The VIDA Guitar Quartet will be performing at the Gevelsberg Guitar Festival, Germany, and the Exeter Guitar Festival. More details and latest info from vidagq.com

The Eden Stell Guitar Duo will be performing at the prestigious Omni Guitar Series in San Francisco on Saturday 27 February 2010. The Omni Foundation for the Performing Arts has been presenting guitar concerts for 29 years in the San Francisco Bay area.

Although the series presents acoustic guitarists of all genres, such as flamenco, jazz and fingerstyle, the primary focus is on the classical guitar. The series is the longest running and most extensive guitar series in the United States and is considered to be one of the foremost guitar series in the world.

As well as the Eden Stell Guitar Duo this years series includes artists such as Pavel Steidl, Tommy Emmanuel, Kazuhito Yamashita, Roland Dyens, Pepe Romero and Manuel Barrueco amongst others.

“VIDA Guitar Quartet’s debut recording is impressive indeed. Why? Because it’s so easy to imagine you’re listening to an entire orchestra and not merely to four guitars.” GramophoneMarch 2010 RECOMMENDS the VIDA GQ’s CD ‘Love, the Magician’ BGS118.

“Throughout, the Quartet succeeds in bringing out the narrative and dramatic qualities implicit in the music through a combination of exquisite tonal and dynamic control, super-tight ensemble and unerring musical instinct. Listen to the confident sweep of rapid figures in the frenzied “Danza del terror” fromEl Amor Brujo and the beautiful transparent “Romance del pescador” from the same; or the beguiling sensuality of the “Habanera” and virility of “Toreadors” from Carmen Suite. There’s only one word for it: magic”