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Guitarist João Luiz Rezende, one of the founders of the acclaimed Brasil Guitar Duo, presented a lecture at the 2018 New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes this past July on Brazilian rhythms. I’d missed the … Read more…
The Mannes New York Guitar Seminar opened with its annual evening concert at the Americas Society, featuring Artistic Directors Michael Newman and Laura Oltman of the Newman & Oltman Guitar Duo and Brasilian classical guitarist … Read more…
The cliffhanger is on as to whether Dan’s Chelsea Guitar Shop will remain at The Chelsea Hotel. We shall have an update shortly. Everyone is hoping the store stays because it is a vital presence … Read more…
Julia’s (photograph and) interview with legendary Cuban conductor-composer-guitarist Leo Brouwer is the featured story for the May 2018 issue of Classical Guitar magazine, which can be found at your local Barnes & Noble bookstore. * * * … Read more…
Julia will be performing for the opening of painter and sculptor Natalie Giugni‘s art show at Eonta Space Gallery, Saturday May 12, 2018, from 1 to 6 PM. Eonta Space Gallery is located at … Read more…
Last year New York-based guitarist and singer-songwriter Sylwia Kloc and her band, The Troubadours, gathered for their first album photo shoot. The Troubadours include percussionist Katherine Stock and cellist Anastasia Golenisheva. Kloc, who studied classical … Read more…
Julia will be performing at Buffalo State College on Saturday, March 24, 2018, 7:30-9:00 PM, at Ciminelli Recital Hall and she will be giving a lecture on her book, My First Guitar: Tales of True Love … Read more…
My First Guitar: Tales of True Love and Lost Chords by Julia Crowe has been released by Souvenir Press, Ltd. in London and is available online and within the U.K. and all U.K. territories. Souvenir … Read more…
[Note to readers: go get yourself a cup of tea, coffee or whatever and settle in because this piece is a long one, a lot of fun.] This is the first in what will be … Read more…
Julia’s interview with classical guitarist and Royal Conservatory of Brussels professor Antigoni Goni is now on the stands in the Spring 2018 issue of Classical Guitar Magazine. * * *
The heated, winter dryness in the air here in New York inspired me to collect advice from various luthiers on how to best maintain humidity in a guitar but, in truth, this is not a seasonal … Read more…
Julia will be performing as a guest artist in the “Something New” concert series for the Greater Port Jefferson Northern Brookhaven Arts Council on December 22, 2017, at 7 PM. The concert will be held … Read more…
Out of curiosity, I thought I would check out what the current bestsellers are in music e-books, as of November 2017. Here they are! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. * … Read more…
Julia’s CDs/tracks featuring her solo instrumental electric guitar music are available for download from Bandcamp. Check out the player below. Empire of Light is her most recent CD release. Smoke & Steel is a compilation … Read more…
Julia’s cover story on The Newman & Oltman Guitar Duo‘s 40th Anniversary is featured in the Winter 2017 issue of Classical Guitar–arriving on newsstands in early December.
Home: Where Everyone is Welcome (Grand Central Publishing) by Deepak Chopra, MD, Kabir Sehgal and Paul Avgerinos is a small book with a big heart that features a collection of thirty-four poems, accompanied by a … Read more…
One thing that struck me when interviewing the 2017 Wilson Center Guitar Festival winners was the common refrain of trying to find a way to cope with competition-induced nerves and performance stress. I sympathize deeply. It’s … Read more…
The rock division judges for the 2017 Wilson Center Guitar Festival were: Wisconsin-based guitarist and instructors, Roger Brotherhood and Matt Schroeder; and Milwaukee-based guitarists and instructors Peter Mac, Peter Roller, John Shiely, Steve Roberts, Michael … Read more…
The jazz division judges for the 2017 Wilson Center Guitar Festival included guitarist, composer and former Music Director of The Tonight Show Band, Kevin Eubanks, Hal Leonard jazz instructional series author Mike DeRose, Milwaukee-based jazz … Read more…
For the 2017 Wilson Center Guitar Festival Fingerstyle Division, guest artists Mike Dawes and Antoine Dufour served as judges, along with guitarists Peter Finger, Kurt Plahna, Billy McLaughlin, John Stropes, Macyn Taylor and Candyrat Records … Read more…
This year’s Classical Guitar division judging panel included: Meng Su and Yameng Wang of the Beijing Guitar Duo; concert guitarists Rene Izquierdo and Elina Chekan, who both teach at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee’s … Read more…
The 2017 Wilson Center Guitar Festival afternoons were devoted to various master classes in several musical genres. While the classical guitar masterclass with The Beijing Duo focused on addressing specific technical issues intrinsic to each … Read more…
Julia’s feature and photograph of “Sharon Isbin & Students Open New York Guitar Festival” can be found on p. 72 of the autumn 2017 issue of Classical Guitar, on newsstands until November 28, 2017. * … Read more…
The Wilson Center Guitar Festival celebrated its 5th annual international guitar competition this past August 17-19 in Brookfield, Wisconsin, with a record number of 105 contestant applicants competing for $32,000 in cash prizes, an $10,000 … Read more…
Julia’s speaks with guitarist Kevin Eubanks about his new CD Release, Something About Nothing, at the Wilson Center Guitar Festival for DownBeat Magazine.
Elias Barreiro, the 87-year-old Cuban guitarist, recording artist and pedagogue, was honored in a tribute at this year’s 17th New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes, together with the Americas Society. Barreiro has served as a … Read more…
Julia has created a new video, an animation of Salvador Dalí’s painting, The Persistence of Memory. The original painting can be viewed at The Modern Museum of Art in New York.
Turkish luthier Ekrem Uğurlu plies his busy instrument-making and instrument repair trade in his 9 year old instrument-making and repair shop studio, Seren Violin, in the neighborhood of Çengelköy, Istanbul, on the Uskudar (Asian) shore … Read more…
A big thank you to Steve, who runs Steve O’Donnell’s Guitar School in Tauranga, New Zealand, for selecting My First Guitar: Tales of True Love and Lost Chords as Book of the Month for May … Read more…
Great news! Drop City, the feature film documentary with Julia’s music in its soundtrack, is now viewable online as a $3.99 rental (72 hour viewing period) from Vimeo on-demand:
Julia was interviewed recently by Pierre Journel, the host of The Guitar Channel Passion Amplifier podcast on iTunes, about her book, My First Guitar: Tales of True Love and Lost Chords. Thank you again to … Read more…
To celebrate the The Assad Brothers’ 15th concert at the 92nd Street Y, Artistic Director of the “Art of the Guitar” concert series, Ben Verdery and his panel of three former guitar students discussed the … Read more…
DROP CITY, which features Julia’s music in its soundtrack, will be screening in Frankfurt, Germany on APRIL 18, 2017, 7:30 PM, at the Naxos Kino as a special program of the research group “International Dissidence … Read more…
Guitarist Dr. Yenne Lee’s unusual career trajectory opened with toddler piano lessons, which she abandoned in favor of becoming the prize-winning junior league table tennis champion of Gang-nam Gu, Seoul. Years later, she landed a … Read more…
Eric Cecil is a classical guitarist who has been using his videography talents to develop “Resonant Portraits,” a video series on his Youtube channel, devoted to capturing performances of many New York-based classical guitarists, including … Read more…