About

Virtual Guitar Orchestra (VGO), a vehicle for community awareness and well-being during the pandemic, was established as the first initiative of its kind to bring guitarists together worldwide. VGO has now gathered more than 1000 guitarists, professional and amateur, from more than fifty countries and was recognized by the Library of Congress as a culturally significant event of the pandemic. VGO has spent the past year helping NAfME and MEA ensembles across the country push through the challenging virtual setting and is looking forward to continue spreading the sounds of the guitar to all corners of the world.

VGO Team

CO-FOUNDER / DIRECTOR

Mak Grgic

CO-FOUNDER / MAIN EDITOR

Uros Baric

CO-FOUNDER / COMPOSER

Sergio Assad

ASSISTANT EDITOR

Doris Cosic

BIO

Doris, a classical guitarist from Slovenia, is currently a senior at USC Thornton School of Music where she’s studying in the studio of Brian Head. She is also pursuing a minor in Neuroscience and hopes to combine the fields of science and music to work on music therapy research in the future. She is a music director of an a cappella group Sirens and they’re currently working on releasing their first EP. In her free time, she volunteers at the LAC+USC Medical Center’s music program and enjoys sharing her love for music with their patients and staff.

ASSISTANT EDITOR

Julián Ardila

BIO

Julián Ardila is a classical guitarrist and composer based in Colombia. He studied at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá under the instruction of José Luis Gallo and Carlos Posada. His various interests in music have led him to develop also as a songwriter, and recently, he has composed and co-produced his first EP (“Buscando”) using the artistic name “Ardila”. On the other hand, he is currently interested in screen media composition, and his role as a composer has allowed him to score original music for audiovisual projects.

ASSISTANT EDITOR

Gary Campbell

BIO

Gary Campbell is a Guitarist from Aberdeen, Scotland, currently pursuing a performance degree at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England. Beginning on Bagpipes, Gary gradually descended in volume through the Electric and Acoustic guitar before settling on Classical Guitar. He is a keen teacher and performer, with a particular interest in musician’s health and wellbeing. Gary has been spending lockdown implementing video and audio production into his practice routine, and looks forward to working with the VGO to find ways to keep musicians connected and performing together. In his free time, Gary enjoys long dog walks, good coffee and fully charged noise cancelling headphones, probably because of the Bagpipes. Gary does have a favourite colour, but doesn’t know what it is, because he is colourblind.

ASSISTANT EDITOR

Roberto Kuhn

BIO

Roberto Hernan Kuhn Versluys is a recent graduate of the Master of Performance at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, studying under the tutelage of Matthew McAllister. Previously he had completed a bachelor in both classical guitar and composition at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
His work as a soloist and as a chamber musician has brought him to different parts of the world including Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Spain, France, Germany, Ireland, England and Scotland. Roberto is currently the administrator for the Guitar and Harp department of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Recently he has become co-director of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Guitar Orchestra working with more than twenty five students from different parts of the country.

Our Collaborators

GUITARIST / ENTREPRENEUR

Stephen Griesgraber

GUITARIST / COMPOSER

Pepe Romero

About

VGO Team

CO-FOUNDER / DIRECTOR

Mak Grgic

CO-FOUNDER / MAIN EDITOR

Uros Baric

CO-FOUNDER / COMPOSER

Sergio Assad

ASSISTANT EDITOR

Doris Cosic

ASSISTANT EDITOR

Julián Ardila

ASSISTANT EDITOR

Gary Campbell

ASSISTANT EDITOR

Roberto Kuhn

Our Collaborators

GUITARIST / ENTREPRENEUR

Stephen Griesgraber

GUITARIST / COMPOSER

Pepe Romero

GUITARIST / COMPOSER

Adam Del Monte