All Things Six Strings

Rick meets with guitar great Carlo Bonell for another interview. Topics include Carlos' early teen years and teaching, a discussion aptly titled 'Why Learning Never Stops' that has a special focus on the naturally developed and life-learned abilities of older students, and a shout-out about Carlos' Zoomed Guitars where he holds court with other guitarists on Facebook (open to all by invitation). Also, hear Carlos perform two pieces! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/all-things-six-strings--3207142/support.

Classical Guitarist Scott Kritzer discusses his various athletic-like approaches to guitar techniques that focus on avoiding physical problems experienced by guitarists after many years (and hours) of practice. Additionally, there is information about his upcoming free online workshop and his annual Guitar Retreat, which your podcast host Rick Cox, hopes to attend next year. We could all use a guitar-related vacation!Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/all-things-six-strings--3207142/support.

Graceful and multifaceted guitarist Muriel Anderson takes time from her touring and sailing to ports known and unknown around the world to talk about her travels, original compositions, and the inspirational moments behind the music.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/all-things-six-strings--3207142/support.

Host Rick Cox talks to Andrew York guitarist, prolific composer, Grammy Winner, and founding member of the LA Guitar Quartet.

All Things Six Strings is excited to announce the release of Michael Partington's 11th CD featuring music written over the last ten years by Bryan Johanson, and almost all premiere recordings. Released by Canadian publishers Les Productions d'Oz, it'll be available through Michael's website (www.michaelpartington.com) and locally at the Rosewood Guitar (www.rosewoodguitar.com. Eventually, you'll be able to find it on Spotify, iTunes and elsewhere... Scores for the pieces are available at Productions d'Oz.Clocking in at just over 73 minutes, it includes selections from 'The Illustrated Guitar' (2023), 'Oranges' (2022), 'Sonatine-Cahier' (2017) in its entirety, the monumental 'Hearing the Things Itself' (2021), and the delightful 'Magic Serenade' (2013).Listen to the episode as Rick and Michael discuss his newest release and several other guitar topics.

Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Alan Mearns began his musical studies with the classical violin at age five, switching to the guitar at age ten. Moving to the United States in his late teens, he studied classical guitar performance with Douglas James at Appalachian State University (where he held the prestigious Fletcher Scholarship) and with Stanley Yates at Austin Peay State University.In this podcast, we discuss his composition 'Oracion' which, in this humble podcast host's opinion, is destined to become a major work for the guitar.

Guitar Orchestra of Seattle co-founder and conductor Mark Hilliard Wilson talks with Rick about the orchestra's beginnings, history, and recent recording projects.

Rick talks with Chicago area Jazz Guitarist and former, now retired, Navy Band musician Geordie Kelly. Discussions revolve around Geordie's study and application of the original playing styles, chord progressions, and voicings used by early jazz guitarists, using the premier method of learning by listening instead of learning by video and his approach to improvisation.For a great summary of a career and the benefits of working in military bands, hang around for the outtake after the ending theme music!

Guitarists and Kithara Project co-founders Adam Levin and Matthew Rohde talk about the Kithara Project its mission to bring the classical guitar to young people through its tuition-free programs.

The great English guitarist Carlos Bonell discusses his amazing guitar story and history which includes a laundry list of famous musicians such as John Williams and Paul McCartney.We also delve into the artist that is Carlos Bonell.

Brian Wright - Guitar Repairman by day, guitarist with The Pony Express Band by night. Brian is what better than 90% of guitarists are, folks with day jobs who love making music by night, typically on weekends, and share their love of music.

Aaron Larget-Caplan visits All Things Six Strings and discusses the recent release of his "In God's Time" CD featuring his newly transcribed works of J.S. Bach and, of course, other guitar-related topics.

Guest Mike Grande, owner of three, count em, three, music schools, the superb online music lesson platform Rockoutlive.live, and creator of Card Chords discusses his life as a guitarist and entrepreneur.

Host Rick Cox talks with Alan Mearns about his transcription and his recent recording of the great Bach Chaconne.

This is one of my favorite interviews. Michael is a dedicated, devoted, and determined musical artist. He overcame what would have been the end of many classical guitarists' careers by sheer willpower, adaptability, and versatility to place himself as one of the great guitarists of our time. It was our great pleasure to interview him.

Now old friends (one of us is A Lot older than the other) Rick and Aaron talk about the GUITARV and Aaron's recordings with an emphasis on his latest project and release "Honey Cadence."

