The 8th Round Top Guitar Festival promises to be unforgettable!

Enjoy the acoustic guitar sound without amplification in the amazing acoustics of the Festival Concert Hall.

Schedule

1: 30 pm   Marco Tamayo

Marco Tamayo was born in Havana, where he started to play guitar at the age of three under his father’s mentorship. He studied with Antonio Alberto Rodríguez and Leo Brouwer, and later in Europe in Munich and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, where he was a pupil of Eliot Fisk, Rainer Schmidt for violin, and Anthony Spiri for harpsichord, among others. Winner of major international guitar competitions like the Michele Pittaluga, Città de Alessandria, in 1999, Marco Tamayo has performed concerts together with the Chamber Orchestra of St Petersburg, the Turin Philharmonic, the Chamber Orchestra of Aix en Provence, the Tampere Philharmonic in Finland and the Havana Philharmonic, among many others. He divides his activities between concert appearances and teaching, with master-classes in different guitar festivals around the world and in universities such as Seoul University of Arts in South Korea. He has lived in Salzburg since 1995 and has taught at the Mozarteum since 2006.

Marco Tamayo’s book, “Essential principles for the performance on the classical guitar”, published in 2011 by Chanterelle Verlag, Germany, is a sellout. Do not miss his masterclass on Sunday morning at 10:30 am!

Mr. Tamayo is a regularly invited as a juror on international guitar competitions and as a guest performer and teacher by many festivals around the world.

4:00 pm   Bandini-Chiacchiaretta Duo

Giampaolo Bandini - Cesare Chiacchiaretta Duo, guitar and bandoneon, formed in 2002 pursuing the clear aim to propose Argentine music through the charm and magic of its most representative instruments. The duo immediately became an important point of reference in the international concert circuit thanks to their great communicativeness joined to an extraordinary charisma. Invited by the most important festivals and theatres in the world, they have toured in Mexico, Romania, China, Poland, Slovakia,  Austria, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Holland, Croatia, Russia, Slovenia, Turkey, the Czech Republic and Hungary meeting outstanding critical and audience approval.

7:30 pm    Canadian Guitar Quartet

Since their debut in 1999, the Canadian Guitar Quartet has toured extensively in North and South America, from one standing ovation to the next, establishing a reputation as one of the finest guitar ensembles in the world.

"…fantastic, spirited playing and sheer inventiveness…” wrote Julia Crowe in her Letter from New York column for Classical Guitar magazine, England (2008).

“… fabulous… highly energetic, precise and musically convincing… a brilliant close to the week.” Mark Switzer, review of the Guitar Foundation of America 2004 closing concert for Soundboard magazine, USA (2005).

On Sunday March 11 @ 10:30 am: Marco Tamayo's master class. ($25 per applicant. Free to the public.)

Overnight accommodations are also available on the beautiful, 210-acre Festival Hill campus including complimentary Sunday morning breakfast. Overnight accommodations are $55-$100 per person (based on double occupancy - single supplement is $25). Reservations are required for overnight accommodations. Call 979-249-3129.