NEWS & UPDATES GSI Foundation Scholar, Ashley Lucero, Visits Music Programs at the Brockton Avenue Elementary School in Los Angeles. Our GSI Foundation scholar, Ashley Lucero, has recently visited the Brockton Avenue Elementary School in Los Angeles to perform three The GSI Foundation Classical Guitar Scholarship is Now Extended to the 2020-2021 Academic Year! We're proud to announce that the GSI Foundation has just extended the GSI Foundation Classical Guitar Scholarship to the 2020-2021 The 2020-2021 School Year is About to Start! Donate a Guitar or Funds to Help Us in Our Mission. The 2020-2021 school year is just around the corner. Everyone is getting ready to go back to school in a GSI Foundation, GSI and Córdoba Guitars become the official sponsors of the IV Granada Guitar Festival! The International Granada Guitar Festival is one of most important guitar festivals in the world nowadays. Guitar Salon International and Virtual Guitar Orchestra’s Performance of “Scient, Safe and Sane” Now Available on the GSI YouTube Channel! 200 players from 40 different countries! We’re incredibly proud to be sponsoring this phenomenal historical performance of “Scient, Safe and Guitar Students Stuck at Home Receive Free Córdoba Guitars from the GSI Foundation! Over the past few months we've been sending out multiple shipments of free Córdoba C3M guitars to Lead Guitar students GSI Foundation and Lead Guitar donate 10 additional Córdoba C3M guitars. In order to make the first two editions of the Lead Guitar Virtual Showcase possible, the GSI Foundation has donated Highlights of the 2nd Lead Guitar Virtual Showcase with Zach Filkins. Watch the full video! Thanks to everyone who tuned in to the 2nd Lead Guitar Virtual Showcase last Saturday (May 23, 2020). We're incredibly The Second Edition of Virtual Guitar Orchestra will be brought to you by the GSI Foundation! CALL FOR DONATIONS! As many of you know the first Virtual Guitar Orchestra’s performance of a new piece by Sergio Assad, “Kaleidokithara” turned Children's Music Workshop and recordings of their Virtual School Orchestras! Children's Music Workshop is a music education company which has been officially supported by the GSI Foundation for many years. Submit your video and join the 2nd Virtual Showcase: Featuring Zach Filkins from OneRepublic! The song "Counting Stars" by OneRepublic is known by almost all of us. Now you'll have a chance to perform Highlights Summarizing the Classical Guitar Virtual Showcase! Thank you to everyone who tuned in to the live broadcast of the 1st Lead Guitar Classical Guitar Showcase last Classical Guitar Virtual Showcase! Donate and help fund music education! GSI Foundation, Cordoba Guitars and Lead Guitar would like to invite you to the Classical Guitar Virtual Showcase - the first online concert of GSI Foundation Scholarship recipient becomes USC's Outstanding Graduate! We've received some great news today. One of the recipients of the 2019-2020 GSI Foundation Classical Guitar Scholarship has become Three of the World's Greatest Guitarists Helping Kids Perform from Home: Guitar Celebrities join the Lead Guitar Virtual Showcase! GSI Foundation and Cordoba Music Group would like to announce that three legendary guitarists have volunteered their time to support New Video: Keeping Music Alive In the Time of Pandemic Imagine being a music teacher and sitting in a classroom full of children excited to finally learn a new song. GSI Foundation donates 50 "Cordoba" guitars to students in the Chicago area. As many of you know, most teaching is now done online during the time of this pandemic. Unfortunately, not all Submit your video and participate with us in the Lead Guitar Virtual Showcase! GSI Foundation in partnership with Lead Guitar and Cordoba Guitars are introducing a new project that everyone can participate in! Music Education During the COVID-19 School Shutdown As many of you know, most schools around the world are closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These difficult circumstances Benton Middle School students perform to thank the GSI Foundation At the end of 2019 Benton Middle School reached out to us asking for help as their old stock of Students awarded with GSI Foundation Scholarship perform at the Brockton Avenue Elementary School Recently, the children at the Brockton Avenue Elementary School had a unique opportunity to hear music performed by the GSI Two USC Students Honored with GSI Foundation Classical Guitar Scholarship The Classical Guitar Department at the USC Thornton School of Music is one of the most prestigious in the country. It Tim Miklaucic Becomes a Board Member of Lead Guitar! As many of you remember, last year we announced our new partnership with another nonprofit, Lead Guitar, the organization Year Three with Children's Music Workshop! For our third year in a row, we’ll be working with Children’s Music Workshop, this year bringing music programs to An Exciting New Partnership! We’re beyond excited to announce a new partnership with the nonprofit Lead Guitar! Lead Guitar is a growing organization that A Well-Deserved Gift Under the direction of Nicolas Montalvo, La Mirada’s Benton Middle School guitar ensemble has grown in the last 5 years Music is Underway at Castle Heights and Brockton Elementary Schools! The GSI Foundation's public school programs have been rolling along smoothly for over a month now! At both Castle Heights An Impactful Anonymous Donation "Speechless" was the way all members of the GSI staff described our reaction to the largest donation to the GSI Announcing a New Partnership with tonebase This month, we are excited to announce our new partnership with music education startup, tonebase. tonebase is an online instructional 2018 GFA Festival - What We're Looking Forward To This year's Guitar Foundation of America Convention officially kicks off next week in Louisville KY, and we couldn't be more Los Angeles Guitar Festival - May 19th This year, we are delighted to be taking part in the Los Angeles Guitar Festival occurring May 19th in Santa GSI Foundation on YouTube Since publishing the first video back in 2009, the aim of the GSI YouTube channel has been to help educate Guitar Fort Worth + GSI Foundation We started 2018 off on a high note by helping set up two new guitar programs in Fort Worth, Texas. GSI Foundation Visits Brockton Avenue Elementary Last week, Tim Miklaucic and Chris Garwood of the GSI Foundation paid a special visit to the Brockton Avenue Elementary Remembering David Yudovin From time to time, a guitar comes to us with the designation “this guitar was donated to our non-profit charitable GSI Foundation Impacts Two LA Schools Sometimes I have a lot of things going on in my life. So I just play the violin because it GSI Foundation - Just a Small Update Larry Newman of Children's Music Workshop just wrote us to say that the children of Sendak Elementary School here in The GSI Foundation: An Update and Thank You Two weeks ago, we sent out a request for help. Our non-profit organization, the GSI Foundation, was trying to raise
