Avi Avital Lessons

[joebrent]

Avi is in New York right now, and is leaving on October 28th. If anyone is interested in taking a lesson, please contact me right away. For those who don't know Avi, he is certainly one of the great virtuosi on our instrument, and is a heckuva nice guy to boot. He is equally well-versed in the Baroque and Romantic repertoire, and has been very active in commissioning new music for mandolin as well. Below are links to his web sites:

http://www.aviavital.com
http://www.myspace.com/aviavital

And here are some YouTubes displaying his amazing playing:

Improvised Poem by Yasuo Kuwahara (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RokcZ33VblI)
Nigun from Bloch's Baal Shem (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBW6p_AvMf0)

[Scott Tichenor]

Ditto, I'll second my appreciation. His playing is simply spectacular. There's an MP3 (http://www.mandolincafe.net/mp3/avital.mp3) from his newest recording, highlighted here (http://www.mandolincafe.com/news/publish/mandolins_00892.shtml). Be sure to play the entire cut. I'm in talks with our local NPR station to do a feature on his music. I'm good friends with the classical jocks there. Shocking, you say?! Who knew?