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2009
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- Released
Little Princess
for Tzadik
Records
- Released
Sidewalk Blues
for Tonewood
Records
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2005
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- Concert tour with
Dolly Parton
- Released
Roots, Rags and
Blues
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2003
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- Recorded
Masada Guitars
with Bill Frisell and
Marc Ribot for Tzadik
Records. - Released
January 21, 2003
- Concert tours of
Japan, France,
Belgium, Austria and
Hungary
- At the Rebbe's
Table named one
of top CDs of 2002 by
Acoustic Guitar
Magazine
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2002
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- Concert tour of
Japan with Isato
Nakagawa and Sandor
Szabo - March
2002
- Recorded At
the Rebbe's Table
for Tzadik Records. -
Released April
2002
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2001
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- Nominated for
Best Folk Artist,
2001 Minnesota Music
Awards
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2000
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- Concert tours of
Italy and Switzerland
- December 2000
- Recorded
Tanz for
Tzadik Records. -
Released October
2000
- Featured in
Fingerstyle Guitar
Magazine, May/June
2000
- Appeared on
Mighty Real: A
Tribute to
Sylvester by
Djola Branner
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1999
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- Earned a McKnight
Fellowship to notate
and edit the
arrangements on
Neshamah for
publication
- Recorded One
String Leads to
Another, a CD of
original compositions
for Acoustic Music
Records - Released
November 1999
- Recorded
Neshamah,
Songs from the Jewish
Diaspora for Tzadik
Records. - Released
August 1999
- Published The
Guitar of Tim
Sparks, a folio
of compositions from
Guitar Bazaar for Mel
Bay Publications
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1996
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- Published a folio
of compositions
including Balkan
Dreams Suite for
Mel Bay
Publications
- Minnesota Music
Award for Best
World Folk
Artist
- Concert tours of
California, Germany
and Italy, with
festival appearances
at the Chet Atkins
festival, Winnipeg
Folk Festival,
Dresden Guitar
Festival, Cultura de
la Confine - Bologna,
"Mamachitarra" Fest -
Padova, among
others
- Appeared on
Watercolor of
Brazil by
Mandala
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1995
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- Recorded
Guitar Bazaar,
a CD of original
compositions for
Acoustic Music
Records - Released
October 1995
- Published a folio
of songs included on
Guitar Bazaar
CD, Acoustic Music
Publishing -
Osnabruck,
Germany
- Released
instructional video
of songs included on
Guitar Bazaar
CD, Acoustic Music
Publishing -
Osnabruck,
Germany
- Recipient
Jerome Foundation
Travel and Study
Grant
- Tour of Israel
with Crossing
Borders, with whom I
performed on Oud
- Appeared on
One Night in
Paradise by
Cookie Coleman
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1994
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- Recipient
Minnesota State
Arts Board
Fellowship
- Concert tour of
Germany, including
Edenkoben Festival,
Jazz Guitar teaching
residency in
Lisbon
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1993
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- Recorded
Tchaikovsky's
Nutcracker
Suite, exerpts
from Balkan Dreams
Suite,
arrangements of solo
guitar adaptations of
traditional folk
dances for Germany's
Acoustic Music
Records
- National
Fingerstyle Guitar
Championship -
awarded at national
competition in
Winfield, Kansas for
performance of
exerpts from my solo
guitar arrangement of
Tchaikovsky's
Nutcracker
Suite
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1992
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- Appeared on
Dream Cafe by
Greg Brown
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1991
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- Commission to
compose music for
Tienanmen, a ballet
depicting the student
uprising in China,
for Myron Johnson's
Ballet of the
Dolls
- Minnesota Jazz
Society Award for
Best Latin Jazz
Guitarist
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1990
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- Commission to
arrange Carla Bley's
"Jesus Maria" for
guitarist Leo
Kottke
- Debuted Balkan
Dreams Suite
arrangements at
Guthrie Theatre
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1989
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- Minnesota Music
Award for Best
Jazz
Guitarist
- Commission to
arrange Russian Folk
Music for Guthrie
Theatre's Adaptation
of Uncle
Vanya
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1987
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- Appeared on
Vocals by
Prudence Johnson
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1986
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- Published solo
guitar adaptation of
Tchaikovsky's
Nutcracker
Suite - Solo
Guitar
Publications
- Released
Voicings with
Rio Nido
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1985
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- Traveled in
Europe for two months
including extended
visits to Hungary and
Yugoslavia, where I
first became
interested in Balkan
music.
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1983
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- Released Hi
Fly with Rio
Nido
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1979
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- Minnesota Music
Society Award for
Best Acoustic
Guitarist.
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1978
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- Released I
Like to Riff with
Rio Nido
- Appeared on
Back to the
Wall by Peter
Lang
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