march 7, 2009
Benjamin Verdery, Artistic Director
Robert Blocker, Dean
Made possible with the generous support of
Robert Blocker, Dean
March 7, 2009
Welcome to the Sixth Yale Guitar Extravaganza. At a time when there is an abundance of theme-related concerts and festivals, I’m glad to say that in putting this Extravaganza together, I really had no theme in mind.
But perhaps that is not entirely true. I have always loved the extraordinary diversity of players and the wide range of repertoire the guitar continues to ofer us. We begin (as we always have done) with an ensemble of Suzuki guitar students and end with one of the instrument’s foremost virtuosi (as well as a Yale graduate and founder of the guitar department), Eliot Fisk.
So perhaps diversity is my theme -- from the breadth of the repertoire performed, the range of ages of the players, and even to the variety of the guitars played. We will hear a Baroque guitar, an electric instrument, and, of course, the classical guitar all within the span of a single day. We will hear great interpretations from Eliot Fisk, Seth Josel, and Jerry Willard, as well as original compositions played the exquisite guitarist-composer Gyan Riley.
In addition, there will be lectures discussing new and inventive methods of teaching the guitar in high schools, the importance of Body Mapping as it pertains to playing, and a panel discussion on composing for the guitar featuring three world-renowned composers who have written for the instrument in some of its many shades.
Finally Jerry Willard and I will be giving master classes that will, we hope, speak to the needs and ideas among the variety of players and personalities that play the instrument.
The Sixth Yale Guitar Extravaganza, in other words, is part of a lifelong celebration of our beloved instrument and its extraordinarily rich range of expression.
I would like to thank the Yale School of Music and its wonderful staf, the University itself, and the always generous and supportive D’Addario Foundation for the Performing Arts.
Finally: A huge thank you to all the performers and panelists for sharing their great energy and reminding us of the gif of experiencing music live. And many thanks to you, the audience, for joining us. Without you, it would not be nearly as fun.
Peace, Love and Guitars!
Benjamin Verdery Artistic Director
Associate Professor of Guitar, Yale School of Music
Schedule of Events
Registration · Lobby of Sprague Memorial Hall
Concert · Morse Recital Hall
Hartt Suzuki Guitar Ensemble
Hartt School of Music
David Madsen, director
Heritage High School Guitar Ensemble
Kevin Vigil, director
Lecture · Room 305
Jerald Harscher
Body Mapping for Guitarists
Master Class · Sudler Recital Hall
Benjamin Verdery
Lecture · Sudler Recital Hall
Seth Josel
Classic Electric Guitar: The first 40 years
Made possible with the generous support of the D’Addario Foundation for the Performing Arts
Concert · Morse Recital Hall
Jerry Willard
Baroque and classical music on period instruments
Master Class · Sudler Recital Hall
Jerry Willard
Featuring repertoire for the baroque and classical guitar
Lecture · Room 305
Kim Perlak and Kevin Vigil
The Guitar in Education
Panel Discussion · Sudler Recital Hall
Martin Bresnick, Ingram Marshall, & Jack Vees
Moderated by Ben Verdery
Composing for the classical guitar: three composers who do not play the guitar
Concert · Morse Recital Hall
Seth Josel and Gyan Riley
Concert · Morse Recital Hall
Eliot Fisk
Morse Recital Hall is on the 2 nd Floor, Sprague Memorial Hall, 470 College Street
Room 305 is on the 3 rd Floor, Sprague Memorial Hall, 470 College Street
Sudler Recital Hall is on the 2 nd Floor, William L. Harkness Hall next to Sprague
Hartt Suzuki Guitar Orchestra Heritage Guitar Ensemble
Christopher Madsen, Director
Led by Christopher Madsen and Jim Rickevicius Hartford, Connecticut
hector ayala 1914-1990
henry purcell
1669-1695
celso machado
b. 1953
luis r. miranda 1875-1949
Celeste y Blanco
Kayden Behan
Allegro Molto
Hartt Suzuki Guitar Ensemble III
Sambinha
Kimberly Jackman
Emmett Moberly-LaChance
Impromptu Danza
Sarah Neale
Chas Pfeifer Coached by Renaldo Guadalupe
william brade 1560-1630
jerry douglas
b. 1956
edvard grieg 1843-1907
Galliard
Hymn of Ordinary Motion
Hall of the Mountain King
Kevin Vigil, Director Leesburg, Virginia
jeffrey tanner
leo welch
andrew creel
miroslav loncar
Moonlight Dance (2008)
Middle Fork (2005)
Mortality (2009)
Blues Suite (2008) Early Morning Blues Melancholy Blues partytime
The Hartt Suzuki Guitar Orchestra
Heritage Guitar Ensemble
Kyle Ali
Ernie Andreoli
Alex Baker
Kayden Behan
Mia Bell
Jake Bell
Joshua Bobruf
Elizabeth D’Andrea
Nicholas Grottole
Christina Guertin
Richard Hansen
Joey Hochman
Kimberly Jackman
Mason Johnson
Abigail Koch
Miles Knight
Tate Knight
Lia LaPrise
Emmett Moberly-LaChance
Sarah Neale
Chas Pfeifer
Natty Pinkes
Sam Ravech
Alexandra Walsh
Alan Alberro
JT Bangert
Mitch Blankenship
Wesley Carey
John Castilon
Taylor Coleman
Andrew Creel
Schawn Groover
Andrew Holcomb
Michael Houman
Deric Lambdin
Michael Munno
Ryan Odom
Jake Pauly
Christina Pender
Will Preston
Harrison Schonberger
Charles Simmons
Amy Spiers
Eric Stanley
Nicole Waletzki
Andrew Weed
Jerald Harscher Body Mapping for Guitarists
Musicians all over America are sufering from pain and limitation in their playing, many to the point of losing their careers. Most of these musicians hurt because they misuse their bodies, not because of disease or structural anomalies. Music medicine is relevant to a minority of sufering musicians; most require information and retraining.
Music teachers have long had to teach without an efective way of conveying information about the instrument that every musician plays – the body. Until now, music teachers conveyed information about movement intuitively, or by use of imagery, sometimes with misuse built in. Now there is a better resource.
We all have body maps in our brains. We formed these maps in infancy and childhood, and continue to refine them based on novel experience into adulthood and throughout life. Our body maps are maps of the structure, function, and size of our bodies and they govern all our moving.
If our maps are accurate and are adequately detailed, we move with freedom and ease. If they are inaccurate or not detailed enough, our movement is tense, awkward and uncoordinated. The better our body maps, the better our playing, and the more fully we can express our music.
In my teaching I work with students to correct and improve their body maps, so that they can play better. As a member of Andover Educators, I belong to a network of music teachers saving, securing and enhancing careers in music with accurate information about the body in movement. The organization was founded by Barbara Conable, author of several books for musicians including What Every Musician Needs To Know About the Body and The Stuctures and Movements of Breathing – A Primer for Choirs and Choruses. I am currently collaborating with Ms. Conable on a book for guitarists, What Every Guitarist Needs to Know About the Body. — Jerald Harscher
“Jerald Harscher’s Body Mapping is a brilliant tool not only for guitarists, but for anyone who moves. I learned more about a musician’s body in 60 minutes than I had in six years of college.”
— Scott Tennant
Benjamin Verdery Jerry Willard
Performers are students of Kevin Vigil
federico moreno torroba 1891-1982
Allegretto from Sonatina
Andrew Holcomb, guitar
vincent lindsey-clark
Pulsar
Ryan Odom, guitar
johann sebastian bach 1685-1750
Allegro
Fom Prelude, Fugue and Allegro, BWV 998
Tommy Glashausser, guitar
Classical Guitar, Patrick Caruso, 1999
gaspar sanz 1640-1710
santiago de murcia 1673-1739
Clarines y Trompetas
Maricapalos
Canarios
Pavanas
Canarios I & II
Prelude and Allegro
Sarabanda
Menuet Gigue
Nineteenth-Century Guitar, François Lacote, ca. 1820
mauro giuliani 1781-1829
johann kaspar mertz 1806-1856
Andante and Rondo from Opus 17
Fantasy on Traviata
Jerry Willard
johann kaspar mertz 1806-1856
johann sebastian bach 1685-1750
Hungarian Fantasy
Christopher Mallett, guitar
Adagio and Fugue
From Violin Sonata No. 1, BWV 1001
Simon Powis, guitar
Seth Josel and Gyan Riley
morton feldman 1926-1987
The possibility of a new work for electric guitar (1966)
I. Version No. 1—Realization Chrisitan Wolf ’s redition, July 1966
II. Version No. 2—Josel Reconstruction (first performance)
michael fiday b 1961 peter ablinger b. 1959
Kim
Perlak and Kevin Vigil
The Guitar in Education
Examining the role of the guitar in public education from the views of administrators, guitar teachers, and musical colleagues, including band, choral, and string teachers. Vigil and Perlak will introduce and demonstrate current instructional practices and relate them to the overall mission of public schools.
Martin Bresnick, Ingram Marshall, & Jack Vees
Composing for Classical Guitar
Moderated by Ben Verdery
Composing for the classical guitar: three composers who do not play the guitar
gyan riley b. 1977
Slapback for electric guitar and delay unit (1977)
63-88” from “1-127” for electric guitar and CD (2002)
Seth Josel, guitar
Intermission
Four Etudes
The Changes Stay the Same
Zonata
II. Uspavanka for Téa
III. Tohm Tan
Gyan Riley, guitar
Seth Josel gratefully acknowledges the generosity, support, and trust of three parties in connection with the Feldman reconstruction: Christian Wolf · Charles Amirkhanian and “Other Minds” in San Francisco · The Paul Sacher Stifung in Basel
Eliot Fisk
Benefit appearance
joaquin turina
1882-1949
regino saniz de la maza
1896-1981
Fantasia Sevillana, Op. 29
Three Pieces for Guitar
El Vito
Petenera Zapateado
domenico scarlatti
1685-1757
trans. eliot fisk
johann sebastian bach
1685-1750
trans. eliot fisk
Four Sonatas
luciano berio
1925- 2003
robert beaser
b. 1954
niccolò paganini
1782-1840
trans. eliot fisk
Prelude, BWV 999
Ciaccona from BWV 1004
Intermission
Sequenza XI dedicated to Eliot Fisk
Shenandoah
Three Capricci
Martin Bresnick
Martin Bresnick was born in New York City in 1946 and his principal teachers of composition include György Ligeti, John Chowning, and Gottfried von Einem.
Presently Professor of Composition and the Coordinator of the Composition Department at the Yale School of Music, he has also taught at many prestigious schools including the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Eastman School of Music, Oxford, and the Royal Academy of Music. Mr. Bresnick was elected to membership of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2006.
Mr. Bresnick’s compositions cover a wide range of instrumentation, from chamber music to symphonic compositions and computer music. His orchestral and chamber music has been performed by ensembles around the world. He has received many prizes including a Fulbright Fellowship, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Elise L. Stoeger Prize for Chamber Music, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
www.martinbresnick.com
Eliot Fisk
A creative innovator linked to the great romantic tradition of the past, guitarist Eliot Fisk is one of the most exciting and unique artists before the public today. In June of 2006, by order of King Juan Carlos of Spain, Fisk was awarded the Cruz de Isabel la Católica for his service to the cause of Spanish music.
He has performed to dazzling acclaim in recital, as soloist with major orchestras, and in chamber music combinations and in 1996 in a command performance in Granada, Spain, for King Juan Carlos and then-President Bill Clinton. Fisk has expanded the repertoire for the guitar through groundbreaking trans-criptions as well as commissions from leading composers as varied as Luciano Berio and Wiliam Bolcom. His transcriptions and editions are published by Universal, Presser, Ricordi and Guitar Solo Publications. Fisk’s many recordings for the Musical Heritage Society, DGG, Arabesque, and EMI have elicited unqualified praise and even entered the Billboard charts.
His forays into unconventional territory have included collaborations with Ute Lemper, Burhan Öçal, Joe Pass, Paco Peña, and recently Angel Romero. He is the founder and director of Boston Guitar Fest. The last direct pupil of Andrés Segovia, Fisk also studied interpretation under legendary harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick at Yale University. He devotes considerable energy to teaching at the Universität Mozarteum (Salzburg) and the New England Conservatory.
Jerald Harscher is a performing guitarist and educator who teaches Body Mapping courses to help musicians and their students free themselves from vulnerability to injury, pain and limitation. His forthcoming book “What Every Guitarist Needs to Know About the Body” will contribute in a new way to the foundations of guitar training and the art of guitar performance.
As a guitarist, Jerald studied under Aaron Shearer, Benjamin Verdery, and Richard Provost. He holds a MM in Guitar Performance from Yale University School of Music. Jerald is a member of Andover Educators – a network of music educators saving, securing and enhancing careers in music with accurate information about the body in movement.
www.jeraldharscher.com
Ingram Marshall, composer, studied at Columbia University and California Institute of the Arts, where he received an M.F.A., and has been a student of Indonesian gamelan music, the influence of which may be heard in the sloweddown sense of time and use of melodic repetition found in many of his pieces. In recent years he has concentrated on music combining tape and electronic processing with ensembles and soloists.
His music has been performed by ensembles and orchestras such as the Theater of Voices, Kronos Quartet, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, and American Composers Orchestra. He has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation, Fromm Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
www.ingrammarshall.com
Kim Perlak is a classical guitarist whose versatile and inclusive approach to the instrument has made her a sought-afer performer, scholar, and educator. A specialist in American music, Kim’s solo and chamber performances of new classical works and collaborations with jazz and traditional players have been featured on concert series and programs across the country, including the National Guitar Workshop, National Public Radio, and CBS Sunday Morning. As an American music and cultural scholar, Kim is a frequent lecturer. Her doctoral treatise, “Finding a Voice in the American Guitar Vernacular,” has been nominated for the 2008-9 Outstanding Dissertation Award at the University of Texas at Austin.
As an educator, Kim has fostered programs that integrate performance, scholarship, and outreach. She serves on the faculty and has authored curricula for Concordia UniversityTX, the National Guitar Workshop, Austin Community College, and co-founded the Educational Outreach Program of the Austin Classical Guitar Society. Her performance outreach programs have been sponsored by Loyola University – NOLA, Carolina Center for Leadership and Engagement in Music, and Center for Southern African American Music.
Kim Perlak holds degrees from Stetson University (BM ’98), Yale University (MM ’01), and University of Texas at Austin (DMA ’08).
Gyan Riley is an equally strong presence in the worlds of classical guitar and of contemporary music. While studying as the first fullscholarship guitar student at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, he received a recording contract for his debut CD of original works, Food for the Bearded, released in 2002 on New Albion Records. He has since expanded his career as a composer and instrumentalist, receiving commissions from the Carnegie Hall Corporation, the New York Guitar Festival, the Paul Dresher Ensemble, and the Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center.
He has performed throughout 10 European countries and across the U.S., both as a soloist and in ensemble with various artists such as Zakir Hussain, Michael Manring, Dawn Upshaw, the San Francisco Symphony, the Falla Guitar Trio, the World Guitar Ensemble, and his father, the composer/pianist/vocalist Terry Riley. As a teacher, Gyan has served on the faculties at Humboldt State University, Cal State University East Bay, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Highlights of Gyan’s 2009 schedule include a ten-concert tour of Ireland and a performance at Carnegie Hall.
www.gyanriley.com
Jerald Harscher
Ingram Marshall
Kim Perlak Gyan Riley
Jack Vees, composer and electric bassist, is operations director of the Center for Studies in Music Technology. He received his M.F.A. in composition from the California Institute of the Arts, where he studied with Louis Andriessen, Vinko Globokar, and Morton Subotnik. He is active in the international arena as both a performer and a composer, having works played at sites from CBGB’s of the downtown New York scene to such festivals as the Berlin Biennale and New Music America. Many contemporary music groups like Ensemble Modern, Zeitgeist, and the California Ear Unit have commissioned pieces from him.
A collection of his works entitled Surf Music Again is available on the CRI/ Emergency Music label. His opera Feynman, for solo voice and percussion, was premiered in June 2005 at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and later performed at the Knitting Factory in New York City. He is also the author of The Book on Bass Harmonics, which has become a standard reference for bassists since its publication in 1979. Mr. Vees joined the Yale faculty in 1988.
