The Electric Guitar in Popular Music conference will take place at Canterbury Christ Church University from 11 to 12 July 2024. For full details see: https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/events/2024/the-electric-guitar-in-popular-music
IGRC Deputy Director Milton Mermikides has been appointed the 37th Gresham Professor of Music, a post founded in 1597 delivering free public lectures. Previous incumbents include John Bull, Iannis Xenakis, John Dankworth, Joanna MacGregor, Chris Hogwood, Christopher Page and Marina Frolova-Walker. The post provides a privileged opportunity to share our current knowledge of music – including research at the IGRC – to a global audience. For details on the post and the upcoming lecture series see below: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/about-us/news/milton-mermikides-appointed-gresham-professor-music
In this video, Prof. Steve Goss of the IGRC explains why Manuel de Falla’s Homenaje is most important guitar piece in the first half of the 20th century, and how it spurned on a frenzy of new compositions for the guitar by non-guitarist composers. Allow Steve Goss and Zoran Dukic to take you on a journey through the life and music of Manuel de Falla. Although his music deeply reflected the traditional culture of his native Spain, he was also…
Milton Mermikides and John McGrath‘s contribution on the musical contributions of Jeff Beck in The Conversation
Release of the 21st Century Guitar Evolutions and Augmentations Richard Perks (Anthology Editor), John McGrath (Anthology Editor) With contributions from IGRC members Tom Williams, Katalin Koltai Amy Brandon and more Table of Contents ContributorsAcknowledgementsForewordIntroduction Richard Perks and John McGrath1. The Well-Tuned Guitar John Schneider2. Transforming the Microtonal Fingerboard: ‘Small’ Frets, LEGO and Robots – Interview with Tolgahan Çogulu Richard Perks3. The Expanding Fretless Guitarscape: Practice and Progress Richard Perks4. Touching the Apple Without Gloves – Interview with Cenk Erdogan Richard Perks5. Extended Range Instruments: Towards a…
Edited by Richard Perks & John McGrath With contributions and insights from John Schneider, Tolgahan Çoğulu, Ned Evett, Buzz Gravelle, Cenk Erdoğan, Tom Williams, Ant Law, Charlie Hunter, Katalin Koltai, Robert Strachan, Richard Perks, John McGrath, Nels Cline, Bill Thompson, Milton Mermikides and Amy Brandon In the 21st Century, the guitar, as both a material object and tool for artistic expression, continues to be reimagined and reinvented. From simple adaptations or modifications made by performers themselves, to custom-made instruments commissioned…
The IGRC are delighted to announce the International Guitar Research Centre Conference 7th to 9th October 2022 The conference is three days packed with concerts, keynote lectures, and lecture-recitals from guests, IGRC staff, and IGRC researchers. Full Details Here
IGRC Deputy Director Milton Mermikides gave the Guitar Foundation of America Keynote in June 2022. Watch it here
IGRC PGR, Katalin Koltai is featured soloist with the Philharmonia Orchestra Chamber Players at the Royal Festival Hall: https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/classical-music/philharmonia-chamber-players-tango
AbstractThis lecture-recital explores a new world of guitar sonorities through novel arrangements; Chopin: Berceuse Op. 57, Saariaho: Nocturne and Kurtág: Ligatura Y performed on a new instrument prototype, the ‘Ligeti Guitar’.In collaboration with the Altamira Guitar Foundation, Hanson Yao and Oren Myers, the ‘Ligeti guitar’ was developed in 2021. The new prototype integrates an adjustable magnet capo system into a transformed fretboard. Koltai designed the magnet capo system originally as a new set of partial capos (2018-2020), also presented in…