Francesco R.

About Francesco
Francesco Rista is an Italian guitarist based in København. He graduated at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen under the guidance of Jesper Sivebæk and Per Pålsson. He passed the Pedagogy exam with full marks. He has participated in several masterclasses with internationally renowned professors such as Hopkinson Smith, Jakob Lindberg, Viggo Mangor, Elisabeth Zeuthen Schneider, Frédéric Zigante, Raphaël Feuillâtre, Christian Saggese and others. Also active in chamber music, he has participated in several contemporary music festivals, he performed the European Premiere of Nico Muhly’s ‘How little you are’, and he played concerts in Denmark, Lithuania, Switzerland, Iceland, and Italy. He participated in guitar and chamber music courses at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena with Maestro Oscar Ghiglia, obtaining a Diploma of Merit and winning prizes in international competitions in both solo and chamber music. He has an active collaboration with electroacoustic composer Smüss with whom he works with electronic music, and in Reykjavík he has performed Steve Reich ‘s Electric Counterpoint and his Stabat Mater with music by Marco Rosano, Dowland, and Monteverdi arranged for voice, electric guitar, and electronics. He is enrolled in the Post Graduate Diploma at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and in the Master at the Malmö Academy of Music (Lund University) with Göran Söllscher and David Hansson. He recently recorded the J.S. Bach “Second Violin Partita BWV 1004” arranged for guitar with the Label Stradivarius and he previously recorded “Dream” by John Cage arranged for electric guitar and the EP “Serie Paganini/Barrios” with the Capriccio No. 5 and the Prelude in C Minor.

About the lessons
The role of a teacher is very important for the personal and musical growth of the student (and for the teacher), it is a profession that must be taken with absolute seriousness, professionalism but it has to be also fun and motivating for the students. Francesco is dedicating himself to composing and arranging pieces for different instruments in order to make the students enjoy even more the musical experience according to what they like. His teaching method is based on a mix of traditional techniques (Abloniz, Carlevaro, Sagreras, Chiesa), the Suzuki method, new methods inspired by improvisation and imitation (Alberto La Rocca) and his own. All of them are applicable on classical and electric guitar.

The first lesson
In the first lesson the student and Francesco get to know each other and make a program for the future lessons according to the goal of the student. Bringing the instrument is not mandatory for the first lesson if the student has not found a guitar yet. The teacher can help finding the right instrument for the student.