The International Ten-String Guitar Society 2005-2008
Pastor King Solomon
pastorsvking@juno.com
USA
I have been play Classical Guitar 6 Strings all my life and private Instruction, performance in 20 years. I have been play 10 Strings Classical Guitar for year ago, I love it. I have been 5 years composition for 6 Strings book and CD. I work now for composition 10 String Classical Guitar with orchestra.
Bruce Lee
China
10 string and 6 string classical guitar
brucelee10stringguitar@live.com
TRAN DUC TAI
trductai@hcm.vnn.vn
Country: Vietnam
An amateur classical 7-string guitar and a professional journalist. Switched to 7-stringer
since 2005 to adapt Baroque music to my guitar repertoire and re-arranged all standard
guitar music I've ever played. I used a custom-built 7-string guitar by the Vietnamese luthier Giang Van Than.
Anthony Ocaña
Spain / Dominican Republic
I´m a composer and guitarist, I develop a personal musical language as a composer and performer.
I perform with 10 and 6 string guitars. I discovered the 10 string guitar through Egberto Gismonti.
I find the 10 string guitar fascinating, most of all because, as a composer, it allows all the freedom
I need to create music.
Gabriel Tapia
Compositor, guitarrista y ejecutante de la guitarra de 6 y 10 cuerdas.
Discípulo del finado José Luis Lopátegui.
michael coppola
6 timberlane drive
shelton, ct 06484
mc performs on a self invented 9 string guitar. this unique instrument has inner mid range strings, rather than an extended bass or treble range. the extra strings lie between the 4th and 5th of a normally tuned 6 string. with this instrument, michael can create dissonances, harp like sounds, and pianistic runs, inaccessible to traditional guitarists, while retaining the beautiful qualities one normally hears from a well played guitar.
Patrick Haupt
info@patrick-haupt.de
www.patrick-haupt.de
Germany / Bavaria
I'm a german tenstring guitar artist and teacher.
In cooperation with my guitar builder I designed a 10-String 30-Fret Instrument
to have the option of playing piano works on strings and bring the instrument to
the next level of sound.
Also it's the combination of music, art, and nature that I try to fit together.
Adam Raz
from Israel
adam2raz@gmail.com
playing music. love music. avant-garde classic music
Jeff Lee
jeff@haloguitars.com
Country: USA
We are an innovative electric/acoustic guitar and bass manufacturer.
We offer all our guitar models in left/right hand, 6,7,8,9,and 10 string versions.
Koek Wei Chew
42B-21-1, BAM Villa, Jalan Pria.
Taman Maluri, Kuala Lumpur, 55100,
Malaysia
wckoekATyahoo.com
I am a Malaysian who plays Classical and Jazz guitar and divide my time
between composing, learning and reading.
Looking forward to join the multi-string community.
Richard Urwin
thepawnbroker@xtra.co.nz
Rotorua, New Zealand. I have been a follower of
your 10 string music for quite a while now.
I have just received my first 10
string and am coming to terms with it.
Vinícius Degenaro
winiquius@uol.com.brwww.myspace.com/viniciusdegenaroSix, Seven (Brazilian Seven Strings), and Ten Strings Guitarist and Composer from Brazil with influences of Brazilian Popular Music from Jobim and others. Also traditional repertoire from Classical guitar with special taste for Renaissance and Baroque Music.
Joe Castiglioni
myspace.com/franticrecovery, USA, I play bass guitar in a rock band and want to be able to play both bass and guitar without changing instruments. I'd love to learn more about the 10 string guitar. Sergio Medina
semedina@usa.net Guadalajara, México Ten string guitarist, teacher at the Music Department of the University of Guadalajara.
John Francis
(Composer, Guitarist, Impresario, Entrepreneur)
johnf@sologuitarist.net
USA
I divide my time between teaching, composing, producing and promoting concert artists
and their masterclasses as the director of the Wichita Guitar Society. That is, when I am not
busy dealing with the rigors of my on;line music business: SoloGuitarist.Net My musical influences are diverse, ranging from the Baroque to the Blues, from Celtic to Rock, from Jazz to many eclectic World Musics. I am an advocate of multistring guitars.
