John Holmquist (1955-2021)<\/p>\n
Inducted 2019<\/p>\n
The outstanding guitarist John Holmquist gained international recognition as one of the leading young performers when he was awarded first\u00a0prize in the Guitar 78 International Competition, receiving a standing ovation. This competition, held every three years at the International Guitar Festival in Toronto, Canada, is the most prestigious guitar event in North America. A New Ulm resident, John Holmquist began his studies in 1972 at the age of 17 with renowned classical guitar performerJeffrey Van in Minneapolis, Minnesota. John continued studies with Mr. Van at the University of Minnesota, receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Guitar Performance in 1978. Further studies were with Maestro Alirio Diaz in France and Canada and with guitarist-composer Gilbert Biberian in London, England. He made his London debut in 1979 at Wigmore Hall, and in 1981 he performed at The Abraham Goodman House in New York City. His superb artistry and dazzling technique earned him critical acclaim from solo and ensemble concerts throughout North America and abroad. For many years John Holmquist was the head of The Cleveland Institute of Music, where he taught classical guitar as well as courses in guitar literature and pedagogy. He published a number of articles and reviews and edited the re-discovered Ten Etudes for Guitar<\/em> by Gilulio Regondi, found in a private collection in Moscow, Russia by Matanya Ophee and published by Editions Orphee. Holmquist was a featured performer on broadcasts over The CBC in Canada, The BBC in England, and National Public Radio in the United States. With an extensive repertoire spanning five centuries, John was also a champion of new music, and as such gave numerous world premieres of compositions dedicated to him. He was in great demand as a teacher and presented master classes at major universities and music institutions around the world, and adjudicated at numerous international competitions. His students have won several top prizes in regional, national, and international competitions. Several of his former students have gone on to establish impressive concert and recording careers of their own. John Holmquist was described by the St. Louis Globe as possessing \u201c\u2026that rare combination of taste and skill\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" John Holmquist (1955-2021) Inducted 2019 The outstanding guitarist John Holmquist gained international recognition as one of the leading young performers when he was awarded first\u00a0prize in the Guitar 78 International […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,6],"tags":[420,308,65,430,57,45,61],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-42","category-inductee","tag-420","tag-guitar","tag-inductee","tag-john-holmquist","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-music-hall-of-fame","tag-new-ulm"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}