Bokyung Byun plays Inferno by Brad Richter | Guitar by Masters

"Inferno" is the title of the third movement in Brad Richter's "Devil in the Details". Each movement in "Devil in the Details" pays homage to a musician who was allegedly in league with the devil.
"Inferno" is inspired by the Italian violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini and demonstrates many interesting, unique, and sometimes theatrical characteristics that suit its theme nicely. Watch phenomenal Korean guitarist ‪@bokyungbyun‬'s spectacular rendition of the piece and at guitarbymasters.com, use Brad's detailed comments to help you enjoy it more and learn it faster!
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Video courtesy of Guitar Salon International
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Bokyung Byun was born in Seoul, Korea, and began playing guitar at the age of 6. She took the stage for her first solo recital at the age of 11 and gained national attention through her teen years, having won first-prize in three renowned competitions. Ms. Byun moved to the United States when she was 16 and started attending the Juilliard School. She holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in music from Juilliard and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Southern California. Praised by Classical Guitar Magazine as “confident and quite extraordinary,”
Bokyung Byun​ enjoys a reputation as one of the most sought-after guitarists of her generation. Ms. Byun has won many competitions, including being the first female winner of the JoAnn Falletta International Guitar Concerto Competition. Most recently, she won the 2021 GFA International Concert Artist Competition. In recent seasons, Ms. Byun has performed as a soloist across the United States in orchestral settings and in recitals. She co-founded the Sounding Board Project: The New Music Initiative for Guitarists and Composers to encourage collaborative relationships to create new works for guitar. She released her debut album in 2020.
Brad Richter took an unusual path to his career as a composer, touring artist and co-founder of Lead Guitar, a not-for-profit that provides free arts education to thousands of young people in disenfranchised communities throughout the United States. Richter’s legacy as a performer includes nearly one-thousand concerts in North America and Europe and innumerable appearances on NPR’s Performance
Today. An avid collaborator, his long-term touring partners were cellist Viktor Uzur, with whom Brad recorded three critically acclaimed albums as the Richter Uzur Duo, and guitarist Carlos Bonell, his teacher at the Royal College of Music. A run as solo accompanist for the Grammy-winning Phoenix Chorale and composing Navigating Lake Bonneville, a concert-length work for choir, guitar, percussion, cello, soprano and narrator commissioned by Weber State University stand out in terms of his project-based collaborations. Broadway legend Ben Vereen and Grammy-winners the Pacifica Quartet and David Finckel are among those who have premiered his compositions and arrangements.
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