Accomplishments
& Awards
Partial Listing
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Recorded Masada Guitars with Bill Frisell and Marc Ribot for Tzadik Records. - Released January 21, 2003. |
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Concert tours of Japan, France, Belgium, Austria and Hungary. |
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At the Rebbe's Table named one of top CDs of 2002 by Acoustic Guitar Magazine. |
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Concert tour of Japan with Isato Nakagawa and Sandor Szabo - March 2002 |
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Recorded At the Rebbe's Table for Tzadik Records. - Released April 2002. |
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Nominated for Best Folk Artist, 2001 Minnesota Music Awards |
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Concert tours of Italy and Switzerland - December 2000 |
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Recorded Tanz for Tzadik Records. - Released October 2000. |
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Featured in Fingerstyle Guitar Magazine, May/June 2000. |
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Earned a McKnight Fellowship to notate and edit the arrangements on Neshamah for publication. |
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Recorded One String Leads to Another, a CD of original compositions for Acoustic Music Records - Released November 1999. |
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Recorded Neshamah, Songs from the Jewish Diaspora for Tzadik Records. - Released August 1999. |
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Published The Guitar of Tim Sparks, a folio of compositions from Guitar Bazaar for Mel Bay Publications. |
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Published a folio of compositions including Balkan Dreams Suite for Mel Bay Publications. |
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Minnesota Music Award for Best World Folk Artist. |
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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. |
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Recorded Guitar Bazaar, a CD of original compositions for Acoustic Music Records - Released October 1995 |
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Published a folio of songs included on Guitar Bazaar CD, Acoustic Music Publishing - Osnabruck, Germany. |
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Recipient Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant |
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Tour of Israel with Crossing Borders, with whom I performed on Oud. |
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Recipient Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship. |
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Concert tour of Germany, including Edenkoben Festival, Jazz Guitar teaching residency in Lisbon. |
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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. |
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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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Commission to compose music for Tienanmen, a ballet depicting the student uprising in China, for Myron Johnson's Ballet of the Dolls. |
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Minnesota Jazz Society Award for Best Latin Jazz Guitarist. |
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Commission to arrange Carla Bley's Jesus Maria for guitarist Leo Kottke. |
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Debuted Balkan Dreams Suite arrangements at Guthrie Theater. |
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Minnesota Music Award for Best Jazz Guitarist. |
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Commission to arrange Russian Folk Music for Guthrie's Adaptation of Uncle Vanya. |
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Published solo guitar adaptation of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite - Solo Guitar Publications. |
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Traveled in Europe for two month including extended visits to Hungary and Yugoslavia, where I first became interested in Balkan music. |
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Minnesota Music Society Award for Best Acoustic Guitarist. |
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