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| Elio Galvagno BiographyThe winner of numerous national and international contests, in 1984 he founded the "G. Cappa," Ensemble devoted to promoting early 19th and 20th century chamber music. His knowledge of Antonio Vivaldi's music often led him to be invited to play as a soloist with leading concert orchestras. He studied Dr. Shinichi Suzuki’s teaching methodology first in Berlin, then in Stockholm. In 1987 he founded the Suzuki Talent Centre in Saluzzo (Piedmont) and was encouraged by Dr. Suzuki himself to begin experimenting with the guitar. In the same period he started the Suzuki Method European Committee and the International Committee for the guitar, to handle all the publications of the "Suzuki Guitar School." The first four volumes (book and CD) of the Suzuki Guitar School have already been published and are available. He was President of the Italian Suzuki Institute since it was founded in 1994, until 2006. He has held seminars on the Suzuki Methodology in Italy, Europe (Lyons, Geneva, Mainz, Stockholm, St. Andrews and Edinburgh), and in the USA. He and his students have played in many prestigious venues and concert halls, including the Sarajevo Library in May 1998 in a concert for the reconstruction of the city’s Children’s Library. He has pioneered the search for a guitar repertoire suitable for three-year-old children and has encouraged manufacturers to build high quality guitars for children. His book "The Child and the Guitar", published by Carisch, describes these experiences. He teaches at the Pescara Academy of Music. |
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