photo of Dale Kavanagh

She is a first class musician and performer at the world level.

The Mail Star - Canada

This is one of the most musical recordings of Benjamin Britten's "Nocturnal" that I have ever heard.

Soundboard Magazine - USA

This young artist amazed the Berlin public.

Guitar & Laute Magazine - Germany

Best of all for me was Dale Kavanagh's interpretation of the difficult "Tres piezas" by Rodrigo, which, frankly, I have never heard played better.

Classical Guitar Magazine - England

Tonight Dale played solo - fast, clean, powerful, musical - an incredible concert.

Mannes College, Manhattan, June 2008
Soundboard Magazine - USA

A true poet on the Guitar.

Volks Blatt "Die Kultur News fur Liechtenstein"

Dale Kavanagh has taken the art of pianissimo to a new level. She was able to project even the most inticate arpeggio phrases with absolute transparency.

Washington Post - USA

Upcoming Concerts

May 20, 2012 Stuttgart (Cultur in Bad Cannstadt)
June 2, 2012 Santiago de Compostela/Spanien (mit Duo Gruber & Maklar)
June 3, 2012 Santiago de Compostela/Spanien (mit Duo Gruber & Maklar)
June 15, 2012 Grünstadt (Guitar Gala Night mit Duo Gruber & Maklar – 20h)
June 16, 2012 Weilburg (Spanish Night mit Orch. u. Duo Gruber & Maklar)
June 17, 2012 Bocholt (Bocholter Orgeltage Duo Gruber & Maklar – 18h)
Full list of concerts

News

A little traveling music

May 6th, 1993

Dal-Educated Dale Kavanagh, international guitar virtuoso, was back for a while this winter. But if you blinked, you probably missed her.

This is not the European concert circuit where she has won rave reviews for her musical virtuosity. It’s not even the Sir James Dunn Theater in the Dalhousie Arts Center where she has delighted hundreds with her range and repertoire. It’s her cramped office in the Dalhousie Music Department, and something about the way Dale Kavanagh is playing the short, complicated classical guitar solo suggests her mind is on something else right now. Like the bags she’ll soon be packing. Read the rest of this entry »

Halifax Debut Recital

April 6th, 1993

Guitarist demonstrates light, precise touch.

Classical guitarist Dale Kavanagh has been teaching in the city since September, but few in the musical community knew about it. As a native Nova Scotian, recognition in her home province is slow to come.

But none can shrug off her talent and musicianship after her professional Halifax debut recital in the Dunn last night on the Chamber Music at Dalhousie series. She is a first class performer at the world level. One has the feeling that everyone in Canada is going to know about her in the not too distant future. Read the rest of this entry »

Talent From Canada

June 6th, 1992

Colin Cooper Talks To Dale Kavanagh

The Canadian guitarist Dale Kavanagh won a creditable first prize in the Scandinavian International Guitar Competition in 1988. It was a useful aid in establishing herself as a concert guitarist, and her recital there the following year as an invited guest showed that the award of the prize was not misplaced. Her assured confident and penetrating musicianship are going to make a lot of friends for her in the years that lie ahead. Before that, she had done a couple of other competitions, getting a third prize at Palma, Mallorca, a third prize in Gargnano, and a second prize in Neuchatel, Switzerland. Read the rest of this entry »

The Krakow Festival

April 20th, 1991

Dale Kavanagh played after Sonja, and by contrast hers was a spectacular performance, spirited, impressive, mature and impassioned. She at once put the audience at ease with a definitive rendering of Courante, Ballet and La Volta by Praetorius. (I disagree with Matanya Ophee that because these are dances they should have been taken at a slower pace. This was a guitar recital and not a dance-hall!) Dale’s own arrangement of the Second Movement of the Guitar Concerto by Villa Lobos followed and was even more loudly applauded then the Terpsicore. Read the rest of this entry »