"I love D'Addario strings since I started playing the guitar. Then I was proud when John D'Addario asked me to join the artist roster in 1996."
Dale Kavanagh
"The best result on all my various guitars comes from XT Classical Silver Plated Copper strings. They tune quickly and last long."
PRODUCTS Dale Kavanagh USES
ABOUT Dale Kavanagh
Canadian-born Dale Kavanagh is one of the guitar world's most gifted interpreters. Between 1986 and 1988 Ms. Kavanagh was a top prize-winner in Spain's" Segovia Competition," Italy's "Gargnano Competition," Switzerland's "Neuchatel Competition," and First & Special Prize winner in Finland's "Scandinavian International Guitar Competition."
Dale Kavanagh received her Bachelor of Music degree at Dalhousie University in Canada, then completed her graduate studies with the Solisten Diplom at the Musik Akademie der Stadt Basel with Oscar Ghiglia in Switzerland.
Kavanagh performs internationally as a soloist and in the Amadeus Guitar Duo with German guitarist Thomas Kirchhoff and has given recitals in more than 70 countries. She is a regular recitalist and teacher in guitar and music festivals in Canada, Turkey, Poland, Germany, Holland, Sweden, Hungary, England, Argentina, Mexico, China and the United States and has given more than 2,000 concerts around the world.
Many composers have written works for Dale Kavanagh such as Carlo Domeniconi, Roland Dyens, Jaime M. Zenamon, Stephen Dodgson, and Harald Genzmer. Her fourteen CDs have received superlative reviews in international magazines including Classical Guitar Magazine, Fanfare-Magazine, Fono-Forum, Hi-Fi-Vision, Staccato, Soundboard Magazine, and many others. Together with her husband (and partner in the world-famous Amadeus Guitar Duo) and daughter Melissa, she lives in Germany and Canada.
Kavanagh is also a composer and has her works published with Chanterelle, Edition Margaux and Hubertus Nogatz Verlag. She has written works for the Giampaolo Bandini, Aniello Desiderio, Zoran Dukic, Jorge Caballero, Iliana Matos, ChromaDuo, Marlow International Youth competition and many more.