Tickets (individual and series) for the Benaroya
series can be purchased at Rosewood Guitar, 206-297-8788. Single event
tickets are $30 ($24 for SCGS members, $24/19 for Guitar Night) and 4-concert series
are $95
($80 for members); 3-concert seres are $80 ($65 for members). Send check or money order
to SCGS, Box 31256,
Seattle WA 98103-1256.
Upcoming!
- Odair Assad solo concert Wednesday, 22 April, 2009 7.30pm.
Odair Assad, one of the world's greatest guitarists, will be giving a
very rare solo performance in the Seattle area, with a West Coast premiere of new works
by Leo Brouwer, Sergio Assad, Austin Barrios, Astor Piazolla and Kevin Callahan. Bastyr
University Chapel, 14500 Juanita Drive NE Kenmore, WA 98028. More news at Kevin
Callahan's
website. You can hear and see some Assad samplings on
Youtube.
- David Burgess, Saturday 25 April 2009, 7.30 pm
presents the final SCGS International Series concert, an evening of guitar music
from Brazil. Burgess specializes in Latin music for classical guitar. He began his
studies at Estudio de Arte Guittaristico in Mexico City. Andres Segovia honored him
as
"An artist of music with magnificent technique.".
At Nordstrom Recital Hall, Benaroya Hall, 2d Ave and
Union St., Seattle. more info; His website includes audio samples.
- Gyan Riley at the Frye Museum, Saturday 9 May 2009, 2.00 pm,
in the SCGS 'Free at the Frye' concert series. More
info, and also Gyan Riley
website. Arrive around 1.00 pm to pick up your free ticket and enjoy the
gallery, and its cafeteria. Note that this concert orginally featured Aleksandr
Tsiboulski, who was unfortunately unable to come to Seattle.
A new CD has been released by Seattle guitarist Jason Williams. Titled Homenaje,
it features works of Roland Dyens, J.S.Bach, Manuel de Falla, Maximo Diego Pujol and
Joaquin Turina. For more visit Jason's website.
The Seattle Guitar Trio,
Kevin Callahan, Michael
Lefevre,
and Michael Nicolella played at the Frye
Museum
Concert, 2 p.m. 2 November 2008.
Audio excerpts from a new composition based on Stravinsky's
Rite of Spring by Nicolella are archived with
a radio interview on Seattle's NPR station KUOW. Also featured is the
the premiere performances of Nicolella's composition Guitar Trio
Kevin Callahan's wonderfully evocative piece "Alki" from his "Suite Seattle" as well as
music of Frank Wallace, Antonio Vivaldi and Egberto Gismonti.
(old) NEWS..to be updated
Sunday, November 2 2008, 7:00 PM, Tacoma, WA
Elizabeth C. D. Brown in a solo faculty
recital. Featuring works for baroque guitar by
Jacquet de la Guerre and from the Princess Anne Manuscript (see Member's News) and for
modern guitar by Sor, Villa-Lobos and Kavenagh. Mary Baker Russell Music Center:
Lagerquist Concert Hall. Tickets: $8-general, $5-senior, $3-alumni, complimentary-18
and under. Information: 253-535-7787 or click to visit her website above.
Sunday, November 16 2008, 7:00 PM, Tacoma, WA
The PLU Guitar Orchestra and Ensemble, under the direction of Elizabeth C. D.
Brown,
performs "Baroque Treasures." Solos, small ensembles and the Guitar Orchestra performs
works by Dowland, Purcell, Scarlotti, Vivaldi and Bach. Mary Baker Russell Music
Center: Lagerquist Concert Hall. Tickets: $8-general, $5-senior, $3-alumni,
complimentary-18 and under. Information: 253-535-7787
Friday, November 21 2008, 7:30 PM, Seattle, WA
Elizabeth C. D. Brown with Baroque Northwest performs "Mediterraneo II: Music from
Byzantium to Iberia," with special guests Kane Mathis (Mandinka Harp & Turkish Oud) and
Ruthie Dornfeld (Fiddle & Vielle). Trinity Episcopal Church, Parish Hall, 609 8th Ave.
(at James), Seattle, WA. Tickets: $25-General, $20-Seniors/EMA, $10-Students (4
Concert Series Tickets: $85-General, $66-Seniors/EMA, $34-Students) Information:
206-368-0735 or http://www.baroquenorthwest.com/
Sunday, December 7 2008, 3:00 PM, Seattle WA
Elizabeth C. D. Brown in a Family Concert with Seattle's critically acclaimed choir
Seattle Pro Musica, under the direction of Karen Thomas. Lively rhythms of Latin
America, Holiday cheer, learning, and good fun! Children under 13 are free with
advanced purchase; children's tickets are $5 at the door in the reserved section. Town
Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave., Seattle. Tickets: $22-General, $17-Seniors, $12-students,
$32-Prime Seating. For more information: 206-781-2766, ext. 302 or visit:
www.seattlepromusica.org
Saturday, December 19, 2008, 7.30 pm
Michael Nicolella
Concert with the Cuban music ensemble, Charanga Danzon at Rainier
Chapter House, 800 East Roy Street, Seattle Washington 98102
2008 Northwest Guitar Festival and Competition hosted by University of Washington's
School of Music and SCGS. Thursday - Saturday April 17-19 2008
featured performances by Judicael Perroy (concert as part of the SCGS
International
Guitar Series at Benaroya Hall, and master class), Michael Nicolella (recital and
masterclass), Michael
LeFevre, Bryan Johanson, Luis Millan, Jacob Inek and workshops by Elizabeth
Brown & Stephen Stubbs
(lute), Marco de Carvalho and Kevin Callahan.
