CLASSICAL GUITAR RECITAL
ANTIGONI GONI
MEDIO SIGLO
Saturday June 17th · 7:00 p.m.
Antigoni Goni is one of the great classical guitar performers of today, acclaimed worldwide. She plays regularly with a Romanillos guitar. She also maintained a solid friendship with the guitar maker -and still maintains the relation to his widow Marian Harris. It was from this relationship that the idea for the Medio Siglo project was born more than five years ago...
A GIFT TURNED TRIBUTE
Medio Siglo (half a Century) is a record containing José Luis Romanillos' favourite guitar pieces, performed by Antigoni Goni and the Volterra Project Trio. The guitars used in the recording were the last four guitars built by Romanillos, with the famous "Medio Siglo" among them - hence the name of the project.
Medio Siglo was the planned gift to celebrate the luthier's 90th birthday in June 2022. Sadly, José Luis Romanillos passed away on February 12th, at the age of 89, without being able to see the project completed. Despite this, his widow Marian Harris and Antigoni Goni decided to go ahead with the project until they managed to publish the record and the documentary film that accompanies it.
The presentation of Medio Siglo in Badalona will take place at the Teatre Margarida Xirgu on Saturday June 17th and will begin at 5.30 p.m. with the screening of the documentary film. This will be followed at 7 p.m. by a recital by Antigoni Goni, who will perform many of the works on the album live.
In this concert she will play with two original guitars by Romanillos: the "Marian" and the mythical "Medio Siglo".
The album "Medio Siglo" intends to be a tribute to the sound and art of the distinguished luthier José Luis Romanillos, an expression of gratitude for his unparalleled understanding of his profession, for the depth of his artistic sensibility and for the unique way in which his guitars they are capable of touching the deepest strings of our emotions.
Antigoni Goni
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Antigoni Goni
She is one of the great classical guitar performers of today, acclaimed worldwide.
She studied with Evangelos Assimakopoulos at the Athens National Conservatory, with John Mills at the Royal Academy of Music in London and received master classes from Julian Bream, Sharon Isbin and Oscar Ghiglia.
In the 90's she garnered a long list of prizes in prestigious competitions. Her career blossomed in 1995, winning the GFA (Guitar Foundation of America) contest, which earned her 65 concerts in North America and a contract with Naxos Records. She recorded three successful CDs.
Since then she has performed in the best auditoriums in the world, such as Carnegie Hall (New York), Bolshoi Hall (Moscow), Wigmore Hall (London), Odeon of Herodes Atticus, (amphitheater under the Acropolis in Athens) and in prominent Guitar festivals. throughout Europe, Russia, South America, Malaysia and Japan.
Antigoni Goni founded the Juilliard Pre-College Division Guitar Department at the Juilliard School in New York, which she chaired for 10 years. She was an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University in New York, an Honorary Associate Professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and a member of the Board of Advisors of the Guitar Foundation of America.
Since 2005 she is the director of the Guitar Department of the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, dividing her time between both coasts of the US, Brussels and Athens.
In 2007 Antigoni Goni founded the Volterra Project Summer Guitar Institute, a successful international workshop that Classical Guitar Magazine has defined as "pioneering" and has become an indisputable international reference in the field of classical guitar.
CLASSICAL GUITAR RECITAL
ANTIGONI GONI
MEDIO SIGLO
Saturday June 17th · 7:00 p.m.