sergio assad
odair assad
badi assad
David Russell
New York Times article by Peter Wayner featuring Kevin teaching guitar using Apple's iSight and iChat audio & video conferencing technology: view article or download PDF
"Kevin Callahan is one of the best guitarists I've
had the pleasure to meet in my life."
"Three River Moments"
- by Kevin Callahan
"Three River Moments" was selected as the final exam performance piece at the Royal Conservatory of Music (Bruxelles) guitar dept. headed by Odair Assad. The middle movement (The River Bed ) was recorded by Badi Assad on her Guitar Player Magazine - award winning
"Rhythms" CD, Chesky Records.
Classical Guitar Magazine
- December 2004
"Three River Moments" for solo guitar by Kevin Callahan Editions Henry Lemoine 27 461 HL. 16pp
Three River Moments gets underway with an exceedingly rhythmic and pulsating opener titled Undercurrents. This is a very exciting, vibrant movement chock-a-block with syncopation, various time signatures, percussion and multiple left-hand slurs driving the music ever forward to a breathless 'Bartok' conclusion.
This is followed by the dreamy, almost romantic, middle movement, The River Bed which provides a highly contrasting effect between the first and final movement the title of which is Riptide; another work where the constantly changing time signatures are the chief characteristics in this incessantly moving piece, which, at six pages in length needs quite a lot of stamina.
Three River Moments, in the right hands, could make a stunning repertoire piece but the 'right hands' would need to be very capable indeed; we are talking here of difficulty Grade 8+.
- Steve Marsh
Kevin Callahan's newest composition, "The Seattle Suite" for three classical guitars will be performed by the newly formed group, The Belgian Guitar Trio, at the Royal Conservatory of Music, Mons Belgium. The movements titled "Denny Regrade", "Alki" and "Skid Row" merge classical, jazz, rock, blues and minimalism with tributes to Deep Purple and Jimi Hendrix.
Kevin Callahan's "The Fourth Stream" for solo classical guitar was premiered in England, November 2005. The three-movement work is inspired in part by Gunther Schuller’s term Third Stream, coined in 1957 to reflect the fusion of jazz and classical music. Callahan’s piece incorporates rock music into the mix, drawing from Seattle’s Jackson Street jazz scene of the early 20th century and the city’s late 20th century influence on popular music.
Kevin Callahan teams up with Sergio & Odair Assad (Assad Brothers) and performs trio in concert - January '05
Kevin Callahan performs for Hollywood stars at Ted Danson's (actor)and Mary Steembergen's (actress) home in Los Angeles in support of Heifer Project.- March '05
