Giuseppe
Chiaramonte
The
beginning of guitArtistas. You are from Austria, Czech Republic and
Slovakia. Where did you meet and where did you start to play
together? Who is, among you, let’s say, the “founder” of the
quartet? Who said the first time “let’s play together!”?
GuitArtistas
guitar Quartet
Three
of us got to know each other at the ‘University of music and
performing arts’ in Vienna – all being students of Alexander
Swete. For the fourth member Natalka we searched for deliberately and
finally found her through Marie’s friends in Brno (CZ). So there is
no special ‘founder’ of the quartet, it just happened.
Giuseppe
Chiaramonte
Where
is the quartet based?
GuitArtistas
guitar Quartet
In
general we use to rehearse in Vienna (AUT).
Giuseppe
Chiaramonte
You
won several competitions in Italy, tell us something about.
GuitArtistas
guitar Quartet
Because
of the fact, that we all work a lot we need to find good competition
in places, that are not too far away. In addition to that we all love
to go to Italy and so we can combine work an holidays.
Giuseppe
Chiaramonte
Have
you already performed in Italy? Where did you exactly play an when?
GuitArtistas
guitar Quartet
We
performed in Gorizia and Pescara in 2012 and in Pescara again in
2013, doing a beautiful ‘concerto sotto le stelle’ openair at the
harbor. Now we are very looking forward to return to Domodossola for
our 1st-prize-winner-concert
at the festival in July.
Giuseppe
Chiaramonte
Where
did you perform your best concert?
GuitArtistas
guitar Quartet
The
‘best’ concert is impossible to say – we love to play in a good
mood, without any stress, where you can feel the audience’s
positive vibration. Sometimes we even got standing ovations, that’s
always a special moment.
Giuseppe
Chiaramonte
If
you had to choose, who is your favorite composer to play?
GuitArtistas
guitar Quartet
We
like every good piece by any composer
Giuseppe
Chiaramonte
Which
will be the next sheet music on the stand?
GuitArtistas
guitar Quartet
Actually
we work on specific variations of Pachelbel’s canon, the next piece
will be an extract of dances of the ‘Peer Gynt Suite’ by Edvard
Grieg. In addition to that we already have a cooperation with an
Austrian composer named Jovan Pesec, who dedicated a new piece to us.
Giuseppe
Chiaramonte
GuitArtistas
plays with an unusual instrumentation, octave and bass guitar give a
very wide register and allow you to easily perform transcriptions of
orchestral pieces. You do think this is your key to success? Who are
the guitar makers of your instruments?
GuitArtistas
guitar Quartet
The
unusual instrumentation makes us kind of unique and it is also a very
important part of our special sound. Eva’s concert guitar is made
by Mathias Dammer (GER), Marouska’s and Natalka’s are from the
Czech luthier Petr Matoušek; the octave guitar is also Czech, made
by John Jaroslav. The bass guitar is a special making from Spain.
Giuseppe
Chiaramonte
Tell
us the names of three composers you would love to have a piece
written by and expressly dedicated to guitArtistas.
GuitArtistas
guitar Quartet
I
am so sorry, but in this question it was impossible to find an
answer! Each girl has her own taste and preferences, so we always
just try to find (or arrange) good pieces, that we all like – the
composer is not that important in this decision.
Giuseppe
Chiaramonte
Your
debut CD has been already released? Is it already available on the
market? In a few day we will publish the first Italian review of it!
In the meanwhile, tell us something about this project, the
repertoire, and so on.
GuitArtistas
guitar Quartet
To
be honest, we were very lucky! At one of concerts in Vienna we got an
offer from a great Austrian studio to record with them. This studio
is very special, because it is built to have the same sound as the
Sidney Opera House so you can imagine – this was a quite amazing
experience for us! Because of the great team we had around us, it was
possible to record the whole CD within only 7 days. Finding a good
cover-photo was much more difficult… At the moment the CD is
available in Austria, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Hongkong.
Giuseppe
Chiaramonte
Could
you say something about your next projects? Where are you going to
play next?
GuitArtistas
guitar Quartet
We
will do some concerts in Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia and also
in Italy (Domodossola, July 15th),
in addition to that we think about joining competitions in whole
Europe, but don’t know about the details yet.
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