Guitarist STEVE VAI is featured in a new interview with Coe de Kloet, conducted during The Steve Vai Festival which ran from October 20th - 24th in Groningen, Holland. Vai debuted and performed new contemporary compositions which fuse rock music with orchestral sensibilities and arrangements as part of his 'Evo Era', a movement which merges the two genres. The performance features Vai with the Noord Nederlands Orkest (NNO) and also showcases MMIKE KENEALLY performing several Vai piano reductions. This interview was created and broadcast through De Oosterpoort en NTR Radio 6.

As previously reported, The Guitar Institute - part of London’s Institute Of Contemporary Music Performance, in partnership with Steve Vai - would like to remind aspiring guitarists that they need to get their entry into the Steve Vai scholarship competition by Friday, January 7th, 2011 to be considered for this fantastic opportunity.

This scholarship is worth over £7,500 annually, with the award comprising one fully-funded place plus and one partially-funded place on the Institute’s renowned one-year Higher Diploma Guitar course.

To enter the scholarship, which will be for the course commencing October 2011, all you have to do is upload a three minute video performance to the Steve Vai scholarship website before January 7th 2011.

A combination of an expert panel of judges plus public voting will select the finalists and then Steve will be making his selection for this year’s winners.

For more information on scholarships and courses at the Guitar Institute, visit this location.