Benjamin Verdery, guitarist and composer, has been chair of the guitar department at the Yale School of Music since 1985. Distinguished as “an American original, an American master” by Guitar Review Magazine and “iconoclastic” and “inventive” by the New York Times, Benjamin Verdery has enjoyed an innovative and eclectic musical career. Since his 1980 New York debut with his wife, flutist Rie Schmidt, Benjamin has performed throughout Europe, Asia and North America and has recorded and performed with such diverse artists as Frederic Hand, Leo Kottke, Anthony Newman, Jessye Norman, Paco Peña, Hermann Prey, and John Williams. Benjamin has released over 15 albums, his most recent, Branches (Mushkatweek) featuring arrangements of works by Bach, Mozart, Strauss, and Hendrix, and the traditional Amazing Grace.
A prolific composer, Benjamin Verdery has had many compositions performed and published over the years. Most recently, Now and Ever for David Russell and Peace, Love and Guitars for John Williams and John Etheridge.
Benjamin Verdery is Artistic Director of the Yale Guitar Extravaganza and Art of the Guitar at the 92 nd St Y (NYC), conducts an annual master class week on the Island of Maui (Hawaii), and is an honorary board member of the Suzuki Association of the Americas, Inc.
www.benjaminverdery.com
Kevin Vigil
Dr. Kevin Vigil holds degrees from Shenandoah University (DMA), Yale University, (MM) and the University of Memphis (BM). Since moving to Northern Virginia, he has been on the faculties of the Washington Conservatory, Levine School of Music, and Northern Virginia Community College.
His interest in secondary guitar programs began when he met John Graham (Lake Braddock Secondary School, Fairfax County) in 1991. Over the years, he has performed for, coached, and traveled with John’s students. Their book, Guitar 101, has recently been published by Clear Note Publications (www.clearnote.net).
Kevin has been a clinician/performer for several festivals. During the 2005 Loudoun County Festival he learned of several vacancies for the following year. It was then that he decided to teach for Loudoun County Public Schools. He is now on the faculty of Heritage High School in Leesburg, Virginia.
Jerry Willard
Jerry Willard was born in Cleveland, Ohio and began studying the guitar with his father. The guitar pedagogue Sophocles Papas invited Mr. Willard to study with him in Washington, DC. He expanded his knowledge of musical interpretation with violinist Misha Mishakof and cellist Warren Downs, and also studied with guitarists Richard Lurie and Alirio Diaz. Mr. Willard’s performances have taken him to Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall, and he has concertized extensively throughout Europe and the United States. At Mr. Willard’s New York debut, Raymond Ericson of the New York Times said, “The recital was exemplary. Mr. Willard took lute in hand for some pieces by Adrian LeRoy and John Dowland and turned that normally pale-sounding predecessor of the guitar into a brilliant and vivid instrument. Back with the guitar... it was again the clarity of Mr. Willard’s playing that gave special pleasure.”
Well known as an ensemble player, Mr.Willard has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, the New York Opera Company and Queen’s Chamber Band, and the Long Island Baroque Ensemble. Mr. Willard is on the faculty of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has published many transcriptions and anthologies for guitar including The Complete Lute Music of J.S. Bach, The Complete Works of Gaspar Sanz, and The Library of Guitar Classics, available through Music Sales Corporation. Mr. Willard records for Lyrichord Discs.
www.jerrywillard.com
mp3s at www.indiekazoo.com/jerrywillard
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recording studio
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March 24
high school choral festival
7 pm, Woolsey Hall
An exciting annual collaboration between the Yale Glee Club and the choirs of the New Haven Public Schools, now in its seventh year. Judith Willoughby, guest conductor.
March 27
jane ira bloom quartet
8 pm, Sprague Hall
Tickets $15-28, Students $10 Soprano saxophonist and composer Jane Ira Bloom is a pioneer in the use of live electronics and movement in jazz, as well as the possessor of “one of the most gorgeous tones and hauntingly lyrical ballad conceptions of any soprano saxophonist” (Pulse). With Dawn Clement, piano; Mark Helias, bass; and Jaz Sawyer, drums.
April 2
new music new haven
8 pm, Sprague Hall, Free Martin Bresnick, featured faculty composer: Caprichos Enfáticos with So Percussion and pianist Lisa Moore. Program also includes music by Ted Hearne, Andrew Norman, Polina Nazaykinskaya, and Nafali Schindler.
GUITAR
2 012 guitar extravaganza
Benjamin Verdery, Artistic Director concerts • master classes • workshops • lectures • panel discussions
performances by SoloDuo • Zaira Meneses • Kim Perlak • Dither Guitar Quartet Hartt School Suzuki Guitar Ensemble • Heritage High School Guitar Ensemble talks & classes with Scott Cmiel • Daniel Corr • Gary Lee • Jeffrey McFadden Jack Vees • Benjamin Verdery • Kevin Vigil
Robert Blocker, Dean
guitar: Today & Tomorrow
march 24, 2012 · Schedule of Events
9:00 am 10:00 am
Concert
11:00 am
Master Class
11:45 am
Master Class
12:30 pm
Panel Discussion
1:00 pm
Museum Hours
2:00 pm
Concert
Registration
Sprague Hall (470 College Street) – Main Lobby
Music for Guitar Ensemble
Sprague Hall – Morse Recital Hall
Hartt School Suzuki Guitar Ensemble
David Madsen, director
Heritage High School Guitar Ensemble
Kevin Vigil, director
Master Class with Zaira Meneses
W.L. Harkness Hall (100 Wall Street) – Sudler Recital Hall
Master Class with SoloDuo
Sprague Hall – Morse Recital Hall
The Future of Classical Guitar Pedagogy
W.L. Harkness Hall – Sudler Recital Hall
With Scott Cmiel, Daniel Corr, Jeffrey McFadden, Kim Perlak, Benjamin Verdery, and Kevin Vigil
Yale Collection of Musical Instruments
15 Hillhouse Avenue
The Collection is open to visitors from 1:00 to 5:30 pm
Dither Guitar Quartet
Sprague Hall – Morse Recital Hall
New music for electric guitar quartet
Yale guitar extravaganza
Benjamin Verdery, Artistic Director
3:15 pm Workshop
4:15 pm Discussion
4:45 pm Lecture
6:00 pm Concert
8:00 pm Concert
Improvising for Large Guitar Ensembles
Sprague Hall – Morse Recital Hall
With composer-bassist Jack Vees and composer-guitarist Benjamin Verdery. Anyone with a guitar can participate!
What to look for in a classical guitar
Yale Collection of Musical Instruments
With luthier Gary Lee and guitarist Benjamin Verdery, concluding with an open Q & A
Fretboard Harmony
W.L. Harkness Hall – Sudler Recital Hall
With Jeffrey McFadden
Music of the Americas
Sprague Hall – Morse Recital Hall
Kim Perlak and Zaira Meneses, guitars
SoloDuo
Sprague Hall - Morse Recital Hall
Matteo Mela and Lorenzo Micheli, guitars
The Yale Guitar Extravaganza is supported by the D’Addario Foundation for the Performing Arts.
WSHU 91.1 fm is the media sponsor of the Yale Guitar Extravaganza.
MUSIC FOR GUITAR ENSEMBLE
Hartt Suzuki Guitar Orchestra • David Madsen, director Heritage Guitar Ensemble • Kevin Vigil, director
Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall
Traditional
Anonymous
arr. David Madsen
Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)
Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
Scott Joplin (1868–1917) Karl Jenkins (b. 1944)
march 24, 2012 sat · 10:00 am
Aunt Rhody Variations
Aaron Ding and Grace Flynn
A Toye
Matthew Leypold
Greensleeves Variations
Carlos Ernest, Karstian Lang, Lang Le, and Samuel Montoya
Carillon from Suite Francaise
Rob Avena, Elizabeth D’Andrea, Joshua Fernandez, and Lia LaPrise
Presto
Daniel Hartington, Kimberly Jackman, and Emmett Moberly-LaChance
Heliotrope Bouquet
Palladio
hartt suzuki guitar orchestra
Joshua Fernandez, Samuel Henke, Rob Avena, Abigail Heller, Emma Ort, Richard Hansen, Caleb Ritter, Drake Muth, Joshua Bobruff, Seth Heye-Smith, Jesse Kulnych-Griffth, Remy Hochman, Joseph Hochman, and Elliott Moberly-LaChance
As a courtesy to the performers and audience, turn off or silence all cell phones and pagers.
Mary Paige Rodgers
John Lennon and Paul McCartney
Keith Filppu
Leo Welch
Jürg Kindle
Roland Dyens
Jeffrey Tanner
I Sat On My Spurs (2012)
Mary Paige Rodgers, guitar
Lady Madonna (1968)
Arr. André Couasnon
Emilio’s March (2011)
Shades of Light (2011)
I, II, II – III, III, IV
Berimbao (1995)
Austin Tango (2009)
Divergent Rondo (2007)
heritage guitar ensemble
Marissa Alvarez, Matthew Bosek, Jacqueline Bucsa, Taylor Crew, Brandon Curley, Christopher Gaughf, Nathaniel Hagberg, Samuel Hentschel, *Catherine Huynh, Peter Huynh, Amanda Keenan, Alex Lassa, Devon Locraft, Ryan Mayobre, *Katherine Montera, Mary Paige Rodgers, Jake Spradling, Nicholas Studebaker, Patrick Stump, Kayleigh Tamm, *Ashleigh Tinston, *Nicole Tramell, and Ashley Walker
*member of Ashburn Girls Guitar Ensemble
Please do not leave the hall during selections. Photography or recording of any kind is prohibited.
master Classes
Zaira Meneses • Sudler Recital Hall
SoloDuo • Morse Recital Hall
master class with Zaira Meneses
march 24, 2012 sat · 11:00 am
march 24, 2012
sat · 11:45 am
Max Steinhoff, guitar
Enrique Granados (1867-1916): Spanish Dance No. 5, Op. 37, “Andalusia”
Ashley Walker, guitar
Leo Brouwer (b. 1939): Etudes Simples XI
master class with SoloDuo
Alan Pawlowicz ’12mm, guitar
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895–1968): El Sueno de la Razón Produce Monstruos From 24 Caprichos de Goya, Op. 195
Alexander Milovanov ’13ad, guitar
Giulio Regondi (1822-1972): Fantasy on Mozart’s Don Giovanni (after Sigismund Thalberg)
dither guitar quartet
Taylor Levine · Joshua Lopes · James Moore ’06mm · Gyan Riley
Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall
Paula Mathusen
Jascha Narveson
Joshua Lopes
Lisa R. Coons
Eva Beglarian
march 24, 2012 sat · 2:00 pm
but because without this
Ones
Dreaming of Vermont
The Garden of Cyrus
Prolix
music of the americas
Zaira Meneses · Kim Perlak ’01mm
Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall
Benjamin Verdery (b. 1955)
Bryan Johanson (b. 1951)
Andrew York (b. 1958)
Robert Honstein ’10mma (b. 1980)
Irving Berlin (1888–1989) arr. Kim Perlak
Verdery
march 24, 2012 sat · 6:00 pm
Tread Lightly, for You Tread on my Dreams
Still Life in Wood and Wire
Lullaby
Barton’s Blues
I. Rhythmic and Bluesy
II. Moving Forward
III. Cadenza
IV. As if from a Distance/Return
God Bless America
Keanae, HI
Kim Perlak ’01mm, guitar
M.M. Ponce (1882–1948)
Antonio Lauro (1917–1986)
Agustín Barrios (1885–1944)
Leo Brouwer (b. 1939)
Nico Rojas (1921–2008)
Prelude Balleto
Gigude
Natalia
Cueca Chilena Virgilio
Last Tremolo
Paisaje Cubano con Campanas (Cuban Landscape with Bells )
Guajira a mi Madre
Zaira Meneses, guitar
soloduo
Matteo Mela · Lorenzo Micheli
Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall
Ferdinand Rebay (1880–1953)
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895–1968)
Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Johann Sebastan Bach (1685–1750)
Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Mauro Giuliani (1781–1829)
march 24, 2012 sat · 8:00 pm
Sechs Variationen über eine Sarabande von G.F Händel
Les guitares bien tempérées, Op. 199
Prélude et fugue no. 15 en la majeur, “I hear America singing”
Prélude et fugue no. 4 en mi majeur
Clair de lune
transcribed by Ida Presti (1924–1967) and Alexandre Lagoya (1929–1999)
Les guitares bien tempérées, Op. 199
Prélude et fugue no. 23 en fa majeur
Prélude et fugue no. 24 en do mineur
French Suite No. 5, BWV 816
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Gavotte
Bourrée
Loure
Gigue
Les guitares bien tempérées, Op. 199
Prélude et fugue no. 7 in en do dièse mineur
Prélude et fugue no. 21 en mi bémol majeur, “I thought once how Theocritus had sung”
Variations Concertantes, Op. 130
About the Artistic Director
Benjamin Verdery, artistic director of the Yale Guitar Extravaganza, has been chair of the guitar department at the Yale School of Music since 1985. Called “an American original, an American master” by Guitar Review Magazine and “iconoclastic” and “inventive” by the New York Times, Verdery has enjoyed an innovative and eclectic musical career. He has performed and taught master classes throughout Europe, Mexico, Canada, Cuba, Japan, and South America, and has recorded and performed with such diverse artists as Frederic Hand, Leo Kottke, Anthony Newman, Jessye Norman, Paco Peña, Hermann Prey, and John Williams. He regularly gives fute and guitar concerts with the Schmidt/ Verdery Duo and with his ensemble Ufonia.
Benjamin has released over ffteen albums, his most recent, Branches (Mushkatweek)
featuring arrangements of works by Bach, Mozart, Strauss, and Hendrix, and the traditional Amazing Grace. His recording Start Now (Mushkatweek) won the 2005 Classical Recording Foundation Award. Other recordings of note include Some Towns & Cities, which won the 1992 Guitar Player Magazine Best Classical Guitar Recording, and his collaboration with John Williams on John Williams Plays Vivaldi (Sony Classical).
A prolifc composer, Benjamin Verdery has had many compositions performed and published over the years. Workshop Arts (distributed by Alfred Music) has released Mr. Verdery’s book Easy Classical Guitar Recital as well as his instructional video, Essentials of Classical Guitar. His recordings include Bach: Transcriptions for Guitar (GRI), Reverie: French Music for Flute and Guitar (Sony Classical), Some Towns and Cities (Sony Classical), Ride the Wind Horse: American Guitar Music (Sony Classical), The Enchanted Dawn (GRI), Ben Verdery Ufonia, and Soepa: American Guitar Music (Mushkatweek). He joined John Williams on the Sony Classical CD John Williams Plays Vivaldi for a recording of the Concerto in G Major for two mandolins.
» benjaminverdery.com
About the Performers
hartt suzuki guitar ensemble
David Madsen, director Students of Daniel Hartington, David Madsen, and Jim Rickevicius
David Madsen founded what is now the Hartt School’s Suzuki Guitar Program in 1990. He is the chair of the guitar and harp department of the Community Division at the Hartt School of Music. David graduated with a BM degree in guitar performance from the University of Connecticut and has since studied with David Leisner and Pepe Romero. His Suzuki studies have been with Bill Kossler and Frank Longay. He became a registered Teacher Trainer with the Suzuki Association of the Americas in 2000, and has conducted courses throughout North America and in Singapore, Peru, and Argentina. Mr. Madsen is a member of the SAA Guitar Committee. In the fall of 2008, David began teaching the Suzuki Pedagogy courses for the country’s frst long-term training program for Suzuki guitar at the University of Hartford. He is a former member of the Board of Directors for the Suzuki Association of the Americas.
Daniel Hartington performs regularly as a soloist and extensively as part of a number of chamber ensembles. Recent solo performances include recitals throughout New England, as well as in several cities in Germany. Daniel’s chamber music experience includes premier performance and recordings of
several major works. He has also served as director of the Connecticut Guitar Society’s Guitar Ensemble. Daniel is currently on the faculty of Eastern Connecticut State University, the Hartt Community Division at the Hartt School, and Miss Porter’s School. He completed graduate studies at the Hartt School with Richard Provost and undergraduate studies at the University of Rhode Island with Daniel Salazar, Jr. He has performed in many master classes including classes with world-renowned guitarists William Kanengiser, David Russell, David Tannenbaum, and Oscar Ghiglia.
» www.danielhartington.com
Jim Rickevicius has been an active member of the Suzuki community since 1996. He teaches Suzuki guitar at the Hartt Community Division at the Hartt School in West Hartford, where he is also the guitar coordinator for the Hartt Suzuki Institute. Jim received a B.A. degree in music and a B.S. degree in elementary education from Central Connecticut State University, and an M.M. degree in guitar performance from the Hartt School. He has taken Suzuki training with Frank Longay, Bill Kossler and David Madsen. He enjoys working with students and families to make music a rewarding part of their lives.
