“Musical interpretation involves an individual’s integral development: his emotional, intellectual and cultural attributes, his creativity and the possibility to vibrate physically. Thanks to music we can grow our imaginative life, we become capable of new ideas, subtle insights and original solutions.”

Dominique Hoppenot

It is said that there is no greater joy for a man than doing what he was born to do. And we are glad to know what is our mission. Every student that comes to our school is important to us.

With determination and conviction we strive to give our best to contribute to a happy and conscious development of self- discovery through music. Embracing a pedagogical responsibility requires the willingness to open up to others and to be truly interested in each student, implementing a constantly refreshed and creative design.

We believe that a student-teacher relationship should always be based upon cooperation, respect and mutual esteem. We also consider very important that the personality of a young artist can easily mature being in contact with several teachers. Multiple perceptions, different ways of experiencing music, various kinds of personal approaches, personal life experiences and diverse cultural backgrounds will enrich the student to a greater extent, not only as a musician, but as a person.

Our school works on multiple levels: from the first lessons to the perfection courses. Naturally not all the school’s students will become professional musicians, but we are convinced that through music they will grow as better individuals. Young people who discover the joy of making music, both individually and as a group, facing the challenge and efforts that entail playing an instrument, will more easily become valuable human beings, individuals of great character.

The relationship with the instrument, through an inner journey, should eventually lead to the expression of oneself, of the music we feel inside and of what we can communicate.

Therefore we will be happy to assist every young guitarist in his voyage through music, with renewed enthusiasm andsincere friendship.

Our philosophy

CoursesIndividual courses are held by Maestros Adriano Del Sal and Paolo Pegoraro, chamber music courses are held by the Trio Nahual.

Annual master9 or 18 lessons programmed freely in agreement between teachers and students

Biennal perfecting masterwith final diploma;18 lessons per year, complying with the biennial study programme.

Chamber music perfection course9 or 18 lessons programmed freely in agreement between teachers and student.

Perfection CoursesThe guitar perfection courses held at Pordenone have represented for twenty years a spotlight for guitarists on an international scale. This is demonstrated by countless prestigious achievements and acknowledgements obtained by the school’s students throughout the years.

Our didactic principle is founded upon the search for maximal spontaneity within every musical and expressive event. Therefore, to us technique consists in the ability of knowing how to use the body in its most natural way, free to perform the appropriate gestures that help the musician fulfill the ideas found in the music score.

To interpret means to feel, to desire, to understand and to realize. A large part of the interpreter’s research is consequently carried out analyzing all the objective and subjective elements that blend into the creation of sound, therefore making compositions live, translating sensations and emotions suggested by the notes, liberating music as it is and as it is heard.

A different number of lessons can also be defined under special request to the administration.The courses are held from October to June with monthly meetings according to a fixed timetable at the beginning of the year.The lessons could be in Italian, English and Spanish.

ScholarshipThe Segovia Guitar Academy provides 5 scholarships worth € 400 each one, kindly donated by Gilda and Rosita Torres, in memory of them brother Pierantonio, tragically died in Ustica on 27th of June 1980.

In June 2016, the best students whom distinguished during the scholastic year for them commitment, talent and results, can take part at an audition.

2001 Certament “J. Arcas” - Almeria (Spain - Adriano Del Sal)

2002 Selezione “Giovani Concertisti” - Parma (Italy - Trio Nahual)

2003 Certament “Comarca el Condado” - Jaen (Spain - Adriano Del Sal)

2004 Concorso “E. Mercatali” - Gorizia, conc. (Italy - Mauro Zanatta)Concorso. “F. Sor” - Roma (Italy - Mauro Zanatta)

2006 Concorso “Kitarika” - Koper (Slovenia - Marco De Biasi)

2007 Concorso “E. Mercatali” - Gorizia, chamber m. (Italy - Trio Nahual)Concorso “E. Mercatali” - Gorizia, conc.s (Italy - Marco De Biasi)

2008 Concorso Gargnano (Italy - Emanuele Buono)Concorso “R. Chiesa” - Camogli (Italy - Emanuele Buono)Concorso “E. Mercatali” - Gorizia, con. (Italy - Andrzej Heimowski)Certament “J. Arcas” - Almeria (Spain - Mauro Zanatta)

2009 Certament “F. Tárrega” - Benicassim (Spain - Adriano Del Sal)Certament “J. Arcas” - Almeria (Spain - Alejandro Cordova)Certament Sernancelhe (Portugal - Andrzej Heimowski)Parkening Competition - Malibu (USA - Emanuele Buono)Split Competition (Croatia - Emanuele Buono)

2010Concorso “E. Mercatali” - Gorizia, conc. (Italy - Alejandro Cordova)Concorso “F.Sor” - Roma (Italy - Emanuele Buono)Concorso “S. Strata” - Pisa (Italy - Alejandro Cordova)

2011Certament Coria (Spain - Alejandro Cordova)Concorso “Cremona Mondo Musica” (Italy - HexacordEnsemble)Gargnano Competition (Italy - Petra Polackova)

