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CONCERTS
- Saturday, May 3, 2003, 7.00 pm
Las Guitarras en Ensemble
in a benefit concert for Seattle Classic Guitar Society.
Some of Seattle's finest guitarists will be playing: Steven Novacek,
Hillary Field, Michael Partington, Michael Nicollela, Michael LeFevre,
Kevin Callahan, Mark Wilson, Steve Howland, Elizabeth Brown, Jessica
Papkoff, Mathew McColl, Robert Vierschilling, Darko Vukmanic, Randy
Hathaway, Colt Valente and Jason Williams for a start. The concert will be
a mix of duets, trios and quartets, with works by Boccherini, Pujol,
Piazzola, Bizet, Andia, Frisell and Brahms. Seattle Art Museum, 100
University Street. Tickets at Rosewood Guitar,
206-297-8788. $18/15. All proceeds will go to the SCGS.
- Saturday, May 10 2003, 7.30 pm, Medina Washington
Seattle Guitar Quartet
with
Kevin Callahan, Michael LeFevre, Michael Nicollela, and Michael
Partington,
represents some of Seattle's finest performing guitarists.
Tonight the group plays
music of Bach, Brouwer, Bizet, Johanson. St Thomas's Episcopal Church,
8398 NE 12th St. Medina. For information call 425-454-9541; the church
website is www.halcyon.com/stthomas/
- Sunday, May 11 2003, time TBA, Yakima, Washington
Rolf Robe guitar, and
Julie Finch Robe, soprano, perform together
on the 'Second Sunday' series at Englewood Christian Church,
featuring music of Dowland, Weiss, Giuliane and Villa-Lobos. 425-836-2494.
Admission free though donations welcome.
- Sunday May 11, 2003, 4.00 pm, Tacoma Washington
Pacific Lutheran Guitar Ensemble directed by
Elizabeth Brown performs various Spanish and Latin
American works for guitar quartet, trio and duo. Lagerquist Concert
Hall, MBR Music Center, PLU Campus. Free admission. 253-535-7787.
- Friday May 16, 2003, 7.30 pm Bellingham Washington
Seattle Guitar Quartet
with
Kevin Callahan, Michael LeFevre, Michael Nicollela, and Michael
Partington.
Music of Bach, Brouwer, Bizet and Brian Johanson.
Whatcom County Museum, 121 Prospect St. Bellingham. 360-671-1017.
- Sunday, May 18 2003, 2.00 pm
Apostolos Paraskevas performs at the Frye Art Museum Concert
Series, sponsored by SCGS. For more detail see the Sunday at the Frye
announcement for 2002-03. The Frye is located at the corner of
Cherry and Terry: 704
Terry Ave. Admission is free.
- Saturday May 31, 2003, 7.30 pm
Seattle Guitar Quartet
with
Kevin Callahan, Michael LeFevre, Michael Nicollela, and Michael
Partington.
Music of Bach, Brouwer, Bizet and Brian Johanson.
Arts West Playhouse, 4711 California Ave. SW, Seattle. 20-938-0339 or
visit Arts West website.
- Saturday June 21 - Thursday June 26, 2003
National Guitar Workshop
with
Steven Novacek and Benjamin Verdery
This informal master class/workshop is designed for intemediate and
advanced players. It will be held at Seattle Pacific Universtiy, 3307 3d
Avenue West, Seattle. Sessions consist of both lessons and team-taught
ensemble coaching and lectures/discussions on such topics as technique,
efficient practice habits, interpretation, performance anxiety and others.
There will be a recital at the end of the week. This is one of an
impressive series of workshops held in a number of US cities in summer.
Consult http://guitarworkshop.com
or call 800-234-6479.
- Sunday July 6, 2003, 3.00 pm
Matthew McColl
A recital and presentation at Benaroya Hall's Soundbridge: Sergio Assad
and
Brazilian guitar music. An introduction to acoustic guitar, demonstration
of classical guitar technique and music that will be performed at the
Seattle Symphony's Guitar Series in July. $15/$12 (Soundbridge members).
200 University St (just below the big Benaroya Hall). Consult http://soundbridge.org
or call 206-336-6600. Also visit www.matthew.mccoll.com.