Geovanni Vazquez Rodriguez
sebastian_balducci@hotmail.com
Pablo Patricio
Wortegem-Petege Belgium
Alexander MacAllister,
and am a Scot who is teaching and
performing in Oslo Norway. My particular interests have been the general
repertoire for voice and guitar, and solos of the Romantic period for
ten-string guitar. That means songs and solos by Mertz, Regondi, Paganini,
Berlioz, Weber and others. Also the 20th. century pieces by people like
Katchaturian, Respighi, Virgil Thompson and Terry Riley. In a word - there's
TOO MUCH good stuff, and it's all by really important people that you will
actually find in the music dictionaries! I hope to open a website and make
sheet music available. More as it happens.
With best regards
Alexander MacAllister, DipABRSM
Brian Canzanella
briancanz@briancanzanella.com
Hartford Area, CT
USA
8 String Guitarist.
Performer, Teacher, Arranger.
JJ Haaz
jj@guitarscience101.com
jjhaaz.com
I just love multi-stringed instruments.
Bernard Ponce
122 Boulevard Perier
Entree E
13008 Marseille, France
0033 (0) 491.814.101
jma3333333@aol.com
Commerce, MI, USA
Humberto 'Tito' Cotos
Elizabeth, NJ 07202
Chris N. Amberger
25, rue Merle d’Aubigné, CH 1207
Geneva Switzerland
Dr. Michael Patilla
Assistant Professor of Classical Guitar
Mississippi State University
Department of Music Education
P.O. Box 6240
Mississippi State, MS 39762
(662) 325-2866
http://music.msstate.edu
Assistant Professor of Classical GuitarMississippi State University
Department of Music Education
P.O. Box 6240
Mississippi State, MS 39762(662) 325-2866
Marcos Puña
Guitarrista Clásico
Av. Victor Eduardo 2258-A
Miraflores
Cel: 777 82342
La Paz
Bolivia
http://www.marcospuna.com
Mark Houghton
wmh@liv.ac.uk
http://www.productionsdoz.com/c216747.2.html
City: Liverpool
Country: UK
Sean Kasabuske
alethinon61@milwpc.com
Classical guitar hobbiest
Joel Chapen
PO Box 19400 Oakland, CA 94619 USA
Deon Ruthven
ruthven@hixnet.co.za
Bedfordview Johannesburg 2007 South Africa
Martin Brounstein martybrounstein@yahoo.com
Husband, Father, player since the 50s, student of
Korean Martial Arts. Recently have become highly
intrigued over the possiblities of the 10 string.www.worldconcertguitars.com
Michael Thames, Luthier
Thames Classical Guitars PO box 288
Taos NM 87571Been playing baroque lute
for pass 5 years.I'm finishing up a
13 string swanneck guitar tuned in D minor.
Soon to be unveiled, on my website.
www.ThamesClassicalGuitars.com
Scott M. Rifkin
www.explorationproj.com
avant garde music,Classical Music-
just about anything except pop music.
explorationproj@aol.com
avant garde music,Classical Music- just about anything except pop music.
Jonathan Klass
Collectors Treasury
CTP House
244 Commissioner Street
Johannesburg
South Africa 2001.
Tel:270113346556 Fax:270113345344
Home:270117265506
Email Home jenny@megaweb.co.za
Email Laptop: jk@megaweb.co.za
James Raphael Smith
vector10@gotadsl.co.uk
58 Bankside close,Whitley,
England,CV3 4GD.
Janet Marlow
www.janetmarlowmusic.com
Litchfield, CT USA 10-string guitarist,
composer, performer,
Founder and Director
International Ten-String Guitar Society
Brian Steffen
nomapsleadhere@sbcglobal.net1612
29th street Rock Island, IL 61201.
Rock Island is on the Mississippi
River in the United States. I currenty
play a 6 string guitarbut hope to some
day own a 10 string. My life right now is
school at Black Hawk College, I am majoring
in philosophy and I love to play my guitar.