Full schedule available at
www.myspace.com/NorthwestGuitarFestival.
SCGS Open Mike & Social... NOTE CORRECTION:
Fr 26
October, 2007
Mark Wilson plays at Ravenna 3d Place books Su 14 October
Michael Lefevre concert, Lynnwood, Su 7 October
Michael Partington UW Faculty debut recital, Su 7 October
Baroque NW/Elizabeth Brown, Sa 6 October
New Bryan Johanson CD!
Partington joins University of Washington Music
Faculty
YouTube and the classical guitar..surprising! Now with
a Michael Nicolella channel.
Michael Partington, Union WA, Sa 25 August
SCGS Open Mike &
Social, Seattle, 24 August
Annual SCGS Picnic!!
Seattle, Sun 12 August
Michael Partington & Paul Taub, flute, Seattle,
Sa 21 July
Michael Nicolella, Medina, WA, 21 July
Michael Partington & Jill Carlsen, soprano,
Mt. Vernon, WA, Fr 20 July and Port Orchard WA, Su 29 July
Elizabeth Brown & Puget Sound Consort,
Lakewood, WA Th 19 July
Daniel Gomez & Claudio Mendez, Seattle, Fri 18
May
Michael Lefevre, Port Townsend, Sun 6 May
Michael Nicolella, Burien, Sat 5 May
Frye Museum SCGS Concert: Steve Kostelnik, 28
April
Elizabeth Brown and La Lire, Shoreline
WA, 28 April
Seattle City Hall Concerts: Andre Ferianti
and Michael Partington, 5 April
Adam Holtzman, Benaroya SCGS Concert Sat 24
March
Elizabeth Brown, Faculty Recital Tacoma Sun 18
March
Portland Guitar Festival, 8,9,10 March
Jason Williams at the Frye, 24 February
SCGS Member Social and Open Mic 23 Feb
"L'incoronazione di Poppea" with
Elizabeth Brown and many others 9,10, 16,17 February
International Guitar Night, Andrew York and
others, Feb 10/11
An Evening With Pepe Romero 6 Feb
Partington debuts new Johanson concerto 4 Feb
Colt Valenti plays 21 Jan
Minneapolis Guitar Quartet concert 20 Jan
Baroque NW concert 9 Dec
brunch, books and classical guitar
SCGS Holiday Concert photos
Michael Partington master class
David Russell master class
Summer SCGS picnic photos
The Disk Doctor
classical guitar on radio
Katona Twins at Benaroya
Tango!
Guitar Orchestra
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HOLIDAY CONCERT AND PARTY: Saturday December 8 2007, 6.00 pm
Settle Mennonite church (3120 NE 125th St, 1/2 block east of Lake City Way)
Suggested donation is $10 or $8 with a food donation for Northwest Harvest.
Many of our finest Seattle guitarists will be performing in solos and ensemble, as
well as the Guitar Orchestra.
Bryan Johanson has released a new recording of original works
entitled I Dreamed About
You Last Night. The CD is available from the Rosewood Guitar.
Here's what Bryan has to say about the music:
"My primary goal in this recording was to come to terms with my
various musical lives.
When I first began playing the guitar I was attracted to the more
improvised forms found in American blues, jazz and rock. I played the
electric
guitar and did bandstand work. Somewhere along the line I got bitten
by the classical
guitar bug and switched my interests to composition and mastering the
standard solo guitar
repertoire. More recently I began to be curious how I could combine my
improvisitory past with my
disciplined compositional present; my electric past with my
acoustic present.
" This recording is the blended result of improvised
and scripted music.
Common Ground is a set of continuous variations (ciaccona) over a
bass pattern that was quite common in Italian compositions from the
baroque period.
Revisiting this pattern was a way of looking for some common musical
ground that
might yield fresh results for both the composer and improvisor in me.
"I Dreamed About You Last Night was improvised into existence over
the period of a few hours. It is based on a very small trick that most folk guitarists
know well. That little trick was the pathway for me to this piece. As an
adolescent I was quite drawn to the music of Paul Simon,
particularly his early work with Art Garfunkel. Boppin' is my little
homage to both that
music and that time period in my life.
"Still Life in Wood and Wire is the only piece on this recording
where I use a steel string guitar. My friend and luthier colleague
Jeff Elliott, whose
marvelous instrument I play, loaned me one of his steel string guitars so I
could truly be playing on wire strings."
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Michael Partington, praised by Classical Guitar Magazine for his
"lyricism, intensity and clear technical command," joined
University of Washington School of Music faculty in September 2008.