About the Performers
heritage guitar ensemble with members of the ashburn girls guitar ensemble
Leesburg, Virginia
Kevin Vigil, director Jan Edmondson, assistant director
Kevin Vigil holds degrees from Shenandoah University (DMA), Yale University (MM), and the University of Memphis (BM). He joined the faculty of Heritage High School in 2005. His interest in secondary school guitar programs began when he met John Graham (Lake Braddock Secondary School, Fairfax County) in 1991. Over the years, he performed for, coached, and traveled with John’s students. Their book Guitar 101 was published by Clear Note Publications (www.clearnote.net) in 2008.
Kevin has been a clinician, adjudicator, performer, and director for several guitar festivals and competitions in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. His most recent endeavors include the planning and coordination of the 2012 LCPS All-County Guitar Festival, featuring the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (March 12–14). Dr. Vigil has presented lectures on guitar education for the Guitar Foundation of America, Yale University, and James Madison University, among others. He was recently interviewed by Dr. Matthew Hinsley from GuitarCurriculum.com and is honored to be a part of today’s panel discussion on the Future of Guitar Pedagogy.
Jan Edmondson began her classical guitar education at Sophocles Papas’s Guitar Shop in Washington, D.C., at age twelve. Following the Segovia tradition of guitar study under Myrna Sislen, Jesus Silva, and John Marlow, she earned her BM degree in guitar performance from American University in 1979. After careers as an editor and as a Registered Nurse, Jan earned teacher certifcation in music education at George Mason University in 2001.
Ms. Edmondson has been teaching guitar for Loudoun County Public Schools since 2002 and has hosted the middle school AllCounty Guitar Festival three years at her home school, Belmont Ridge MS in Leesburg, VA. In 2007, she established the Ashburn Girls Guitar Ensemble (AGGE) for high school girls in response to many many former students’ and parents’ requests for private lessons. AGGE has performed monthly at many special events throughout Loudoun County, VA, and is thrilled to be part of Yale’s Guitar Extravaganza VII. AGGE is sponsored by the Community Music School of the Piedmont headquartered in Upperville, VA, where Ms. Edmondson is also a teacher of private lessons for guitar.
About the Performers
Dither, a New York-based electric guitar quartet, is dedicated to an eclectic mix of experimental repertoire which spans composed music, improvisation, and electronic manipulation. Formed in 2007, the quartet has performed in the United States and abroad, presenting new commissions, original compositions, improvisations, multimedia works, and large guitar ensemble pieces. With sounds ranging from clean pop textures to heavily processed noise, from tight rhythmic unity to cacophonous sound mass, all of Dither’s music wholeheartedly embraces the beautiful, engulfng, and often gloriously loud sound of electric guitars.
The quartet’s members are Taylor Levine, David Linaburg, Joshua Lopes, and James Moore. (Gyan Riley appears today as a substitute player.) Dither’s recent collaborators include downtown bagpiper Matthew Welch, composers Eve Beglarian and David Lang, and guitarist/composers Bryce Dessner, Nick Didkovsky, Marco Cappelli, Elliott Sharp, and Mark Stewart.
In the fall of 2008, the quartet traveled to Hong Kong to premiere an evening-length theatrical work by Samson Young, Hong Kong Explodes!, funded by the Hong Kong Council for the Arts. Recent performances in New York include the Performa Biennial, the MATA Festival Interval Series, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Bang on a Can Marathon, at which they performed a monstrous rendition of Eric K M Clark’s exPAT, a Dither commission for hearing-deprived guitar orchestra. Dither’s debut album was released on Henceforth Records in June 2010.
» ditherquartet.com
Zaira Meneses is among the most exciting performers on the international classical guitar circuit. Her musicality and charisma have delighted audiences on three continents. Recent achievements include a special prize from Italy’s prestigious Academia Chigiana and the recording of several solo CDs. She has also aroused considerable interest through postings of live performances on YouTube.
About the Performers
Zaira Meneses was born in Xalapa, Mexico. From an early age she showed great talent, studying both classical guitar and voice. She traveled widely, performing as well with the famed Orquesta de Guitarras. At the age of 17 and as the youngest contestant, she won frst prize in an important national concerto competition. This success led to performances of Joaquin Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez and Concierto Madrigal for two guitars throughout Mexico.
Since moving to the United States in 2001, Meneses has built a stellar reputation for her warm sound, limpid technique, and superb natural musicality, performing in many of the great concert halls of the world, including Boston’s Jordan Hall, New York City’s Alice Tully Hall, and Salzburg’s Wiener Saal. An unusual aspect of her work in chamber music has been collaborations with
eminent pianists such as Jon Kimura Parker and Virginia Eskin, with whom she has often appears in lecture-recital format.
Meneses has served as artist in residence at prestigious universities throughout the United States and recently began a long-term association with Syracuse University. She is Director of Community Outreach and Student Affairs for the Boston Guitar Fest and Artistic Director of the new cross-disciplinary cultural initiative Guitar and Friends, for which she was awarded a grant by the Albert Augustine Foundation. In both of these positions she continues to enliven the cultural life of the city of Boston through outreach activities while maintaining a demanding touring schedule in the Americas and Europe.
» www.zairameneses.com
Kim Perlak’s versatile and inclusive approach to guitar performance embraces new composition, scholarship, and public service. An American music specialist, Kim’s performance of classical works and her collaborations with jazz and traditional players have been featured at the National Guitar Workshop, Yale Guitar Extravaganza, on CBS Sunday Morning, and in concert halls across the nation. Her commitment to new music has resulted in a recent premiere of a work by guitarist/composer Benjamin Verdery and the broadcast of her guitar, fute, and cello recording of works by Andrew York and Bryan Johanson on NPR.
About the Artists
Kim’s work combining performance, scholarship, and outreach has been funded through grants from the Carolina Institute for Leadership and Engagement in Music, the Center for African American Southern Music, and the Yale alumniVentures program. Her project “Music-History-Service” was honored by PBS’s From the Top as part of its Arts Leadership Series. Perlak directs the programs in guitar and American music at Concordia University (Texas) and is on the faculty of Austin Community College and the National Guitar Workshop. She holds degrees from the University of Texas at Austin (’08dma), Yale School of Music (’01mm), and Stetson University (’98bm). She has studied with Adam Holzman, Benjamin Verdery, and Stephen Robinson. Kim Perlak plays guitars by Thomas Humphrey and endorses D’Addario strings.
» kimperlak.com
Ten years ago, Matteo Mela and Lorenzo Micheli formed a duo that has performed throughout Europe, Asia, the United States, Canada, and Latin America, and has been acclaimed everywhere – from New York’s Carnegie Hall to Seoul’s Sejong Chamber Hall, from Kiev’s Hall of Columns to Vienna’s Konzerthaus – as one of the best ensembles ever heard.
About one of SoloDuo’s performances, the Washington Post wrote: “Extraordinarily sensitive, with effortless command and an almost unbearable delicacy of touch, the duo’s playing was nothing less than rapturous –profound and unforgettable musicianship of the highest order.”
In addition to classic, romantic, and modern repertoire, Matteo and Lorenzo – joined by lutenist Massimo Lonardi – enjoy exploring the early literature for baroque guitar and theorbo. Together, Matteo and Lorenzo have recorded François de Fossa’s Three Quartets, Op. 19 (Stradivarius, 2004); a CD of 17thcentury Italian music for baroque guitar, archlute, and theorbo (La Suave Melodia, Stradivarius, 2008); Solaria, an anthology of 20th-century masterpieces for two guitars (Pomegranate, 2007); the Duos Concertants by Antoine De Lhoyer (Naxos, 2007); a collection of chamber works by Mauro Giuliani (Amadeus, 2008); a collection of 19th-century pieces for two guitars (Noesis, Pomegranate 2009), the Sonatas of Ferdinand Rebay (Stradivarius, 2010); and the 24 Preludes and Fugues by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
About the Artists
(Solaria, 2011), as well as a dozen solo recordings on the labels Naxos, Brilliant Records, Kookaburra, Mel Bay, and Stradivarius.
Matteo resides in Geneva, Switzerland, where he teaches at the Conservatoire Populaire. Lorenzo lives in Milan, Italy, and teaches both at the CSI Conservatory in Lugano, Switzerland, and the Conservatory of Aosta, Italy.
» www.soloduo.it
Scott Cmiel is on the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he is chair of the Preparatory Division Guitar Department and Musicianship Department. He also maintains his own studio and is an instructor in the Menuhin Program at the Nueva School in Hillsborough, California.
Cmiel’s students have won numerous local, regional, and national awards, and they have been featured on local and national radio and television. His teaching has been praised by some of the guitar world’s most outstanding artists. William Kanengiser of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet has hailed him as “one of the most effective and inspirational guitar instructors in the United States,” and Peter and Zoltan Katona have called him “surely one of the most inspiring guitar teachers of our time.”
» www.scottcmiel.com
Daniel Corr, a graduate of the Yale School of Music (’01mm, ’02ad) has been praised as “a guitarist for music lovers to catch” (Hartford Courant). Recent appearances include performances of guitar concertos with the American Classical Orchestra, Seattle Creative Orchestra (at Benaroya Hall), and Auburn (WA) Symphony. He has been a featured solo recitalist at universities from Villanova to Kentucky to the Central Conservatory of Music (Beijing). A passionate chamber musician, Daniel is a member of the Tricordes ensemble. Other chamber music collaborators have included Myron Lutzke, Linda Quan, Rie Schmidt, Paul Taub, and Antoine Tamestit. Daniel was featured in a television project for the New Haven Symphony by Emmy-winning director Karyl Evans. Daniel’s recent recording with the Auburn Symphony Orchestra, Concierto de Aranjuez, is available at www.danielcorr.com. Daniel’s artistry has been recognized in several competitions, including frst prize at the 12th Northwest Guitar Competition and a top prize at the SUNY-Potsdam Crane New Music Solo Performer Competition (adjudicated by composer George Crumb). He received Yale’s prestigious Eliot Fisk Prize in 2001. In 2006, Daniel was awarded the Certifcate of Excellence from the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. Daniel serves as a lecturer of music and artistic director of the Gateway International Guitar Series at Gateway Community College.
» danielcorr.com
Gary Lee has enjoyed playing guitar since the age of nine. In 1999, his fascination and curiosity with guitar design, coupled with his love for woodcraft, drew him to begin building classical guitars. He quickly developed an aptitude and love for lutherie.
Trained as a research scientist with a Ph.D. in biochemistry, he attained his frst dream with a successful career in academic research and later, in corporate biotechnology. Gary’s second dream was realized in 2007 with the beginning of Lee Guitar Works and the transition to building guitars full-time.
Gary’s research background inspires creativity, thoughtful design and exacting execution. His handcrafted classical guitars incorporate the best of traditional design with contemporary approaches. His experience in building classical guitars has been invaluable for constructing steel-string acoustics with great responsiveness and tonal character.
When he is not building guitars, Gary serves on the board of advisors to the New Jersey Guitar and Mandolin Society and regularly lectures on lutherie at guitar festivals and societies. He enjoys traveling and playing music and tennis with his wife, Candace. They live in Wayne, New Jersey, a suburb of New York City.
» www.leeguitarworks.com
About the Presenters
Jeffrey McFadden, one of the fnest guitarists of his generation, has performed throughout Canada and the U.S. and in Europe. He has given world premieres of works by numerous composers and has been a featured performer at several international music festivals. In 1992, McFadden was awarded a silver medal in the Guitar Foundation of America Competition and was a prize-winner in the 1993 Great Lakes Guitar Competition. His debut recording, the frst in the Laureate Series on the Naxos label, was released worldwide. Classic CD has described his playing as “major artistry,” and of his latest solo release ClassicsToday.com raved, “Jeffrey McFadden is not only an extraordinary guitarist – he’s also an inspired musician.”
Jeffrey McFadden has collaborated with Canada’s most prominent musicians and composers, including Norbert Kraft, Robert Aitken, Ann Monoyios, John Beckwith, and R. Murray Shafer. He also has performed frequently in the newly-formed Duo Spiritoso with American guitarist and composer Andrew Zohn. He is frequently heard on CBC radio and NPR as both soloist and ensemble player. Jeffrey has given masterclasses and seminars at the Université de Montréal, Conservatoire de Music à Hull/ Gatineau, University of British Colombia, Michigan State University, and the Oberlin College Conservatory. He is a lecturer in guitar at the University of Toronto.
» www.jeffreymcfadden.com
Jack Vees, composer and electric bassist, is the operations director of the Center for Studies in Music Technology (csmt) at Yale. He received his M.F.A. in composition from the California Institute of the Arts, where he studied with Louis Andriessen, Vinko Globokar, and Morton Subotnik. Vees is active in the international arena as both a performer and a composer, having works played at sites from CBGB’s of the downtown New York scene to such festivals as the Berlin Biennale and New Music America. Many contemporary music groups like Ensemble Modern, Zeitgeist, and the California Ear Unit have commissioned pieces from him. A collection of his works entitled Surf Music Again is available on the CRI/ Emergency Music label. His opera Feynman, for solo voice and percussion, was premiered in June 2005 at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and later performed at the Knitting Factory in New York City. He is also the author of The Book on Bass Harmonics, which has become a standard reference for bassists since its publication in 1979. Mr. Vees joined the Yale faculty in 1988.
special thanks
Yale Collection of Musical Instruments
One of the foremost institutions of its kind, the Collection acquires, preserves, and exhibits musical instruments from antiquity to the present. The Collection holds regular public visiting hours and presents an annual concert series as well as lectures and other events.
» www.yale.edu/musicalinstruments
Lubos Naprstek a is self-taught luthier who emigrated from the Czech Republic to the U.S. in 1984. As a boy he was always fascinated with wood; his acquired skills in designing with accuracy and symmetry, as well reading blueprints, proved useful in building and designing stringed instruments, and in repair and restoration. His favorite classical guitar construction is inspired by Hauser/Torres. He has also built replicas of Miguel Rodriguez, Santos Hernandez, and Robert Bouchet guitars with great success. » www.lubosnaprstek.com
Vendors
Nathan Richardson offers the only complete fretted instrument repair service with pick up and delivery to the Yale School of Music. Mr. Richardson has been working happily with Yale since 2009. He currently serves the greater New Haven area and north to Middletown. He will be on hand at the Guitar Extravaganza to answer questions on guitar care and repair, as well as offering restringing during concerts.
Upcoming Events
De Profundis: The Deep End
march 28
Morse Recital Hall | Wednesday | 8 pm
Yale in New York Preview
Music for low instruments by Mozart, Penderecki, Druckman, Schütz, Bruckner, Gubaidulina, and more. Free Admission
New Music New Haven
march 29
Morse Recital Hall | Thursday | 8 pm
Featuring guest composer Steve Reich, with performances of Proverb (1995) and Vermont Counterpoint (1982). Free Admission
St. Lawrence String Quartet
april 3
Morse Recital Hall | Tuesday | 8 pm Oneppo Chamber Music Series
Mozart: Quartet in D minor, K. 421; Korngold: Quartet No. 3; John Adams: String Quartet (2008). Tickets $20–30, Sudents $10
The Yale Cellos
april 11
Morse Recital Hall | Wednesday | 8 pm
Aldo Parisot, director. Music by Albinoni, Schumann, Joplin, Rouse, Villa-Lobos, and more. Tickets $10–20, Students $5
Concerts & Public Relations: Dana Astmann, Danielle Heller, Dashon Burton
New Media: Monica Ong Reed, Austin Kase · Operations: Tara Deming, Chris Melillo
Piano Curators: Brian Daley, William Harold · Recording Studio: Eugene Kimball
P.O. Box 208236, New Haven, CT · 203 432-4158 music.yale.edu
Robert Blocker, Dean
THE EIGHTH YALE
GUITAR Extravaganza
Robert Blocker, Dean
TRADITION + INNOVATION
GUITAR Extravaganza
TRADITION + INNOVATION
Saturday, February 22, 2014 • Benjamin Verdery, Artistic Director
9:00 am 10:00 – 11:30 am Concert
Registration
Main Lobby in Sprague Hall (470 College Street)
Music for Young Guitar Ensembles
Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall
hartt school suzuki guitar ensemble
David Madsen, director
lake braddock guitar ensembles
John Graham, director
tuscarora high school
Matthew Dunlap, director heritage guitar ensemble
Kevin Vigil, director
11:45 am – 12:45 pm Panel Discussion
11:45 am – 12:45 pm Master Class
11:45 am – 12:45 pm Master Class
1:00 – 2:00 pm Master Class
Teaching High School Students the Guitar
Sprague Conference Room in Sprague Hall (98 Wall Street)
Kevin Vigil and John Graham, authors of Classroom Guitar Method 1, will discuss developing high school guitar programs, joined by Matthew Dunlap and renowned Suzuki guitar teacher David Madsen.
