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Classical, Spanish and original music for solo guitar with lilting, romantic beauty
Genre:
Classical: Contemporary
Release Date:
2001
Albums you will love
Kevin Ramessar
Sojourn
Classical: Contemporary
Kevin Ramessar
Acoustic Christmas
Folk: Fingerstyle
Echoes: The Sacred Dance
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Record Label: Chestnut Hall Music
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Ramessar... possesses musicianship to die for."
(The Kitchener-Waterloo Record)
A two-time winner of First Place for guitar at the Canadian Music Competitions, Kevin Ramessar has delighted listeners and critics with music that is "passionate," "beautifully contemplative," "lyrical," and "entirely satisfying."
He has performed extensively across Canada with airplay on CBC and several other television and radio programs, and has made several appearances in Europe, including a performance at the Lugano Jazz Festival on trumpet.
Kevin has appeared at the National Arts Centre, the Glenn Gould Studio, and has been featured with several Symphonies and has performed at numerous music festivals, including the prestigous Stratford Festival, Ontario, Canada.
He has been involved in numerous recording projects, and his most recent release, Echoes: The Sacred Dance evoked positive reviews from CBC's Howard Dyck and WholeNote magazine. His world fusion ensemble, The Ramessar Quintessence, was recently awarded a FACTOR grant to produce a studio demo of Joy Go With My Love, the title track of the group's upcoming CD.
Kevin earned his Bachelor of Music in Classical Guitar Performance from Wilfrid Laurier University. During his studies there, he was awarded the prestigious Maureen Forrester Performance Scholarship and the Garfield Weston Scholarship, graduating with the Gold Medal in 2000.
Abroad, Kevin has enjoyed performing with such artists as Randy Brecker, Danny Gottlieb, Bill Pierce, Wayne Bergeron, Skip Norcott, Mark Soskin, and Mike Richmond. Locally, he has shared the stage with Dave Wiffen, Drew Waters, Da Capo Chamber Choir, and actor Ted Follows.
Kevin and his family currently live in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, where he is in high demand as a performer, recording artist, clinician and teacher.
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...an evocative album that deserves much attention.
author: The WholeNote Magazine
In his music Kitchener-Waterloo guitarist Kevin Ramessar hears “the invitation of the Dancer, calling me ever closer into a dance with Him…” This disc is Ramessar’s own invitation to join him in that dance. But do not expect Bacchanalian excesses here: though the playing is often passionate, it is always restrained – beautifully contemplative most times....
Ramessar’s debut CD offers a selection of less familiar works by well-known composers complemented by improvisations of his own.
...Ramessar’s technique is impressive...
The intimacy of Ramessar’s playing is captured by the close miking and ambient recorded sound. Obviously this is a very personal project for the talented guitarist – it’s as if Ramessar were inviting the listener to simply stop and admire the music’s (and his) many nuances. Echoes is an evocative album that deserves much attention.
---Kevin McMillan, Wholenote Magazine, October 2002
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Ramessar’s playing captures the dramatic tension that results when [the temporal
author: Howard Dyck, CBC / The Kitchener Record
This delightful recording by Waterloo classical guitarist Kevin Ramessar cuts a broad stylistic swath, and the result is entirely satisfying. The repertoire includes music by Barrios, Bach, Albeniz, Brouwer and Guiliani, as well as a couple of charming improvisations by the performer.
Ramessar is clearly an accomplished guitarist. Intonation, agility, tone, phrasing – all of these key elements are securely in place. But he is also a thoughtful musician. He sets out the premise of the recording when he writes, “In the music we listen to, in the things we create… in relationships and even in ourselves, we hear echoes of something beyond, of a reality that transcends our own.”
Listening to this thoroughly engaging CD and thinking about Ramessar’s ideas, I was reminded of Bach, for whom all music was a great cosmic dance between the temporal and the ineffable worlds.
Ramessar’s playing captures the dramatic tension that results when those worlds intersect.
--- Howard Dyck is host of CBC Radio’s Choral Concert and Saturday Afternoon at the Opera. He is also artistic director of the K-W Philharmonic Choir. His classical CD reviews appear monthly.
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