"We are very pleased to welcome Michael to our faculty," said School
of
Music director Robin McCabe. "One of our own graduates, he has forged a
performing career of national and international distinction, and he is
a dedicated teacher as well."
Partington began playing guitar at age six while growing up in
Wales,
gave his first public performance a year later, and won his first
competition at age nine. He received a performance degree from the
University of Washington, where he was a Brechemin scholar and
graduated magna cum laude.
Partington has trained with many of the world's greatest guitarists,
including Oscar Ghiglia, Eliot Fisk, Eduardo Fernandez, Manuel
Barrueco, and David Russell, who commented on his "exquisite good taste
and fluid perfection."
The award-winning British guitarist has performed internationally as
a
soloist and with ensembles to unanimous critical praise. He has
appeared throughout the U.S.A., U.K., Russia, and Scandinavia in solo
recital, ensemble, and with orchestra. Partington has performed live on
radio stations throughout the U.S. and U.K., including BBC Radio 3's In
Tune, BBC Wales, and St. Paul Sunday on National Public Radio, and on
cable television in California, Montana, and Washington.
Partington has also performed with Orchestra Seattle, Seattle Chamber
Players, Seattle Creative Orchestra, Wenatchee Valley Symphony, Rainier
Symphony, Portland State University Orchestra, Seattle Choral Company,
the Seattle Symphony Chorale, and flutist Paul Taub in the duo
Dinamici.
An advocate of new music, he has commissioned and premiered works by
Stephen Goss, Bryan Johanson, Toshio Hosokawa, Angelo Gilardino, Tom
Baker, Kevin Callahan and others.
Partington is a frequent performer and teacher at festivals, including
the Guitar Foundation of America Festival, Llantilio Crossenny
Festival, Portland Guitar Festival, Northwest Guitar Festival,
Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival, Cascadia Festival, and Chelan Bach
Fest.
He has released five solo CDs for Rosewood Recording and can also be
heard on the Cadenza Music and Present Sounds labels.
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Mr. Holzman's recordings for the Naxos label have been critically
acclaimed. The first two are discs of the music of Fernando Sor and
have been called 'irresistable' by Gramophone Magazine. Vol. I and II
of the music of Manuel Ponce are also now available. Of the Sonata for
Guitar and Harpsichord on the Ponce Volume II, Classical Guitar
Magazine says "its a fine and substantial work and here it receives the
finest recording yet...". His newest Naxos release is the Bardenklange,
Opus 13, of Johann Kaspar Mertz. Visit his
website. Go to the Benaroya sidebar for more.
Hi Kate
Mark Wilson plays at Ravenna 3d Place Books, a great
book-shop/bakery/brunch spot/pub. A combination of children's songs arranged
by Bela Bartok and by Wilson, and 15th C. Spanish contrapunctalists Luys Milan and
Alonso Mudarra, as well as works by Tarrega and Albeniz. Mark plays at this warm
and comfortable venue every 2d Sunday. We challenge you to visit without buying a
vintage used book, a latte' and a morning-glory muffin!
Michael Lefevere will perform a solo recital with works by Bogdanovic, GIuliani,
Kleynjans, Obrovska and the premier of a new work by Seattle comnpose Randy
Hathaway. Suggested donation $10, proceeds to benefit Lynnwood Food Bank
Lynnwood Free Mehtodist Church, 6519 188th St. SW, Lynnwood WA 98037.
Michael Partington performed his debut concert as a Faculty member of the
University of Washington, featuring works of Steven Goss (written for Mr.
Partington), Astor Piazolla, Bryan Johanson, Taro Takemitsu, Joaquim Roderigo and
Mauro Guiliani. Brechemin Auditorium, University of Washington (where parking is
free and open on Sundays!).
Baroque Northwest (Kim Pineda, Ronnee Fullerton, Elizabeth Brown and August
Denhard) are joined by violinist Tekla Cunningham and harpsichordist Jennifer
Streeter in "From Prussia with Love: Music from the Court of Frederick the
Great",
music by C.P.E. Bach, J.P.Kirnberger, Jan Dismas Zelenka. Good Shepherd Center, 4649
Sunnnyside Ave. N., Seattle. $25/20/10. 206-368-0735. Visit 
Have you visited Youtube...classical guitar? I was surprised to discover some fine
guitar performances, audio and video. Google 'youtube classical guitar'. It is a kind of
venue for dedicated amateurs plus the occasional seasoned professional. After some
intriguing tracks by Sting, ...right now I am listening to other
amateur performances of a familiar John Dowland Fancy,
not badly played, which has been viewed 5,611 times (
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Michael Lefevre plays a concert of classical and
Latin music at The Upstage, 923 Washington St. in Port
Townsend
WA. 7.30 pm Sunday 6 May. 360-385-2216 for reservations.
"Lauro's virtuosic demands pose no problem at all for Adam Holman's
immaculate technique. More importantly, he taps into the heart and soul
of Lauro’s idiom, playing with effortless elan, flowing lyricism, and
infectious musicality.” – Classics Today
