The Maastricht Guitar Society is excited to present the Ukranian guitar phenom Marko Topchii in the groote zaal of the Gasthuis Calvarienberg, Abtstraat 2a. Marko is one of the most successful competition winners on the international circuit at the moment with more than 50 awards in competitions and a recent performance in Carnegie hall. The concert opener will be the Conservatorium Guitar classe’s own Alexander Feldman!

Tickets: €12/€6 To reserve email maastrichtguitarsociety@gmail.com.

Marko Topchii biography:
Marko Topchii; 1st Prize, Lausanne (Switzerland) Int. Guitar … Marko Topchii – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marko has won more than 50 awards worldwide in the international guitar competitions in the professional category. Among them, 26 first places in the competitions in United States, Mexico, Japan, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Indonesia, Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Liechtenstein, Serbia and Ukraine. The most notable prizes is available in the “awards” section. He plays guitars made by Karl-Heinz Roemmich, Yuichi Imai, Sakurai Kohno and Hong Sik Uhm. Marko is a D’Addario artist since 2012. Marko actively performs around the world, regularly gives concerts with the orchestra; he is desired teacher of the master classes and constantly mentioned in the mass media. Marko Topchii was born into a family of musicians in Kiev, Ukraine and is started studying guitar at the age of four. He is 24 years old and is currently pursuing a doctorate degree at the Tchaikovsky National Academy of Music in Kiev under the guidance of Prof. Yuri Alexik, Honored Artist of Ukraine. He completed his master degree in the National University of Arts in Kharkov in 2011, where he studied under Prof. Volodymir Dotsenko, Honored Artist of Ukraine. First prizes: 7th Daejeon International Guitar Festival Competition 2015 (Daejeon, South Korea) 5th Concurso Internacional de Guitarra Clasica Gredos San Diego (Madrid, Spain) 4th Concours de Guitare en Pays Tarnais (Albi, France) 6th JoAnn Falletta International Guitar Concerto Competition (Buffalo, NY, USA) Taiwan International Guitar Festival & Competition 2014 (Taipei, Taiwan) 3rd Changsha International Guitar Competition (Changsha, China) 7th International Guitar Competition “Ruggero Chiesa – Città di Camogli” (Camogli, Italy) 1st Jakarta International Guitar Competition (Jakarta, Indonesia) 12th Annual Texas Guitar Competition and Festival (Dallas, TX, USA) 6th International Guitar Competition “Culiacán 2013” (Culiacán, Mexico) 1st International Guitar Competition Victor Pellegrini (Lausanne, Switzerland) 42nd International Guitar Competition “Fernando Sor” (Rome, Italy) 5th International Guitar Competition Claxica 2013 (Castel D’Aiano e Montese, Italy) 56th Tokyo International Guitar Competition (Tokyo, Japan) 4th International Guitar Competition “Ferdinando Carulli” (Rome, Italy) 12th Guitar Art Competition (Belgrade, Serbia) 12th Le Concours International de Guitare “Ville d’Antony” (Antony, France) 6th International Ligita Guitar Competition (Eschen, Liechtenstein) 13th International Guitar Competition of Sernancelhe (Sernancelhe, Portugal) 3rd International Robert J. Vidal Guitar Competition (Barbezieux, France) 18th Mottola Guitar Competition (Mottola, Italy) 6th European Classical Guitar Competition “Città di Gorizia” (Gorizia, Italy) 3rd International Guitar Competition Heinsberg (Heinsberg, Germany) 3rd International Guitar Competition “GuitAs” (Kiev, Ukraine) 3rd International Guitar Competition “Dniprovski suzir’ya” (Ukrainka, Ukraine) 1st International Competition “National Philharmonic of Ukraine” (Kiev, Ukraine) ©2015 www.topchii.com

Feed it!
The Music Movement Project: music and dance feed each other. Unique combinations of instrumental sounds and body movements explore our hunger to express the inexplicable. Boureé, Bossa and Beyond!

Elisabeth Kelvin, klarinet/basklarinet/dans/choreografie
Marion Schaap, gitaar,
Peter Constant, gitaar,
Nadia Kelvin, dans/choreografie
John Plankenhorn, compositie/choreografie

Op het programma muziek van oa Bach, Granados, Brouwer, Plankenhorn en Kelvin.

Kijk voor meer info en reserveren op www.ostadeadam.nl/programma/210-feed-it-the-music-movement-project

Openingsfilm van het Ambacht in Beeld Film Festival 2019 is Carmine Street Guitars. Na vertoning van de documentaire is er een Q&A met de gitaarbouwers uit de film: Rick Kelly en Cindy Hulej, die speciaal voor het festival uit New York zijn overgevlogen. We sluiten de middag af met een borrel.

Engels gesproken.

Carmine Street Guitars
Once the centre of the New York bohemia, Greenwich Village is now home to luxury restaurants and buzzer door clothing stores catering to the nouveau riche. But one shop in the heart of the Village remains resilient to the encroaching gentrification: Carmine Street Guitars.
There, custom guitar maker Rick Kelly and his young apprentice Cindy Hulej, build handcrafted guitars out of reclaimed wood from old hotels, bars, churches and other local buildings. Nothing looks or sounds quite like a Rick Kelly guitar, which is the reason they are embraced by the likes of Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Jim Jarmusch, just to name a few.
Featuring a cast of prominent musicians and artists, the film captures five days in the life of Carmine Street Guitars, while examining an all-too-quickly vanishing way of life.

Gitaristen Sean Shibe (SCH), Amanda Cook (GBR), Redmond O’Toole (IRL) en Rosalind Beall (USA/NL), geven ter gelegenheid van het 50 jarig jubileum van gitaarbouwer Bert Kwakkel op zaterdag 30 oktober een live gitaarconcert via Zoom. Dit jubileumconcert is gratis toegankelijk. Wil je dit unieke concert bijwonen? Meld je dan aan bij gitaristenpodium@gmail.com.

Het altijd zeer populaire « Gitaarbouwers & Exposanten Salon » van het Brussels International Guitar Festival & Competitions zal zijn bezoekers verwelkomen in de schitterende tentoonstellingsgalerij gelegen onder het Théâtre du Vaudeville.