Guitar Magazine online and «Pluri Art» Center announce joint event – first interactive online master-class with guitar and button accordion concert.
 
Guitar Magazine project  was launched in 2007; for the day, it is recognized among the most competent online guitar resources. Since 2008, Guitar Magazine arranges unique concert programs of the Russian star players of classic and jazz guitar, with on-air broadcasting on the Internet.
 «Pluri Art» Center  started in 2007 as well. Its first project - «Pluri Art Ischia» Festival took place in Forio town of the Italian Ischia island. That time, the musicians staged six opera performances, in framework of Opera Ischia Festival, with the musical background provided by «Pluri Art» international festival orchestra including musicians from America, Europe and Russia.
 «Pluri Art» Center also provides producing and organizes master-classes of various musical instruments.

Guitar Magazine and «Pluri Art» met each other at the concert broadcasting of Artem Dervoed guitarist, performing jointly with the Pluri Art president Yuri Medianik  and the Emotion-orchestra project. At the concert, both “real attendant” and online audiences appreciated the magnificent ensemble of this two instruments – guitar and button accordion. Now we come up to continue the collaboration in another ways as well.
 
Thus, April 22, 2009 (at 19.00 GMT+3.00), Guitar Magazine and «Pluri Art» websites will broadcast online master-classes hold by guitarists, teachers, international contests’ laureates Artem Dervoed and Evgeni Finkelstein, and button accordion players, teachers, international contests’ laureates Yuri Medianik and professor of Gnesin Musical Academy Fridrich Lips. Upon the master-class closing, the musicians will perform several compositions on-air.
 
Four representatives for each instrument will be selected for a 20 minutes personal master-class to be hold for each of them. The participants’ selection is organized in two rounds.
For free participation in the master-class, applicants are encouraged to provide their guitar or, respectively, button accordion playing, an audio- or a video record.  We inquire the records’ publication on the Internet, with a link provided to the master-class organizers. In case of an applicant being unable to publish the record, he/she should provide the master-class organizers with a digital format of the record, so that the organizers publish the material on the Internet.
Deadline for records providing is April 10, including the date.
Public voting round starts after the date. Until April 15, everyone can listen to the records provided, appreciate them and give votes to this or that material.
After April 15, the master-class organizers will select the winner participants. The internet-voting results will be considered for the selection. Names of the winners will be posted on the Guitar Magazine and «Pluri Art» websites.