2012London Competition (U.K. - Francisco Morais Franco)Belgrade Competition (Serbia - Francisco Morais Franco)Conc. “Gredos S. Diego” - Madrid (Spain - Alejandro Cordova) Concurso Sevilla (Spain - Alejandro Cordova)Barrios Competition - Nuoro (Italy - Emanuele Buono)

2013M. Biasini Competition - Basel (Switzerland - Emanuele Buono)Gargnano Competition (Italy - Andrea de Vitis)Belgrade Competition (Serbia - Jelica Mijanovic)Conc. “Gredos S. Diego” - Madrid, stud (Spain - Jelica Mijanovic)Conc. “Gredos S. Diego” - Madrid, conc. (Spain - Emanuele Buono)Concorso “M. Pittaluga” - Alessandria (Italy - Emanuele Buono)Certamen Barcelona “M. Llobet” (Spain - Alejandro Cordova)

2014 Concorso “E. Pujol” - Sassari (Italy - Davide Tomasi)Concorso “Città di Mottola” (Italy - Andrea de Vitis) Concorso “Città di Fiuggi” (Italy - Emiliano Gentili)Concurso Villa de Aranda (Spain - Nicola Montella)Forum Wien (Austria - Andrea de Vitis)

2015Selezione Giovani Concertisti di Domodossola (Italy - Marco Piperno)Kutna Hora Guitar Competition (Czech Rep. - Andrea De Vitis)

Most important first prizes of our students in international competitions:

“Chitarre d’oro” at the “Città di Alessandria” guitar convention:“Young promising of the year 2003” (Adriano Del Sal)“Young promising of the year 2008” (Emanuele Buono)

“Best CD of the year 2010” (Paolo Pegoraro)“Young promising of the year 2013” (Andrea de Vitis)

Paolo PegoraroElected in 2003 best Italian guitarist of the year by the readers of the magazine Guitart, both the critics as recognized figures of the music world appreciate in Paolo Pegoraro an uncommon depth and artistic sensibility. Winner of prestigious competitions, he performs regularly at major festivals throughout Europe, USA, South America, Africa and Asia.

Paolo also loves to teach and so much founded with his wife Angela Tagliariol, and six collegues that studied with him, the Segovia Guitar Academy, a school established and recognized internationally, which has students from various countries around the world. Many students develop themselves at his school, play assiduous concerts, winning over the years more than 150 awards at major national and international competitions (Pittaluga of Alessandria, Tárrega of Benicassim, Arcas of Almeria, Segovia of La Herradura, Parkening of Malibù, Sor of Rome, Gargnano). He was the creator and artistic director of the Pordenone Guitar Festival held in Pordenone for 18 years. He is often invited to be part of juries for musical and guitar competitions, both in Italy and abroad. He also gives regular masterclasses all around the world. From 2010 he his teacher at the “Universitat für Musik und darstelende Kunst” in Graz (Austria).

He has several recordings and the CD “Solo” has received enthusiastic reviews; in particular, the German magazine “Gitarre & Laute” declared “... the discovery of the year”. For his last CD, he was awarded with “La chitarra d’oro” at the Alessandria Guitar Convention, as the best CD of the year (2010).Born in Bassano del Grappa August 9, 1968, he began to study music at a very early age, quickly demonstrating a distinct talent and receiving from his family an environment rich in musical stimuli. He graduated with highest honors from the Conservatory “B. Marcello” in Venice in the class of T. de Nardis. He consecutively frequented masterclasses of Manuel Barrueco and David Russell, as well as receiving the “Diploma di Merito” at the Chigiana Academy of Siena in Oscar Ghiglia’s Class. In 2010 he became of part of “D’Addario family”.

”Paolo plays the notes as a series of pearls, clear one after another and now is the extraordinary thing: he has pearls of all sizes and all shades of color, he puts together in a way that will produce a effect of strong compact-ness and harmony. Paolo follows his musical ideas without compromise: accelerating, and evaporates the sentence where it is necessary for reasons of musical logic and not because of technical problems. This is an extraordinary thing in the guitar world. Paolo Pegoraro is, I can only repeat once more, the discovery of the year!” Peter Päffgen - Gitarre und Laute

www.paolopegoraro.com

Adriano Del SalExceptional musical talent, deep artistic sensitivity, and complete technical mastery of his instrument make Adriano Del Sal’s playing unique and unforgettable.

He studied with Stefano Viola and Paolo Pegoraro at the Francisco Tàrrega Academy of Pordenone and at the J. Tomadini Conservatory in Udine, and attended several master-classes with important concert players, including David Russell, Manuel Barrueco, Stefano Grondona, Angelo Giardino, Alberto Ponce and Carlo Marchione.

Adriano Del Sal has won twelve important international competitions, including the Julian Arcas in Almeria (Spain, 2001), the Michele Pittaluga -Città di Alessandria- (Italy, 2004) and the Certamen Francisco Tárrega in Benicassim, (Spain, 2009). He was also awarded La chitarra d’oro (The Gold Guitar Prize), as the best international young concert player of the year.

He enjoys a busy career with concerts in the most important international festivals in Italy, Germany, Mexico, Russia, the United States, Ukraine and Slovenia. He plays a guitar by the German guitar maker Matthias Dammann, with D’Addario strings.

