meesters op de gitaar Archives

Susana Opanski

28 March 2018 By Otto Vowinkel Leave a Comment

These are Susana Opanski, Costas Cotsiolis and students of Susana in the dressing room of Costas after his concert in our series Meesters op de Gitaar. Susana and her students are loyal visitors to the series.

Susana Opanski is convinced that music connects people and that playing an instrument plays an important role in the personal development of children and young people.

For more than 20 years Susana Opanski is working as a guitar teacher at the Music School in Amersfoort. Besides that she develops educational projects to bring children into contact with music.

In addition to being a guitarist, bassoonist and guitar teacher, Susana Opanski is also the founding conductor a of the Student Gitaar Ensemble Nederland (SGEN). Last year the ensemble released a CD thanks to a successful crowdfunding campaign. Significant donors were rewarded with a visit to my workshop.

On May 25, the ensemble can be heard at the Vondelkerk in Amsterdam.
Our concert series continues in September. Subscriptions for sale.

Krisna and Prawira Pijloo

18 April 2017 By Otto Vowinkel Leave a Comment

These are Krisna and Prawira Pijloo after having performed Manuel de Falla’s La Vida Breve in Concertgebouw Amsterdam. Both Krisna and Prawira play the guitar from an early age and both want to become professional guitarists.

We invited them to play one piece before Rafael’s concert, to get a taste of the real thing. In the video below you can see them getting prepared, at home as well as right before the concert.

I know Krisna and Prawira since 2013 as you can see in the other video, recorded when they visited the workshop with their parents.

Rafael Aguirre

20 March 2017 By Otto Vowinkel Leave a Comment

This is the Spanish guitarist Rafael Aguirre, taking applause after his debut in het Concertgebouw van Amsterdam. Rafael played a beautiful concert in a full house. Our series Meesters op de Gitaar consists of three concerts each year and is getting more and more attention. That is good news for the ones who missed the concert. Rafael can be watched and listen to via Opium op 4 and Podium Witteman. There were also pictures taken from the concert.

Marcin Dylla

28 November 2016 By Otto Vowinkel Leave a Comment

This is Marcin Dylla, checking the acoustics of the hall of het Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.

Marcin is a busy guy. If not traveling the world playing concerts, he works at the guitar faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, as an Artist in Residence. Before he came to Amsterdam he was in Poland where he had just met his newly born.

We invited Marcin Dylla to come and play in our series Meesters op de Gitaar. In an almost full house he gave an very impressive, beautiful concert. The audience loved it.

Jason Vieaux in Amsterdam

19 September 2016 By Otto Vowinkel Leave a Comment

This is the American guitarist Jason Vieaux, an hour and a half before the start of his concert in our guitar series Meesters op de Gitaar in het Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.

Jason played a beautiful concert for a full house and the audience loved it.

It was Jason’s first time in Amsterdam. According to his shares on his twitter account I got the impression that he enjoyed his stay.

Meesters op de Gitaar

13 March 2016 By Otto Vowinkel Leave a Comment

This is the brochure of Meesters op de Gitaar coming season, 2016-17.

Since 1998 Esther and I organize three concerts a year at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the world famous venue with one of the most beautiful acoustics for classical guitar imaginable.

This season we are happy to present Jason Vieaux, Marcin Dylla en Rafael Aguirre.

If you want to know who else we invited in the past eighteen years, you can have a look at the archive of the series.

You can buy a subscription at the website of the Concertgebouw.

Tickets for the sole concerts will be available from June 1st.

Ana Vidovic

1 February 2016 By Otto Vowinkel Leave a Comment

This is Ana Vidovic preparing for, and taking applause after her concert in our series
Meesters op de Gitaar in het Concertgebouw of Amsterdam.
She played a beautiful concert in a full house.
For Ana’s fans: her program.
For the ones interested in our series: some more pictures.

European Guitar Quartet

16 December 2015 By Otto Vowinkel Leave a Comment

These are Zoran Dukic, Pavel Steidl, Thomas Fellow and Reentko Dirks a.k.a. the European Guitar Quartet, rehearsing before their concert in our series Meesters op de Gitaar. The program consisted of quartet, duo, trio and solo pieces which were entertainingly introduced by Thomas Fellow. It was a beautiful concert and the audience loved it.

Montenegrin Guitar Duo

27 September 2015 By Otto Vowinkel Leave a Comment

These are Goran Krivokapic and Danijel Cerovic after their beautiful concert in het Concertgebouw. Goran Krivokapic and Danijel Cerovic are two Montenegrin guitarists forming the Montenegrin Guitar Duo. They are working on a very impressive project: J.S. Bach’s English Suites on two guitars. The first CD of this project was presented in our series. They succeeded very well as you can hear by listening to their version of Prelude BWV 808.

Irina Kulikova

30 November 2014 By Otto Vowinkel Leave a Comment

These are Irina Kulikova and Marielle. Irina is a Russian guitar player living in Holland. She presented her latest cd in our series Meesters op de gitaar, in het Concertgebouw van Amsterdam.

While her mother was on stage, giving a beautiful concert. Marielle was enjoying herself in the lobby. They were happily reunited afterwards.