Simon Thacker - classical guitarist

 

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NEW Nava Rasa CD available here!

 

 

 

 

2012 highlights:

Solo tour of the Highlands Feb

 

Camerata Ritmata new programme tour March

 

Svara-Kanti four world premieres by some of the world's greatest composers on a Creative Scotland supported UK tour.... Full announcement to come (premiere in April at a major London festival)

 

Buxton Festival performances: solo, Svara-Kanti, and Camerata Ritmata in July

 

Svara-Kanti Cheltenham Festival performance July

 

Solo recital at Music at Paxton Festival July

 

many more to come, watch this space....

 

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News.....

 

Nada-Ananda CD review by Jan Fairley writing for The List here

 

Solo University of Aberdeen concert review here

 

Svara-Kanti University of Aberdeen concert review here

 

Nada-Ananda CD review by NADA:BRAHMA here

 

Nada-Ananda CD review by Music Web International here

 

Nada-Ananda CD review by The Classical Review here

 

Nada-Ananda CD review by Inside World Music here

 

Herald interview and Svara-Kanti Edinburgh Mela preview here

 

Great review in Classical Music Magazine (27/08/11 issue) of the Nada-Ananda CD: "the virtuosity of Thacker is matched by sizzling sounds from Jyotsna Srikanth's Indian violin and Sarvar Sabri's tabla playing".

 

Camerata Ritmata's Fringe By The Sea performance reviewed here

 

Nada-Ananda CD review by Classical Music Sentinel here

 

Featured on Mary Ann Kennedy's Global Gathering on Radio Scotland, available for a limited time here (tracks from the Nada-Ananda CD, music from Svara-Kanti and Camerata Ritmata)

 

Nada-Ananda CD review by the Sunday Herald here (reviewer Rob Adams' CD of the week)

 

Big feature in The Scotsman reviewing the new Nada-Ananda CD and profiling Svara-Kanti and Camerata Ritmata here

 

Simon Thacker and The Nava Rasa Ensemble: the new Nada-Ananda CD is now available here. Simon's innovative nine piece Indian/Western project in world premiere recordings of Shirish Korde and Nigel Osborne's groundbreaking new works. Released on Slap The Moon Records.

 

Camerata Ritmata videos posted on : Camerata Ritmata's unique take on Sephardic and Eastern Jewish/Azeri music, as well as a movement from Simon's Cantigas de Santa Maria Suite here.  Reportage with interviews now online here:

 

 

 

 

 Svara-Kanti is a collaboration with three of the UK's very best Indian performers to explore Indian classical, folk and film music merged with contemporary Western classical and jazz sounds. Info and links here

 

 

 

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Welcome..... to the website of classical guitarist Simon Thacker who has attracted the highest acclaim wherever he has performed, from Scotland to Havana, London to Malta. His technical virtuosity and emotionally charged interpretations have established him as one of Britain’s most exciting classical performers. He is Head of Guitar at Edinburgh Napier University and Honorary Fellow in Music at the University of Aberdeen.

 

Simon is renowned for his exciting and innovative projects which showcase the guitar in new and groundbreaking ways, moving and entertaining audiences in equal measure, redefining the limits of the classical guitar.

 

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"Guitarist Simon Thacker transcends the instrument and persuades it to produce music loaded with subtle nuances and character."

Classical Music Sentinel

 

"The guitar is often underrated as a solo instrument, but Thacker demonstrated with startling virtuosity just how versatile and exciting it can be in the right hands."

The Scotsman

 

"Thacker... as well as having the instrumental mastery to play demanding pieces with apparent ease, boasts a disarmingly natural and entertaining presentational style."

The Herald

 

Ensembles.....

 

Svara-Kanti, collaboration with three of the UK's greatest Indian performers to explore Indian classical, folk and film music merged with contemporary Western classical and jazz sounds

 

Cross genre group Camerata Ritmata, with leading jazz and world musicians.

 

Simon Thacker and The Nava Rasa Ensemble, ambitious  intercultural project, 9 of the UK's finest Western/Indian classical musicians, 2 new concerti

 

Unique duo and quintet programmes with the exquisite voice of All Angels' Daisy Chute.

 

Celebrated voice and guitar duo ¡Canto vivo!, featuring the stunning Maltese soprano Claire Debono.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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