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CAKOVEC
Klub CZK
Trg Republike bb
April 2-4.
21:30 h
Monday, April 2.
Beppe Gambetta
Don Ross
Tuesday, April 3.
Jerry Ricks
Hal & Meri Troselj
Wednesday, April 4.
Michael Langer
Monika Stadler
Clive Carroll
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ZAGREB
Soba
Magazinska 7
April 4-5.
20:30 h
Wednesday, April 4.
Jerry Ricks
Hal & Meri Troselj
Beppe Gambetta
Don Ross
Thursday, April 5.
Michael Langer
Monika Stadler
Clive Carroll
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RIJEKA
HKD
Strossmayerova 1
April 6-7.
20:00 h
Friday, April 6.
Don Ross
Beppe Gambetta
Clive Carroll
Saturday, April 7.
Monika Stadler
Michael Langer
Jerry Ricks
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One of today's true innovators of guitar composition and technique, Don Ross has emerged as one of the most respected musicians in Canada and one of the top guitarists in the world.
In September 1996, he managed to do what no other player has done: win the prestigious U.S. National Fingerstyle Guitar Championship for the second time (he first won in 1988). The competition, held yearly in Winfield, Kansas, cannot be won only with immaculate technique, but the player's music must also display a high degree of emotion and intensity, hallmarks of Don's style.
Don graduated from the Music Department of Toronto's York University in 1983, but waited until 1986 to start pursuing a career as a performer
Don has spent the last 20 years living in Toronto, New York, Alberta and Massachusetts.
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Born in Genoa, Italy,Beppe Gambetta has become one of Europe's foremost guitarists in American idioms. He began by playing in a classical orchestra for plectrum instruments, but moved to American music when he formed the acclaimed Italian bluegrass band Red Wine. Beppe Gambetta is a past recipient of the prestigious Paolo Nuti award, given by the Italian Federation Folkitalia in special recognition of artists who have fulfilled a praiseworthy role in the diffusion of traditional music and culture in Italy. Gambetta has been the reigning acoustic guitar star in Europe for a long time, but his bi-annual trips to the States are making him equally well-known among acoustic aficionados in this country. Pulse! magazine called him an "acoustic-guitar- flatpicking monster" who possesses "superhuman grace on the instrument." Other music pubs have shown less restraint.Along with Carlo Aonzo, mandolin player from La Scala Orchestra in Milan, Beppe has conducted extensive interviews as part of his comprehensive study and revival of the musical forms present in Italy at the start of the twentieth century. The result of this research was the production of two acclaimed albums, Serenata and Traversata (recorded with American mandolin legend David Grisman).
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Monika Stadler began studying the harp at age 13 at the Bruckner-Conservatory in Linz, Austria. From 1982 till 1990 she studied concert harp performance at the University of Music & Performing Arts in Vienna under Professor Adelheid Blovsky-Miller.
She was a member of the Vienna Symphonic Orchestra, played with the Vienna National Opera Orchestra and at the Carinthian Summer Festival.
In 1990 she finished her studies at the University with the highest honors and received a scholarship to study jazz harp in 1991/92.
Additional scholarships from the Austrian government followed which allowed her to study with jazz harpist Deborah Henson-Conant, jazz bassist David Clark (Berklee College of Music, Boston) and free improvisational music with David Darling in the USA.
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"Philadelphia" Jerry Ricks was born May 22, 1940 in Philadelphia, PA. He began playing guitar around Philadelphia area coffeehouses in the late '50s. Ricks recalled in a late '90s interview. Lonnie Johnson and a few other classic bluesmen showed Ricks his first few blues chords while he was learning to play guitar.Jerry has learned from and performed with possibly every Country Blues great. The blues legends "Philadelphia" Jerry Ricks has accompanied and learned from include Brownie McGhee, Guitar Wilson, Skip James, Rev. Gary Davis, Buddy Moss, Champion Jack Dupree, Sonny Terry, Memphis Slim, Mickey Baker, Blind John Davis, Willie Mabon, Washboard Slim, Furry Lewis, Big Joe Williams, Son House, Lonnie Johnson, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Elizabeth Cotton, Rev. Robert Wilkins, Mississippi John Hurt, Mance Lipscomb, Jesse Fuller, Sleepy John Estes, Sammy Price, Robert Pete Williams.Jerry also traveled with the Buddy Guy Blues Band to East Africa under the direction of the U.S. State Department in April 1969.Jerry held the position of Special Instructor for the University of Colorado, Folklore Division to teach Traditional American Guitar Styles of the Southern United States. In 1998, Jerry was nominated for three W.C. Handy Awards: Acoustic Blues Artist of the Year, Acoustic Blues Album of the Year, and Comeback Blues Album of the Year for "Deep In The Well" on Rooster Blues Records. In 2001, Jerry was nominated for two W.C. Handy Awards: Acoustic Blues Artist of the Year, Acoustic Blues Album of the Year for "Many Miles Of Blues" on Rooster Blues Records.
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In 1998, Clive Carroll gained a 1st Class Honours degree in Composition & Guitar from Trinity College, London. Throughout the college years Clive was also awarded many prizes including: John Halford Prize for Composition (1994), Gladys Puttick Memorial Prize for Extemporisation (‘94,’98), Ivor Mairants Guitar Award (1997), Montagu Cleeve Prize for Guitar (1998) and Essex Young Musician of the Year (1999).
Whilst at college, Clive was also awarded a concerto prize and recorded Rodrigo's 'Concierto de Aranjuez' with the Trinity orchestra.
His first solo CD, Sixth Sense received an unusually high level of attention from radio shows, reviewers and journalists and has since been described as ‘a milestone in the journey of the steel-string guitar’. Over the next two years John Renbourn took Clive on tour all over Europe and America.
In 2002 the BMG/RCA record label took an interest in Clive. He recorded solo for them on one album, which is still selling very well.
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Michael Langer won the American Fingerstyle Guitar Festival in Milwaukee and was called the "Best Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitarist in the "Ultimate Guitar Competition" by the US-magazin Guitar Player.His CDs were followed by amazing critiques.
Akustik Gitarre: "These are masterpieces of sovereignty and warmth. A wonderful service for the concert guitar!"
With nearly 30 books, Michael Langer is not just one of the most hard-working, but due to the sale figures and his purchasers, one of the most successful authors around Germany and Austria.
He has a professorship at the Anton Bruckner Private-University in Linz and the Conservatory of Vienna.
"Langer's menu of folk, blues, jazz and Latin rhythms served up with classical touch on nylon strings is very digestible and refreshing and is seasoned with a proper pinch of Groove."
Michael Langer toured USA and many European countries. He was invited to Festivals like the Chet Atkins Convention Nashville, the guitar festival Nürtingen, the LIGITA Liechtenstein, the Open Strings Festival Osnabrück, the Bath Guitar Festival, World of Guitar Leverkusen, the Guitar Festival in Torino, Herrsbruck, Wetzlar, Tychy and many more.
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