Marco will be hosting GuitarFest 2017 at New World School of the Arts, on April 22. A full day of guitar activities, for guitar students of all levels. Free registration. Take masterclasses, attend a sight-reading workshop, have lunch with the faculty, and rehearse and perform solo and ensemble pieces. Learn more and register here.
Check out Marco’s latest column “Short strokes: road or destination?” on the latest Soundboard (43.1). Marco discusses whether minimizing the length of the right-hand strokes is a good strategy to achieve speed, relaxation and endurance.
Thanks to the Schadt String Competition organization in Allentown, PA, and GuitarSarasota for featuring Marco in solo recitals, February 23 and 25.
A lot has been written about the creation, content and significance of Manuel De Falla’s “Ommagio per le Tombeau de Debussy.” For example, I encourage you to read Rey De la Torre’s interview and Benjamin Verdery’s reflections. After having heard this piece numerous times in concerts and lessons, I’d like to add some comments and ideas. (1) […]
Thanks to the Philadelphia Classical Guitar Society for featuring Marco on January 8, part of its 50th-Anniversary season.
Marco Sartor was recently appointed as Guitar Instructor for the College Division of the New World School of the Arts in Miami, Florida. He looks forward to working with talented students in this unique and most auspicious institution. To learn more about the NWSA Bachelor of Music program, applying, audition requirements, and more, click here. […]
Compared to that of other instruments, the guitar’s repertory consists predominantly of short pieces. While pianists, string and wind players regularly tackle lengthy masterworks, guitarists usually program seven, eight or more works in a single night. Furthermore, our repertory appears lighter, or less ambitious, than that of other instruments. We certainly wish that composers such […]
Marco will be joining Cantata Profana in New York for two performances of Arnold Schoenberg’s Serenade, Op.24. September 29th and 30th, 8:00pm St. Luke in the Fields, 487 Hudson St. in the West Village
On July 26, the series “Guitarras en el Auditorio” (Montevideo, Uruguay) featured Marco, together with soprano Lucía Leite, in a program of Spanish and Uruguayan music.
The “Tristan” chord, the first chord of Richard Wagner’s opera “Tristan und Isolde,” is arguably the most famous chord in history. Theorists have dedicated countless pages to it, and still do, after more than 150 years. To many, it is a landmark in the starting of post-tonal music–a pivot to the twentieth century. The chord’s function–or […]
