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2017-02-19 22:30:22
[…] studies at Indiana University. She was won several awards and competitions, including second prize at the Petar Konjevic International Competition in Belgrade. A student of early music, Latin American music, and jazz, Maja began composing and performing her own works in graduate school. She is distinguished by her passion for improvisation, rare among classical guitarists. Having performed widely in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and throughout the US, Maja is a member of the Minneapolis Guitar Quartet and often performs in the US with (among many) ImprovIsAn’Do and Improvised Ecosystems; in Belgrade with the ImprovE Collective, and with Hungarian violist/composer Szilard Mezei. Maja has taught guitar at the University of Minnesota since 2011. Maja plays a double top guitar, made in West Branch, Iowa by luthier John H. Dick. The Review – What Did I Think? The title of the recording Enchanted Guitar Forest is a pretty spot-on one […]
2015-02-18 22:09:16
The Minneapolis Guitar Quartet will perform with flamenco dancer Colette Illarde at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, in the Pequot Lakes High School auditorium.
2012-03-15 06:01:48
Classical music: What makes the classical guitar and classical guitar music so appealing and so popular?
[…] to have sentiment without sentimentality. This performance came close, but it needed still more impersonality and distance, more attention to structure than content. It needed to be left alone and speak for itself, to let the composer and the score do the heavy-lifting. But the really interesting work, at least psychologically, was the concerto by Rodrigo, which is hardly a major work or masterpiece. The last time it was performed here, by the Minneapolis Guitar Quartet with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra two years ago, it also received an enthusiastic standing ovation. And what for? I found myself asking myself. The music itself is pleasant enough but slight stuff, even second-tier in the large picture. It is mostly scales and arpeggios running up and down the keyboard accompanied by some lovely melodies and rhythms. True, it felt a like cheating when the guitarists amplified their sound through electronic microphones […]
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