Ben Bolt – The Most Amazing Classical Music Guitarist Ever!
Classical guitar player Ben Bolt was performing lead guitar in rock and roll bands at the age of twelve and started playing professionally at age sixteen in Miami, Florida. After high school, Ben left his group to study traditional classical guitar music in Spain. At the age of 19 he studied traditional classical guitar with Andres Segovia in Madrid. Andr?s Segovia, the grand master of the classical guitar, is quoted as saying “Ben Bolt is an innovative guitar performer with beautiful tone.” Segovia personally paid for a scholarship so that Bolt could proceed with his studies at the Musica en Compostela, that Segovia established. Later on in Paris, Ben Bolt sought out and studied with Abel Carlevaro who continued to train Bolt in Brazil at the International Guitar Conservatory. There under full scholarship, Bolt was introduced to much more Segovia educational information and equally crucial to the Carlevaro school of guitar technique. He also started compilling his first collection books of classical guitar tabs and classical guitar tablatures.
Through the following several years Ben Bolt went on to Montevideo, Uruguay, Carlevaro’s home town, to finish his classical guitar studies under the direction of Maestro Carlevaro and Guido Santorsola, the distinguished Italian composer and conductor. Carlevaro invited him to enroll in the 1974 International Guitar Seminary in Brazil under full scholarship. In that very same year Ben won the coveted Merit Prize as Outstanding Student at the First International Masters Class in Montevideo. Bolt is credited with being an innovator in introducing thousands of new individuals to the traditional classical style of guitar playing by way of his DVD videos and publications which use an innovative structure of learning. There was a time when, guitar students were made to learn to read traditional classical guitar music notation at the same time they were finding out how to play the traditional classical guitar which was complicated. Since the publication of Bolt’s traditional classical guitar book/CD packages, beginners are able to play immediately. His guitar tablature system, which uses lines and numbers to show where the notes are on the fretboard, together with the CD recordings empower all students to play. Due to his vision of rendering traditional classical guitar accessible to all types of musicians, the traditional classical guitar is now being experienced by the masses.
A number of Ben Bolt classical guitar publications have become best sellers and his “Anyone Can Play the Classical Guitar” DVD has become a reference source for university guitar students as the authority on basic fundamentals about classical guitar technique. Ben at this time resides in Knoxville, Tn where he teaches all types of guitar. He is additionally Professor of Guitar at Carson-Newman College. He believes anybody can play the guitar as long as they possess these three key components: a good instrument, a proficient teacher, and music that retains the pupil’s interest. Fortunately for avid classical guitarists, Ben continues to release more instructional guitar tab books and DVD videos just about every year covering the compositions of various composers like Bach, Mozart, Pagannini, Tarrega, Sor, and Carcassi.
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