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Turan-Mirza Kamal
Turan-Mirza Kamal (1951–2004) was an American-born classical guitarist and composer as well as a chef. Kamal was born in California. Ethnically Kazan Tatar#Kazan .28Qazan.29 Tatars, Kazan Tatar and Nogais, Nogai Tatar, Kamal was raised and educated in Turkey, Switzerland, Spain, England, and France. Kamal studied in his early adolescence under Antonio Ortega (musician), Antonio Ortega, Andrés Segovia, Julian Bream and Spanish composer Emilio Pujol. At 16, he was accepted to The Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music in London, but on his father's urgings attended The University of California, Santa Barbara, California, Santa Barbara. There, he made his professional debut in 1972 at the Lotte Lehmann, Lotte Lehmann Theater at UCSB. That same year, he debuted in New York City at the Spanish Institute. His performance career took him throughout the world, and he continued to perform until an operation on his left wrist hindered his career. Kamal was also a composer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classical Guitar
The classical guitar (also known as the nylon-string guitar or Spanish guitar) is a member of the guitar family used in classical music and other styles. An acoustic wooden string instrument with strings made of gut or nylon, it is a precursor of the modern acoustic and electric guitars, both of which use metal strings. Classical guitars derive from the Spanish vihuela and gittern of the fifteenth and sixteenth century. Those instruments evolved into the seventeenth and eighteenth-century baroque guitar—and by the mid-nineteenth century, early forms of the modern classical guitar. For a right-handed player, the traditional classical guitar has twelve frets clear of the body and is properly held up by the left leg, so that the hand that plucks or strums the strings does so near the back of the sound hole (this is called the classical position). However, the right-hand may move closer to the fretboard to achieve different tonal qualities. The player typically holds the lef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