Enjoy this great interview with Seattle Classical Guitarist, teacher, and composer Michael Nicolella. Michael is a highly versatile artist with a solid background in classical, Jazz, Rock, and other styles.

A great interview with Finnish Guitarist Patrik Kleemola. I discovered Patrik through his YouTube Channel and was pleasantly surprised. His video and audio work, which he does himself, is outstanding. His playing and musicianship are even better.

Aaron and Rick discuss Aaron's new CD release "A Guitar Holiday" as well as The Lullaby Project and, as always, other guitar-related topics.

Rick talks with guitarist, educator, producer, and radio host Jim McCutcheon about his beginnings as a musician, love of science, and his teaching...including his stint as, the then, 6 year old Martha Master's guitar teacher.

Listen to four specially selected works from David's recordings, discussions about each work and, of course, all things six strings!Guest:David LeisnerAn extraordinarily versatile musician with a multi-faceted career as an electrifying performing artist, a distinguished composer, and a master teacher.“Among the finest guitarists of all time”, according to American Record Guide, David Leisner's career began auspiciously with top prizes in both the 1975 Toronto and 1981 Geneva International Guitar Competitions. His recent seasons have taken him around the US, including his solo debut with the Atlanta Symphony, a major tour of Australia and New Zealand, and debuts and reappearances in China, Japan, the Philippines, Germany, Hungary, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Ireland, the U.K., Italy, Czech Republic, Greece, Puerto Rico and Mexico. An innovative three-concert series at Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall included the first all-Bach guitar recital in New York's history, and currently he is the Artistic Director of Guitar Plus, a New York series devoted to chamber music with the guitar. He has also performed chamber music at the Santa Fe, Music in the Vineyards, Vail Valley, Crested Butte, Rockport, Cape and Islands, Bargemusic, Bay Chamber, Maui, Portland, Sitka and Angel Fire Festivals, with Zuill Bailey, Tara O'Connor, Eugenia Zukerman, Kurt Ollmann, Lucy Shelton, Ida Kavafian, the St. Lawrence, Enso, Escher and Vermeer Quartets and many others. Celebrated for expanding the guitar repertoire, David Leisner has premiered works by many important composers, including David Del Tredici, Virgil Thomson, Ned Rorem, Philip Glass, Richard Rodney Bennett, Peter Sculthorpe, Osvaldo Golijov, Randall Woolf, Gordon Beeferman and Carlos Carillo, while championing the works of neglected 19th-century guitar composers J.K. Mertz and Wenzeslaus Matiegka.A featured recording artist for Azica Records, Leisner has released 9 highly acclaimed CDs, including the most recent, Arpeggione with cellist Zuill Bailey, and Facts of Life, featuring the premiere recordings of commissioned works by Del Tredici and Golijov. Naxos produced his recording of the Hovhaness Guitar Concerto with Gerard Schwarz and the Berlin Radio Orchestra. Other CDs include the Koch recording of Haydn Quartet in D with the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and Hovhaness Spirit of Trees for Telarc with harpist Yolanda Kondonassis. And Mel Bay Co. released a solo concert DVD called Classics and Discoveries. Mr. Leisner is also a highly respected composer noted for the emotional and dramatic power of his music. Fanfare magazine described it as “rich in invention and melody, emotionally direct, and beautiful”. South Florida Classical Review called him “an original and arresting compositional voice.” Recent commissioners include the Rob Nathanson for the New Music Festival at UNC Wilmington, Cavatina Duo, baritone Wolfgang Holzmair, Arc Duo, Stones River Chamber Players (TN), Fairfield Orchestra (CT), Red Cedar Chamber Music (IA), and the Twentieth Century Unlimited Series (NM). Recordings of his works are currently available on the Sony Classical, ABC, Dorian, Azica, Cedille, Centaur, Town Hall, Signum, Acoustic Music, Athena and Barking Dog labels. The Cavatina Duo's recording of his complete works for flute and guitar, Acrobats (Cedille) was released to exceptionally strong reviews. His compositions are mostly published by Merion Music/Theodore Presser Co., as well as AMP/G. Schirmer, Doberman-Yppan and Columbia Music.David Leisner has been a member of the guitar faculty at the Manhattan School of Music since 1993, and also taught at the New England Conservatory from 1980-2003. Primarily self-taught as both guitarist and composer, he briefly studied guitar with John Duarte, David Starobin and Angelo Gilardino and composition with Richard Winslow, Virgil Thomson, Charles Turner and David Del Tredici. His book, Playing with Ease: a healthy approach to guitar technique, published by Oxford University Press, has received extraordinary acclaim.Website: www.davidleisner.com

Tim and Dad join guitarist Adam Levin for a virtual CD Release Party. We discuss his newest CD "21st Century Spanish Guitar, Volume 4," listen to three of the cuts and talk about, well, all things six strings!

