Worldwide Guitar Connections

Fabricio Mattos - Nazareth House

Juliette Llewellyn 03.06.11 BlackBerry

Fernando Aguera - Nazareth House

Juliette Llewellyn 03.06.11 Blackberry

I really enjoyed the Worldwide Guitar Connections concert in Cardiff recently on Friday 3 June. The event was organised by my guitar tutor Fernando Aguera. Fabricio Mattos was the touring guitarist. He played a variety of guitar music from around the world, including his home country Brazil. A particularly accomplished player, who as one of the other audience members said to me as we were going out, Fabricio was also extremely humble with his talent.

I was also struck by the Worldwide Guitar Connections project itself. It aims to 'present worldwide works exclusively composed for the guitarist Fabricio Mattos, in a way that brings together the conventional means of production of classical music events and social networks, hi-tech innovations and entertainment.'

On the website Fabricio Mattos says:

"I always wanted to find out how I could transcend the everyday life through art and take it to different places and cultures. I wanted to demystify signs to my audience. Create special moments, perpetuate compositions, and generate emotions without words. Instruct musically in a more humane way. The magic contained in arrivals and departures.'

He was successful in this! As well as playing, he also explained about the sound of the guitar. I wish I could write more on the music he played but the programmes were used again at each concert. You wrote a message for the audience in another country to read! I sent a Welsh greeting of course!

Fabricio Mattos has a demanding schedule with Worldwide Guitar Connections and we were very fortunate to have him here thanks to Fernando.