With the opening of the 49th academic year at Saint Louis, guitar courses in the Department of Classical Music, an expected new addition for a.y. 2024/25, also begin.
In the Department of Classical Music, the excellence and innovation of Saint Louis music education blends with tradition to train classical music performers who are at the same time also prepared to interact in work situations related to modern and contemporary music.
A department in the midst of expansion and development, in which pre-academic and academic courses in classical guitar are currently activated and the application for accreditation for piano and singing has also been initiated.
The Classical Music department also has an orchestra conducting course, the only one in Italy with double quintet and orchestral ensemble available to students.
The training ranges from the origins of Classical Music covering all the historical periods in which it has evolved up to contemporary times.
The faculty of the Classical Music Department consists of Gabriele Curciotti, Claudio Ricci, Maurizio Colonna, Stefano Mastruzzi, Adriano Melchiorre, Gianluca Podio and many others.
CLASSIC GUITAR
An academic course that aims at the development and research of one’s personal style in Classical Guitar, from Baroque music to Romanticism to 20th-century and contemporary repertoire, with a focus on literature for lute, vihuela, ancient guitar, transcriptions and performances taken from recordings by master leaders.
Study and use of traditional and contemporary compositional techniques and arrangement for classical sections from trio to quintet to Beethovenian symphony orchestra, aimed at live record and concert productions.
