Stroll the colorful galleries of one of the northwest's finest art galleries, and then hear a world-class guitarist perform at the 2005-6 Frye Art Museum Concert Series sponsored by the Seattle Classical Guitar Society. Notice that this year's concerts will be on Saturdays! 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 Saturdays at 2.00 pm; parking is free but the museum's lot fills quickly, so that you should allow time for hunting. Tickets are given out beginning at 1.00 pm, so come early. 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).





Sept. 10 Kim Pineda & Elizabeth Brown

Feb. 11 William Kanengiser

March 11 Tristan Bligh

May 13 Andrew Zohn

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2002-3; 2003-4; 2004-5;

  

• Saturday 10 September, 2005, 2.00 pm
  
  Kim Pineda and Elizabeth Brown Seattle locals Kim Pineda (19th century keyed flute) and Elizabeth Brown (19th century guitar) of Baroque Northwest will present a varied program of music from the 19th century on rarely heard period instruments. From La Conner to Sunnyside, Pineda and Brown have wowed audiences throughout the Northwest with their shameless grandstanding since their first joint performance at Bumbershoot in 1999. Their program will feature works by Giuliani, Carulli, and Sor, as well as arrangements from Mozart’s Magic Flute and other 19th century gems. This music will be brought to life by the instruments they were written for: the flute of the time, and was made of wood, alongside the light, yet rich, tone created by the smaller body and simple bracing system of Elizabeth Brown’s original, French 1830’s guitar

  Kim Pineda has concertized throughout the US, Canada, in Israel, and on NPR. Founder and director of the Baroque Northwest ensemble, he has performed at the Boston, Berkeley, Long Beach Bach, and Bloomington early music festivals, Seattle’s Bumbershoot Festival, and has recorded on the Focus and Centaur labels. He also performs regularly with leading early music ensembles in the US. Kim received the Master of Music degree from Washington University, St. Louis, and the Bachelor of Music degree from California State University Northridge. He has taught at Indiana University, University of Southern California, North Seattle Community College, at workshops sponsored by the San Francisco and San Diego early music societies and the Seattle Recorder Society, and directs the Baroque Flute Boot Camp in Seattle. Kim also serves as the chair of the NFA Historical Flutes Committee. Other interests include the culinary, martial, and healing arts; cycling, backpacking, zymurgy, and the pursuit of the ultimate cadence. In his spare time he studies Zydeco and Salsa dancing, and the Cajun accordion.

  Elizabeth Brown is head of the Guitar and Lute program at Pacific Lutheran University and is active throughout the Pacific Northwest as a solo and ensemble performer. Known for her musically passionate performances, she has given solo recitals and performed concertos throughout the West Coast, and has been a featured soloist for the Seattle Bach Choir, the Northwest Chamber Chorus and St. Mark’s Cathedral Associates. Also active as a chamber musician, Ms. Brown is a member of Baroque Northwest, Le Nuove Musiche and the Puget Sound Consort and has appeared with ArtsWest, Seattle ProMusica and the City Cantábile Choir. Ms. Brown’s first solo recording, La Folía de España: Dances for Guitar, featuring works for baroque, 19th century and modern guitars, was recently released on the Rosewood Recordings label. An enthusiastic advocate for the guitar and lute, she has given numerous outreach performances at schools, senior centers, and community centers for the Seattle Classic Guitar Society and the Early Music Guild.
  
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• Saturday 11 February 2006, 2.00 pm
  
  Recognized as one of America's most brilliant guitarists, William Kanengiser won First Prize of the Concert Artists Guild Competition as well as major international competitions in Toronto and Paris. He has developed a unique repertoire for his instrument, ranging from dazzling arrangements of Mozart, Handel, and Bartók to his innovative excursions into the music of Eastern Europe and the Caribbean. Praised by the Los Angeles Times for his 'dizzying execution' and 'exceeding vitality and warmth,' his debut recording for GSP won an 'INDIE' award for Best Classical Recording, and he records for Sony Classical as a member of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, with whom he has frequently performed in Seattle.

  Mr. Kanengiser has performed in recital and as guest soloist with orchestras in virtually every major American city, ranging from New York City's Carnegie Hall to San Francisco's Herbst Theater, as well as throughout Canada, Europe, and Asia. Through unusual commissions and a creative approach to transcription, he has won recognition for expanding the repertory beyond the staples of guitar literature. He has performed and recorded works written for him by composers as diverse as Dusan Bogdanovich, Ian Krouse, and Brian Head, and has won consistent praise for his own transcriptions of scores from the traditional repertory, most notably Mozart's Piano Sonata in A major (featuring the ondo Alla Turka), which he prepared for the Columbia Pictures release, Crossroads, in which he was Ralph Macchio's guitar double and coach. Mr. Kanengiser will give the premiere performance of a new concerto by Dusan Bogdanovic at the Guitar Foundation of America conference in Montreal in October 2004.

