Stroll the colorful galleries of one of the northwest's finest art galleries, and then hear a world-class guitarist perform: we are pleased to announce the 2003-2004 Frye Art Museum Concert Series sponsored by the Seattle Classical Guitar Society. All concerts are free of charge and take place in the intimate and acoustically splendid recital hall located within the museum. To read more about the exceptional art work at one of Seattle's finest galleries: click here for more.

All concerts take place at two pm; parking is free but the museum's lot fills quickly, so that you should allow time for hunting. The Frye Art Museum is located on First Hill (just south of Capitol Hill) in downtown Seattle at 704 Terry Ave (corner of Cherry and Terry).





Sunday 14 September, 2003  2.00 pm
Michael LeFévre
 

   Recently Michael has joined Michael Partington, Michael Nicolella, and Kevin Callahan in the newly formed Seattle Guitar Quartet.

Sunday 19 October 2003,   2.00 pm
Dimitri Illarionov
 
Dimitri Illarionov was forced to cancel his concert owing to a delay in receiving a visa (an experience being felt by many performing artists seeking to come to the US). In his place we heard Francois Fowler who grew up in Canada, and has a doctorate in music from University of Florida. He played a program of Bach, Barrios, Scarlatti, Mertz and Rodrigo. Fowler's current tour was sponsored in part by the GFA (Guitar Federation of America). It was a fine performance! A review of one of his recent concerts may be read at the Connecticut Classical Guitar Society.

Russian guitarist Dimitri Illarionov, is a recent winner of the Guitar Foundarion of Ameria competion, one of the most prestigious competions in the world. He has recorded a CD of Dusan Bogdanovic's Ex Ovo (2001) for an all Bogdanovic CD to be released this year...you can hear an MP3 excerpt at his website above. He has made a CD with Boris Andrianov, cello including works by Bach, Schubert, de Falla and Raffaele Bellafronte also to be released this year. As winner of the GFA competition Illarionov is planning a new CD with Naxos.  

Sunday 18 January 2004,   2.00 pm
Randall Avers
 

Randall Avers' performing career has taken him from America to Europe, Africa and the Middle East. When 17 years old he captured second prize in the prestigious Guitar Foundaion of America's International Competition of 1991, and became the youngest finalist in the competition's history. He has gone on to earn seven additional awards in international competitions including the Guitarists of Leadership and Distinction Competition (GOLD), the Yamaha Music Competition, and the XXeme Concours Internationale de Guitare Rene Bartoli. Vistas, his 1996 solo recording debut, has been praised widely, and his second CD will be released this year. Avers attended Oberlin Conservatory (B.M.) and University of Arizona (M.M.). He is also recipient of the Theodore Presser Award. Audio clips can be heard at the above click.

Four students from University of Southern California have formed the Brouwer Quartet, working closely with the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. "They've become a really fantastic group, playing very interesting rep at a highly professional level. A number of their pieces are new and very effective arrangements (Vivaldi's "Winter" is a real stand-out")...Needless to say they play the three Brouwer pieces beautifully. They've got fantastic sound, a really tight group groove, and tons of energy and personality." - William Kanengiser, Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

Sunday 2 May 2004,  2.00 pm
Nuccio D'Angelo

    Nuccio D'Angelo is an Italian composer and guitarist, highly regarded in Europe.  His Duo Canzone Lidie (ed. Max Eschig) and Quattro Travestimenti (also Max Eschig)  have been recorded several times and are becoming established as major contemporary works. We are fortunate to see him on a rare visit to this country. D'Angelo won first prize at the "Festival of Contemporary Music" (Tokyo 1984) with Due Canzoni Lidie and the "Andres Segovia Competition" in Almunecar (1991) with Magie. He received the special prize in 1996 at the "European International Competition for Composers" in New York and also "La chitarra d'oro per la composizione" in Alessandria (1997). "..Tensione espressiva e controllo, rivelano uno strumentista che non si esita a definire di grande livello. " -- M. Mostrardini - "il Tirreno" 1993.