Mårten Falk
Mårten Oskar Falk (born 1973) is a Swedish classical guitarist. He studied at the Conservatory of the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris under Alberto Ponce. Falk has toured in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany, Holland, Russia, Ukraine, Japan, Canada, Peru, Chile, Argentina. He has collaborated with composers from many countries, such as Angelo Gilardino and Sven-David Sandström and has made over 100 world premieres of new music. Mårten Falk has released twelve CDs, including seven solo albums with the company dB Productions, including ''The Electric Guitar Experience'' (2004). Falk is also adept at playing the vihuela, baroque guitar, lute A lute ( or ) is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. It may be either fretted or unfretted. More specifically, the term "lute" can re ..., romantic guitar and the Russian seven-stringed guitar. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Falk, ...
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Alberto Ponce
Alberto Ponce (born Alberto González Muñoz; 13 March 1935 – 26 July 2019)Summerfield, Maurice J. (2002). ''The Classical Guitar: Its Evolution, Players and Personalities Since 1800'' (Blaydon-on-Tyne: Ashley Mark Publishing Co.), p. 228. was a Spanish classical guitarist and teacher who from 1962 lived and taught in France. Biography Alberto Ponce's father was his first teacher. When he was a child he entered the Municipal Conservatory of Barcelona, Spain, where, in addition to guitar, he studied piano, harmony and chamber music. He left the Conservatory with a diploma and an Honorable Mention. The Catalan musicologist and scholar Emilio Pujol advised him to enter the Lisbon Conservatory. After three years of study Ponce perfected his technique with him at the Accademia Chigiana di Siena, where he increased his knowledge of the music of the Spanish Golden Age. In 1962, he won first prize for interpretation at the "Concours de Guitare" in Paris, organized by ORTF. In the same ...