From 2015 he his teacher at the “Universitat für Musik und darstellende Kunst” in Vienna (Austria). He plays a guitar by the German maker Matthias Dammann, with D’Addario strings.

Trio NahualThe Trio was formed in 2001 by three young Mexican guitarists, Mauricio González, Rodrigo Herrera and Josué Gutiérrez. Since their arrival in Italy they have followed specialized courses under the guidance of Maestros Paolo Pegoraro and Stefano Viola that have allowed them to master technique and gain a thorough knowledge of stylistic interpretation. This preparation has allowed them to obtain their diplomas and specialist degrees with maximum marks at the Conservatoire in Castelfranco Veneto and the Conservatoire in Udine, as well as the Diploma of Merit awarded by the “Francisco Tárrega” Academy in Pordenone.

Among the various music courses, seminars and masterclasses the Trio have attended, most noteworthy are those held by Maestros Stefano Grondona, Pavel Steidl and Oscar Ghiglia. With the latter they took part in the guitar and chamber music courses at the Chigiana Academy in Siena, obtaining the Diploma of Merit and the “C. Corsini & F. Basacca” Special Prize awarded to the course’s best student.

A deep understanding and a great team spirit characterise the Trio Nahual in the many concerts given in Italy, Slovenia, Austria, the Czech Republic, Switzerland and Mexico, obtaining widespread approval from the audience and specialized critics. They have also won numerous awards, among which twelve first prizes, in various national and international guitar and chamber music competitions.

In 2008, for the occasion of the final concert at the Mikulov Guitar Festival (Czech Republic), they performed as a quartet with Maestro Paolo Pegoraro in the presence of the renowned composer Leo Brouwer, to whom the festival paid homage. The same year, the Trio Nahual gave the first world performance of the Concerto for three guitars and orchestra by Marco De Biasi. The members of the Trio perform with guitars made by the Austrian luthier Bernd Holzgruber and the Italian liuther Marco Bortolozzo.

www.trionahual.com

OUR COLLABORATIONS

Luigi AttademoGiampaolo BandiniEduardo Baranzano

Manuel BarruecoFrancesco Biraghi

Vladislav BlahaRèmi Boucher

Emanuele BuonoElena Casoli

Cesare ChiacchiarettaAlejandro Córdova

Betho DavezacMarco De BiasiAdriano Del Sal

Aniello DesiderioMarcos Díaz

Marcin DyllaZoran Dukic

Duo Artis Gitarrenduo:Julia Hechler e Christian Zielinski

Duo Marco e Stefano BonfantiDuo Christian Gruber - Peter MaklarDuo Claudio Maccari - Paolo Pugliese

Duo Melis:Alexis Muzurakis - Susana Prieto

Duo SinergieMassimo Felici

Marko FeriGuido FichtnerPaul Galbraith

Margarita García EscarpaPablo GaribayAlex GarrobéOscar Ghiglia

Angelo GilardinoMauricio GonzálezStefano Grondona

Lupita Guillén UtrillaGuitar4mationJosué Gutiérrez

Andrej HeimowskiRodrigo Herrera

HexacordEnsembleTilman HoppstockIvo e Sofia KaltchevGoran KrivokapicDimitri Illarionov

Eduardo IsaacItalian Guitar ConsortCaterina Lichtemberg

Jakob LindbergGoran Listes

Pietro LocattoGabriele Lodi

Evangelina MascardiCarlo Marchione

Claudio MarcotulliPablo Márquez

Lucio MatarazzoMatteo Mela

Lorenzo MicheliAlberto Milani Trio

Aldo MinellaFabio Montomoli

Francisco Morais FrancoFilomena Moretti

Thomas Müller PeringMichal Nagy

Thomas OffermannRaul Olmos

Orchestra Accademia Musicale NaonisOrchestra Regionale del “FVG”

Juan Francisco PadillaStefano Palamidessi

Vito Nicola ParadisoPaolo PegoraroGiuseppe PepicelliCecilio PereraDarko PetrinjakAlvaro PierriPetra PolackovaAlberto PolleselAlberto PonceQuartetto StrehlerGerhard ReichenbachIstván RömerDavid RussellPetr SaidlFlavio SalaAmanda SandrelliMirko SchraderMartin SchwarzSean ShibeMarco SocíasSoloDuoPavel SteidlAlexander SweteTrio de CologneTrio NahualRoman ViazovskiyMarcos Victora-WagnerAlberto VingianoStefano ViolaSabrina VlaskalicMartin WeselyWalter WuerdingerZagreb Guitar TrioMauro ZanattaWalter ZanettiRainer Zipperling

David e Maria Russell

Giampaolo BandiniElena CasoliZoran DukicMarcin Dylla

Paul GalbraithRicardo Gallén

Margarita Garcia EscarpaOscar Ghiglia

Tilman HoppstockCarlo MarchionePablo MarquezMatteo Mela

Lorenzo MicheliThomas Muller-Pering

Marco SociasPavel Steidl

Javier SomozaCarles Trepat

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