile is perhaps an understatement. As a D’Addario-sponsored artist, she has been seen on stages across Europe and China playing her wonderful arrangements, with her funk band, with other great musicians, and performing standard classical repertoire. With an enviable command of the guitar and guitar styles, her virtuosic technique comes across in a relaxed and musical manner.
Julia has participated successfully in many national and international competitions.
© Konarak Reddy
Konarak Reddy grew up in Chennai and Bangalore, India. He began playing guitar at the age of 13 and his first band was called Los Gitanos. He was greatly influenced by the sounds and experiences of his childhood - classical music, his mother’s love of Flamenco, temple sounds, the call of the muezzin, old jazz LPs, rock and roll, the city around him.
He is one of the first musicians on the international stage to find a new language with western harmonic and Indian melodic concepts on guitar. He is known for his finger-style playing, as well as for integrating Hindustani and Carnatic styles of improvisation into his guitar technique.
Since the 70s Konarak has performed and toured with a range of musicians including Don Ross, Peter Finger, Gionni de Clemente, Dylan Fowler, Bob Bonastre, Rama Mani, TAS Mani, Shanthi Rao, Flute Ramani, Antonio Forcione, George Laval, Maynard Fergusson, Embryo, and Orexis amongst others.
To create awareness around the guitar, in 2004 he initiated World Guitar Nights in Bangalore, India. It has since grown to a very popular event with an All India Fingerstyle competition and Guitar Clinic.
© Mathilde Lauridon
Antoine Boyer drank from the most authentic sources of gypsy jazz, being a disciple of such masters as Mandino Reinhardt and Francis-Alfred Moerman, with whom he recorded his first CD-DVD in 2009, acclaimed by French and American critics (Jazzman, Vintage Guitars). He has also performed Francis-Alfred Moerman's works in tribute concerts at the Angers Gypsy Swing festival in 2010, as well as the Django Reinhardt festival (Samois) in 2011.
Antoine has been a headliner at most of the major gypsy jazz festivals in Europe and the United States and has shared the stage with renowned musicians such as Philip Catherine, Angelo Debarre, Stochelo Rosenberg, Christian Escoudé, Raphael Faÿs, Tim Kliphuis, Jon Larsen, Adrien Moignard, Robin Nolan, and Paulus Schäfer.
He is the winner of the 2015 Montigny Classical Guitar Contest. Antoine has been nominated 'Révélation Guitare Classique 2016' by the French magazine Guitare Classique.
Antoine Boyer and the Flamenco guitarist Samuelito won the 4th 'European Guitar Award' in Dresden, Germany in 2017, then recorded their first album 'Coincidence' and tour the world ever since. In January 2019, Antoine and Samuelito joined the troupe of International Guitar Night for a 2-month tour across USA and Canada.
© Samuelito
Samuelito is a young French guitarist who has managed to combine tradition and modernity in his compositions. His playing is not just full of virtuosity, but also personality and strong character. This young prodigy started his musical learning at the early age of 6, studying classical guitar in Caen conservatory, his homeland. Aged 8, he discovers his passion for the flamenco guitar, and starts to study falsettas of great maestros, such as Paco de Lucia and Sabicas, for instance. His career starts when he is 16, taking part in shows by accompanying great musicians, both French and Spanish ones.
© Yeore Kim
Yeore Kim is a harmonica player, and has been touring since her teenage years in the Korean jazz scene. Multiinstrumentalist, she plays also trumpet, drums, cello and piano. She received a master from the Seoul Music University, and won competitions like Asia Pacific Harmonica Festival, Seoul Harmonica Festival, and the World Harmonica Festival. She played in various music groups touring in Korea, India and Japan and in different styles (jazz, reggae, theater collaborations, tango, pop, rock).
Previously, Global Guitar Gita has brought Peter Finger (Germany), Don Ross (Canada), Adam Tvrdy (Czech Republic), Claus Boesser-Ferrari (Germany), Bob Bonastre (France), John Aimsworth (UK), Lior Yekutieli (Israel), Masa Summed (Japan), Ahmed El-Salamouny (Egypt) amongst other master to Bangalore.
For bookings and enquiry, contact:
Prerna Kaul +91 9845011782
Find more information
here.
Global Guitar Gita is support by the
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore.
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