Posted on June 13, 2024January 21, 2025 by Dale Phillips An Interview with Guitarist George Sakellariou An Interview with Guitarist George Sakellariou by David B. Fisher Originally published in Guild of American Luthiers Quarterly, Volume 9, #1, 1981 This issue’s interview, George Sakellariou, brings an uncommonly alive and musical warmth to his performance. He began to show interest in music at the age of four and by six was playing popular and folk music on the guitar. Later he took up classical guitar and at eighteen he graduated with Highest Honors from the Athens Conservatory. In 1964 he took part in the Segovia Master Classes at Berkeley and in the same year began teaching at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Since then he has been teaching and performing throughout the U.S.A., Canada and South America. He currently resides in San Rafael, California, with his wife and four children. When did you first go to a luthier and say “Make me a guitar”? I was very young, a teenager. I went to the Panaghis Brothers in Athens, and got a nice spruce top instrument. It is on loan to a dear friend. I love it when I get the opportunity to play it, usually three or four times a year. Become A Member to Continue Reading This Article This article is part of our premium web content offered to Guild members. To view this and other web articles, join the Guild of American Luthiers. Members also receive 4 annual issues of American Lutherie and get discounts on products. For details, visit the membership page. If you are already a member, login for access or contact us to setup your account.
Posted on March 3, 2024March 6, 2024 by Dale Phillips An Interview with Guitarist David Tanenbaum An Interview with Guitarist David Tanenbaum by David Fisher Originally published in Guild of American Luthiers Quarterly, Volume 8, #3, 1980 With this issue is begun a series of interviews with important and eminent Classic Guitarists on the subject of their tools and their relationships to lutherie. Twenty-four year old virtuoso, David Tanenbaum of Oakland, California, a graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, is already a veteran of New York City solo recitals, innumerable other solo concerts as well as having served with the Joffrey Ballet on several domestic and international tours including a tour to Russia. He began piano study at the age of four, cello at eight, folk guitar at nine or ten and classic guitar at eleven. David plays a redwood top guitar by José Oribe from 1975. What qualities do you feel you need in an instrument? Fundamentally projection, because the guitar is a small voiced instrument. Become A Member to Continue Reading This Article This article is part of our premium web content offered to Guild members. To view this and other web articles, join the Guild of American Luthiers. Members also receive 4 annual issues of American Lutherie and get discounts on products. For details, visit the membership page. If you are already a member, login for access or contact us to setup your account.
