Celebrating Tim Sparks (10/31/1954), a Twin Cities primitive, orchestral, post-modern, eclectic guitarist from Winston-Salem, NC. Sparks studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts with Jesus Silva. In the early 70s, Sparks visited guitarist Tony Hauser in the Twin Cities and eventually moved here. He covers jazz styles from Brazilian to Bebop, and in 1993 won the National Fingerstyle Guitar Championship for his adaptation of The Nutcracker Suite by Tchaikovsky. Tim is also immersed in Greek and Klezmer ethnic music and spent time studying Fado and Portuguese guitar in Lisbon. In association with American composer John Zorn, he has recorded four CDs of Jewish Klezmer music and earned a McKnight Fellowship.
Find Tim’s music here:
https://music.apple.com/lk/artist/tim-sparks/59287801
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