Hosts Rick and Tim have a great conversation with Bill Clements, owner of The Rosewood Guitar. We talk about the history of The Rosewood, its owners, the teaching staff, Bill's personal guitar collection...the flood, the gas explosion, the plague, and, of course, all things six strings.

Rick and guest Mark Wilson discuss his monumental year-long project "Midnight Confessions." Mark recorded one work each day for a solid year. Find the videos on YouTube.

David Leisner, Chair of the Guitar Department at Manhattan School of Music, discusses the salient points of his book "Playing With Ease" published by Oxford University Press.

Don Hlus, Classical Guitarist | Music Educator | Career Coach returns to ATSS for a discussion of his new program Classical Guitar Career Masterclass "Create a Sustainable Career Doing What You Love"

Rick talks with Elizabeth C.D. Brown, head of the guitar department at Pacific Lutheran University.

The superb guitarist and composer Carlos Rafael Rivera talks with Rick and Tim about his journey from guitarist to film composer. His guitar works have been recorded by many guitarists and his film scores can be heard in the Netflix series "Godless" and the newly released "Queen's Gambit."

Don Hlus, from Canada!, holds many professional designations and positions. Among them as a Royal Conservatory of Music Certified Teacher. In this episode Don discusses many topics including How to Build a Career (how to make a living) After College. A semester-long curriculum that should be required in all music schools.

Join Tim and Rick as they talk with the great Jazz guitarist Corey Christiansen about his latest online course "It's All About the Subs", available on jazzanywhere.com, his newest guitars and, totally off topic, his latest fishing trip to Alaska and a meetup with Momma Grizzly and the Cubs. Hint: not a rock band!

Join Rick and Tim as they talk to Canadian guitarist and creator of the "This Is Classical Guitar" website.

Rick and Tim visit the great guitar builder Wayne Johnson at his workshop in Washington and play on two superb hand made steel string guitars.

Podcast host Rick Cox interviews fellow retired Navy Bandsman John Derby to reminisce about their early days at the Navy School of Music and adventures and performances around the globe.

We sat down and made a call to Classical Guitar maestro, Adam Levin. We discuss performing, recording, and commissioning new guitar works.

We sit down for our inaugural CD Release Party with Corey Christiansen! Join us as we chat with Corey about his new album "La Proxima" and the hard work that went into it. We also play two tracks from the album so check it out, it's great.- Find Corey at his website: http://coreychristiansen.com/- Order the new album via Origin Records: http://originarts.com/recordings/recording.php?TitleID=82785- Or, you can continue to support this release through indiegogo: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/corey-christiansen-s-newest-album#/

Rick and Tim sit down with guitar extraordinaire, Corey Christiansen, a last name we butcher even after learning it direct from Corey himself! (kris-tee-AN-sen!) We also keep breaking our episode length record but basically everything Corey said was awesome and I (Tim) couldn't bring myself to edit anything out.

Rick & Tim go back forward through time to revisit their personal amp history.

Rick and Tim talk gear! In part one of this two part series we cover all the guitars we've owned through the years.

Today we're bringing in an older interview from our sister podcast: The WAMcast. It's with classical guitar maestro, Michael Partington. We felt it was pertinent to ATSS so here it is for your listening pleasure.

We chat over the phone with Charles Postlewate, classical guitar maestro, composer, and Rick's mentor. He's full of great things to say, and was a tough one to edit (as you can tell since this is our longest episode! You can learn more about Charles on his website www.charlespostlewate.com

Rick and Tim talk to John Stowell about guitar, driving, cell reception, and also guitar. ALSO -- enjoy the premiere of our new theme song!

We sit down with John Thayer, local luthier and all around good guy. This is possibly our LONGEST episode but there was just too much good stuff to talk about in this one! If you'd like to get in touch with John be sure to head on over to his website at jthayerguitars.com

Tim and Rick talk about various annoyances. They also jam on a few things.

It's All Things Six Strings inaugural episode! Welcome to episode one, the phantom menace...wait. Episode one, Ukuverse! We chat with just a small portion of Kitsap County's Ukulele group. There's jokes, good discussion, a small dissertation on the correct pronunciation of the word (spoiler, they're both right), and a small performance.

We sit down with Dietrich Hanson and talk about the good old days. We also got him to perform two live pieces.