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The website of the Seattle, Washington Classic Guitar Society 2005 CONCERTS Elizabeth Brown and Gus Denhard, perform From London to Guanajuato: Duos for lutes and guitars. Elizabethan and Italian Renaissane lute duets as well as Baroque guitar music from the court of Louis XIV and the New World. Bethany Lutheran Church, 7400 Woodlawn Ave. N. 206-328-2614 or visit Baroque Northwest. Seattle Chamber Players, Seattle Pro Musica with Michael Partington, and other guest artists. This concert will be recorded and broadcast on St. Paul Sunday, the award-winning and nationally aired radio show (now on KING-FM on Sundays). For any that missed the SCP's three-day festival of Baltic music early this year, this is an opportunity to hear some of the highlights from Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. Also visit the Seattle Pro Musica, directed by Karen Thomas, here. Nordstrom Recital Hall, Benaroya Hall, 3d and Union, Seattle. Tickets $15 through Ticketmaster; $20 at the door.  Sergio and Odair Assad, certainly the most prominant guitar duo on Earth, present a concert at the Performing Arts Center Concert Hall, Western Washington University, Bellinham, WA. Tickets $18-22. Call 360-650-6146.  Martha Masters, former winner of the Guitar Foundation of America national competition, in a solo recital featuring music of Scarlatti, Giuliani, Gilardino and others. SCGS Frye Museum Series: see sidebar for more. Frye Art Museum, corner of Cherry and Terry, on First Hill, Seattle. 20-297-8788.  Brazilian Guitar Quartet, one of the most sought-after guitar ensembles, plays in Kirkland. Everton Gloeden and Luis Carlos Montovani, 8-string guitars, Tadeu do Amaral and Edson Lopes, 6-string guitars, play a blend of Brazilian music, with influences from American jazz, African rhythms, and French impressionism. J.S. Bach, Orchestral Suite No. 4, BWV 1069 (excerpts); Alberto Nepomuceno, Intermezzo from Quarteto Brasileiro No.3, Villa Lobos Quartet No. 5, Albeniz Ronena from "Iberia", Ronaldo Miranda Variacoes Serias (1991), Camargo Guarnieri, dances and waltzes, and Francisco Mignone, Serneate Humoristica, Lenda Sertaneja and Congada. Kirkland Performance Center, 350 Kirkland Avenue, Kirkland WA. Tickets: $32-10. phone 425-893-9900.  Eliot Fisk a friend of SCGS and one of the world's most exciting guitarists, performs in the Seattle Symphoney classical guitar series. Click the appropriate sidebar for more information. Michael Partington will play a solo recital at Bloedel Reserve, Bainbridge Island. 206-842-7631 or visit www.bloedelreserve.org. Portland Guitar Festival 2005. This truly amazing 'orgy' of (mostly) classical guitar: concerts, competition, workshops, is the product of the composer and performer Byran Johanson's creative genius plus hard work. See the website for full detail, but there are concerts by Bryan Johanson and Hamilton Cheifetz (Friday, 8.00 pm), Isaac Bustos (Saturday 2.00 pm) and a 'Jazz Guitar Summit' with Dan Balmer, Jerry Hahn and John Stowell (Saturday noon). Bryan often debuts new compositions at these events, and you may go home with a treasured 1st edition to play. Lincoln Performance Hall, Portland State University, Portland Oregon. See www.guitarfestival.pdx.edu. Elizabeth Brown performs La Guitarra, on vihuela, and on baroque, 9th Century and modern guitars. This is a history of the guitar as seen through the music of Spain and Latin America. Presented by the Early Music Guild as part of the Early Music Discovery series. Downstairs at Town Hall, 8th and Seneca, Seattle. $5/10, call 206-325-7066 or visit www.earlymusicguild.org. Baroque Northwest (Elizabeth Brown and Gus Denhard, lutes and baroque guitars; Kim Pineda, transverse flutes and recorder; Ronnee Fullerton, viola da gamba) performs Baroque without Borders: a musical tour of Europe. Orcas Island Community Center, 917 Mount Baker Road, Orcas Island, WA. $10/19. 206-376-ACT 1 or visit www.baroquenorthwest.org.  Jonathan Leathwood performs the fourth concert in the 'free at the Frye' Series of the SCGS. His program will include 'Oxen of the Sun' by Stephern Goss, an innovative work to be played on six- and ten-string guitars simultaneously! Get to know Jonathan at www.du.edu/~jleathwo/. Frye Art Museum, corner of Cherry and Terry on First Hill, downtown Seattle. Click on the Frye sidebar for more, and arrive early!  Eduardo Fernandez, world-renowned Uraguayan guitarist performs as part of the SCGS International Series. Note, Fernandez will lead a master class on Sunday March 27 at 2.00 pm in Seattle Mennonite Church, on 125th St. just east of Lake City Way, north Seattle: listeners are welcomed ($10). Saturday's concert is in the acoustically memorable Nordstrom Recital Hall, Benaroya Hall, Third and Union, downtown Seattle. Click the series' sidebar for more. $22/28, call Rosewood Guitar at 206-297-8788.  John Williams, perhaps the world's most famous guitarist, performs in Seattle Symphony's own Distinguished Artist Series. Note that this is separate from the Symphony's classical guitar series. Williams is pictured above with Cuban composer Leo Brouwer. Benaroya Hall, Third and Union, downtown Seattle.$28-71. Call 206-215-4747. The Seattle Symphony presents jazz/rock/fusion guitarist Al Di Meola and Trio as part of their Guitar Series. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Benaroya Hall. Depending on seating and availability, tickets range from $28 to $60. SCGS member's can receive a discount on tickets by purchasing tickets through the Seattle Symphony Website at www.seattlesymphony.org/symphony/ and entering the code 1601. 
