The Volterra Project is an innovative experiment in classical guitar training offering a 360 degree formative course with highest level guitar master classes, music physiology 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.
LAST NEWS: Announcing Special Guest!!!
We are very happy to announce the extraordinary participation of Alvaro Company: one of the outstanding guitarist-composers of the 20th century. Alvaro Company will give a 2 hour lecture on his long personal and didactic practice of Musical Biodynamics ("Fare musica e suonare come vivere: la biodinamica musicale").
Presentation of the 2011 Edition
Dear all, it is with great pleasure that I am announcing the 5th edition of the Volterra Project, Summer Guitar Institute. On July 10th we will meet again in the hills across from the ancient walls of Volterra in Tuscany, Italy, for a week of intense work and creative learning in one of the most enchanting and inspiring settings of the world!
This year a team of renowned artists, physiologists, pedagogues, music agents and luthiers will join me in presenting a series of concerts, master-classes, seminars and lectures aiming in sharpening your critical judgment, polishing your talent and enriching you with new ideas, perceptions, and knowledge essential to your future as active members of our music society.
Our guest artist this year, the internationally renowned Spanish Guitarist Margarita Escarpa, needs little introduction. One of the leading guitarists of her generation, Margarita possesses one of the most beautiful guitar sounds I have ever heard, and in her interpretations she captures my breath with the perfect symbiosis of mind and soul.
After the success of last years&rsquo experience, we will propose again what we think is an important contribution to our primary goal: to prepare our young participants for the real guitar world. Margarita and myself will present a lecture followed by a round table on one of the “hottest” guitar subjects: “Competitions: before, during and after!”
This year we will exceptionally have a single teacher for both the physiology classes and the business seminar: my old dear friend and agent Jon Aaron from New York City, one of the major American agents who loved and promoted the classical guitar. Jon will offer his decades of experience both as a music agent and a and teacher of mindfulness meditation. He will be dealing with NERVES!!!! On and off and in preparation for the stage!!!!
My teaching assistant and chamber music coach this year, presenting also the mid week concert, will be the marvelous Spanish young player, Paola Requena Toulouse.