MusiCurate, The Classical Guitar Magazine

MusiCurate, The Classical Guitar Magazine, is a bi-monthly publication dedicated to the vibrant world of classical guitar. Each issue explores the people, places, and projects shaping the global classical guitar community with in-depth features, thought-provoking articles, and sheet music.

MusiCurate, The Classical Guitar Magazine

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Beyond the Solo Pursuit. • An issue given over to duos and dialogues.

Where the Guitar Goes. • Córdoba to Carolina, St Andrews to Iserlohn. July/August, 2026

A Few Hands on the Score.

We are more than a magazine. • MusiCurate is built by the people who read it. Three ways to get involved.

The Musician’s Dilemma. • Balancing what you want with what your career demands — and why the two need not be enemies.

Finding Harmony Between the Two • Bringing artistry and career logic into balance requires conscious design —not compromise.

How to Buy a Guitar. A luthier’s perspective. • With endless choice and immense variation, choosing a classical guitar is daunting. Two seasoned hands — one with fifty years at the bench, the other fifty-five on the strings — break the decision into three: aesthetics, playability, sound.

The 5-Point Guitar Inspection. • Before you buy, run this checklist to test the instrument’s structural health and playability. Walk away from anything that fails even one.

Guitars are individuals.

Brian Katz. Jazz classical klezmer • A conversation with the Canadian composer, multiinstrumentalist, and Dalcroze pedagogue — and the composer of A Thought, the set piece for our inaugural Arranging Competition.

A Thought, and the open hand.

MUSIC, CURATED BY LEVEL. • EVERY EDITION IS GRADED ON A SINGLE SCALE, LEVELS 00–10. OLD MUSIC AND NEW, EVERY STYLE, CHOSEN FOR THE STORIES THEY TELL AND THE LEVEL YOU'VE REACHED. WE CURATE SO YOU CAN CREATE.

David Leisner. • Patience, recovery, and a lifetime with the guitar.

Jâca. • Two voices, one score.

Duo46. • Four strings, six strings, and twenty-five years of conversation.

Reviews

Liona Boyd, This Thing Called Love. • Boyd was the cover artist of MusiCurate’s inaugural issue. She returns to these pages with the most personal record of a fifty-year career.

Practicing slowly is killing your progress. • “Practice slowly” is terrible advice.

Falling Forward MUSICURATE • On Cloud Path, the Juno, and how vision and revision shape an award-winning score.

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