Matthew Grasso
www.cambium.com
mysticalsounds@yahoo.com
Davis, CA. USA
7-string guitarist,composer,arranger,
and improviser
Viktor van Niekerk
e-mail: vivanni@hotmail.com
Johannesburg, South Africa
10-string guitarist,arranger
David Norton
davinort@myway.com
Salt Lake City, UT
Amateur classical guitarist
and CG musicologist
David Starbuck
starbuc2@optonline.net
Warren, NJ USA
Amateur on 10 string guitar
lute and mandolin
Perf De Castro
www.perfdecastro.com
perf@perfdecastro.com
Duarte, CA, USA
10 string Classical Guitarist,
composer,electric blues/rock guitarist,
singersongwriter,recording
enginee,album producer.
Stewart R. McKinsey
www.subcontrabassist.com
stew@subcontrabassist.com
New Orleans, Louisiana US
10-string bassist,teacher,composer
Gianni Fazzone
gfazzone@gmx.net
Zurich, Switzerland
classical guitarist
6 strings as well 10 strings,
memberEGTA Switzerland
Stephen C.Zippilli
Zippilli@Charter.net
Bethlehem, Connecticut
Ten string classical guitarist-
student of Janet Marlow
(The best teacher I’ve ever had).
I also enjoy all forms of the arts..
I’m also a fine art black and white
photographer and I enjoy
cooking… I am very pleased
to be a part of this new and
growing society of fellow musicians
and friends!!!
Mari Mäntylä
Petranpolku 3
88900 Kuhmo
Finland
www.marimantyla.net
mari.mantyla@kuhmo.fi
10-string guitar player, performer, guitar teacher
at the Kuhmo Music Institute
Derek Mathis
derekm@nclnet.org
Washington, DC, USA
I have background
in voice, lute
and vihuela,and some experience
playing early music
on 8-string guitar.I am interested
in 10-string guitar both
for accompanying lute songs and solo work.
NESTOR BENITO
www.nestorbenito.com.ar
nestorbenito@yahoo.com.ar
Buenos Aires, Argentina
10-string guitarist, composer, arranger,
performer, teacher. Classic music, tango
and Argentine folklore.
Karla Fisher
www.kfisherx.com
kfisherx@hotmail.com
Gaston, Oregon USA
A beginning guitarist and now 10-string guitarist.
Currently I study early renaissance and baroque music with
John Doan at his University in Salem.
I am just three weeks into having the 10-string
guitar and could not be more in love or happy.
I look forward to growing with all of you.
Mischa Zawaskis
MischaZ01@charter.net
1312 Stephanie Way
Minden, NV, USA
Mischa Z, a guitarist and vocalist from Lake Tahoe,
began his professional career in the
mid-60s. In theearly 70s, he began training
under Maestro Narciso Yepes, performing
since then on the 10-String guitar, and teaching
for the Naropa Institute and for the
University of Colorado in Boulder. He
later ran the classical Guitar
Performance Major program for UA-Anchorage.
In 1995,Mischa began ongoing studies with India's
Grandmaster composer and sarodist, Ali Akbar Khan.
Mischa is now working
with re-designed "East/West" 10-String guitars,
exploring new directions in World Classical Music.
Eric Lovett
urklvt@yahoo.com Heidelberg, Germany
7-string rock/metal/experimental
guitarist and singer. I've been playing
7 string guitars since 1990 and have
recently switched to a baritone scale
(28 5/8"), tuned DADGCEA.
My interest in the 10 string guitar stems
from my desire to have the entire range
of a standard four string bass and six or
seven string guitar on one neck.
Federico O’Reilly
federico_guitarrista@yahoo.com.mx
Bronx, NY, US. I’m originally from Mexico City,
just here for my degree.
I’m a classical guitarist and have
been playing a ten string guitar for over a year.
I’m doing my master’s degree at Manhattan School of Music.
Tom Nothnagle
info@tomsguitarshow.com
www.tomsguitarshow.com
Iowa City, Iowa USA
Performer, composer, teacher of broad range of
genres, Renaissance to reggae, polka to punk,
rumba to rockabilly, on 10-string, 12-string,
flamenco, electric bass, string bass, banjo and mandolin.