Elizabeth Brown and Gus Denhard perform From London to Guanajuato: Duos for lutes and guitars. Featuring music by da Milano, Dowland, Bakfark, Corbetta and de Murcia. This performance is part of the Lute Society of America’s Summer Workshop. University of British Columbia'’s School of Music, Vancouver Bc. For more information visit www.plu.edu/~brownec. 
Gil Piger performs at Bellevue Arts & Crafts Fair, on the Celebration Arts stage. Gilbert Piger is a classical artist trained in the Spanish School of Guitar, who has branched out to a more popular, yet totally acoustic, sound all his own. Schooled under such Masters as Narcisco Yepes, Emilio Pujol, Manuel Lopez Ramos and Jose Luis Rodrigo, Gil is now performing more popular and varied offering of musical selections. His unique blend of jazz, Latin, flamenco, and classical idioms combine to create an energetic new musical style he calls "Flamenco Fusion". The Arts & Crafts Fair is sponsored by the Bellevue Art(s) Museum, is quite a big deal, with $10,000 in artist awards. Visit it here. Bellevue Square/Bellevue Arts Museum. 
Annual SCGS Picnic Come! See announcement at top of home page. 1221 NE 140th St. Seattle. 
Mathew McColl in recital in the intimate acoustics of the Cathedral Chapel (South annex to St. James Cathedral, 804 Ninth Avenue). Works for solo guitar by Mozart, Debussy, Breville, Villa-Lobos, Gismonti, Towner, Gaquere and Bellinati. Suggested Donation $15, students and seniors pay as able. For more information, please call the Cathedral Music Office at 206-382-4874 or visit www.matthewmccoll.com. 
In the first of the SCGS Frye Series, Kim Pineda and Elizabeth Brown perform music for 19th Century flute and guitar. Their program includes music by Giuliani, Carulli, Sor and Mozart. Admission is free, Frye Art Museum, corner of Cherry and Terry on First Hill, Seattle. For more information see the sidebar. 206-297-8788. Hear Le Nuove Musiche (Katherine Hanson-Mack, soprano; Ronnee Fullerton, early bowed strings; Elizabeth Brown, lute, archlute & baroque guitar). Come hear the music that inspired Michelangelo, Rembrandt, and Dante. Seattle’s City Hall is located at 600 Fourth Avenue (between Cherry and James St.). All “Seattle Presents” concerts are free; brownbag lunches are welcome. For information visit www.seattle.gov/arts or call (206) 684-7171. The Venere Lute Quartet, comprised of four of the country’s finest Renaissance lute players, presents a program for lute consort with music by Praetorius, Josquin, Palestrina, Purcell, and many others. The Quartet performs a wide range of Renaissance and Baroque masterworks and is actively expanding the surviving lute ensemble repertory with its own arrangements. Presented by the Early Music Guild as part of the Early Music Discovery series. Downstairs at Town Hall, 8th and Seneca. Tickets $5-10, for more information call (206) 325-7066 or visit www.earlymusicguild.org.
At 19 Caballero was the youngest ever and only guitarist to
win the prestigious Naumberg Competition. His program will include a
solo transcription of Dvorak's New World Symphony - that's right, the
entire thing on one guitar! See what R.M. Campbell of the
Seattle-PI has to say.
Guitarist Michael Partington, writes, "I'd venture to say there's
probably only
two people in the world who could pull this feat off, and Jorge is
probably the better of them. Do what you can to see this guy
- he is truly remarkable! And this venue is arguably the best hall
for guitar in the country."
The program also features Turina's Sonata Op. 61, the Cavatina by
Tansmen, and shorter pieces by Milhaud, Roussel, Poulenc and
Ruiz-Pipo.
Reviewer Don Witter Jr. of the New York Classic Guitar Society
writes of Jorge's April 2005 concert in New York:
"JORGE played one of the most outrageously difficult transcriptions
ever attempted on the Classical Guitar, Symphony Op. 95 "from the New
World" by Antonin Dvorak. The transcription is by the incredible Listz
of the Guitar Kazuhito Yamashita! Unlike the quip by Segovia decades
ago that the guitar was like an orchestra viewed from the wrong side
of a pair of binoculars, we felt the Orchestra in full appearance on 6
strings! I tell you that I felt the amazing magic and pyrotechnical
fireworks shooting from that stage was absolutely unbelievable! "
Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall at
Benaroya Hall, Third and Union, downtown Seattle. Single tickets
are $25/$30, series tickets range from $60 to $90. See sidebar for ticket
pricing, or call the Rosewood Guitar at
206-297-8788 for tickets or more information.
The following afternoon, Sunday 30 October at 2.00 pm, del Monte will
lead a Master Class; see the top of the web page for detail.
There is a stellar lineup organized for this year's SCGS Holiday
Concert, at 6.00pm on Sunday, December 4, 2005, at Seattle
Mennonite Church, 3120 NE 125th St., Seattle. This is located just off
Lake City Way on NE 125th. Suggested donation: $8, or with a canned
food item for charity, $6.
We will hear
The program is unusally varied this year, with a diversity of
instrumentation and arrangements. Some of the featured composers will
be J.S. Bach, Fernando Sor (selections for voice and guitar arranged
for guitar and french horn!), Giuliani (voice and guitar), Stepan Rak
(4 Moods for 2 Guitars), Paul Hindemith, Randy Hathaway, Mark Wilson
and the 3 Michaels and 1 Jason concluding with selections from
Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite.
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