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Sasha Savaloni
"...top drawer... lucidly-detailed and duende-tinged performance of Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez"
"...what a sensitive player he is. He seemed to make the guitar sing as his fingers caressed the strings and the audience hung on every chord."
Solo - Guitar
Instrumentation
- Sasha Savaloni - Classical Guitar
Repertoire
Selection of Renaissance works by John Dowland and Robert Johnson
J.S.Bach - Lute Suite BWV 997
Gaspar Sanz - Suite Española
Franz Schubert - Schwanengesang (transcribed for guitar)
Enrique Granados - Danza Española 5, La Maja de Goya
Isaac Albeniz - Asturias
Joaquin Turina - Guitar Sonata
Francis Poulenc - Fancy (transcribed for guitar)
Erich Korngold - Desdemona’s Song, Come away death (transcribed for guitar)
Manuel de Falla - Homenaje pour Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy
Agustin Barrios - Sueño en la Floresta
Brett Dean - 3 Caprichos after Goya
Magnus Lindberg - Mano a Mano
Biography
Classical guitarist Sasha Savaloni is the winner of two of the most prestigious guitar competitions in Europe; the Sevilla International Guitar Competition (2018) and the New Elizabethan Award (2022).
As a soloist he has given concerts across Europe and throughout the UK, performing recitals in venues such as the Wigmore Hall (London), Kings Place (London), Usher Hall (Edinburgh), Sage Gateshead, The Shoe Factory (Nicosia), City Halls (Glasgow), Holyrood Palace (Edinburgh), DIT Conservatory (Dublin), Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the Leeds College of Music as well as performances in festivals such as the London Guitar Festival, St Magnus International Festival, Sul Tasto Paris, Festival de la Guitarra de Sevilla, Big Guitar Weekend, Festival Corde d’Autunno and the Ullapool Guitar Festival.
He has performed as a soloist with orchestras such as the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the European Union Youth Orchestra. He has also given multiple performances and interviews for BBC Radio Scotland’s Classics Unwrapped programme.
Winner of numerous awards and prizes, Sasha has achieved widespread recognition most notably as the winner of the Sevilla International Guitar Competition and the New Elizabethan Award. In 2015 he won 2nd Prize in both the Ivor Mairants Guitar Award and the Miguel Llobet International Guitar Competition in Barcelona, where he also received the Audience Award and Prize for the Best Performance of the Contemporary Work.
In 2014 he was selected by the International Guitar Foundation for its Young Artist Platform and in 2019 he was a Park Lane Group Artist; at present he is a Live Music Now Scotland artist.
Sasha is a passionate advocate of new music and has been regularly active in expanding the guitar repertoire through performing and commissioning new works. To date he has been involved in the premiere of nearly thirty new works.
A committed Chamber musician, Sasha has worked with numerous musicians and ensembles, including collaborations with the Red Note Ensemble, guitarist Sean Shibe, trumpeter Mark O’Keeffe, guitarist Ian Watt, flautist Lee Holland and soprano Alison McNeill with whom he was a Chamber Music Scotland Resident Artist from 2015-2017.
Sasha is a guitar lecturer at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. In 2023 he also completed a doctorate at the RCS and University of St Andrews focusing on performance of Schubert’s music on guitar.
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