2nd Edition – Scient, Safe and Sane

by Sergio Assad

The piece Scient, Safe and Sane was composed specifically for this project by Sérgio Assad, one of the most prolific and recognized living composers for the guitar.

The orchestra is formed by 200 members from over 40 countries across the globe: 10 world famous fingerstyle artists, 20 world renowned classical guitar virtuosos, a bass player, drummer and 168 guitarists that have submitted their home recorded videos online.

Virtual Guitar Orchestra has been gaining worldwide attention, its videos and website have been viewed over 150.000 times and has been featured on many leading classical guitar publications and organizations, including Gendai Guitar Magazine, Classical Guitar Magazine (online edition), Guitar Foundation of America, Guitar Salon International, This Is Classical Guitar and dozens of guitar societies around the world. The project was also presented on the Paraguayan TV station Unicanal.

Artists

Fingerstyle guitar:
Ralph Towner, Peppino D’Agostino, Romero Lubambo, Sylvain Luc, Antoine Boyer, Joe Robinson, Martin Taylor, Miroslav Tadic, Thomas Leeb, Mike Dawes, Don Ross, Alieksey Vianna Classical guitar:
Pavel Steidl, Jeremy Jouve, Pablo Villegas, Antigoni Goni, Fabio Zanon, Jason Vieaux, Adam Del Monte, Margarita Escarpa, Tilman Hoppstock, Fabio Lima, Kevin Callahan, Irina Kulikova, Pablo Marquez, Xuefei Yang, Brian Head, Iliana Matos, David Tanenbaum, Duo Siqueira Lima, Marylise Florid Bass: Benjamin Shepherd Drums: Peter Erskine