Master Class with René Izquierdo
Sudler Recital Hall in W. L. Harkness Hall
Master Class with Elina Chekan Room 106 in Stoeckel Hall
Master Class with Benjamin Verdery
Sudler Recital Hall in W. L. Harkness Hall
Schedule of Events
1:00 – 4:00 pm
Museum Hours
2:00 – 3:00 pm
Concert
3:00 – 3:15 pm
Demonstration
3:15 – 4:00 pm
Hands-On Workshop
3:15 – 4:00 pm
Workshop
4:00 – 5:15 pm
Panel Discussion
5:30 – 6:30 pm
Concert
8:00 pm
Concert
Yale Collection of Musical Instruments 15 Hillhouse Avenue
The Collection is open and welcomes visitors.
Van Stiefel, composer/guitarist with Sergio Sorrentino, electric guitar
Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall
Buzz finding, noise troubleshooting, and remediation
Main Lobby in Sprague Hall
Nathan Richardson, Richardson Fretted Instrument Repairs
Historical Guitars
Yale Collection of Musical Instruments, 15 Hillhouse Ave with Grant Herreid and Arash Noori
Van Stiefel: Composing for Electric Guitar
Sudler Recital Hall in W. L. Harkness Hall
Composer/guitarist Van Stiefel will discuss his approach to composing for the electric guitar and why it occupies such a vital role in new music.
Interpreting the Guitar Music of Living Composers
Sudler Recital Hall in W. L. Harkness Hall
What freedoms can a performer take with the given score? Is the published score considered the Urtext edition?
Ingram Marshall, Jack Vees, Van Stiefel, Brendon Randall-Myers, Ronald Smith, panelists; Benjamin Verdery, moderator
René Izquierdo and Elina Chekan, guitars
Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall
David Tanenbaum, guitar
Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall
Made possible in part by a grant from the D'Addario Music Foundation with support from D'Addario and Company, Inc.
MUSIC FOR YOUNG GUITAR ENSEMBLES
Saturday, February 22, 2014 • 10:00 am • Morse Recital Hall
Bartolomé Calatayud 1882–1973
Tielman Susato 1500–1561
Enrique Granados 1867–1916
Phillip Salathé b. 1976
Thierry Tisserand b. 1956
Richard Lenz b. 1972
Traditional arr. Bryan Johanson
hartt suzuki guitar orchestra
David Madsen, director
Jim Rickevicius, coordinator
Waltz
Lily Brunjes
Allemande
Corbett Dilulio, Aaron Ding, Sara Reid, Michael Daly, Juan Pablo Montoya
Danza Espanola No. 4, "Villanesca"
Movement III from Islands
Lang Le, Holden Speed, Abigail Heller, Willa Kulnych-Griffith, Matthew Reid, Emre Budak, Katie Howley, Seth Heye-Smith, Carlos Ernest, Emmett Moberly-LaChance, Samuel Montoya, Rob Avena Karstian Lang, and Elliott Morberly-LaChance
lake braddock secondary school
John Graham, director
Habanera Boheme Concert Ensemble
Festive Fizz
Concert Ensemble
St. James Infirmary Advanced Ensemble
As a courtesy to the performers and audience, silence all electronic devices. Please do not leave the hall during selections. Photography or recording of any kind is prohibited.
Paulo Bellinati
b. 1950
A Furiosa Advanced Ensemble
Olufemi Aboderin, Sabrina Adleson, Jack Brashier, Michael Buontempo, Michaela Caparas, Georgia Cotter, Ryley Crow, Sean Donley, John Farrell, Sarah Ficadenti, Ryan Ford, Emily Gondar-Besser, Ian Harmon, Toni Hinskton, Derrick Horton, Kevin Jones, David Keller, Talha Khurshid, Hyesoo Kim, Jordan Koontz, Amber Kreiensieck, Ben Levitt, Yan Li, Sam Mackin, Jackson Man, Lucas McGee, Sameer Mengale, Sam Mitchell, Alessandra Muñoz, Bonnie Nordstrom, Jocelyn Ormsby, Nico Ortiz De Zarate, Gina Pham, Bao-Thu Phan-Vu, Amelia Rafle, Matt Sandfry, Liam Schenking, Drew Sherbondy, Joseph Spitek, Eun-Jung Sung, Maria Turmel, Katherine Watson, Ye Ram Yoon, Tristan Young, Alex Yun
Roland Dyens
b. 1955
W. A. Mozart
1756 –1791
Leo Brouwer
b. 1939
Leo Welch
b. 1932
tuscarora high school
Matthew Dunlap, director
Austin Tango
Serenade from Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Toccata
Middle Fork
Kevin Avalo, Benjamin Coleman, Anthony Corso, Olivia Corso, Ranya Daliagon, Ethan Ditthardt, Ethan Dunn, Nabeen Haq, Jared McGee, Ritsushi Miyamoto, Cristian Ocampo, Bradley Ong, Katelyn Parcelli, Emanuel Payson, Kieran Pellicano, Evan Robohm, Charles Shotton, Michael Tolerico, Kyle Torrance, Ryan Torrance
(continued)
Jeffrey Tanner
b. 1965
Darin Au
b. 1971
Miroslav Loncar
b. 1964
Dieter Kreidler
b. 1943
Kevin Vigil, director
Tower Rising
Chasing Dragons
Three Latin Dances
I. Lambada II. Bolero III. Merengue with Koh Kazama, percussion
Rumba Flamenca
Elena Andreas, Oscar Brousset Olivarria, Hejran Darya, Dorothy Griffin, Abigail Hagberg, Brian Henriquez, Dylan Hyde, William Marin, Oscar Mendieta Bravo, Christopher Meyer, Dounia Ouaritini, Eli Paynter, Nathan Schick, Kristine Thao Tran, Laura Schneider, Alex Whitehouse, Sarah Williams
J. S. Bach
1685–1750
arr. Ray Zhou
Leo Brouwer b. 1939
MASTER CLASSES
Saturday, February 22, 2014
master class with René Izquierdo
Sudler Recital Hall in W. L. Harkness Hall
Prelude from Cello Suite No. 6 in D major, BWV 1012
Ray Zhou ’14mm
Tres Apuntes
Lillit Mardiyan ’15mm
Bartolomé Calatayud 1882–1973
Fernando Sor 1778–1839
Heitor Villa-Lobos 1887–1959
master class with Elina Chekan
Room 106 in Stoeckel Hall
Waltz
Lily Brunjes · Hartt Suzuki Guitar program
Rondo, Op. 48, No. 6
Rob Avena · Hartt Suzuki Guitar program
Prelude No. 1
Brian Henriquez · Heritage High School
Thierry Tisserand b. 1956
Augustín Barrios Mangore
Isaac Albéniz 1860–1909
master class with Benjamin Verdery
Sudler Recital Hall in W. L. Harkness Hall
Romanza
Hejran Darya Heritage High School
Julia Florida
Katelyn Parcelli · Tuscarora High School
Asturias (Leyenda)
Ben Levitt · Lake Braddock Secondary School
VAN STIEFEL • composer/guitarist
Saturday, February 22, 2014 • 2:00 pm • Morse Recital Hall
Van Stiefel
b. 1965
Splitting (2014), world premiere for electric guitar and video projection
Sergio Sorrentino, electric guitar
Smoke and Mirrors
Nathan Lesser, violin
Trevor Babb, electric guitar
Cinema Castaneda
I. What the Train Remembered...
II. Brujo
III. Chuck to Now
IV. ‘Strange Days’
V. Seeping Borders I
VI. Apologies
VII. Dying Cowboy
VIII. Seeping Borders II
IX. Con Dios
X. Second Coming (I'm Waiting for my Man)
Koh Kazama, Katrin Endrikat, Ray Zhou, Ian Tuski, guitars
Splitting is the second of two “portrait pieces” in which a solo instrumentalist performs with a video projection of an earlier performance. The first, Afterland (for piano) was premiered earlier this month. Afterland is an attempt to remember a lost friend whose presence is preserved for me on the world wide web—that mortuary of our future and present day. Performance documents are also so important to musicians these days—I think we should make present music with them.
In the score for Splitting, I quote Freud: “In dreams the personality may be split— when, for instance, the dreamer’s own knowledge is divided between two persons and when, in the dream, the extraneous ego corrects the actual one...the dreamer too hears his own thoughts pronounced by extraneous voices.”
– Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
Smoke and Mirrors recalls something of the cyclical narrative scale of 19th-century violin sonatas. I’ve wondered why historically there were so few large-form pieces written for violin and guitar. Was there really no taste for it? Was the voice of the guitar inappropriately light? Did the existing musical language for such forms “not fit” the instrument? Smoke and Mirrors occupies a space suggested by such questions. I continue to wonder about the illusion of storytelling through instrumental music, especially when—as is so often the case—there is no real story but the form of music itself. And what is musical form anyway: a seeming plot, a matter of persuasion, an art of smoke and mirrors?
The process of composing Cinema Castaneda began as a retracing of Copland’s steps through John Lomax’s 1918 collection of cowboy songs. Strumming on my guitar, I imagined these tunes set for guitar quartet--four guitarists gathered like ranchers around a campfire after a day traversing vast spaces, crossing borders, horsetrading, etc. I was jolted from this storybook nostalgia by news of the day: angst about the Mexican border, the legal and illegal passage of people and goods, news of trade both fair and unfair. On one hand there is a positive desire for commerce, self-actualization, and betterment, on the other: violence, self-destruction, and exploitation. Once these timeless and conflicting themes took hold in my imagination, the composing process became a dizzying journey through frontier ballads, rancheros music, and narco corridos, as well as music by Chuck Berry, the Doors, the Velvet Underground, and Kurt Cobain.
The guitar as an instrument of the road crosses boundaries both real and imagined: boundaries of time, place, culture, language, memory, and states of mind. Patterns idiomatic to an incredible variety of music are shaped by the lay of the hands on the instrument. Cinema Castaneda explores (and blurs distinctions between) various American voices that map naturally to its grid of open and fretted strings. The titled sections of the one continuous movement give some hint of the morphing voices of cowboys, wanderers, and traffickers—seekers of escape, comfort, or ecstasy.
RENÉ IZQUIERDO & ELINA CHEKAN
Saturday, February 22, 2014 • 5:30 pm • Morse Recital Hall
Domenico Scarlatti 1685–1757
J.S. Bach 1685–1750
Johannes Brahms 1833–1897
Fernando Sor 1778–1839
Claude Debussy 1862–1918
Eduardo Martin b. 1956
Sonata in D major, K. 213, “The Lover”
Suite Francese No. 2 in C minor, BWV 813a
I. Allemande
II. Courante
III. Sarabande
IV. Air
V. Menuet
VI. Menuet – Trio
VII. Gigue
Theme and Variations from Sextet No. 1 in B-flat major, Op. 18
Fantasy, Op. 54
The Girl with the Flaxen Hair, from Preludes
Arabesque No. 1 arr. Izquierdo
Hasta Alicia Baila with Ransom Wilson, flute
DAVID TANENBAUM
Saturday, February 22, 2014 • 8:00 pm • Morse Recital Hall
Ronald Bruce Smith
b. 1961
Five Pieces for guitar and live electronics (2007)
Echoes
Lachrymal
Brunete
Saudade
Stèle
Steve Reich
b. 1936
Electric Counterpoint (1987)
intermission
Mario Davidovsky
b. 1934
Aaron Jay Kernis
b. 1960
Synchronisms No. 10 (1992)
100 Greatest Dance Hits (1993)
I. Introduction to the Dance Party
II. Salsa Pasada
III. MOR Easy Listening Slow Dance Ballad
IV. Dance Party on the Disco Motorboat
Nathan Lesser, Jessica Oddie, violins
Lucy Caplan, viola
Elisa Rodríguez Sadaba, cello
Artistic director of 92nd Street Y’s Art of the Guitar series since 2006, Benjamin Verdery is hailed for his innovative and eclectic musical career. Since 1980 he has performed worldwide in theaters and at festivals, including Theatre Carré in Amsterdam, the International Guitar Festival at Havana, Wigmore Hall in London, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Metropolitan Opera in New York. His tours regularly take him throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe and Asia. He has recorded and performed with such diverse artists as Andy Summers, Frederic Hand, William Coulter, Leo Kottke, Anthony Newman, Jessye Norman, Paco Peña, Hermann Prey and John Williams.
Ben Verdery has released more than fifteen albums, the most recent being Happy Here, with William Coulter; and Branches, featuring works of Bach, Strauss, Jimi Hendrix, and Mozart along with the traditional Amazing Grace, both for Mushkatweek. His CD Start Now, also for Mushkatweek, won the 2005 Classical Recording Foundation Award. Other recordings of note include Some Towns & Cities and his collaborations with John Williams (John Williams Plays Vivaldi) and Andy Summers (First You Build A Cloud).
Many of the leading composers of our time have created music for Ben, including Ezra Laderman, Martin Bresnick, John Anthony Lennon, Anthony Newman, Roberto Sierra, Van Stiefel and Jack Vees. Of particular note was the commission by the Yale University Music Library of a work by Ingram Marshall for classical and electric guitars. Ben Verdery and Andy Summers premiered the work, Dark Florescence, at Carnegie Hall with the American Composers Orchestra. Last December, the two guitarists appeared at the annual Amsterdam Electric Guitar Heaven.
Benjamin Verdery is also a prolific published composer in his own right, with many of his
compositions having been performed, recorded, and published over the years. In 2012, he was commissioned to compose two works: Penzacola Belongs To All, commissioned by the Pensacola Guitar Orchestra in celebration of their 30th anniversary (premiered in Pensacola October 2012) and Stand in Your Own Light for guitar and koto, commissioned by the Kyo-Shin-An Arts with funding from the New York State Council for the Arts (premiered in New York City November 2012).
In 2010, the Assad Duo premiered Ben’s work What He Said. Commissioned by the 92nd St Y, the work is dedicated to the late luthier Thomas Humphrey. Other recent works have included Now and Ever (for David Russell, Telarc), Peace, Love and Guitars (for John Williams and John Etheridge, SONY Classical), Capitola (John Williams, SONY Classical), and Give (for eight guitars). This last was composed specifically for Thomas Offermann and the guitar ensemble of the Hochschule for Music and Theatre (Rostock, Germany) and dedicated to the memory of U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy. Ben’s Scenes from Ellis Island for guitar orchestra has been extensively broadcast and performed at festivals and universities in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Europe, and the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet included it on their CD Air and Ground (Sony Classical).
Doberman-Yppan (Canada) is currently publishing Verdery’s solo and duo works for guitar, and Workshop Arts (distributed by Alfred Music) has published the solo pieces from Some Towns & Cities as well as instructional books and video. Many other compositions are available through his website.
In addition to his performances, tours and recording, since 1985, Benjamin Verdery has been chair of the guitar department at the Yale
University School of Music and artistic director of the biannual Yale Guitar Extravaganza. He was appointed an honorary board member of the Suzuki Association of the Americas in 2007. Each summer Ben holds his Annual International Master Class on the Island of Maui (HA).
» benjaminverdery.com
hartt suzuki guitar ensemble
David Madsen, director
Jim Rickevicius, coordinator (West Hartford, Connecticut)
The Hartt Suzuki Guitar program, led by David Madsen and Jim Rickevicius, is presenting students from all levels of the program. Along with the private lesson and group class, children in Book 2 and up also receive a reading/ensemble class. The students you will hear today represent most of those ensemble classes.
David Madsen founded what is now the Hartt Suzuki Guitar Program in 1990. He is the Chair of the Guitar and Harp Department of the Community Division at the Hartt School of Music in West Hartford, Connecticut. David graduated with a BM in guitar performance from the University of Connecticut and has since studied with David Leisner and Pepe Romero. He became a registered Teacher Trainer with the Suzuki Association of the Americas in 2000, and has conducted courses throughout North America and in Singapore, Peru, Argentina, and Puerto Rico. Mr. Madsen is a member of the SAA Guitar Committee.
