Guitar maker Amsterdam
This is Tarik Residbegovic. He is a pupil of Predrag Stankovic and he came all the way from Bosnia to Amsterdam to pick up his guitar. His father who accompanied him wrote me an email:
The guitar has safely arrived at Bosnia and my son is absolutely satisfied with it.
This is Eric Vaarzon Morel, a great flamenco guitarist. He writes music, opera’s even, teaches at the conservatory of Amsterdam and always has a busy schedule with concerts and performances. Our friendship goes way back and last week he dropped by to demonstrate my 2A flamenco model. His rasgueado’s are so fast, the camera could hardly record them.
Along with the series we organized a competition for guitarists under eighteen years old. First price was being the support act before the concert of Sanel Redzic. Fourteen year old Ruben Silva Kas won the competition. In this picture both players, back stage, after the concert.
This is Marijn van der Linden. Brazilian music is his passion. He taught himself Portuguese and besides the guitar he also plays the cavaquinho as well as Brazilian percussion. Thanks to him Rotterdam has its own choro school and jazz club Bird a Roda de Choro e Samba session, every first wednesday of the month. Marijn plays a seven string cutaway guitar (2A) and he is very satisfied with it.
The guitar is great! I had a Misi built in and bought a Schertler Unico amp. It sounds really good. I showed the guitar to my colleagues and they too were very impressed.
After my post about Sanel and Tariq winning the Tokyo Guitar Competition I got an email from Tatjana Lazovic, who is the proud mother of Ema Kapor, the talented guitarist I wrote about earlier.
I want to inform you that they both like their dear guitars very much and play very nice on them. Belmin and Ema had many successes playing the guitar this year, and the last one is winning the Guitar Fest in Banja Luka (Bosnia and Hercegovina) this November. Ema won 1. Prize in IV category, playing Recuerdos de la Alhambra (F.Tarrega) and Usher waltz (N.Koshkin). Belmin won 1. Prize in V category, playing Capriccio No.15 (L.Legnani), Suite BWV 998, Prelude (J.S.Bach) and Mallorca (I.Albeniz). After the concert of the winners, I took this photo.
Congratulations Belmin and Ema !!
This is Li Le with his daughter Li Mu Xin. Li Le is aircraft engineer en teaches aeronautics at the Zhejiang University. He is also the owner of a music school in the centre of Hangzhou. More than three hundred guitar students are attending the school and many of them play my 2A model.
Every Friday night the students and teachers meet at the school. They play the guitar, discus attended concerts and CDs they listened to.
Little Li Mu Xin also plays the guitar. She can be admired at Youku, the Chinese version of Youtube, where she plays Prelude BWV 1007, from the first cello suite by Johann Sebastian Bach.
