Jeroen Hilhorst
Maker of very special classical
concert guitars
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Some
of the guitarists that play my guitars
Aram Van Ballaert
recorded a couple of beautiful CD's with classical music from South America and
Spain. He is playing a lot of concerts.
Robert Bekkers plays a.o.
in a guitar-piano duo. I made his guitar extra powerful so that it is an equal
partner for the piano.
Vladislav Blaha won important guitar
competitions. He recorded many classical CD's, some with orchestras. And he
plays concerts all over the world.
Rémi Boucher
is a fabulous instrumentalist, who is using new techniques with his right hand
to have more possibilities for expression on the guitar.
A.o.
tremolo with his thumb. He won important guitar competitions, recorded
many CD's and plays concerts all over the world. This is what he thinks of his
guitar:
“I want to
thank you again very much for this fantastic guitar, I like it very much.”
“… I am
extremely happy with this instrument, I am really in
love with this instrument …”
“The guitar is
great, I really like it, I will never tell you enough
THANK YOU!! Such a memorable moment! I have great success with this instrument
…”
Raffaele Carpino is an excellent
guitarist playing solo concerts as well as concerts with orchestras. He has
recorded CD’s and is active as a musicological researcher of 18th and 19th
century guitar music.
Sam
Cave
(United Kingdom)
Sam Cave is a prize winning classical
guitarist and also a top notch composer and teacher.
He has a passion for the very modern
repertoire. His compositions are performed in many countries. He spends much time working with
composers to create new work for the guitar.
“… I just wanted to say how pleased I am
with my guitar.”
“… Thanks again for your amazing work!”
Dennis Davis is the director of guitar
studies at the Eastern Kentucky University and part of the Lexington Guitar Trio.
Arnaud Dumond
plays concerts all over the world, and he is a
renowned composer. He has recorded many CD's.
He owns an experimental guitar I have
made (see photo). He is very much inspired by its very strong trebles. He is
composing music especially for it.
Matt Gould is part of the guitar-violin
duo Duo46. They are very interested in modern music, which they
have recorded on several CD's. They play concerts in the United States and
Europe. Matt Gould is also active as a musicological researcher of the guitar
and violin repertoire.
He is now playing one of my rare super
concert guitars in African blackwood.
Leo Malvica is
a Sicilian guitarist, who, thanks to a special versatile technique, alternates
chamber music concerts with jazz,
flamenco and south-american music.
He is playing one of my super concert
guitars.
Dana Memioglu
is studying at he Kunstuniversität in Graz (Austria). She is also active in
chamber music, specializing in guitar and voice. She plays many concerts with Taylan Memioglu, a very talented
lied and opera singer.
Austin Moorhead is a very talented
guitarist. He has won several prices at guitar competitions, a.o. the GFA-competition.
He has recorded a fantastic CD: Adagio.
The guitar sound on this CD might become
a new standard.
Johann Palier
recorded a number of classical CD's. He often plays concerts together with a
flutist or a violinist.
Ruth Perez-Bercoff
is at this moment refining her solo guitar playing in Zurich (Switzerland).
Rainer Rohloff
has recorded a very beautiful CD with songs by Mikis Theodorakis that he arranged for classical guitar. He is
playing concerts with this repertoire. The guitar was especially made for this
project.
Ahmet Sönmezler plays one of the
very few cedar guitars I have made.
Erik Tempelman (Netherlands)
I made the head and the cutaway of his
classical concert guitar to his design.
(Photograph
by Lucas Rijnders)
Patrick Zeoli plays the charango in the charango – piano
duo Piarango.
I made him a charango
that is an equal partner for the piano. It is also probably the loudest charango in the world J.
Aram
Van Ballaert (Belgium)
Robert Bekkers (Netherlands)
Vladislav
Blaha (Czech
Republic)
Rémi Boucher (Canada)
