Journal

Antoine Dufour, fingerstyle guitarist and composer, with his acoustic guitar (black-and-white portrait)

Antoine Dufour and the Language of Fingerstyle ...

Antoine Dufour treats the acoustic guitar as a complete orchestra: bass, melody, rhythm and texture from one player. A look at his fingerstyle voice and the fertile Canadian scene that...

Antoine Dufour and the Language of Fingerstyle ...

Antoine Dufour treats the acoustic guitar as a complete orchestra: bass, melody, rhythm and texture from one player. A look at his fingerstyle voice and the fertile Canadian scene that...

Simon Farintosh, classical guitarist and composer, performing

Simon Farintosh: How One Guitarist Bridges Two ...

Simon Farintosh refuses to stay in one box. Rooted in classical training and reaching across styles, he shows how deep preparation and real curiosity let a guitarist move fluidly between...

Simon Farintosh: How One Guitarist Bridges Two ...

Simon Farintosh refuses to stay in one box. Rooted in classical training and reaching across styles, he shows how deep preparation and real curiosity let a guitarist move fluidly between...

Jeffrey McFadden, classical guitarist and University of Toronto professor, with his guitar

Jeffrey McFadden and the Bach Question Every Gu...

Every guitarist eventually faces Bach and asks who they are to play it. Jeffrey McFadden has spent a career inside that question, treating arrangement as interpretation. His arrangements of BWV...

Jeffrey McFadden and the Bach Question Every Gu...

Every guitarist eventually faces Bach and asks who they are to play it. Jeffrey McFadden has spent a career inside that question, treating arrangement as interpretation. His arrangements of BWV...

Liona Boyd, the First Lady of the Guitar, with her guitar (black-and-white portrait)

Liona Boyd: The Sound That Defined a Generation

Canada's First Lady of the Guitar faced focal dystonia, a disorder that can end a player's career. How Liona Boyd found her way back to the instrument, and into songwriting,...

Liona Boyd: The Sound That Defined a Generation

Canada's First Lady of the Guitar faced focal dystonia, a disorder that can end a player's career. How Liona Boyd found her way back to the instrument, and into songwriting,...

MusiCurate, one year of The Classical Guitar Magazine

One year of MusiCurate, The Classical Guitar Ma...

Volume 2 opens with our biggest issue yet: the Volterra Project Trio and the final Romanillos guitars, a three-part tribute to John W. Duarte, a spotlight on Filipino guitar music,...

One year of MusiCurate, The Classical Guitar Ma...

Volume 2 opens with our biggest issue yet: the Volterra Project Trio and the final Romanillos guitars, a three-part tribute to John W. Duarte, a spotlight on Filipino guitar music,...

MusiCurate 2026 Arrangement Competition, The Classical Guitar Magazine

2026 Arrangement Competition

This competition aims to celebrate originality, craftsmanship, and artistic expression in creating a solo guitar arrangement based on the provided lead sheet composition.

2026 Arrangement Competition

This competition aims to celebrate originality, craftsmanship, and artistic expression in creating a solo guitar arrangement based on the provided lead sheet composition.