Derek Gripper
A polished, nostalgic classical guitar artist.
It took Derek Gripper untold hours of painstaking work to transcribe note-for-note the complex compositions of Malian kora player Toumani Diabaté and find a way of playing them on six-string guitar. The results appeared on his ninth album, “One Night on Earth.” The album created an unprecedented meeting point between the written tradition of Western classical music and the oral tradition of the West African griots...www.derekgripper.com
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Derek Gripper plays classical guitar, specializing in intricate interpretations of Malian kora music and compositions by J.S. Bach.
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Derek Gripper is a classical guitarist from Cape Town, South Africa.
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