- Thursday July 10, 2003, 7.30 pm;
Friday July 11, 2003: 8.00 pm;
Saturday July 12, 2003: 8.00 pm
Sergio and Odair Assad (guitars)
with
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and the Seattle Symphony,
Alastair Willis conducting.
Sergio Assad's Concerto for Violin, Two Guitars and Orchestra.
Taper Foundation Auditorium, Benaroya Hall, downtown Seattle. Call
206-215-4747 for tickets; also visit Seattle Symphony Guitar Series and www.seattlesymphony.com.
- Friday July 18, 2003
Aspen Music Festival
Classical Guitar Program
- Sunday July 20, 2003 - Sunday July 27, 2003,
11th International Carlevaro Festival "Guitar and Nature"
in Vogtland, Germany,
with Eduardo Fernandez, Carlo Marchione and Sandor
Szylvagyi. Hear Carlevaro's magical Preludios Americanos
on Jessica Papkoff's CD, described under 'NW CD's' at this site.
- Monday July 21, 2003 - Sunday July 27, 2003,
Mark Wilson
conducts a Guitar Orchestra Camp and will perform in
concertat the Victoria String Orchestra camp in Victoria, BC. Check out
the Victoria String orchestra comap and spend a week with other musicians,
playing, listening to faculty recitals, joining the guitar orchestra or
chamber groups.
www.victoriastringorchestracamp.com.
- Monday July 21, 2003 - Tuesday July 29, 2003,
Rotenburg Guitar Festival
in Rotenburg, Germany, with Haitao Lu and Fang Yang,
Pavel Steidl, Tania Camargo Guarnieri and Jaime Zenamon.
- Wednesday July 23, 2003 - Sunday July 27, 2003,
Dundee Guitar Festival
in Dundee Scotland. Featuring The Assad Duo, Manuel
Barrueco, Tony McManus, Xuefei Yang, Jim Mullen, John Goldie, Craig
Ogden, Paul Gregory, Amanda Cook, Canto Vivo, Hugh Burns and Allan Neave.
- Saturday July 26, 8.00 pm
Daniel Corr
a Seattle native, with degrees from Cornish College of the Arts
and Yale University, performs
at Saltwater Unitarian Universalist Church,
25701 14th Pl. S.
(in Des Moines, near Federal Way).
Daniel was the 1st prize winner at the 2002 Northwest Guitar Festival
Competition, a prize winner in the 1999 Crane New Music Performance
Competition, and winner of the Yale University School of Music's 2001
Eliot Fisk Prize as an 'outstanding graduate in guitar'. Tickets $10/$8.
253-839-5200 or visit
www.saltwaterchurch.org.
- Sunday July 27, 2003 - Sunday August 10, 2003,
Copenhagen Guitar Festival
in Copenhagen Denmark, with concerts by Paul
Galbraith, David Leisner, Wiek Hijmans, Tomas Krakowski and Anne-Lill
Larsen Ree, and Carlos Barbosa-Lima
- Sunday August 3, 2003, 4. to 6. pm
Annual SCGS Summer Picnic!
1221 NE 140th St., Seattle: from I5 take 145th St exit to 15th Ave NE,
then west on NE 140th St. Bring some food and prepare to hear good
guitar music under the trees!
- Friday August 8, 2003, 7.45 pm
Matthew McColl
plays works of Mudarra, Scarlatti, Sor, Breville, Kenyon
and others. St James Cathedral Chapel (south annex to the cathedral).
Matthew's concert last summer was a wonderful collection of Latin
composers, with many recent works. St. James has fine acoustics for the
guitar. As Cathedral guitarist Matthew can be heard each week prior to the
Friday evening Taize prayer service. 804 8th Avenue, Seattle. $15
suggested donation for the August 8 concert.
- Friday August 8, 2003, 8.00 pm
Pepe Romero
at the Bellingham Music Festival plays the Conceirto de
Malaga for Guitar and Orchestra, by Celedonio Romero. Also on the program
is Ravel's Tzigane, with Michelle Kim, violin, Respighi's Adagio con
Variazioni with Ronald Leonard, cello and Ginastera's Variaciones
Concertantes for Orchestra, Op. 23.
Mt. Baker theater, 104 N. Commercial St., Bellingham.