Jim Rickevicius has been an active member of the Suzuki community since 1996. Jim received a BA in music and BS in Elementary Education from Central Connecticut State University and a MM in guitar performance from the Hartt
School. He has taken Suzuki training with Frank Longay, Bill Kossler, and David Madsen. He enjoys working with students and families to make music a rewarding part of their lives.
lake braddock concert ensemble and advanced ensemble
John Graham, director (Burke, Virginia)
John Graham, a native of Rhode Island, has been teaching guitar at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Fairfax County, Virginia since 1990. His program serves over 200 students annually in multiple levels of guitar. He has received many honors, including Teacher of the Year in 2005 and 2014, and is a co-author of the Program of Studies for Guitar in Fairfax County.
In 1993, Mr. Graham founded the Mid-Atlantic Guitar Ensemble Festival, an annual event for high school guitar ensembles to perform and receive professional coaching. He is the co-author of the Guitar 101 classroom textbook with Kevin Vigil, and his guitar ensemble compositions are published by Seconda Prattica and Les Productions D’OZ.
In addition to performing at several past Yale Guitar Extravaganzas, the Lake Braddock Guitar Ensembles have also performed for the Millennium Stage concert series at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and in master classes with Benjamin Verdery, William Kanengiser, David Leisner, Michael Nicolella, Jeffrey McFadden, and members of the Canadian Guitar Quartet.
About the Performers
tuscarora high school
Dr. Matthew Dunlap, director (Leesburg, Virginia)
Dr. Matthew Dunlap has been teaching class guitar for ten years with experience in various levels ranging from elementary to collegiate. He is currently the guitar teacher, music theory teacher, and fine arts department chair at Tuscarora High School in Leesburg, VA.
Dr. Dunlap’s students have participated in workshops and masterclasses with the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, Canadian Guitar Quartet, Ana Vidivic, Marco Tamayo, Julian Gray, Leo Welch, and Jason Vieaux. They perform regularly for school and community events throughout the D.C. metro area, including the Peabody Preparatory Fret Festival.
Dr. Dunlap completed his DMA in guitar performance at Florida State University, MM in guitar performance at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and BM in guitar performance at Kennesaw State University. During the summers of 2004 and 2005 he studied at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana with world-renowned guitar pedagogue Oscar Ghiglia.
heritage guitar ensemble
Dr. Kevin Vigil, director (Leesburg, Virginia)
Kevin Vigil holds degrees from Shenandoah University (DMA), Yale University (MM), and the University of Memphis (BM). His interest in secondary school guitar programs began when he met John Graham (Lake Braddock) in 1991. Over the years he performed for, coached, and traveled with John’s students. He joined the faculty of Heritage High School in 2005 and
has coordinated several important events for Loudoun County Public Schools.
Today marks the fourth performance of the Heritage Guitar Ensemble for the Yale Guitar Extravaganza. The 2009 Extravaganza brought international attention to this group in a review published in Classical Guitar Magazine (UK). Heritage students along with their counterparts in LCPS have continued to break new ground in guitar education with the world-premieres of Shiki: Seasons of Japan by Shingo Fujii and Cascade by Omid Zoufonoun. Please watch, enjoy, and share these short documentaries: » vimeo.com/40965900 » vimeo.com/63195971
Composer/guitarist Van Stiefel continues to chase a “subversive lyricism” in original music he composes for often unusual instrumental combinations: electric guitar ensembles, laptop orchestras, turntables, as well as more conventional ensembles. Trained as a classical guitarist from age six, his music for classical guitar has been performed or recorded by some the nation’s leading classical guitarists, including Benjamin Verdery, Eliot Fisk, and Daniel Lippel.
Stiefel was recently commissioned by the American Composers Forum to compose Wyeth Songs for electric guitar and children’s chorus. The Minneapolis Guitar Quartet, with support from the Augustine Foundation, commissioned Cinema Castaneda, a kind of mural for four guitars blending cowboy songs with rock music, rancheros music, and narco-corridos. A CD including the work will be released on Innova in March 2013. In 2012, his quartet for laptops, Jargo’s Table, was featured at the first International Symposium for Laptop Orchestras and Ensembles at LSU.
Stiefel has been a featured speaker at TEDx Phoenixville and a visiting artist with PLOrk (Princeton Laptop Orchestra). The Philadelphia Museum of Art presented already seen, an interactive music and dance collaboration with the Miller-Rothlein Company of Philadelphia.
An all-Stiefel CD, Solaris, was released in 2011 on New Focus Recordings and is distributed by Naxos. Stiefel has received grants and commissions from the Georgia Council for the Arts, Mid-Atlantic Arts Fellowship, Art in Odd Places (Atlanta Olympic Festival), Met-Life Composer Connections, and the American Composers’ Forum. His music has been featured on various festivals including the Arts Festival of Atlanta, New York Guitar Festival, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and the Filament Festival. Stiefel holds a BA/MM from Yale University and a PhD in music composition from Princeton. He has been on the faculties of Princeton and McGill Universities and is presently Associate Professor at West Chester University of Pennsylvania.
»www.vanstiefel.com
Sergio Sorrentino is considered by critics to be “one of the most important new Italian contemporary guitarists” (Radio Rai Tre). As a performer he promotes the classical and electric guitar contemporary repertory. As a composer and improviser, his music is based on sonic research and combines elements of contemporary classical music, minimalism, avant-garde, ambient, and experimental music.
After obtaining his Guitar Diploma at the Avellino Conservatory, he studied with Mario Dell’Ara, Leo Brouwer, Maurizio Grandinetti, Angelo Gilardino, and Mark White (Berklee College of Music Summer Course). In 2010 he obtained
the Academic Guitar Diploma with Honors at the Novara Conservatory, with a thesis on Italian avant-garde guitar music.
Sorrentino started his concert career very early and has held solo concerts and master classes at the Dal Verme Theater of Milan, Sala Biala of the Wilanow Museum (Warsaw, Poland), Italian Society of Contemporary Music, Performance Room of Luxembourg, Filharmonia Gorzowska Concert Hall, Music Society of La Scala Theater of Milan, Lagonegro International Guitar Festival, Società del Quartetto of Vercelli, SpazioMusica Festival of Cagliari, Germi Music Festival in Rome, Contemporary Music Festival of Udine, and others. In 2012 he performed, with the Gorzowska Philharmonic Orchestra, Joaquin Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar and orchestra (with Cecilia Rodrigo, the composer's daughter, as a special guest).
Sorrentino has recorded for Rai Trade, VDM records, Silta Records, Carish, Curci, Sinfonica, Aton Records, Fratto9, Setola di Maiale, and has worked with composers and musicians including Azio Corghi, Alda Caiello, Joe Morris, Carlo Actis Dato, Machinefabriek, Fabio Cifariello Ciardi, and Maurizio Pisati. He has debuted many new guitar solo compositions, and many composers including Luca Lombardi, Giorgio Colombo Taccani, Riccardo Nova, Cesare Saldicco, Andrew McKenna Lee, Van Stiefel, David Coll, Mark Delpriora have written pieces for him.
His CD release A Day with the Guitar (works by Sorrentino, Brouwer, Sauguet), published with the magazine GuitArt and now available on iTunes and Amazon, has earned great success. GuitArt magazine dedicated a large article and interview to this release.
Sergio is a member of the Sorrentino-TelandroSigurtà Trio, a special project based on electroacoustic free improvisation. As a composer, he won the First Edition of the International Competition of Guitar Composition “Goffredo Petrassi” of the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, with the piece De Citharae Natura for solo guitar. His composition Mosaico for guitar orchestra was commissioned by the International Guitar Festival of Milan. The Contemporary Ensemble gave the first performance of the piece in December 2011 at the International Guitar Festival of Milan.
Sorrentino also works with actors and theatre directors, including Federico Grassi and Paolo Bignamini, writing incidental music and soundtracks. Casa Ricordi and Universal have published his transcriptions of Azio Corghi’s compositions Tang’ Jok (Guitar) and Nocturnus Visus. He has also written several chapters of the Guitar History Handbook by Bèrben Editions, a study of twentieth-century Italian guitar composers (Mucchi Editions), and several ethnomusicological writings. He currently writes a column for Italian guitar magazines GuitArt, Dotguitar, and Il Fronimo. He graduated from the University of Salerno with a degree in Foreign Languages and Literature. He holds a professorship in classical and electric guitar at the Music Institute F.A. Vallotti of Vercelli, Italy. Sergio Sorrentino plays a Gioachino Giussani classical guitar and a Fender Artist Series Stratocaster.
»www.sergiosorrentino.com
Rene Izquierdo, a native of Cuba, graduated from the Guillermo Tomas, Amadeo Roldan Conservatory and Superior Institute of Art in Havana. In the United States, Mr. Izquierdo earned Master of Music and Artist Diploma degrees from the Yale University School of
Music, where he studied with Benjamin Verdery. While at Yale he represented the university in an exchange program with the Conservatoire National de Musique et de Danse du Paris and worked with guitarists Olivie Chassain and Roland Dyens.
Rene has appeared as a guest soloist and in chamber music concerts throughout the United States, Cuba, and Europe. He has shared the stage with prestigious guitarists including Eliot Fisk, Benjamin Verdery, and Jorge Morel, as well as flutist Ransom Wilson, soprano Lucy Shelton, David Jolley, and Paquito d’Rivera. Renowned composers such as Jorge Morel and Carlos R. Rivera have dedicated works to him. The recipient of numerous awards, Mr. Izquierdo is a winner of the JoAnn Falletta International Guitar Competition in 2004, Extremadura International Guitar Competition, Schadt String Competition, and the Stotsenberg International Guitar Competition, among others. He is currently a professor of classical guitar at Wisconsin State University in Milwaukee and an active solo performer and chamber musician. Rene has studied with Leo Brouwer, David Russell, Shin-Ichi Fukuda, Eli Kastner, Pepe Romero, Angel Romero, Carlos Barbosa-Lima, David Starobin, Eduardo Fernandez, Jorge Morel, Robert Beaser, and Anthony Newman, among others.
»www.reneizquierdoguitar.com
Elina Chekan (Ella) is currently teaching classical guitar at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she also directs the Suzuki and Pre-College Guitar Program. A native of Minsk, Belarus, Ella began studying guitar at the age of 13 with Valeriy Gromov. She graduated from Minsk Music College in 1994, and the Belarus Academy of Music in 1999 under Eugene Gridiushko with a degree in classical guitar performance,
orchestral conducting, and guitar pedagogy. In 2000 Ella entered the Yale School of Music, where she studied with Professor Benjamin Verdery, received the Louis and Anne Rosoff Award, and graduated with a degree in classical guitar performance.
Combining active careers in performance and teaching, Ella has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States and abroad. Some of this year’s appearances include Chamber Music Milwaukee Series, Brussels Royal Museum of Musical Instrument in Belgium, Tucson Classical Guitar Society, and Mannes College Guitar Festival in New York.
In her teaching, Ella believes in the individualized approach to every student with tailored instruction based on student needs. Mrs. Chekan has extensive knowledge of guitar pedagogy and repertoire, and has experienced first-hand different guitar schools of thought. Ella is also a certified Suzuki instructor registered with the Suzuki Association of Americas. All this experience allows her to find unique approaches and repertoire for each of her students, giving them a solid foundation in technique and musicianship at an early stage.
Along with conducting Ella has arranged a wide variety of music for solo and chamber music. Since 2005, Ella has been a member of the faculty at Usdan Center for the Performing Arts in Long Island, NY. In addition to teaching and performing at Usdan, she conducts the guitar orchestra with up to sixty performers. In her quest for present-day student repertoire, Ella commissioned composer Jorge Morel to write a series of student repertoire solo and ensemble pieces that is published by Mel Bay. With her belief that young players are our future, Ella is working with musicians and composers encouraging them to write appealing and
musically interesting pieces for the young generation of guitarists.
Renowned Argentinean composer Jorge Morel dedicated his composition Campañas, published by Mel Bay in The Magnifcent Guitar of Jorge Morel to Ms. Chekan.
Ella Chekan performs on a John Price guitar and uses Savarez strings.
Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Ransom Wilson graduated from the Juilliard School in 1973, and spent a year in Paris as a private student of Jean-Pierre Rampal. An exclusive recording contract with Angel/EMI followed soon thereafter, along with extensive performances all over the world. As flute soloist, he has appeared in concert with some of the greatest orchestras of our time, including the Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, and London Symphony.
He is turning increasingly to a career in orchestral and operatic conducting, and has recently been named Conductor and teacher of conducting at SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music. Since 2006 he has been a member of the musical staff at the Metropolitan Opera. Additionally, he is founder of a new ensemble in New York, LE TRAIN BLEU.
He has appeared as guest conductor with the London Symphony Orchestra and Hallé Orchestra, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Denver Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (with Sir James Galway), and Orchestra of St. Luke’s, among many others.
Ransom Wilson is an Artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Conductor at SUNY Purchase, Assistant Conductor at the
Metropolitan Opera, Artistic Director of LE TRAIN BLEU, and Music Director of the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company.
David Tanenbaum is one of the most admired classical guitarists of his generation.
He is recognized internationally as an outstanding performing and recording artist, a charismatic educator, and a transcriber and editor of both taste and intelligence. He has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Australia, the former Soviet Union, and Asia, and in 1988 he became the first American guitarist to be invited to perform in China by the Chinese government. He has been soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, and the London Sinfonietta, among others, with such conductors as Esa-Pekka Salonen, Kent Nagano, and John Adams. Tanenbaum has been a featured soloist at many international festivals, including those of Bath, Luzern, Frankfurt, Barcelona, and Vienna as well as numerous guitar festivals.
David Tanenbaum is recognized as one of today’s most eloquent proponents of new guitar repertoire. Composers who have written works for him include Hans Werner Henze, Terry Riley, Aaron Jay Kernis, Roberto Sierra, and Lou Harrison. He has toured extensively with Steve Reich and Musicians and has had a long association with Ensemble Modern. As a chamber musician he has collaborated with, among others, the Kronos, Shanghai, Alexander, and Chester String Quartets, dancer Tandy Beal, and guitarist Manuel Barrueco.
David Tanenbaum’s three dozen recordings, which reflect his broad repertoire interests, can be found on New Albion, EMI, Nonesuch, Albany, Bridge, and many other labels. His 2002
recording as soloist with the L.A. Philharmonic in John Adam’s Naive and Sentimental Music was nominated for a Grammy as the Best New Composition. His many editions of guitar music include the David Tanenbaum Concert Series for Guitar Solo Publications. He has also written a series of three books, The Essential Studies, and his chapter on the Revival of the Classical Guitar in the Twentieth Century appears in the Cambridge Companion to the Guitar.
David Tanenbaum is currently Chair of the Guitar Department at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he received the 1995 Oustanding Professor Award. He has been Artist-In-Residence at the Manhattan School of Music and is in demand for master classes worldwide. Tanenbaum studied guitar with Aaron Shearer, Rolando Valdez-Blain, and Michael Lorimer, attending the San Francisco Conservatory and Peabody Conservatory.
»www.davidtanenbaum.com
special thanks
Yale Collection of Musical Instruments
One of the foremost institutions of its kind, the Collection acquires, preserves, and exhibits musical instruments from antiquity to the present. The Collection holds regular public visiting hours and presents an annual concert series as well as lectures and other events.
» www.yale.edu/musicalinstruments
Garrett Lee has enjoyed careers in both biochemistry and lutherie. In 1999, he began building classical guitars as a hobby and later transitioned to full-time lutherie. His guitars take inspiration from the past and present, blending traditional design with contemporary features such as double-top soundboards, elevated fingerboards, and adjustable-action necks. Gary custom-builds ten instruments a year in Wayne, New Jersey.
» www.LeeGuitarWorks.com
Nathan Richardson, Fretted Instrument Repairs Nathan Richardson offers the only complete fretted instrument repair service with pick-up and delivery to the Yale School of Music. Mr. Richardson has been working happily with Yale since 2009. He currently serves the greater New Haven area and north to Middletown. He will be on hand at the Guitar Extravaganza to answer questions on guitar care and repair, and will be performing minor repairs throughout the day.
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THE NINTH YALE
GUITAR Extravaganza
CELEBRATING YALE ALUMNI
Robert Blocker, Dean
GUITAR Extravaganza THE NINTH YALE
CELEBRATING YALE ALUMNI
Saturday, February 20, 2016 • Benjamin Verdery, Artistic Director
9:00 am 10:00 – 11:30 am
Concert
Registration
Main Lobby in Sprague Hall (470 College Street)
Music for Young Guitar Ensembles
Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall
hartt school suzuki guitar ensemble
David Madsen, director
heritage guitar ensembles
Kevin Vigil, director
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Master Class
12:45 – 1:45 pm
Panel Discussion
2:00 – 3:00 pm
Concert
Master Class with Z.o.o. guitar duo
Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall
Social Media and CDs: What is their importance to emerging guitarists in 2016?
