{"id":1616,"date":"2015-05-12T12:09:16","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T19:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=1616"},"modified":"2015-05-12T14:22:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T21:22:42","slug":"cleveland-international-classical-guitar-festival-starts-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/cleveland-international-classical-guitar-festival-starts-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland International Classical Guitar Festival Starts Soon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u00a0by Blair Jackson<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Duo-melis.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1617 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Duo-melis-300x163.jpg?resize=300%2C163\" alt=\"Duo Melis\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Duo-melis.jpg?resize=300%2C163&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Duo-melis.jpg?w=716&amp;ssl=1 716w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the largest and most prestigious annual American guitar events\u2014the <strong>Cleveland International Classical Guitar Festival<\/strong>\u2014is set to take place at the <strong>Cleveland Institute of Music<\/strong> from May 28-31. This marks the festival\u2019s\u00a015th\u00a0year, and once again it truly lives up to its \u201cInternational\u201d tag, offering master classes and concerts by an impressive array of classical guitarists from around the world, including the CIM\u2019s own <strong>Jason Vieaux<\/strong> (US, performing with fellow CIM faculty member, harpist <strong>Yolanda Kondonassis<\/strong>), <strong>Ricardo Gallen<\/strong> (Spain), <strong>Paul Galbraith<\/strong> (Scotland), <strong>Duo Melis<\/strong> (<strong>Alexis Muzurakis<\/strong>, Greece; <strong>Susana Prieto<\/strong>, Spain), <strong>Antonis Hatzinikolaou<\/strong>, (Greece; he\u2019s making his U.S. debut)\u00a0, <strong>Pavel Steidl<\/strong> (Czech Republic), lute master <strong>Nigel North<\/strong> (England), and<strong> Colin Davin<\/strong> (US).<\/p>\n<p>Canadian master guitar builder <strong>Joshia de Jong<\/strong> will be offering a workshop, and Guitars International is hosting an afternoon\/evening \u201cExhibition and Demonstration of Fine Contemporary Guitars\u201d by some of the world\u2019s preeminent luthiers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/jason-vieaux.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1618 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/jason-vieaux-300x207.jpg?resize=300%2C207\" alt=\"Jason Vieaux\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/jason-vieaux.jpg?resize=300%2C207&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/jason-vieaux.jpg?w=650&amp;ssl=1 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All in all, it\u2019s going to be quite a four-day extravaganza. And look for Jason Vieaux on the cover of the Summer 2015 issue of <em>Classical Guitar<\/em>, out the last week of May.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on performances and tickets, go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarsint.com\/guitar_festival\"><strong>Guitars International<\/strong><\/a> website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0by Blair Jackson One of the largest and most prestigious annual American guitar events\u2014the Cleveland International Classical Guitar Festival\u2014is set to take place at the Cleveland Institute of Music from May 28-31. This marks the festival\u2019s\u00a015th\u00a0year, and once again it truly lives up to its \u201cInternational\u201d tag, offering master classes and concerts by an impressive array of classical guitarists from around the world, including the CIM\u2019s own Jason Vieaux (US, performing with fellow CIM faculty member, harpist Yolanda Kondonassis), Ricardo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Duo-melis.jpg?fit=716%2C390&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}