BGS Presents ...

Daniel Ondaro

June 29, 2026

Cruising the world on a song

Guitarist Daniel Ondaro graduated from CU Boulder’s college of music in 2008 and has played professionally ever since. In 2012 he moved to Berlin, Germany where he worked with a variety of musical acts as a sideman and lead guitar-vocalist. In 2016 he began working as a soloist on cruise ships and has since visited over 100 countries and all seven continents all while performing a request driven show six nights a week. He is currently based in Denver and performs throughout Colorado.

For playing songs by request, Daniel keeps 1450 lead sheets and arrangements on his iPad. He strongly recommends the book Acoustic Pop Guitar by Michael Langer, even though the text is all in German.

Program:

1. Cavatina
2. Prelude 1 by Villa Lobos
3. Capricho Arabe
4. Sons De Carrilhoes (Sounds of Bells)
5. I Can’t Stop Loving You
6. Black Orpheus + A Felicidade
7. A Thousand Years
8. Black and White
9. Get Lucky
10. I Won’t Give Up
11. Just Give Me a Reason

Open Stage Education Time:

• MarkL and RobC
  • Bach: Invention No. 6 in E major, BWV 777
  • Piazzolla: Tango Suite
• LudoM played the first and second movements from …
  • Joaquín Turina: Sonata para guitarra, Op.61
• JeffO
  • showed his recent GFA poster from Symposium for Guitar Scholars:
    Fretboard Exercises for the Mind: the New Pedagogy of Melodic Sightreading
• TobyG
  • John Cage: 4’33”