{"id":35,"date":"2019-12-18T15:15:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T15:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mikkellynggaard.com\/?page_id=35"},"modified":"2019-12-18T15:15:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T15:15:49","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mikkellynggaard.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Award\nwinning classical guitarist Mikkel Lynggaard (born 1990 in Denmark) has quickly\nestablished himself as one of the most talented guitarists of his generation.\nHe has performed all over Europe \u2013 both as a soloist, with different ensembles\nand orchestras. His relentless pursuit for the edge of musical expression has\nled him to close collaborations with some of the most exciting upcoming\ncomposers. As a natural continuation of this, Lynggaard has performed at some\nof the most important and prestigious new music festivals in Denmark such as\nPanorama Festival and Pulsar Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2018,\nLynggaard graduated with distinction from the Advanced Postgraduate Program at\nthe Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark, where he had spent the last 8\nyears studying under the tutelage of the acclaimed Danish guitar professor\nFrederik Munk Larsen as well as with professor Antonio Duro at the\nConcervatorio Superior de M\u00fasica, Manuel Castillo in Seville, Spain. I\naddition, Lynggaard has attended masterclasses with a long line of the most\ndistinguished classic guitarists of our time.&nbsp;\nThe jury characterized his debut concert in the following way: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201eMikkel Lynggaard makes his debut with a very\ndiverse program, showing many different sides of the guitar with music ranging\nfrom the renaissance to contemporary music [\u2026]. His own transcription of Bach\u2019s\nBWV 995 was very convincing and exquisitely executed in all regards. In the\nmore quiet and melancholic parts of the concert, Lynggaard showed a great ability\nto create poetic presence. He possesses an effortless technique that allowed\nfor the virtuosic passages to completely flow and blend into the musical\ncontext of the pieces.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Award winning classical guitarist Mikkel Lynggaard (born 1990 in Denmark) has quickly established himself as one of the most talented guitarists of his generation. He has performed all over Europe \u2013 both as a soloist, with different ensembles and orchestras. His relentless pursuit for the edge of musical expression has led him to close collaborations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikkellynggaard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikkellynggaard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikkellynggaard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikkellynggaard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikkellynggaard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikkellynggaard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikkellynggaard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikkellynggaard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}