Wichita Guitar Society
Guest Artist Series 2006-2007 at
the
Wichita Art Museum
1400 West Museum Boulevard, Wichita,
Kansas
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Our Series Opens With Two Special Fiftieth Anniversary Concerts
in Honor of Rey de la Torre and Irma Wassall.
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November 10 & 11, 2006
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Friday Night: November 10, 7:30 pm
Featuring Works Rey de la Torre Performed in 1956
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Saturday Matinee: November 11, 2:00 pm
Featuring Cuban Compsoers
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Ricardo Cobo (Columbia) remains a dynamic figure in the American and Latin American musical scenes since winning Gold medals in the 1990 VIII International ‘Alirio Diaz’, the V Guitar Foundation of America, the IX Casa de Espana, and the 1986 Music Teachers National Association’s Guitar Competitions.
Ricardo gave his television debut in 1978 at age 17, when he was invited by the Orquestra Filarmonica de Bogota to perform as soloist on a nationwide broadcast for an audience of more than nine million people. Mr. Cobo tours extensively throughout the USA, Latin America, and Europe and has performed as soloist with various Latin American and American ensembles.
An active force in the musical mainstream, Ricardo Cobo is highly sought after as both a pedagogue and performer. He has been described as a “guitarist of great stature,” whose “high qualities of virtuosity place him among the most distinguished international artists.”
A two-time Doctoral Fellow at the Florida State University, Dr. Cobo also studied at the Peabody Conservatory and the North Carolina School of the Arts. He currently serves on the Artist Faculty of University of Nevada in Las Vegas and divides residencies between Las Vegas and New York City
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January 20, 2007, 2:00 pm
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Jérôme Ducharme (Canada), the 2005 winner of the Guitar Foundation of America International Competition, began his musical studies at the Cultural Center of Joliette in 1990 with André Morissette. Other teachers have included Pierre Morin and Clément Canac Marquis at the Musical camp of Lanaudière, as well as a year of private instruction with Mr. Marquis. In April of 2000, after having been a student of Jean Vallieres, he graduated from the Music Conservatory of Montreal and was awarded a prize of distinction. He later spent a year studying with Oscar Giglia and Stephan Schmidt in Switzerland.
Jerome has been a multiple prize winner in various other competitions including the 2004 Guitar Foundation of America International Competition, The Guitare-Antony in France and Montreal’s Guitarre-Lachine of 2003, as well as the 2000 Festival-Concurs de Lanaudiere.
Recent performances have included an appearance in 2005 with the Montréal Symphonic Orchestra for Donizetti’s opera Don Pasquale. A featured performer on the Montreal Guitar Society’s inaugural and 2004 season, Jérôme Ducharme’s playing has also been broadcast on SRC-CBC radio in Canada.
Mr. Ducharme plays on a 2005 René Wilhelmy guitar.
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February 10, 2007, 2:00 pm |
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Edgar Cruz (USA) has been named Oklahoma’s Best Performing Artist / Acoustic Guitarist three years in a row and has received numerous civic acknowledgments for his contributions to various charitable events. He has recently begun performing with orchestras, choirs and various musicians. Each year he performs over 200 concerts and has played throughout America, Europe and South America. He has been a headliner at The Chet Atkins Festival in Nashville, TN since 1995 and is a strong icon at most festivals in OK including Sunfest, Festival of the Arts, Paseo Festival, Global Oklahoma and more. Those who have witnessed Cruz’s performance immediately become entranced at the precision, speed and complexity with which his fingers strike the strings of his guitar to create a symphony of sound unusual to just one instrument. Twelve CDs are currently available including 3 live recordings. They cover moods from Latin, Classical, International, Rock, Jazz, Mariachi, Romantic and Christmas. Cruz won the silver medal in the 1991 National Fingerpicking Championship in Winfield. He has been featured on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS and various cable television stations.