Simon Tomik
simontomik@hotmail.com Iran / Tehran
Having 20 years playing guitar classic experiences
Having 3 years playing 10 string guitar experiences
without any sufficient courses
because of situation of my country and
just playing Suite of Gaspar Sanz
and changing some parts of Bach Suites
in order to play with 4 bass strings.
Tyler Alan Hawkins
tylerhawkins@mac.com
http://homepage.mac.com/tylerhawkins/index.html
Hay River, Northwest Territories Canada
I am a middle school teacher and part-time guitar instructor
here in circumpolar,Hay River, Northwest Territories Canada.
I am a multi-string guitar enthusiast
(owning an 8 string (1981) and a 17 string (1985)
both built by the Canadian luthier
Sergei deJonge@ http://dejongeguitars.com
I have a BFA in classical
guitar performance from York
University, Toronto (1989).
I've participated with the
University of Toronto Guitar Orchestra
(1985) under the direction of Leo Brower.
My interest in the multi-string guitar was first sparked when
I heard the Bach Lute Suites recordings of Narciso Yepes.
Since then I have had the honor of meeting
Narciso Yepes at the home of Eli Kassner (Toronto) in 1986. I was most fortunate
to have a very personal discussion with the Maestro about his family, music, astronomy,
recording and of course the multi-string guitar concept. He saw and played my 17 string
during that meeting. A particular goal with the multi-string guitar is to focus my technique,
tuning and fingering decisions on maximizing the incredible timbre this kind of instrument
has to offer. I'm happy to be part of the First Ten String Guitar Society as a way of celebrating
the instrument's development along with those who enjoy playing and listening to this unique
kind of guitar.
Michele "Mick" Ramo
8 String Guitarist & Jazz Violinist Ramo@RamoMusic.com
www.RamoMusic.com www.8StringGuitar.com
Hideo Sugimoto
www.eiyus.com/guitar
eiyu_10guitar@yahoo.com Hamamatsu, Shizuoka pref. Japan
6 & 10-string guitarist, composer, arranger, and improviser.
Siddhi Johan
SundtSolistvägen 53756 54 UppsalaSwedenphone:
+46(0)18 51 51 55email: siddhi@siddhi.sehomesite:
http://www.siddhi.se
John H. Hedderman
johnhedderman@cox.net
Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.
I have studied classical guitar privately with
John Holmquist, former head of the guitar department
at the Cleveland Institute of Music and have studied Harmony,
Sight Singing, and Ear Training with Adeline Huss also at CIM.
My primary interest is in composition and arrangement of religous
works for the classical guitar and/or voice.
Wayne Rowand
zenguitar2003@yahoo.com
Morgantown,WV, US
I am a full time teacher and recitalist playing
exclusively on an eight string guitar. I focus mainly
on baroque and contemporary latin music. Also i have
recently found 8 string transcriptions by my teacher,
David Harris, that have been missing since his death 6
years ago.
Steven P. Bastien
bastiens@cox.net
320 Yawgoo Valley Rd,
Exeter, RI 02822, USA
Amateur guitarist (engineer professionally)
- Play primarily6- and 8-string guitar; now
adding 10-string to the mix! Enjoy transcribing/arranging
for "multi-string" guitar(s).
Scott Rainville
s.rainville@verizon.net
Springfield, Massachusetts
Amateur classical guitarist
Martin Espino
www.martinespino.com
martinprehispanic@yahoo.com
(562) 713.2774 CellLos Angeles, CA
Age 50 with 39 years Professional multi-instrumentalist
and electric and acoustic guitarist musician, bilingual
educator/cultural motivator, pioneer of Interactive Performance,
improvisor/composer and 30 years as one of the first pioneers
in North America for reviving Ancient Mexican musical instruments
as well as vocalist in variety of languages featuring a mulititude
of indigenous American language. I speak English, Spanish, Brasilian
Portugues and some Yoeme (Yaqui) and Nahuatl (Aztec/Mexika).
I currently perform and tour as a solo artist, instrument
making session leader, Interactive Performances
in educational venues, and with my group MEXIKA,
sounds of Ancient Mexico (featuring Chris Garcia of
Frank Zappa group) and more.I've been putting my guitar
on the back burner for awhile and so I am immersed in it now
... I would love to come to next years' festival...
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