Sudler Recital Hall in W. L. Harkness Hall
Benjamin Verdery, moderator
John Olson and Solomon Silber ’16 mm, panelists
Max Zuckerman and Daniel Corr, guitars
Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall
3:15 – 4:15 pm
Master Class
4:15 pm – 5:15 pm
Panel Discussion
Schedule of Events
5:30 – 6:30 pm
Concert 8:00 pm
Concert
Master Class with Benjamin Verdery
Sudler Recital Hall in W. L. Harkness Hall
Life after Music School
Sudler Recital Hall in W. L. Harkness Hall
How to make a living as a classical guitarist in 2016 and career options for guitarists
John Olson, moderator
Daniel Corr, Adam Levin, David Madsen, Simon Powis, Matthew Rohde, Jeremy Schulick, Benjamin Verdery, and Max Zuckerman, panelists
Dúo Ditirambo and Z.o.o. guitar duo
Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall
Marc Teicholz, guitar
Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall
The Yale Guitar Extravaganza was made possible in part by a grant from the D’Addario Music Foundation with support from D’Addario and Company, Inc.
Guitar Extravaganza
MUSIC FOR YOUNG GUITAR ENSEMBLES
Saturday, February 20, 2016 • 10:00 am • Morse Recital Hall
Trad. French
Anonymous arr. Andrew Forrest
hartt suzuki guitar orchestra
David Madsen, director
Jim Rickevicius, coordinator
Are You Sleeping, Brother John?
Richard Hao, Jaxson Richards, Mia Tonon, Abigail Waterman
Three Pieces from the Mulliner Book I. I Smile to See How You Devise II. La Doune Cella III. La Bounette
Katie Canffaglione, Michael Daly, Corbett DiIulio, Aaron Ding, Grace Flynn, Paul Kendrick, Juan Pablo Montoya, Sarah Reid
Andrew York
b. 1958
Horacio Salinas
b. 1951
Antonio Vivaldi 1678–1741
Lotus Eaters
Rob Avena, Seth Heye-Smith, Lang Le, Elliott Moberly-LaChance
El Mercado de Testaccio
Concerto Grosso, Op. 3, No. 8 I. Allegro
The Hartt Suzuki Guitar Orchestra
Rob Avena, Emre Budak, Michael D’Andrea, Carlos Ernest, Seth Heye-Smith, Willa Kulynych Griffith, Halle Keane, Lang Le, Elliott Moberly-LaChance, Emma Ort, Matthew Reid, Ben Rickevicius
Edvard Grieg 1843–1907
arr. Chris Lee
Romana Hartmetz
Jeffrey Tanner b. 1965
Guitar Extravaganza
heritage guitar ensemble
Kevin Vigil, director
Miroslav Lončar and Nataša Klasinc-Lončar, guest artists
In the Hall of the Mountain King
From Peer Gynt Suite, Op. 46
Antonio Vivaldi 1678–1741
arr. Alan Hirsh
Matthew Denman
Miroslav Lončar b. 1964
Summer Suite
Divergent Rondo
Advanced Guitar Class
Shannon Callahan, Ari Dashmyagmar, Connor Hinnershitz, Darrius Jackson, Adeline Langer, Damian Moo-Pacheco, Alex Pierson, Katerina Pletnyova, Matthew Pullella, Emily Ricko
Concerto Grosso, Op. 3, No. 11 I. Allegro
Pictures on a Train
Winter Salsa
World Premiere
Artist Guitar Class
Deanna Alvarez, Stephen Figueroa, Alex Gray, Dorothy Griffin, Courtney Kirkpatrick, Jacob Meadows, Diana Miranda, Eli Paynter, Nathan Schick, Kristine Tran
As a courtesy to the performers and audience, silence all electronic devices. Please do not leave the hall during selections. Photography or recording of any kind is prohibited.
MASTER CLASS with Z.O.O. GUITAR DUO
Saturday, February 20, 2016 • 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Antonio Vivaldi
1678–1741
arr. Alan Hirsh
Z.o.o. guitar duo • Marian Schaap and Peter Constant Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall
Concerto Grosso, Op. 3, No. 11 I. Allegro
Heritage High School • Artist Guitar Class
Deanna Alvarez, Stephen Figueroa, Alex Gray, Dorothy Griffin, Courtney Kirkpatrick, Jacob Meadows, Diana Miranda, Eli Paynter, Nathan Schick, Kristine Tran
Edvard Grieg 1843–1907
arr. Chris Lee
In the Hall of the Mountain King, from Peer Gynt Suite, Op. 46
Heritage High School • Advanced Guitar Class
Shannon Callahan, Ari Dashmyagmar, Connor Hinnershitz, Darrius Jackson, Adeline Langer, Damian Moo-Pacheco, Alex Pierson, Katerina Pletnyova, Matthew Pullella, Emily Ricko
MASTER CLASS with BENJAMIN VERDERY
Saturday, February 20, 2016 • 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm
Antonio Vivaldi 1678–1741
Benjamin Verdery, guitar
Sudler Recital Hall in W. L. Harkness Hall
Concerto in D major, RV 93 II. Largo
Rob Avena • Hartt Suzuki Guitar Program
Leo Brouwer b. 1939
Johann Kaspar Mertz 1806–1856
J. S. Bach 1685–1750
Un Día De Noviembre
Diana Miranda • Heritage High School
Nocturne, Op. 4, No. 1
Kristine Tran • Heritage High School
Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008 I. Prelude
Dorothy Griffin • Heritage High School
DANIEL CORR and MAX ZUCKERMAN
Saturday, February 20, 2016 • 2:00 pm • Morse Recital Hall
Ferdinand Rebay 1880–1953
Rebay
Mario CastelnuovoTedesco
1895–1968
Daniel Corr, guitar
Variations on the Folksong “Das Lieben bringt groß Leid” (1950)
Volksausgabe Suite, Op. Posth.
I. Kleiner Marsch
II. Albumblatt
III. Tanzlied
IV. Melodie
V. Menuett
VI. Menuett im Stile Mozarts
VII. Wiegenlied
VIII. Russischer Tanz
Tre Preludi Mediterranei, Op. 176
I. Serenatella
II. Nenia
III. Danza
Johann Sebastian Bach 1685–1750
Isaac Albéniz 1860–1909
Max Zuckerman, guitar
Partita No. 1 in B-flat major, BWV 825
I. Praeludium
II. Allemande
III. Corrente
IV. Sarabande
V. Minuet I & II
VI. Gigue
Granada (1918)
Córdoba (1918)
Cataluña (1918)
Sevilla (1918)
DÚO DITIRAMBO and Z.O.O. GUITAR DUO
Saturday, February 20, 2016 • 5:30 pm • Morse Recital Hall
dúo ditirambo
Noelia Gómez González, viola
Alfonso Aguirre Dergal, guitar
Manuel de Falla 1876–1946
Fernando Buide del Real b. 1980
Benjamin Verdery b. 1955
Various Antonio Lauro 1917–1986
Canciones Populares Españolas (1914–15)
Suite para Viola y Guitarra (2014)
I. Perpetuum Mobile
II. Variación sobre una melodía de Albéniz
Six Character Pieces from Eleven Etudes (2006)
I. Let Go
III. Worry Knot
IV. Cause and Effect
VI. Monkey Mind
VIII. Greed
IX. Things Aren’t Always What They Seem
México Mágico (Medley) arr. Dúo Ditirambo
Seis por Derecho arr. Julio César Oliva and Dúo Ditirambo
intermission
Domenico Scarlatti 1685–1757
Nadia Borislova b. 1969
Phillip Houghton b. 1954
Lauro
arr. Peter Constant
Lauro
Anonymous
Ignacio Figuereda 1899–1995
Egberto Gismonti b. 1947
Paulo Bellinati b. 1950
z.o.o. guitar duo
Marion Schaap, guitar
Peter Constant, guitar Guitar Extravaganza
Sonata in G minor, K. 4
Sonata in A major, K. 209
Sonnet
Brolga (2014)
Muziek uit Venezuela
La Gatica
Andreina
Pica Pica
Los Caujaritos
Água e Vinho (1972)
Jongo (1978)
MARC TEICHOLZ Guitar Extravaganza
Saturday, February 20, 2016 • 8:00 pm • Morse Recital Hall
John Dowland 1563–1626
Lennox Berkeley 1903–1989
J. S. Bach 1685–1750
Robert Schumann 1810–1856
Sérgio Assad b. 1952
Ernesto Nazareth 1863–1934
arr. Sérgio Assad
Fantasie (1610)
Sonatina, Op. 52, No. 1 (1957)
Partita No. 2 in C minor, BWV 826
I. Sinfonia
II. Allemande
III. Courante
IV. Sarabande
V. Rondeaux
VI. Capriccio
intermission
Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood), Op. 15
Seis Brevidades (2009)
I. Chuva
II. Tarde
III. Feliz
IV. Ginga
V. Cantiga
VI. Saltitante
Confidencias, Batuque (1913)
Benjamin Verdery, guitar
Artistic director of 92 nd Street Y’s Art of the Guitar series since 2006, Benjamin Verdery is hailed for his innovative and eclectic musical career. Since 1980 he has performed worldwide in theaters and at festivals, including Theatre Carré in Amsterdam, the International Guitar Festival at Havana, Wigmore Hall in London, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Metropolitan Opera in New York. His tours regularly take him throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia. He has recorded and performed with such diverse artists as Andy Summers, Frederic Hand, William Coulter, Leo Kottke, Anthony Newman, Jessye Norman, Paco Peña, Hermann Prey, and John Williams.
Of Verdery’s more than fifteen albums, the most recent are Happy Here, with William Coulter, and Branches, featuring works of Bach, Strauss, Jimi Hendrix, and Mozart along with the traditional “Amazing Grace,” both for Mushkatweek. His CD Start Now won the 2005 Classical Recording Foundation Award. Other recordings include Some Towns & Cities and his collaborations with John Williams (John Williams Plays Vivaldi) and Andy Summers (First You Build A Cloud).
Many leading composers of our time have created music for Ben, including Ezra Laderman, Christopher Theofanidis, Hannah Lash, Bryce Dessner, David Leisner, Martin Bresnick, John Anthony Lennon, Anthony Newman, Roberto Sierra, Van Stiefel, and Jack Vees. Of particular note was the commission by the Yale University Music Library of a work by Ingram Marshall for classical and electric guitars. Verdery and
Andy Summers premiered the work, Dark Florescence, at Carnegie Hall with the American Composers Orchestra.
Benjamin Verdery is also a prolific composer, with many compositions performed, recorded, and published over the years. In 2012, he was commissioned to compose two works: Penzacola Belongs To All, commissioned by the Pensacola Guitar Orchestra, and Stand in Your Own Light for guitar and koto, commissioned by the Kyo-Shin-An Arts with funding from the New York State Council for the Arts. In 2010, the Assad Duo premiered Ben’s work What He Said. Commissioned by the 92 nd Street Y, the work is dedicated to the late luthier Thomas Humphrey. Other recent works include Now and Ever (for David Russell, Telarc), Peace, Love and Guitars (for John Williams and John Etheridge, SONY Classical), Capitola (John Williams, SONY Classical) and Give for eight guitars. Scenes from Ellis Island, for guitar orchestra, has been broadcast and performed in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Europe, and the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet included it on their CD Air and Ground.
Doberman-Yppan (Canada) publishes Verdery’s solo and duo works for guitar, and Workshop Arts (distributed by Alfred Music) has published the solo pieces from Some Towns & Cities as well as instructional books and videos. Many other compositions are available on his website.
Since 1985, Benjamin Verdery has been chair of the guitar department at the Yale School of Music and artistic director of the biannual Yale Guitar Extravaganza. He was appointed an honorary board member
of the Suzuki Association of the Americas in 2007. Each summer Ben holds his Annual International Master Class on the Island of Maui (Hawaii).
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Hartt Suzuki Guitar Ensemble
David Madsen, director
Jim Rickevicius, coordinator West Hartford, Connecticut
The Hartt Suzuki Guitar program, led by David Madsen and Jim Rickevicius, is presenting students from all levels of the program. Along with the private lesson and group class, children in Book 2 and up also receive a reading/ensemble class. The students you will hear today represent most of those ensemble classes.
David Madsen founded what is now the Hartt Suzuki Guitar Program in 1990. He is Chair of the Guitar and Harp Department of the Community Division at the Hartt School of Music in West Hartford. David graduated with a B.M. in guitar performance from the University of Connecticut, and has since studied with David Leisner and Pepe Romero. He became a registered Teacher Trainer with the Suzuki Association of the Americas in 2000, and has conducted courses throughout North America and in Singapore, Peru, Argentina, and Puerto Rico. Mr. Madsen is a member of the SAA Guitar Committee.
Jim Rickevicius has been an active member of the Suzuki community since 1996. Jim received a B.A. in Music, a B.S. in Elementary Education from Central Connecticut State University, and a M.M. in guitar
performance from the Hartt School. He has taken Suzuki training with Frank Longay, Bill Kossler, and David Madsen. He enjoys working with students and families to make music a rewarding part of their lives.
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High School
Dr. Kevin Vigil, director Ashburn, Virginia
Dr. Kevin Vigil (Dr. V.) holds degrees from the University of Memphis, Yale University, and Shenandoah University. His interest in secondary school guitar programs began when he met John Graham (Lake Braddock Secondary School, Fairfax County Public Schools) in 1991. Over the years he performed for, coached, and traveled with Graham’s students. They published their first book, Guitar 101 (Clear Note Publication), in 2008 and are now writing a new book that should be available in in 2016.
Over the last several years, Dr. Vigil has become a leader in the field of guitar education. He has presented lectures on the subject at Yale University, James Madison University, for the Guitar Foundation of America (GFA), and elsewhere. He has also presented a lecture titled “The Brain, Intelligence Theories, and Teaching Guitar: Creating Pathways for Student Success” for the GFA Conference in Los Angeles and the Philadelphia Guitar Society. His latest article, “How Things Work,” was recently published on the GFA’s education website, www.guitareducation.org.
Dr. V. has organized several district and statewide events that have brought the LCPS guitar program to international attention. Under the support and guidance of Jim Harmon, Vigil organized the 2012 world premiere of Shiki: Seasons of Japan by Shingo Fujii, in which LCPS guitar students and faculty performed with the Grammy Award-winning Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. Vigil’s review of this performance was published in Gendai Guitar Magazine (Japan). LCPS-TV created a documentary of this event at vimeo.com/40965900.
Vigil also organized the world premiere of Cascade by Omid Zoufonoun, which was commissioned by the Guitar Foundation of America. After the performance, GFA president Martha Masters presented LCPS with a plaque in recognition of LCPS leadership in guitar education. The LCPS-TV documentary of this event is online at vimeo.com/63195971.
The Heritage Guitar program has been honored to perform for every Yale Guitar Extravaganza since 2006. The 2009 performance brought international attention to the group in a review published in Classical Guitar Magazine (UK). The 2014 Yale Guitar Extravaganza was documented by LCPS-TV at vimeo.com/89619886.
Today’s program highlights compositions and arrangements that represent the field of guitar education. Chris Lee’s arrangement of In the Hall of the Mountain King is published by the Austin Classical Guitar Society’s GuitarCurriculum.com. Pictures on a Train was composed by Matthew Denman, the Director of Education for the Guitar Foundation of America. The Vivaldi Concerto was arranged by Dr. Alan
Hirsh, who recently conducted the 2015 All-Virginia Guitar Ensemble. We are especially proud of our Loudoun County composers and teachers Romana Hartmetz, Jeffrey Tanner, and Dr. Miroslav Lončar, with their pieces Summer Suite, Divergent Rondo, and Summer Salsa.
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Max Zuckerman is a multifaceted guitarist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He received his Master of Music degree from the Yale School of Music, where he studied with Benjamin Verdery. Max is also a graduate of the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where he earned both a Bachelor of Music and a Graduate Performance degree in the studio of Manuel Barrueco. Prior to his enrollment at the Peabody Institute, Max studied guitar for twelve years with Scott Cmiel, in San Francisco, where he also completed the Certificate Program of the Preparatory Division of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
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Daniel Corr, guitar
Described by the Hartford Courant as “a guitarist for music lovers to catch”, Seattle native Daniel Corr is active as a performing classical guitarist across North America and beyond. Highlights of his career include performances of major guitar concertos with the American Classical Orchestra of New York City, the Waterbury Symphony, Seattle Creative Orchestra at Benaroya Hall, and with the Auburn
Symphony. He has been a featured solo recitalist at universities such as Villanova, UW Milwaukee, UK Lexington, MSU Bozeman, and the Central Conservatory in Beijing.
