Classical Guitar Insider

 Merry Christmas and happy holidays folks! How about we end the year with a little show about Peter Argondizza, a guitarist who deserves our attention. Donate! It's the holidays for Pete's sake! 

Direct download: Peter_Argondizza_Final.mp3
Category:Music -- posted at: 4:22pm EDT

Educator and guitarist Jennifer Trowbridge speaks to a panicked, gout riddled shell of a man about her various projects and favorite foods. 

Direct download: Jenniffer_Trowbridge_Final.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:12pm EDT

The United States faces an uncertain future, and I face Boston guitarist/ composer Aaron Larget-Caplan on this special edition of Classical Guitar Insider with future President Big Diaper Bret Williams. Hey, if he can do it…

Direct download: Aaron_Larget_Caplan_Final_.mp3
Category:Music -- posted at: 4:56pm EDT

 

The Polish guitarist tells me what it’s like to teach at San Fransisco Conservatory and tour the country after his 2007 GFA win. Do you want to come see me play in a fifty seat converted office space in NYC at the end of the month? Tune in for details! Happy Halloween! 

Direct download: Marcin_DIlla_Final.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:19am EDT

Brazil, New York, and daily workouts in the water keep this legendary jazz guitarist and composer lean, mean, and ready to scream. Also, sometimes children like to threaten me with sharp objects, but rent is rent! Am I right ladies?!

Direct download: Richard_Boukas_Final.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:27pm EDT

I can roll a cigarette, drive a stick, and tie my shoes, but I can't make guitars. Cause I DONT LIK SCHOOL! SCHOOL SUCS! William Kramer Harrison loves school, and loves producing some of the finest instruments on the market. It's luthier William Kramer Harrison on Classical Guitar Insider with your host Burp Williams. 

Direct download: Williams_Kramer_Harrison_FInal.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:00pm EDT

 I interviewed Sergio Assad! Look at me when I'm talking to you! Did you hear what I said? Oh and I need money. It's the Classical Guitar Insider August pledge drive and you can donate at www.BretWilliamsMusic.com in the podcast section. I interviewed Sergio Assad! 

Direct download: Sergio_Assad_Edit_1.mp3
Category:Music -- posted at: 6:25pm EDT

Klick! Klack! Percussion Guitar Solo Attack! It's Columbia University professor and new music composer/performer Arthur Kampela. 

Direct download: Kampela_Final.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:41pm EDT

Marriage is hard. You have to decide who’ll do the cooking, who’ll empty the garbage, and who’ll take voice 1 in the Ginastera for Saturday’s performance. German/ Venezuelan, Husband/ Wife, Duo Montes Kirchner comes on the show!

Direct download: Alfonzo_and_Irena_Final.mp3
Category:Music -- posted at: 5:57pm EDT

Clarice Assad joins us and talks about growing up in Brazil, the American academic music scene and being a jazz musician in New York. I try to sell you mattresses. 

Direct download: Clarice_Assad_Final.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:30pm EDT

The founders of the Kithara Project talk about their goal of putting guitar and classical music into the hands of children in areas that lack the resources for arts education and programming. You know, I can be selfless and helpful too. I'm just really busy with my podcast right now? And also I need to replace my headphones. I'm thinking bluetooth for the gym, but I don't know if they're sweat proof.  

Direct download: Kithara_Final.mp3
Category:Music -- posted at: 9:22pm EDT

 

Chilean guitarist and composer Pedro Rodriguez comes on the show to talk about his homeland, being a nylon jazz player, and how much fun it is to hear Americans use foul language. He's in the right place because I swear like an older sister at a bachelorette party. 

Direct download: Pedro_Rodriguez_Final.mp3
Category:Music -- posted at: 2:22pm EDT

Humanitarian Guitarist and partner of the outreach project Kithara, Matthew Rohde visits for an interview. Also: I got fired last week! Who want's cake?! 

Direct download: Matthew_Rhode_Final.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:56pm EDT

It's Shark Week! Hawaiian hybrid classical guitarist and spear fisherman Ian O'Sullivan told me he eats Spam Sushi! Gross Ian. Gross. 

Direct download: Ian_OSullivan_Final_2.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:42pm EDT

Isabella talks about what it means to be a musicologist, her new guitar school, and being a parent. I talk about Korean food, pink eye and gout. There's something for everyone! 

Direct download: Isabella_Final.mp3
Category:Music -- posted at: 11:30am EDT

Christopher Mallet released three albums in the same year. Including two duo albums with two different guitar duos. He’s also married to four women, has a pet lion and is going into improv comedy. He’s a risk taker, a deal maker, and a ball breaker! (he’s a sweetheart)

Direct download: Chris_Mallet_Final_2_1.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:43am EDT

It’s Turkey Day!!! Not the day you burp and fart and watch two teams you don’t care about give each other dementia, Turkey Day with award winning Turkish guitarist and composer Celil Refik Kaya!

Direct download: Kalil_FInal.mp3
Category:Music -- posted at: 12:00am EDT

 Herschel Garfein shares that even he, an Grammy award winning composer and librettist, eats bananas out of garbage cans and smokes cigarettes off the sidewalk. Also, I move to an area contaminated by an oil spill in 1950 that was three times the size of Exxon Valdez. Art in America is alive and well and littered with high concentrations of free radicals. 

 

Direct download: Herschel_Garfine_Final.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:08am EDT

Gyan Riley is a composer, magician’s apprentice, guitarist and the first man to give birth. How does he juggle it all? You have to listen to find out.

Direct download: Gyan_Riley_Final_2.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:07pm EDT

Threefifty, the group formed by the former members of Threefifty Duo, explain the origin of their name, talk about their new octet, teaching adults, and getting kicked out of their apartment. 

Direct download: 350_dou_Edit_1.mp3
Category:Music -- posted at: 7:03pm EDT

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