One of our favorite events is back in 2022! Most of the information can be found below, but for more details and registration please visit: GuitarFest West 2022

 

A week of guitar immersion guaranteed to excite and inspire!

For emerging classical guitar performers and guitar students ages 13+.

The program focuses on developing solo performance skills through private lessons and masterclasses, while enhancing musicianship through large ensemble rehearsals. Technique classes and rehearsals run for three hours each morning, and afternoons and evenings are filled with faculty recitals and lectures, student performance workshops and masterclasses. Students receive three private lessons or masterclasses with one or more faculty members and the week caps off with a student recital featuring solo and ensemble performances.
 

Feature Activities
 

• Guitar ensemble rehearsals and performance
• Technique classes
• Faculty recitals and lectures
• Performance workshop
• Masterclasses with our excellent international faculty
• Private instruction
• Luthier's Fair
• Faculty concerts
• Student recital

 

Instructors(subject to change)
 

• Tim Beattie (St. Andrew’s University Music Centre)
• Steve Cowan (McGill University)
• Brett Gunther (Mount Royal University Conservatory) Program Director
• Ralph Maier (Mount Royal University Conservatory; University of Calgary)
• Iliana Matos (University of Lethbridge)
• Emma Rush (Performer, Clinician, and Educator)  Program Co-Director 
• Murray Visscher (Mount Royal University Conservatory; Ambrose University)
• Darren Young (Mount Royal University Conservatory)

 

Course	CRN	Date	Day	Fee
GuitarFest West (Early Bird Rate - Available Until Jun. 30, 2022	70116	Aug. 1 - 5, 2022	Monday - Friday	$350
GuitarFest West Workshops (Rate After Jun. 30th, 2022)	70117	Aug. 1 - 5, 2022	Monday - Friday	$400

 

Program Director
Brett Gunther (Mount Royal University)

 

Co-Director
Emma Rush