The Volterra Project is an innovative experiment in classical guitar training offering a 360 degree formative course with highest level guitar master classes, Alexander technique training, and arts business management seminars taught by experienced, internationally renowned professionals.
The mission of the Volterra Project is to help young guitarists develop well-rounded and non-competitive approaches to performing, to foster a generation of accomplished young guitarists who are prepared for the multiple aspects of performing careers, and to bring the guitar outside traditional performance venues into places of community access.
Presentation of the 2009 Edition
Dear Everyone, It is a real pleasure to welcome you to the 3rd edition of the Volterra Project, Summer Guitar Institute. On July 10th we will meet again in the hills across from the medieval city of Volterra in Tuscany, Italy, for 8 more days of intense work and creative learning in one of the most enchanting and inspiring settings of the world!
This year I am very happy to have around me a team consisting entirely of very old friends form all over the world: people I spent my youth and the very beginning of my career with:
Giampaolo Bandini, a fabulous and explosive Italian soloist whom I first met back in 1992 at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena. He will present an all Piazolla evening concert with bandoneon virtuoso Cesare Chiacchiaretta.
Nana Simopoulos, whose friendship I cherished back in NYC. Her sitar playing and her amazing business advises where enormously and invaluably supporting and inspiring at the beginning of my professional career.
Last but not least, Eddy Malave, the NYC based violist and Alexander technique teacher as well as my old Juilliard classmate and dear friend.