Tickets through Mount Baker Theater Box
Office, 360-734-6080 $19-$28. The Bellingham Festival was established in
1993, and is now one of the Northwest's premier summer music events. Visit
the festival website.
There will be a pre-concert lecture by Michael Palmer, Artistic
Director of the Festival, starting at 7.00 pm.
- Saturday August 9, 2003, 8.00 pm
Pepe Romero
at the Bellingham Music Festival plays the 2d Sonata
Op.15b and Fantiase pour Guitare Seule by Sor, Suite Bucolica by Francisco
de Madina, Suite Castellana by Torroba, Al Maestro by Jorge Morel, Gran
Jota by Tarrega, the complete Five Preludes of Villa-Lobos, Serenata
Espanola by Joaquin Malats, Invocacion y Danza (Homage to M. de Falla) by
Joaquin Rodrigo and Guasa, Danza Espanol No.1 and Fantasia Cubana by
Celedonio Romero. Mt. Baker theater, 104 N. Commercial St., Bellingham.
Tickets through Mount Baker Theater Box
Office, 360-734-6080 $19-$28. Visit
the festival website.
- Friday August 15, 2003, 8.00 pm
Mark Wilson
plays Bach's 2d Partita, originally for solo violin, with the
famous Chaconne, works by Legnani, La Cathedral by Barrios, and Suite pour
Guitarre by Jacques Hetu. Wilson is an active soloist, composer and leader
of Seattle's Guitar Orchestra. Tickets $12 (general), $10 (SCGS
members). Call Rosewood Guitar at 206-297-8788 for tickets. Queen Anne
Christian Church, atop Queen Anne Hill, 1
block north of Kinnear Park at 1316 3d Ave W in Seattle.
- Wednesday August 20-Wednesday August 27, 2003,
Corfu Guitar Festival
in Corfu, Greece, with concerts by David Tanenbaum, Adam
Holzmann, Michael Chapdelaine, Apostolo Paraskevas and many
others. Including master classes, guitar competition, a composition
competition, a
Jazz Night and Ethnic Music Night. Festival
Organizer is Apostolos Paraskevas of Berklee College of Music, Boston,
aparaskevas@berklee.edu, who performed in our SCGS Frye Museum Series
in May. The Festival begins with a concert in the Old Castle of Corfu City
at
9.00 pm, August 20. The Festival will make hotel reservations until 30
July; for their website click
here.
- Sunday September 14, 2003, 2.00 pm
Michael Lefevre
introduces the new season of Frye Museum Sunday concerts.
Click
here for more. The Frye Museum is a
wonderful place to relax with some beautiful paintings while waiting for
the concert to begin. Come early, stop at the desk to pick up your
ticket...it's free at the Frye. Corner of Cherry
and Terry, Seattle.
- Saturday September 20, 2003, 7.30 pm
Paul Galbraith
introduces the new season of Benaroya Hall SCGS concerts.
Click
here for more.
- Tuesday September 30, 2003, 7.30 pm
Sharon Isbin
introduces the new season of Benaroya Hall Seattle
Symphony guitar series (not to be confused with the SCGS series).
Click
here for more. Sharon Isbin
is the
founder and Chairman of the
guitar program at Julliard Conservatory, New York and Aspen Music
Festival. She is familiar to
Seattle audiences, and has been called "the Monet of the classical
guitar...a master colorist" by Atlanta Journal. Her discography,
more than 20 CDs long,
includes 2002 Grammy Award winning composition Concerto de Gaudi
by Christopher
Rouse and Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra by Tan Dun (composer
for
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). This was Isbin's 3d
Grammy nomination for performance. She won a 2001 Grammy for her
CD Dreams of the World on Teldec, the first classical guitarist in
28 years to receive the award.. Gramophone described the Rouse as
"...the most remarkable work yet
written for guitar and orchestra...No superlative would be excessive in
describing Sharon Isbin's performance on this recording." Los Angeles
Times wrote "[Isbin] deserves a Nobel for this recording of two
terrific new guitar concertos, written for her and played with gripping
persuasiveness."
Isbin has served as artistic director and soloist for festivals she
created for Carnegie Hall and Ordway Music Theater (St. Paul), and a
national radio series Guitarjam. She has been a guest on St.Paul
Sunday, A Prairie Home Companion and All Things Considered.
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