Seminar

"The modern guitar making new techniques"

 

TRAINING
October 2003: a course in ecological design in Dornach (Basel), Switzerland.
1998-present: courses in organic architecture taught by Enzo Nastati and   Maurizio Lazzarotto in Monselice (Italy).

1992: won a scholarship to "Centro Europeo di Venezia per i Mestieri della   Conservazione del Patrimonio Architettonico" 

1979-1982: studied guitar with Prof. Angelo Amato, a A. Segovia student 
1975-1990: apprenticed to master craftman Giuseppe Bullo in Chioggia;

studied carving, sculpting, guilding, restoration, French polishing,

furniture making, luthiery, etching and printing.


CONFERENCES, EXHIBITS AND OTHER
May 2005: held a presentation in Rovigo (Italy), entitled "The Music

Box, birth of the modern six-string guitar, from 1780 to present"

Oct-Dec 2004: taught a carving course at "La Comunità Diurna

di Campalto   (Venice)" - a clinic for former drug-addicts.

February 2004: presentation in Figline Val D'Arno on guitar making
April 2004:  exhibited guitars at the Luthiery Exhibit in Adria (Italy)
2003:  exhibited guitars at the Luthiery Exhibit in Ales sandria (Italy)
May 2003: exhibited custom-made furniture at the Sample Trade Fair 

"Ecological Design" section - in Padua (Italy)

June 1999: partecipation at the Medieval Fair in Chioggia (Italy)
June 2000: typical medieval wood-carving techniques and decorations 

World famous guitar players (Filomena Moretti, Massimo Scattolin,

Ennio Guerrato)  as well as numerous professors at music

conservatories in Italy play Enzo Guido instruments.