Reinventing Guitar
New Perspectives in Guitar Sound
Smaro Gregoriadou
A “must-have” for guitar enthusiasts, Reinventing Guitar brings a rich array of novelties from young Greek guitar virtuoso and composer Smaro Gregoriadou. She plays music from the Baroque to the present on three guitars differing in type, number and material of strings, timbre and tunings, all built by Yorgos Kertsopoulos of Kertsopoulos Aesthetics. Kertsopoulos’ instruments blend exhaustive historical and aesthetic research with practical acoustic applications for current audiences.
Smaro’s beautiful performance of the Bach Lute Suite offers the first opportunity for Kertsopoulos’ unique triple-double-single course guitar to be heard worldwide. Her generous album notes, along with color photographs of the instruments she plays, provide an absorbing backdrop for the program. Her own Balkan Dances, based on folk themes and rhythms, are played on two different instruments, true to Balkan folk tradition.
Smaro’s interest and skill in blending old and new has led this intriguing young artist into classical theatre as well: she is a founder of the Echoes Theatre Company in Athens, whose first production, in 2007, was Sophocles’ Antigone in the original ancient Greek text.
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