A passionate chamber musician, Daniel can be frequently seen in concert as a member of the Apollinaire Trio (flute, viola, and guitar) and the New Haven Guitar Quartet. As a vocal accompanist, Daniel was chosen to accompany singers in a master class for the Spanish mezzo-soprano Teresa Berganza, which was broadcast on RTVV Spanish television, and he collaborated with the Connecticut Chamber Choir on a program of music for choir and guitar in 2016. Daniel performed on the Connecticut Style show on ABC affiliate channel WTNH in 2013.
Daniel’s musicianship and artistry have been recognized at several competitions, including first prize at the 12 th Northwest Guitar Competition, a top prize at the SUNY–Potsdam Crane New Music Solo Performer Competition, adjudicated by composer George Crumb, and as the recipient of Yale’s prestigious Eliot Fisk Prize in 2001. In 2006, he was honored with the Certificate of Excellence from the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.
A recipient of three degrees in guitar performance, Daniel holds the Master of Music and Artist Diploma from the Yale School of Music under Benjamin Verdery, and the Bachelor of Music from Cornish College under Steven Novacek. Daniel has had other private studies with Rene Izquierdo and Jorge Caballero. Additionally, he has performed in scores of master classes for
nearly all of the most familiar names in the modern classical guitar world, and trained at summer programs such as Aspen and for four years at Le Domaine Forget.
Daniel serves as Lecturer of Music in guitar at Gateway and Housatonic Community Colleges, and is on the classical guitar faculties of the Suzuki Music School of Westport and the Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts. He also founded the guitar chamber music program at the Elm City ChamberFest. As a scholar of guitar literature and pedagogy, Daniel has served on panels at Yale University and has been published in Soundboard, a periodical of the Guitar Foundation of America. His own students have won first prizes in the Columbus and Salisbury national youth competitions while under his tutelage.
Dúo Ditirambo was founded in 2008 while violist Noelia Gómez and guitarist Alfonso Aguirre were finishing their graduate studies at the Yale School of Music. The duo has been hailed by both general and specialized audiences ever since. Their performances include numerous recitals and concerts as featured duo with orchestras in music festivals, concert series, and TV broadcasts in Europe, Mexico, and the United States. Some venues they have performed in include the international guitar festivals of Taxco, Paracho, Ramón Noble, Sonora, the Nuntempa Festival of contemporary music, and the Festival Cultural de Zacatecas in Mexico. In the United States they were
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recently invited to perform as a featured duo with the American Wind Symphony Orchestra conducted by Robert Boudreau. In Spain the duo has performed with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Segovia under Alvaro Mendía in the main hall of the Alcazar de Segovia (Castle of Segovia), and has appeared at the Sala Manuel de Falla of the Madrid Royal Conservatory and the Teatro Juan Bravo, among others.
Their repertoire is characterized by an original selection of works written for this ensemble, as well as arrangements and transcriptions of classical and traditional folk music of different cultures. The duo has premiered original works by composers Mario Gosálvez Blanco, Fernando Buide del Real, Leonardo Coral, Flores Chaviano, and Claudia Herrerías. In 2013, they made their debut CD recording, Perpetuum Mobile.
Noelia Gómez, viola
A native of Segovia, Spain, violist Noelia Gómez has performed widely as a recitalist and chamber musician in Mexico, Spain, Germany, Puerto Rico, and the United States. In 2008 she was awarded the Georgina Lucy Grosvenor Memorial Prize in 2008, for “the violist in the graduating class whose performances while at Yale University have exhibited the highest potential for success as a soloist or chamber musician in the field.” She was also the winner of the First Prize at the 2004 Mirabent i Magrans International Chamber Music Competition in Barcelona as a member of the Matiz String Quartet. Noelia has received both Fulbright and Alexander von Humboldt scholarships. She studied at the Yale School of Music (M.M.),
Hochschule für Musik Köln in Cologne, Germany, and at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid (B.A.). She is currently candidate for the doctoral degree in music performance at the Universidade de Aveiro in Portugal.
Noelia was a member of the faculty of the School of Music of the Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas from 2009 to 2015 and has been also the artistic director of the PaaxFest Chiapas International Music festival in México. She currently lives in Segovia, Spain and is a faculty member of the Centro Superior de Enseñanza Musical Progreso Musical in Madrid.
Alfonso Aguirre, guitar
Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, Alfonso Aguirre has established himself as one of the most outstanding Mexican guitarists of his generation. He has performed as soloist with orchestras in Mexico, Spain, and the United States, and is regularly invited as a guest artist, teacher, and juror in prestigious international guitar festivals, universities, and institutions of music education. Alfonso was awarded the Premio Pedro Sarquis Merrewe, in recognition of his artistic career. He has also been a prizewinner in numerous national and international guitar competitions. He has recorded a CD as a soloist with the American Wind Symphony Orchestra and a more recent album, Perpetuum Mobile, with Dúo Ditirambo. Alfonso holds a Bachelor of Music degree and a Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music and a Master of Music degree from Yale University, and he is a candidate for a Ph.D. in music performance at the Universidade de
Aveiro (Portugal). From 2008 to 2015 he was a faculty member and chair of the guitar department at the Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas School of Music. Alfonso currently lives in Segovia, Spain and is a faculty member of the Centro Superior de Enseñanza Musical Progreso Musical in Madrid. {
Z.o.o. guitar duo
Z.o.o. guitar duo was described in Classical Guitar magazine as “premiere league quality.” Comprised of Australian guitarist Peter Constant and Dutch guitarist Marion Schaap, both graduates of the Yale School of Music (’92 m.m.), the duo has built an international reputation over the past 25 years. Peter and Marion ran the guitar faculties of Melbourne University 1992 –1998 before moving to their current home, Holland.
Appearances have included the Grachten Festival and Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Jazz- und Klassiktage Tübingen, Staunton Music Festival, International Guitar Festival of Great Britain, Darwin International Guitar Festival, and countless other podia and festivals.
The duo has added numerous arrangements to the repertoire, and composers from Australia, Canada, Britain, Estonia, and The Netherlands have dedicated works to them. Peter and Marion appear on some 20 CDs on various labels, including recent releases of Bach’s complete two-part inventions on baritone/requinto guitars, and Gubaidulina’s
monumental Repentance, supervised by the composer herself.
Z.o.o. guitar duo has long encouraged experimental luthiers like Greg Smallman, Paul Sheridan, and Jeroen Hilhorst. They also possess a complete collection of newgeneration guitar family instruments by Graham Caldersmith.
Widely known for their inspirational work in the field of guitar ensembles, Peter and Marion are currently artistic directors of Stichting Gitaarorkest Nederland. They have directed both the Netherlands and European Youth Guitar Orchestras and appeared as soloists with JGO BadenWürttenburg, the Swiss Guitar Ensemble, and various other leading guitar ensembles. Their annual ‘gitaarspektakel’ concert in Almere is an established highlight on the Dutch guitar calendar. Peter and Marion led an ensemble of 1,000 guitarists in the Olympic Stadium, Berlin, during the World Culture Festival 2011.
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Marc Teicholz, guitar
Guitarist Marc Teicholz was awarded first prize at the 1989 International Guitar Foundation of America Competition, the largest, most prestigious contest of its kind in the United States. He was also a prize winner at the 1991 New York East-West Artists Competition.
Described by Gramophone as “arguably the best of the new young guitarists to have emerged” and by Soundboard magazine as “among the best we have ever heard,” Teicholz’s performances throughout the world include tours of the United States,
Canada, Russia, Poland, Switzerland, Southeast Asia, New Zealand, and Fiji. His recitals and master classes have received critical acclaim, and he has been featured in concert with orchestras in Spain, Portugal, California, and Hawaii.
Marc Teicholz has had new works written specially for him. Most recently, he debuted Clarice Assad’s concerto for guitar, O Saci-Pererê, at the Biasini Festival in San Francisco. Teicholz tours the United States extensively with the Festival of Four. He is featured on the pilot soundtrack for George Lucas’ Young Indiana Jones, and has recorded solo CDs for Naxos, Sugo, Menus and Music, and most recently, Guitar Salon International. His latest solo disc, Valseana, presents works performed on historic guitars of the period of each musical selection. On Delos, he has recently released Open your Heart with soprano Laura Claycomb, featuring 19th and 20th century composers.
For Naxos, Marc Teicholz has made his mark with two collections of Sor’s music already committed to disc. In a show of his versatility, he has also recorded the fifth volume of the collected works for guitar by the 19th-century French virtuoso guitarist and composer Napoleon Coste.
Teicholz, currently on the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, teaches in the summers at the California Summer Arts Festival and the Weatherfield Music festival in Vermont. He received his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from Yale University, and holds a J.D. from the University of California Berkeley Boalt School of Law.
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Featuring Grammy Award-winning artist David Russell, Duo Noire, the Great Necks Guitar Trio, JIJI, and Party of One
Saturday, February 15
Morse & Sudler Recital Halls
Benjamin Verdery, artistic director
Robert Blocker, Dean
Saturday, February 15, 2020 • Benjamin Verdery, artistic director
9:00 a.m.
9:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Concert
11:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Q&A Session
12:15 – 1:00 p.m.
Discussion
Registration
Sprague Memorial Hall lobby
Visiting Student Guitar Ensembles
Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall
Hartt Suzuki Guitar Ensembles
Connecticut Suzuki Guitar Academy
Heritage High School, Leesburg, VA
Tuscarora High School, Leesburg, VA
Q&A Session with David Russell
Sudler Recital Hall in W. L. Harkness Hall
Life After Music School
Sudler Recital Hall in W. L. Harkness Hall with Trevor Babb, Liz Faure, Jiyeon Kim, Adam Levin, Christopher Mallett, and Simon Powis
1:15 – 1:30 p.m.
Pre-Concert Talk
1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Concert
2:45 – 3:45 p.m.
Master Class
4:00 – 4:45 p.m.
Presentation
5:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Concert
7:30 p.m.
Concert
The Kithara Project
Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall
party of one & The Great Necks Guitar Trio
Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall
Master Class with Benjamin Verdery
Sudler Recital Hall in W. L. Harkness Hall
Why the Music of Jimi Hendrix Matters to Me
Sudler Recital Hall in W. L. Harkness Hall
Benjamin Verdery, presenter
Duo Noire & JIJI (Jiyeon Kim)
Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall
David Russell, guitar
Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall
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VISITING STUDENT GUITAR ENSEMBLES
Saturday, February 15, 2020 • 9:30 am • Morse Recital Hall
hartt suzuki guitar ensembles
David Madsen, director
Traditional arr. Byrnes/Chambers/ Pateman/Tafra/Tafra
Hot Cross Buns of Death
Akshita Gupta, Kamarley Leger, Kalyan Manandhar, Anna Parker, Levi Phan, Jaxon Richards, Anthony Salerno III, Arda Senecal, Kyrie Thames, Kailai Yang, Josephine Zipagan
Antonio Ruiz-Pipó 1934–1997
Jürg Kindle b. 1958
Horacio Salinas b. 1951
Francis Bebey 1929–2001
Danza
Ronan Bluth, Richard Hao, Evan Keane, Karmarley Leger, Jaxon Richards, Ryan Rickevicius
Kalimba
Michael D’Andrea, Theodore Kulnych-Griffith, Aidan Ngai, Ben Rickevicius
El Mercado de Testaccio
O Bia
Niamh Cleary, Michael D’Andrea, Aaron Ding, Sixian Huang, Paul Kendrick, Lang Le, Aidan Ngai, Matthew Reid, Ben Rickevicius
Connecticut Suzuki Guitar Academy
Trevor Babb, director
Andrew York b. 1958
Johann Sebastian Bach 1685–1750
Paul Hindemith 1895–1963
Joseph Haydn 1732–1809
Lotus Eaters
CSGA Ensemble B
Brian Twitchell, Arnav Chaudry, Ahbi Polaki, Akhil Polaki, Marko Katra, Arya Mitra
Sinfonia No. 1, BWV 787
Rondo (1930)
London Trio No. 1, Hob. IV:1 I. Allegro moderato
CSGA Ensemble A
Noah Richer, James Toomey-Wilson, Jesse Balkcom, Lukas Ceballos, Andrei Orasanu, Chayce Marshall
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Georg Philip Telemann
1681–1767
arr. Adam Kossler
Leo Welch
tuscarora high school
Dr. Matthew Dunlap, director
Concerto for four violins
Mark Houghton
West Virginia Suite
I. Ghosts of the Mountains
II. Appalachian Rain
III. Middle Fork
Olivia Allen, David Anspaugh, Daniel Blackin, Etahn Brill, David Bruno, Marco Cevenini, Alexandra Custer, Chloe Duncan, Alex Estrada, Justin Hicks, Ethan Jones, Ethan Kemp, Iker Limon-Cruz, Zackary Moore, Olivia Rhodes, Aidan Wither
heritage high school
Dr. Kevin Vigil, director
Guitarchestra No. 9 (2019)
Don Felder, Don Henley, & Glenn Frey
arr. Michael Langer
Hotel California (1976)
Juan Andujar, Ryan Bodoh, Lindsay Bowman, Colin Brown, Arturo Campos-Aguilar, Keaton Dean, Michael Faringer, Melvin Flores-Aguirre, Inaya Hasan, Christopher Hays, Gabriel Kirkpatrick, Thomas Legaffney, Donovan Lopez-Monge, Gavin McKay, Jaiden Mehta, Uzair Shahzada, Emadeddin Souqi
PARTY OF ONE and THE GREAT NECKS TRIO
Saturday, February 15, 2020 • 1:30 pm • Morse Recital Hall
Nicole Lizée b. 1973
Alishan Gezgin b. 1994
‘18 MM
Party of One
Liz Faure, guitar
Jess Tsang, percussion with Addy Sterrett, soprano
Family Sing-a-long and Game Night
Made of Dawn (2018)
the great necks guitar trio
Scott Borg, guitar
Adam Levin, guitar
Matthew Rohde, guitar
Johann Sebastian
Bach
1685–1750
transc. Rohde
Bach arr. Borg
Sonata in G minor for viola da gamba, BWV 1029
I. Vivace
II. Adagio
III. Allegro
Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582
MASTER CLASS with BENJAMIN VERDERY
Saturday, February 15, 2020 • 2:45 pm • Sudler Recital Hall
Patrick Roux b. 1962
Heart, Soul and Passion
Juan Andujar
Lindsay Bowman
Arturo Campos-Aguilar
Michael Faringer
Uzair Shahzada
Ferdinando Carulli 1770–1841
Matteo Carcassi 1792–1853
Study in A minor
Olivia Allen
Etude No. 11
Chloe Duncan
DUO NOIRE and JIJI
Saturday, February 15, 2020 • 5:00 pm • Morse Recital Hall
duo noire
Thomas Flippin, guitar
Christopher Mallett, guitar
Note: All works composed for Duo Noire
Mary Kouyoumdjian b. 1983
Raymond Lustig b. 1972
Clarice Assad b. 1978
Gulli Björnsson b. 1991 ’17mm ’18mma
Jack Vees b. 1955
Krists Auznieks b. 1992
’16mm
Byblos
Figment No. 2: 7E
Hocus Pocus
I. Abracadabra! II. Shamans III. Klutzy Witches
JIJI
Jiyeon Kim, guitar
Note: All works composed for Jiji
Dynjandi
Compass Rose World premiere
Cor
DAVID RUSSELL
Saturday, February 15, 2020 • 7:30 pm • Morse Recital Hall
Jacques de Saint-Luc 1616–1710
François Couperin 1668–1733
transc. Russell
Giulio Regondi 1823–1872
Johann Sebastian Bach 1685–1750
transc. Russell
Sérgio Assad b. 1952
Agustín Barrios 1885–1944
Suite in D major, “La Prise de Gaeta”
I. Allemande
II. Courante
III. Sarabande
IV. Gigue à la maniere anglaise
V. Minuet
VI. Passepied
VII. Rigaudon pour les trompettes
VIII. Caprice en Passacaille
Les silvains (1713)
Les baricades misterieuses (1717)
Les tours de passe-passe (1730)
Air varié No. 1, Op. 21
intermission
Chorale Prelude “Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme,” BWV 645
Chorale Prelude “Jesu bleibet meine Freude,” BWV 147
Phyllis’ Portrait (2019)
Caazapá
Un Sueño en la Floresta (1918)
Benjamin Verdery, artistic director
Described as “iconoclastic” and “inventive” by The New York Times, guitarist Benjamin Verdery enjoys an innovative and eclectic musical career. Verdery has given concerts at the International Guitar Festival (Singapore), the Festival International de Agosto (Caracas), the Schubert Festival (Germany), the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Opera, and elsewhere.
