Otto Vowinkel

Guitar maker Amsterdam

model 2A

Marijn van der Linden

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.

marijn van der linden    choro night epm holanda  marijn van der linden in bird rotterdam

more winners

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.
 

Ema Kapor and Belmin Okanovicic

Congratulations Belmin and Ema !!

Li Le and Li Mu Xin

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.

Ruben Silva Kas

This is Ruben Silva Kas, thirteen years old. Last month he won the second prize of the Princes Christina Junior Competition and after that he came to the workshop with his father to buy a new guitar. He is very happy with it and recorded a couple of video’s with it. Ruben is a student of Lydia Kennedy at the Academie Muzikaal Talent

Alfredo Huang

This is Alfredo Huang, a Taiwanese guitarist who I met years ago, during my first visit to Taiwan. He is a very active player who works as a soloist as well as an accompanist, mainly of the Korean soprano Ko Suk-Kyung, his wife and former fellow student at the Real Conservatorio de Madrid.

Besides as a performer, Alfredo is also very much appreciated as a professor. He regularly shows videos of his students on the internet like this, of a guitar quartet of which all members are playing my instruments.

Ema Kapor

This is Ema Kapor. Ema is a very talented, young guitarist (13 years old) from Belgrade who came with her mother, all the way to Amsterdam to pick up her 2A guitar. She is very happy with it. I am sure we will here a lot from Ema.