Faculty 2023
Guitar masterclasses:
Antigoni Goni
The Greek guitarist Antigoni Goni, Classical Guitar Professor at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels (Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel), enjoys a truly international career, both as a performing artist and as a pedagogue, performing extensively in Europe, Russia, North and South America and the far East, both as recitalist and soloist.
She was the founder and chair of the Guitar Department at the Juilliard Pre-College Division (where she also taught for 10 years), an adjunct professor at the Columbia University as well as Artist –in-Residence with San Francisco Performances where for 5 years she gave semi-annual performances, master classes and workshops for a diverse group of students and audiences. For her International achievements, the Royal Academy of Music in London awarded her with the honorary position of Associate Professor (ARAM).
As a performing artist who has lived and worked in both the U.S. and in Europe, the Volterra Project’s Founder and Artistic Director, Antigoni Goni, has a long and in-depth experience with both the cultural differences between these societies, and with the universal climate of competition that exists in traditional guitar training programs.
She was the founder and chair of the Guitar Department at the Juilliard Pre-College Division (where she also taught for 10 years), an adjunct professor at the Columbia University as well as Artist –in-Residence with San Francisco Performances where for 5 years she gave semi-annual performances, master classes and workshops for a diverse group of students and audiences. For her International achievements, the Royal Academy of Music in London awarded her with the honorary position of Associate Professor (ARAM).
As a performing artist who has lived and worked in both the U.S. and in Europe, the Volterra Project’s Founder and Artistic Director, Antigoni Goni, has a long and in-depth experience with both the cultural differences between these societies, and with the universal climate of competition that exists in traditional guitar training programs.
Laura Snowden
Award-winning classical guitarist and composer Laura Snowden was handpicked by Julian Bream to give the Bream Trust concert at Wigmore Hall in 2015 and 2017, including world premieres by Olli Mustonen and Julian Anderson, commissioned by the Trust. She was the first guitarist to graduate from the prestigious Yehudi Menuhin School, where guitar tuition was made possible by a donation from the Rolling Stones. She was invited by guitarist John Williams to perform at Shakepeare’s Globe with her folk ensemble Tir Eolas, and recently recorded Lisa Streich’s new guitar concerto Augenlider with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.
She currently teaches at the Yehudi Menuhin School and has given classes at the International Guitar Foundation's Summer School, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Birmingham Conservatoire and the Altamira Hong Kong International Guitar Symposium.
She currently teaches at the Yehudi Menuhin School and has given classes at the International Guitar Foundation's Summer School, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Birmingham Conservatoire and the Altamira Hong Kong International Guitar Symposium.
Business of Music
Don Hlus
As a soloist, Don has presented concerts throughout Southwestern British Columbia in classical and acoustic fingerstyle styles. His passion for chamber music has also led him to perform with members of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the Vancouver Opera Orchestra, the CBC Radio Orchestra, and the Borealis String Quartet.
As an educator, Don was a member of the music faculty at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) from 1993 to 2019 and served as Department Chair from 2012-2018. He was the Director of Guitar from 2003-2019 as well as the Founder & Artistic Director of the Fraser Valley Acoustic Guitar Festival (1998-2019). In addition to working with students in studio lessons, coaching chamber ensembles, and teaching fretboard harmony, Don also taught an introductory course on the Music Industry and an upper-level course on the Business of Music (Career Development & Entrepreneurship). Don is also a member of the Canadian Music Festival Adjudicators’ Association and is honoured to work with talented young musicians in advancing their craft. Additionally, he is the owner and operator of the Fort Langley Guitar Studio.
As an educator, Don was a member of the music faculty at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) from 1993 to 2019 and served as Department Chair from 2012-2018. He was the Director of Guitar from 2003-2019 as well as the Founder & Artistic Director of the Fraser Valley Acoustic Guitar Festival (1998-2019). In addition to working with students in studio lessons, coaching chamber ensembles, and teaching fretboard harmony, Don also taught an introductory course on the Music Industry and an upper-level course on the Business of Music (Career Development & Entrepreneurship). Don is also a member of the Canadian Music Festival Adjudicators’ Association and is honoured to work with talented young musicians in advancing their craft. Additionally, he is the owner and operator of the Fort Langley Guitar Studio.
Music Physiology
Sinéad Rushe
Sinéad is a theatre director and acting coach.
She is artistic director of Creative Actor Training and Senior Lecturer in Acting and Movement at Central School of Speech and Drama, London. She is the author of Michael Chekhov’s Acting Technique: A Practitioner’s Guide (Bloomsbury 2019) and co-translator into French of four plays by Howard Barker (Editions Théâtrales). She is co-director of Michael Chekhov UK, Faculty Council member of Michael Chekhov Association USA (MICHA) and patron of Living Pictures theatre company in Wales. She gives masterclasses and talks worldwide on acting and the Michael Chekhov technique.
She is artistic director of Creative Actor Training and Senior Lecturer in Acting and Movement at Central School of Speech and Drama, London. She is the author of Michael Chekhov’s Acting Technique: A Practitioner’s Guide (Bloomsbury 2019) and co-translator into French of four plays by Howard Barker (Editions Théâtrales). She is co-director of Michael Chekhov UK, Faculty Council member of Michael Chekhov Association USA (MICHA) and patron of Living Pictures theatre company in Wales. She gives masterclasses and talks worldwide on acting and the Michael Chekhov technique.
Enrique Castillo
Enrique Castillo loves to help musicians discover their own potential for comfort, awareness and beautiful sound, combining his expertise as a musician and Feldenkrais practitioner.
Exploring the body-mind unity has been central to his own personal and professional development, starting with different kinds of yoga since 2005, the practice of Vipassana and mindfulness meditation, and finally becoming a Feldenkrais practitioner in 2019, after a four year, life changing professional training course in Lyon (IFELD) under the guidance of Yvan Joly and Richard Corbeil.
Exploring the body-mind unity has been central to his own personal and professional development, starting with different kinds of yoga since 2005, the practice of Vipassana and mindfulness meditation, and finally becoming a Feldenkrais practitioner in 2019, after a four year, life changing professional training course in Lyon (IFELD) under the guidance of Yvan Joly and Richard Corbeil.
Special Lecture
Luigi Attademo
Award-winning in several national and international competitions, among the others the “Concours International d’Exécution Musicale (CIEM)” in Geneva (1995), Luigi Attademo was pupil of the guitarist-composer Angelo Gilardino, whose he premiered many works for guitar solo and guitar and orchestra.
Luigi Attademo graduate in Philosophy with a dissertation on the musical interpretation, he published a book about this subject and he was contributor of several magazines. He worked in the Archive of the Andrés Segovia’s Foundation (Linares-Spain), to catalogue its manuscripts, and he discovered some unknown manuscripts of important composers, such as Jaume Pahissa, Alexan- dre Tansman, Gaspar Cassadò and others.
Luigi Attademo graduate in Philosophy with a dissertation on the musical interpretation, he published a book about this subject and he was contributor of several magazines. He worked in the Archive of the Andrés Segovia’s Foundation (Linares-Spain), to catalogue its manuscripts, and he discovered some unknown manuscripts of important composers, such as Jaume Pahissa, Alexan- dre Tansman, Gaspar Cassadò and others.
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