Jordan Naoum

Kishor Gurung Jordan Naoum

Publisher Marketing: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Kishor Gurung is a Nepalese guitarist, and ethnomusicologist. Kishor Gurung comes from a musical family; the first instrument he played was the tabla drums. When he decided to learn the guitar he faced the difficulty of inaccessibility to printed music, recordings and accredited teachers in his homeland Nepal, but he eventually won a full scholarship to study guitar at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Larry Almeida, George Sakallariou and David Tanenbaum and participated in Master Classes conducted by such distinguished international guitarists as Michael Lorimor (USA), Julian Bream (UK), Manuel Barrueco (Cuba), David Russell (Scotland), Jose Tomas (Spain), Abel Carlevaro (Paraguay). He pursued then an MA degree in ethnomusicology at the University of Hawaii as an East-West Centre grantee, following which he has participated in international music seminars and performed in Asia and Europe with favourable press reviews. Kishor is the first Nepali to obtain music degrees from the accredited institutions of the West. In addition to his TV and radio appearances, Kishor has also appeared as a soloist with the Long Island Youth Orchestra of New York.