Michael Chapdelaine

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Michael Chapdelaine is the only guitarist ever to win First Prize in the world's top competitions[citation needed] in both the Classical and Fingerstyle genres—the Guitar Foundation of America International Classical Guitar Competition and the National Fingerstyle Championships at the Walnut Valley Bluegrass Festival in Winfield, Kansas. His performances, played on both steel string and classical guitars, include musical styles ranging from blues to Bach to country to rhythm 'n' blues. In the '80s and '90s Chapdelaine twice won the coveted National Endowment for the Arts Solo Recitalist Grant and took First Prize in both the Guitar Foundation of America's and the Music Teachers National Association's Guitar Competitions. He also won the Silver Medal in Venezuela's VIII Concurso International de Guitarra "Alirio Diaz". He has toured four continents while giving hundreds of performances for Affiliate Artists Inc., and various arts promotion organizations. In 1992 he recorded the Sonata Romantica CD, (now re-released as "Mexico"), about which Acoustic Guitar magazine (January 1993) wrote "... if I were marooned on a desert island with a limited selection of recordings, this one would be among my choices...I have seldom heard a more beautiful album. Other young guitarists have excellent technique, but few have such style and musicality, and Chapdelaine's beautiful tone is the nearest to Segovia's that I can recall." In 1994 Chapdelaine turned his attention to pop music, in arra

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Land of Enchantment

Spanish Roses

Bach is Cool

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Deux Portraits Musicaux

Mexico, Music of Manuel Ponce

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Portrait

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Counterpoint Boundaries, Homage to Michael Hedges

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Romantic Guitar: Love Me Tender

Romantic Guitar: Killing Me Softly

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Romantic Guitar-Love Me Tender (100)

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Guitar By Moonlight: Wind Beneath My Wings

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Fingerstyle Guitar Magazine Issue #35 CD

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