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2022 Master Classes

Our master classes are open to all our festival audience members regardless if they play or not nor regarding their level of experitse. We will have master classes in composition for guitar, voicing jazz chords and more.

To play in Moacyr Teixeira Neto’s classical guitar master class we will be conducting auditions, since the amount of spaces to perform is limited. The students selected to play in the master class will receive a tuition waver for the festival.

To apply, submit a video recording of two contrasting pieces. To submit, simply upload an unlisted video to youtube.com and send the link to isaac.lausell@siu.edu. We encourage presentation of advanced works such as J.S. Bach’s lute suites, works by Heitor Villalobos and Leo Brower. This being said, we will feature players from different levels. Pieces submitted should not be beneath the levels of the following:

  • El testament d’Amelia
      — Miguel Llobet
  • El sueño de la muñeca
      — Agustin Barrios
  • Lágrima
      — Francisco Tárrega
  • Capricho Arabe
      — Francisco Tárrega
  • Canarios
      — Gaspar Sanz
  • Tarleton’s Resurrection
      — John Dowland