Tim Sparks

Electric guitar virtuoso Tim Sparks was created Oct 31, 1954, in Winston-Salem, NC, taking his initial music lessons from his moonshiner uncle; while participating in the NEW YORK School from the Arts, he also examined classical electric guitar with Andrés Segovia protégé Jesus Silva. Upon graduating in 1973, Sparks continued tour with an R&B music group, and throughout a stay in Minneapolis he opted to go to the town completely; there he became a member of the classic jazz combo Rio Nido, which documented albums including I love to Riff, Hi Journey, and Voicings before disbanding in 1987. Sparks after that spent another several years discovering musical civilizations from throughout the world, earning a Jerome Base fellowship to review the fado custom in Portugal in addition to earning a offer from Minnesota’s Condition Arts Board to review Eastern Western european music; he additionally performed in a number of regional ethnic works including like the Brazilian group Mandala, the Persian clothing Robayat, and also a Jewish strap. A year following the discharge of his 1992 acoustic guitar version of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker Suite, Sparks received the Country wide Fingerstyle Guitar Tournament in Winfield, KS, and released the single work Balkan Dreams; Acoustic guitar Bazaar adopted in 1995. In 1999 Sparks released One String Results in Another, accompanied by Neshamah, the to begin several selections (Tanz [2000], In the Rebbe’s Desk [2002], and PRINCESS OR QUEEN [2009]) for John Zorn’s Tzadik label.