  Mr. Kanengiser's second solo CD, Echoes from the Old World, released in 1993, features music of the folk traditions of Eastern Europe and the Middle East. His third CD, Caribbean Souvenirs, which appeared in 1996, comprises music from the Caribbean and Mexico. His most recent recording is Classical Cool, a 2003 GSP release, that comprises a range of works taken from jazz or influenced by jazz styles. The composers include Fred Hand, Dusan Bogdanovic, John Harmon, Matt Dunne, and Andy York. It also includes a set of arrangements of standards, most notably Gene Bertoncini's realization of My Funny Valentine.

  Mr. Kanengiser has also produced two popular instructional videos for Hot Licks, Effortless Classical Guitar and Classical Guitar Mastery. Elsewhere in the media, Mr. Kanengiser for two years hosted his own weekly radio show on KKGO-FM in Los Angeles. The recipient of two Solo Recitalist Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, he was also chosen as one of Musical America's Outstanding Young Artists.

  In addition to his worldwide performances and recordings for Sony Classical and Delos with the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, Mr. Kanengiser has collaborated with a wide range of important artists, including the Miami String Quartet, flutist Marina Piccinini, pianist Mia Chung, violinist Maria Bachmann, and recorder artist Aldo Abreu.

  Born in Orange, New Jersey and now residing in Los Angeles, Mr. Kanengiser studied at the University of Southern California, being named Outstanding Graduate of the School of Music upon the completion of both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees. His principal teachers were Malcolm Hamilton, Pepe Romero, and James F. Smith. He is now a member of the USC faculty and offers frequent master classes at universities and guitar festivals throughout the world.
  
  

    

• Saturday 11 March 2006, 2.00 pm
  

  Tristan Bligh is an accomplished classical guitarist who holds a B.A. in Guitar Performance from the University of Washington, where he studied under Steven Novacek. Currently, Tristan is a second year Master of Music candidate at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he studies with renowned guitarist David Tanenbaum.

  Tristan has been an active member of the Seattle Classic Guitar Society for many years, and of the San Francisco Classical Guitar Society since 2004. He has studied with noted guitarists Michael Partington and Marc Teicholz and has performed in Master Classes with Eliot Fisk, Paul Galbraith, David Tanenbaum, Aniello Disederio, and the world-renowned lutenist Nigel North. In addition to much-acclaimed solo recitals at the UW School of Music and San Francisco Conservatory, Tristan has performed in numerous chamber ensembles in concert and recital, including guitar duo, trio and quartet, plus duets with soprano voice, flute and viola, and in a new student composition for guitar ensemble and percussion. Additionally, he has been involved with the UW School of Drama, where he served as Musical Director for a production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, as well as providing guitar accompaniment for Musical Theater productions. In 2004, Tristan won first prize in the Northwest Classical Guitar Competition.

  Tristan's repertoire is unique in that it centers on music of the Baroque and Renaissance. While many guitarists attempt to expand the repertoire of their instrument by playing new compositions, Tristan's aim is to revive the practice of transcribing music originally written for the lute, vihuela or baroque guitar, and to enrich the guitar repertoire by exploring the wealth of music from these earlier periods.
  
  
    

• Saturday 13 May 2006, 2.00 pm
  
  

  Guitarist/composer Andrew Zohn has been hailed as one of the finest guitarists of his generation~T by Anthony Morris, host of the nationally-syndicated radio program Guitar Alive. His ability on the instrument has earned prizes in five national and international competitions including the Guitar Foundation of America and the Stotsenberg International. In addition to concertizing throughout North America and in Europe as a soloist, Andrew Zohn has been active as a chamber musician and orchestral soloist. Recent performances include venues in New York City, Boston, Cincinnati, Toronto, and Ottawa.

  Andrew Zohn holds a doctorate of music degree from Florida State University, a master of music from the University of Texas, and a bachelor~Rs degree from the North Carolina School of the Arts. Since 1999, Zohn has served on the faculty of Columbus State University, where he founded and directs the annual CSU Guitar Symposium and Competition. He also currently serves on the faculty of the Guitar on the Mediterranean Festival in Cervo, Italy, and the Guitare Lachine festival in Canada, each summer. Dr. Zohn is a frequently invited guest artist, lecturer, and clinician at music festivals, seminars, and universities throughout North America. Students of Andrew Zohn have won prizes in regional and national competitions, and have been featured on the American national radio program From the Top.

  Beginning a career in composing in 1998, Zohn has already received commissions for new works from, among others, La Flame Records, Canada, the Campbell University Foundation for the Arts, and the East Carolina New Music Festival. In 2004, Zohn was selected as a recipient of a Plus Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) in recognition of his compositions. Original compositions and transcriptions by Andrew Zohn are published through Les Productions, Canada, Tuscany publications (Theodore Presser), and FJH Publications. His latest recording, Music of Piazzolla, Debussy, Gershwin, and Zohn, is now available through Centaur Records.