About Guitaresque

Guitaresque is a Singapore-based non-professional classical guitar quartet. All our members are full-time working professionals but have come together because of our shared passion for guitar music.

We are alumni members of the NUS Guitar Ensemble (GENUS), the premier Niibori-styled guitar orchestra in Singapore, founded by Mr Alex Abisheganaden.

Guitaresque won the first prize and second prize (ensemble) in the 2004 and 2001 Singapore Guitar Festival Competition respectively.



Thursday, October 28, 2010

Goodies from Japan

Recently came back from a trip to Japan (Tokyo). Though it wasnt meant to be a 'guitar-trip' (ie. visiting guitar shops, luthiers, music outlets, that kinda stuff), I managed to pay a short visit to Gendai publication.
















Having previously ordered quite a bit of stuff from Gendai, so visiting it in person was all the more interesting as I've always felt that their English website was not very complete - in the sense that many of the good scores and CDs that were listed in their Japanese (original) website could not be found in the translated website.

Bought a couple of quartet scores, some DVDs and CDs. Though I must admit the prices of these items were really high (for instance, the DVD of Shin-Inchi Fukuda cost about SGD90! ), it was too good an opportunity to let up, so I decided "heck with it" - just buy!