Among the composers who have written works for him are Ingram Marshall, Jack Vees, Martin Bresnick, Ezra Laderman, Christopher Theofanidis, and Roberto Sierra. Verdery’s own works have been performed by such artists as John Williams, Sergio and Odair Assad, David Russell, and the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. As a recording artist, Verdery has released more than fifteen albums, all available on Amazon. On February 14, New Focus Recordings released his new CD, Scenes from Ellis Island: The Guitar Music of Ben Verdery.
Verdery is Artistic Director of 92nd Street Y’s Art of the Guitar series and is an honorary board member of the Suzuki Association of the Americas. He is Associate Professor (adjunct) of Guitar at the Yale School of Music and is Artistic Director of the School’s Guitar Extravaganza. Each summer Verdery holds his Annual International Master Class on the Island of Maui (Hawaii).
Benjamin Verdery uses D’Addario strings and plays a guitar built by Garrett Lee and Greg Smallman.
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Hartt Suzuki Guitar Ensemble
David Madsen, director West Hartford, Connecticut
The Hartt Suzuki Guitar program, led by David Madsen and Jim Rickevicius, is presenting students from all levels of the program. Along with the private lesson and group class, children in Book 2 and up also receive a reading/ensemble class. The students you will hear today represent most of those ensemble classes.
David Madsen founded what is now the Hartt Suzuki Guitar Program in 1990. He is the Suzuki coordinator of the Community Division at the Hartt School of Music in West Hartford. David graduated with a B.M. in guitar performance from the University of Connecticut, and has since studied with David Leisner and Pepe Romero. He became a registered Teacher Trainer with the Suzuki Association of the Americas in 2000, and has conducted courses throughout North America, Singapore, Peru, Argentina, and Puerto Rico. Mr. Madsen is a member of the SAA’s Guitar Committee and the Teacher Development Advisory Committee. {
Connecticut Suzuki Guitar Academy Ensembles
Trevor Babb, director ’12mm ’14mma ’18dma Norwalk, CT
The Connecticut Suzuki Guitar Academy, founded by David Veslocki, delivers instruction to students in and around Norwalk, CT and recently established its
home at Factory Underground Studios in the South Norwalk Business District. The Academy delivers individual and ensemble instruction that has produced a level of playing that is nationally recognized. In 2018, an ensemble from the CSGA took second place in the most prestigious competition in the world, put on by the Guitar Foundation of America. Students from the CSGA have won prizes in the Boston Guitar Competition, the MidMaryland Guitar competition, the New Horizons Guitar Competition and more. Trevor Babb began teaching with CSGA in the fall of 2019. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Yale School of Music and received a Fulbright Award in 2012. In addition to teaching with CSGA, Trevor is also an Adjunct Artist Instructor at Vassar College and sustains an active performance career. Scott Hill of the Alturas Duo teaches at the CSGA as well.
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Heritage High School
Dr. Kevin Vigil, director ’90mm Leesburg, Virginia
Kevin Vigil holds performance degrees from Shenandoah University (DMA), Yale University (MM), and the University of Memphis (BM). His pedagogical and educational articles have been published in international journals including the GFA Soundboard (USA), the EGTA Journal (UK) and Gendai Guitar (Japan). He has presented lectures on guitar education, music, and the brain for the Guitar Foundation of America, Yale University, James Madison University, the Philadelphia Guitar Society and for a video series titled,
“Playing Guitar with Your Brain” produced by guitarascendant.org.
Prior to his position at Heritage High School, he spent fifteen years as a classical guitar teacher, performer, composer, organizer and author. His interest in secondary school guitar programs began when he met John Graham (Lake Braddock Secondary School, FCPS) in 1991. Over the years he performed for, coached, and traveled with Graham’s students. He was invited to be a performer/clinician for the 2005 Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) Guitar Festival. It was at this event that he learned of several guitar openings for the following school year. Without hesitation, he applied for a position. He joined the faculty of Heritage High School in 2005 and has remained there ever since.
Dr. Vigil has organized many district, state and regional events. Of particular interest is the 2018 performance of Benjamin Verdery’s Scenes from Ellis Island performed by the PAVAN Guitar Orchestra; which included choir, actors and projected photographs.
Dr. Vigil was chosen as the 2014 Shenandoah University Teacher of the Year for LCPS and was presented a Winston Churchill Commemorative Crown by Churchill Scholar Helen Sanderson for his work in guitar education. Vigil serves as chair of the VMEA Guitar Council and as the Southern Division Representative for the NAfME Council for Guitar Education.
The Heritage Guitar Ensemble has been honored to perform and participate in every Yale Guitar Extravaganza since 2006. The
2009 performance brought international attention to the group in a review published in Classical Guitar Magazine (UK). The 2014 Yale Guitar Extravaganza was documented by LCPS-TV at vimeo. com/89619886. This performance marks the first time that they have programed a rock tune, so feel free to sing along!
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Tuscarora High School
Dr. Matthew Dunlap, director Leesburg, Virginia
The Tuscarora High School Guitar Program was established in 2010. In the past ten years, they have participated in workshops and masterclasses with the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, Canadian Guitar Quartet, Ana Vidovic, Marco Tamayo, Julian Gray, Leo Welch, and Jason Vieaux. They recently performed a program featuring American composers throughout Spain. In the Spring of 2014 they were featured in the Yale University Guitar Extravaganza and the Peabody Preparatory Fret Festival. The following school year they performed with the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet at the Washington College Guitar Festival. They perform regularly for school and community events throughout the D.C.metro area including the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Parade in Leesburg. Members of the ensemble regularly participate in service-based organizations volunteering for the community, tutoring students, and coordinating fundraisers.
The director, Dr. Matthew Dunlap, has been teaching class guitar for 13 years with experience in various levels ranging
from elementary to collegiate. He is currently the guitar teacher, AP music theory teacher, DE Music Appreciation teacher, and fine arts department chair at Tuscarora High School. He completed his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in guitar performance at Florida State University, Master of Music degree in guitar performance at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and Bachelor of Music degree in guitar performance at Kennesaw State University. During the summer of 2004 and 2005 he studied at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana with world renowned guitar pedagogue Oscar Ghiglia.
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Liz Faure, guitar ’18mm
Liz Faure is out to learn every plucked instrument she can get her hands on. She most often performs as part of the contemporary classical music scene, in the Broadway theater pit, as part of various art-rock/pop projects, and with her guitar and percussion duo, party of one. party of one seeks to create a broader palette for new music, exploring where cross-genre and interdisciplinary channels can collide. Liz brings this curiosity to all her solo and collaborative ventures, and can be heard performing on guitar, classical guitar, pedal steel, banjo, and mandolin. She has a Master’s degree in classical guitar performance from the Yale School of Music and dreams of spending all her free time exploring the American backcountry.
Jess Tsang, percussion
Jess Tsang is a percussionist dedicated to the creation of new interdisciplinary works. Equally fascinated by the worlds of contemporary music, material culture, speech, and gastronomic arts, Jess views percussion as a flexible field with endless possibilities for intersection. A founding member of guitar and percussion duo party of one and experimental improv trio See You Next Yesterday, Jess has also collaborated with an eclectic variety of artists, dancers, and musicians including Rebecca Saunders, David Szanto, Elena Rykova, and Deborah Carruthers. Favorite projects include premiering Nicole Lizée’s interactive Mozart murder-mystery opera No One’s Safe, performing within Martin Creed’s installation The Back Door at the Park Avenue Armory, the world premiere of Dan Trueman and Rebecca Lazier’s Bessie-award winning There Might Be Others, and Kid Millions’ 100 Disciplines, an immersive, hour-long work at the Brooklyn Museum.
Addy Sterrett, soprano ’18mm
Soprano Addy Sterrett enjoys exploring a wide variety of solo and ensemble repertoire and has been praised for her “focused, ethereal… crystalline tone and adept precision” (Acadamy of Sacred Drama). Addy’s recent solo engagements include the premiere of William Cooper’s Requiem at Saint Peter’s Lutheran Church, the U.S. premiere of Joseph Kraus’ Requiem with Voices of Ascension, Bach’s St. John Passion and Reena Esmail’s This Love Between Us with Yale Schola Cantorum, and Mendelssohn’s Hör mein Bitten with the Yale Glee Club. Addy is a graduate of
the Yale School of Music/Institute of Sacred Music, DePauw University, and Interlochen Arts Academy. Other musical endeavors and interests include singing and collaborating with her band SugarCave and playing the mountain dulcimer. {
The Great Necks Guitar Trio Scott Borg, guitar ’06ad
Adam Levin, guitar
Matthew Rohde, guitar ’06ba ’07mm
The Great Necks Guitar Trio has enchanted audiences across the US with its whimsical, interactive, and daring performances. Founded by guitarists Scott Borg, Adam Levin, and Matthew Rohde, the trio, through its original madcap arrangements, stretches at the conventions — and at times, the physical limits — of the guitar. “These guys aren’t afraid to shake things up and take chances,” writes Classical Guitar Magazine.
The trio’s debut album, Original Arrangements for Three Guitars, released in November 2018 on the Frameworks/Sony label, reached the top 10 in the Traditional Classical Billboard charts. Praised as “supremely satisfying and original” (Classical Guitar Magazine), the album is an exuberant romp through several centuries of orchestral and keyboard repertoire. In Borg’s “audacious” (Boston Music Intelligencer) arrangement of Sibelius’ Finlandia and Rohde’s “engrossing” (The Whole Note) arrangement of Márquez’s Danzón No. 2, the trio telescopes the panoply of timbres, colors, and sounds heard in the orchestra through the keyhole of the guitar — that instrument
once famously described by the late Andrés Segovia as “an orchestra in miniature.” In Scriabin’s Preludes, Op. 11; Bach’s Chromatic Fantasy, Toccata “Dorian,” and Nun komm, Der Heiden Heiland, and Villa-Lobos’ Alma Brasileira, the trio splashes new colors and carves new contours into works until now typically only known on the keyboard. In Albéniz’s Asturias, the trio pays homage to — and “exploits every guitar trick” (BMI) to reinvent — one of the most familiar mainstays of the classical guitar repertoire.
Recent and upcoming concert appearances by The Great Necks include The Boston Classical Guitar Society, the New Mexico Guitar Festival, the Troy University Guitar Festival, “Sunday Chatter”, The Austonian, Colorado State University, Mid-Maryland Guitar Festival, University of Rhode Island Guitar Festival, Trinity-By-The-Cove, and the Aguado Guitar Series.
As soloists, educators, and composers, Scott Borg, Adam Levin, and Matthew Rohde have distinguished careers of their own, marked by regular festival and concert appearances across five continents and a growing solo discography on the Naxos and Odradek labels. Adam Levin has been praised by the Washington Post for his “visceral and imaginative performances.” Of Scott Borg’s Carnegie Hall debut, New York Concert Review wrote: “each note was purposeful and focused.” A composer, Matthew Rohde recently completed the score to the “beautifully executed” (Los Angeles Times) 2018 HBO documentary It Will Be Chaos.
Together, Borg, Levin, and Rohde also co-founded Kithara Project, Inc., a non-
profit organization whose mission is to promote widespread and equitable access to the classical guitar worldwide, particularly in the US and Latin America. The organization actively oversees classical guitar programs for at-risk youth in Boston, Albuquerque, and Mexico City.
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Duo Noire
Thomas Flippin, guitar ’07mm ’08ad Christopher Mallett, guitar ’09mm
Duo Noire is a “virtuosic pair” (I Care if You Listen) of the pioneering American classical guitarists, Thomas Flippin and Christopher Mallett. Offering “profoundly enjoyable” premieres of cross-genre contemporary music with “spectacular precision” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), Duo Noire is breaking new ground in the world of classical guitar.
In 2015, they received a grant from the Diller Quaile School of Music to make guitar programming more gender inclusive. Their 2018 debut album on New Focus Recordings, Night Triptych, was the culmination of that effort and featured works written for them by six leading women composers. Night Triptych received universal praise from major critics, who hailed it as an “astounding...goldmine of ideas and feelings” (Stereophile), a “marvelous recital” (Limelight Magazine), “truly pathbreaking” (All Music), and “an important disc” (The Arts Fuse). The album was named one of the best classical albums of 2018 by both All Music and I Care if You Listen, and
was featured in Chamber Music Magazine, Classical Guitar Magazine, and WQXR’s New Sounds.
Collectively, Duo Noire have performed and recorded with MacArthur genius Jason Moran, Grammy-winning guitarist William Coulter, and Porgy and Bess Broadway star Alicia Hall Moran. Performance highlights include Carnegie Hall, China’s Peking University, the Guitar Foundation of America, the American Repertory Theater, the 92nd Street Y, and the Times Center. They are both graduates of the Yale School of Music, and their next project will feature a new piece written for them by 2020 Grammy nominee Nathalie Joachim.
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JIJI (Jiyeon Kim), guitar ’17mm
Applauded by the Calgary Herald as “talented, sensitive…brilliant,” JIJI is an adventurous artist on both acoustic and electric guitar, playing a wide range of music from traditional and contemporary classical to free improvisation.
Recent highlights include a wide array of venues, including Weill Recital Hall/ Zankel Hall/Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall, David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center, National Sawdust, Miller Theater, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Le Poisson Rouge, Princeton Sound Kitchen, Virginia Arts Festival, Festival Napa Valley, 92nd Street Y, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
A passionate advocate for new music, JIJI has premiered works by numerous composers, including Paul Lansky, João Luiz, Natalie Dietterich, Evan Chapman, Molly Joyce, Krists Auznieks, Gulli Björnsson, Andrew McIntosh, and Farnood HaghaniPour. She has premiered two new guitar concertos by composers Natalie Dietterich and Hilary Purrington with NYYS and American Composers Orchestra. In March 2020 she will premiere an electric guitar concerto with Sinfonietta Riga.
As a chamber musician, she is currently a member of the Grammy-nominated ensemble Wildup. She has worked with Latin Grammy winning ensemble cuarteto latinoamericano, Latin Grammy-nominated ensemble Brasil guitar duo, mezzo-soprano Carla Canales, Alon Goldstein, Verona Quartet, Argus Quartet, and LINÜ. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Guitar at Arizona State University.
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David Russell, guitar
Classical guitarist David Russell has been awarded a Grammy award in the category of best instrumental soloist in classical music for his CD Aire Latino, an Honorary Doctorate in Music by the University of Arizona in Tucson in 2014, and has been inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Guitar Foundation of America in 2018. He is world-renowned for his superb musicianship and inspired artistry, having earned the highest praise from audiences and critics alike. In recognition of his great talent and his international career, he was named a Fellow of The Royal Academy of Music in London in 1997.
In May 2003, he was bestowed the great honor of being made “adopted son” of Es Migjorn, the town in Minorca where he grew up. Later, the town named a street after him, “Avinguda David Russell.” In November 2003, he was given the Medal of Honor of the Conservatory of the Balearics. After winning the Grammy award, the town of Nigrán in Spain, where he resides, gave him the silver medal of the town in an emotional ceremony. In May 2005, he received an homage from the music conservatory of Vigo, culminating with the opening of the new Auditorium, to which they gave the name “Auditorio David Russell.” In 2009 David was named an honorary member of “Amigos de la Guitarra,” the oldest guitar society in Spain.
During his studies at the Royal Academy, David Russell won the Julian Bream Guitar Prize twice. He later won numerous international competitions, including the
Andrés Segovia Competition, the José Ramírez Competition, and Spain’s prestigious Francisco Tárrega Competition.
David Russell spends his time touring the world, appearing regularly at prestigious halls in main cities such as New York, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Madrid, Toronto, and Rome. Concertgoers everywhere are in awe of his musical genius and inspired by his captivating stage presence. His love of his craft resonates through his flawless and seemingly effortless performance. The attention to detail and provocative lyrical phrasing suggest an innate understanding of what each individual composer was working to achieve, bringing to each piece a sense of adventure. A prolific recording artist, his collection includes seventeen CDs with Telarc International.
The New York Times wrote about his performance: “Mr. Russell made his mastery evident without ever deviating from an approach that places musical values above mere display. It was apparent to the audience throughout the recital that Mr. Russell possesses a talent of extraordinary dimension.” Upon hearing him play in London, Andrés Segovia wrote: “My congratulations on your musicality and guitaristic technique.”
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