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Kimiko Kawabata

6 March 2017 By Otto Vowinkel Leave a Comment

This is Kimiko Kawabata, a Japanese calligraphy artist, living in Leiden (the Netherlands) since 1972.

Inspired by haikus of master poet Basho describing the beauty of the area of Fukushima, Kimiko made a series of calligraphies for an exposition in Huis de Pinto in Amsterdam.

Next weekend, during the closure of the exposition a series of concerts will take place. One of the concerts will be given by Hambre y Sed the guitar ensemble of which Kimoko Kawabata is a member.

The revenues of the exposition and concerts will be handed to the victims of Fukushima by Kimiko personally. Since the region was destroyed by the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in 2011, Kimoko travels to Fukushima at least once a year,

Guitar Salon International

25 May 2016 By Otto Vowinkel Leave a Comment

This is a new cedar top I made for Guitar Salon International, my dealer in the USA.

Check out their website for the beautiful pictures taken of the instrument and it’s details.

Sanel Redzic

17 May 2016 By Otto Vowinkel Leave a Comment

This is Sanel Redzic performing in the documentary ‘An extraordinary life’ made by the Paris Guitar Foundation. Sanel Redzic tells about the coincidence that played an important role in his life, what taking part in competitions meant for him and about his study in Weimar.

Augustin Pesnon, founder of the Paris Guitar Foundation shot the documentary himself as you can see in his vlog.

Dragan Marinkovic

25 April 2016 By Otto Vowinkel Leave a Comment

This is Dragan Marinkovic, a guitarist from Bosnia Herzegovina. He is working as a professor in elementary and secondary music school. A couple of years ago he organized a guitar festival in Banja Luka in Bosnia where two of the competitors playing my guitars, won the competition in their categories. Dragan liked their guitars and later he bought one himself.

Dragan Marinkovic has his own YouTube Channel where he uploads his arrangements of songs by Tina Turner, David Bowie, Sting, a.o.. Recently he sent me an email to let me know that he was very pleased with the instrument

which turned out to be a great recording instrument as well.

To underline this he made this beautiful recording of Il Sentimentale opus 148, nr. 4 by Mauro Giuliani.

Allemande BWV 996

21 March 2016 By Otto Vowinkel Leave a Comment

This is Drew Henderson performing Allemande BWV 996 by J.S. Bach. The Allemande consists of two parts, both repeated with ornaments. This makes four parts in one piece which in this video are used to compare four different guitars, built by four different makers.

In order of ‘appearance’ you hear instruments by Douglass Scott, Mathew Rubendall and James White. From 2:05 you can listen to a cedar top 2A guitar by me.

Listen and judge yourself. The 2A guitar from this video can be bought at the Canadian store Grand Salon the Guitare where the video was recorded. You can order a 2A guitar with one of my dealers or directly with me.

Aitor Hernández

22 February 2016 By Otto Vowinkel Leave a Comment

This is Aitor Hernández a Spanish guitarist, living in Madrid. He sent me an email long time ago, to let me know he bought a guitar of mine at Casa Luthier in Barcelona. Aitor Hernández and I never met but thanks to Google I know he used to form a duo with guitarist Sergio Sleiman. More recently he started a duo with a violinist as well as with his sister, soprano Saioa Hernández. He is playing concerts and is working as a teacher at Escuela de Música Prolat.

In his email he included a link to the video below in which he plays Etude 12 by H. Villa Lobos. It was recorded a while ago. More recent video’s can be found here .

Estación Edén

17 January 2016 By Otto Vowinkel Leave a Comment

This is ‘Estación Edén, guitar works from Uruguay part two’, the latest CD of Gustavo Pazos. Just like the former one it mainly consists of works by Gustavo himself. Compositions he beautifully describes as ‘musical reflections of never written stories’.

To get an idea I included a fragment of the first track: Cancion para (Ana) Lisa.

You can order the CD at Music & Words

Chih-Hsien Tseng

8 June 2015 By Otto Vowinkel Leave a Comment

This is Chih-Hsien Tseng. She is a Taiwanese guitar student, studying in Germany. Together with her friend and collegue guitarist Arne Willems she came to the workshop to pick up her new guitar. Next month we’ll meet again. In Taiwan, where her former teacher, Alfredo Huang organizes a festival where I’m invited to give a lecture.

Goran Krivokapic

4 August 2014 By Otto Vowinkel Leave a Comment

This is Goran Krivokapic, a fantastic guitarist from Montenegro. In 2009 he gave a beautiful concert in our series. For the ones who read Dutch, here a short interview with him. Last month he was invited by the Changsha International Guitar Festival in China to play a concert and give a masterclass.

Nina Fourie Gouws

7 July 2014 By Otto Vowinkel Leave a Comment

This is Nina Fourie Gouws. On her way to the Volterra Project of Antigoni Goni she stopped by in Amsterdam because she asked me to give her spruce top guitar a French polish touch up. She also has a cedar top on which she recently recorded a Bach Prelude.