"...Edgar Cruz is a wizard. How else can one explain how he captures the sounds of an entire band and reduces them to a single guitar? It's that special gift, skill, magic - whatever you'd like to call it - that has produced such amazing solo guitar performances..." - John Schroder, Publisher, Fingerstyle Guitar "
http://edgarcruz.com
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March 24, 2007, 2:00 pm
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“David Leisner has returned full strength to the world of performance in recent years - and if his latest recordings are any indication, his musicianship and technique are stronger than ever.” - by Kristoffer Ricat - Guitar Review - 2001
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Masterclass March 24, 7:00 pm
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David Leisner, (USA) is regarded as one of the world’s leading classical guitarists. His superb musicianship and provocative programming have been applauded by critics around the world. His career began auspiciously with top prizes in both the 1975 Toronto and 1981 Geneva international guitar competitions. In the 1980s, a disabling hand injury, focal dystonia, interrupted his performing career in mid-stream and plagued him for 12 years. Through a pioneering approach to technique based on his understanding of the physical aspects of his playing the guitar, Mr. Leisner gradually rehabilitated himself and recovered completely by 1996. Recent seasons have taken him around the United States, and to nearly every corner of the globe. Along with being a highly sought after performer, Leisner is also a highly respected composer, noted for the emotional and dramatic power of his music. His composition, “Dances in the Madhouse,” in both its original version for violin and guitar and as an arrangement for orchestra, has received hundreds of performances. Recordings of his works are widely available on the Sony Classical, ABC, Acoustic Music, Athena, Barking Dog, Centaur, Dorian, Signum, and Town Hall labels. His compositions are published by Merion Music/Theodore Presser, AMP/G, Schirmer, Doberman-Yppan, Frederick Harris, and Columbia Music. Leisener has also been instrumental in the rediscovery of the music of Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806–1856) and Wenzeslaus Matiegka (1773-1830). Leisner is currently co-chair of the Manhattan School of Music guitar department. He was an instructor at the New England Conservatory for 22 years. Although he is primarily self-taught, both as a composer and as a guitarist, he has studied briefly with John Duarte, David Starobin, and Angelo Gilardino, and composition with Richard Winslow, Virgil Thomson, Charles Turner, and David Del Tredici.
http://davidleisner.com
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May 5, 2007, 2:00 pm
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These two award winning guitarists from separate parts of the globe met while both studying at the University of Southern California. Their paths have crossed many times since. Last year while performing both as soloists at the same festival in Mexico they discovered that their love of music from other cultures could best be expressed as a duo. This special “Cinco de Mayo” concert concert will mark their official debut prior to embarking on a new tour of Mexico.
Jane Curry of New Zealand may have grown up on blues and jazz in her native New Zealand, but she has grown to love classical guitar for the subtlety and nuance that is absent from many other guitar styles. She has won top prizes at the Beeston and Shohlin Competions and placed in the top three in numerous others. She is currently working on her masters degree at the Univeristy of Arizona in Tucson. She has worked in duo with Owen Moriarty and Almer Imamovic.
Lynn McGrath of the USA, also a prize winner, recently received her doctorate from USC. She is the current tour director and convention liaison for the Guitar Foundation of America and teaches at the Crane School of Music in Potsdam, New York. She has worked as a member of the Brouwer Quartet.
Both Jane and Lynn have studied with some of today’s most prominent guitarists.
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Our Series Concludes With Two Special Concerts Featuring Michael Chapdelaine.
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May 25 & 26, 2007
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Friday Night: May 25, 7:30 pm
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Saturday Matinee: May 26, 2:00 pm
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In praise of the CD: "Sonata Romantica," Acoustic Guitar Magazine wrote “... if I were marooned on a desert island with a limited selection of recordings, this one would be among my choices...I have seldom heard a more beautiful album. Other young guitarists have excellent technique, but few have such style and musicality, and Chapdelaine’s beautiful tone is the nearest to Segovia’s that I can recall.”
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Michael Chapdelaine (USA) is the only guitarist ever to win First Prize in the world’s top competitions in both the Classical and Fingerstyle genres; the Guitar Foundation of America International Classical Guitar Competition and the National Fingerstyle Championships at the Walnut Valley Bluegrass Festival in Winfield, Kansas. Michael is also took First Prize in the Music Teachers National Association’s Guitar Competition and is a two time winner of the coveted National Endowment for the Arts Solo Recitalist Grant, and He took the Silver Medal in Venezuela’s VIII Concurso International de Guitarra “Alirio Diaz”. The year Ricardo Cobo took the Gold.
Michael maintains Professorship of Music and is the head of guitar studies at the University of New Mexico, and has previously been on the faculties of the University of Colorado at Denver and Metropolitan State University. He has given master classes throughout the world including, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Peru, Venezuela, Taiwan, Indonesia and at institutions such as, University of Miami, Mannes School of Music, University of Texas, and California State University. His own teachers included the great Spanish maestro Andres Segovia.
Michael continues to enchant, dazzle and surprise audiences and critics alike throughout his world tours, as he redefines the modern acoustic guitar with his amazing technique, “soulful” expressiveness, and versatility as a performer, composer and arranger/producer. His performances, often played on both steel string and classical guitars, include musical styles ranging from blues to Bach to country to rhythm n’ blues as he wins his audiences hearts with breath taking technique and the poetic magic of his original musical portraits and landscapes.
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sponsored concerts, workshops and events, additional discounts
on all sheetmusic and selected materials found on sologuitarist.net
, free classified listings and a free bio listing with
links on the WGS members webpage. Membership fees go far
to bring world-class guitarists to Wichita, help showcase
our local talent in the community, as well as, provide
educational outreach programs.
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