Announcing the 2009-10 Season of the CGS
by Eugene
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Michael Isla is a highly sought composer and performer, holding degrees from Duquesne University’s Mary Pappert School of Music & The University of Akron. He was the first classical guitarist to be featured on Time Warner’s Random Acts of Music and developed a series entitled “FingerTips” for the show. The music from his album Acoustica has been featured by PBS. His Rhythmic Light Ensemble has also performed for WVIZ at the Cleveland Ingenuity Festival, and he performed for the movie and music series of the Cleveland Contemporary Youth Orchestra. Michael brings his stylishly artistic vision of guitar to our own series on 17 October 2009. |
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French guitarist, Gabriel Bianco, has earned first prize in multiple international competitions in Austria (Vienna), Germany (Koblenz), France (Ile de Ré and Barbezieux ), Poland (Tychy), Portugal (Sernancelhe), and, most recently, the Guitar Foundation of America (GFA) in 2008. He was born into a family of musicians, beginning guitar lessons with his father at age five. By the age of 12, he had performed for French television (Mezzo). He later studied at Paris’ Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique where he received the highest distinction. Since 2005, Gabriel has studied with past GFA champion Judicael Perroy. Bianco’s first major recording will be released in 2009 by the Naxos label. The GFA winners always deliver exciting virtuosity, as Gabriel will for us on 7 November 2009. |
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Italian guitarist and Dynamic Records recording artist, Adriano Sebastiani, is an expert of guitar discography, literature, and chamber music, having studied guitar at Naples’ prestigious Conservatorio di Musica “S. Pietro a Maiella”, the oldest in Italy. His recordings include 13 acclaimed compact discs, spanning the classical songs of Schubert, Giuliani, and Carulli to solos and chamber music by modern masters like Towner and Bogdanovic. He was also the first guitarist to have recorded the complete trios for strings and guitar and the complete duos for violin/viola/mandolin and guitar by Nicolò Paganini. We are honored to host a lyrical solo recital to be delivered by Adriano on 20 February 2010. |
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Brazil’s Quaternaglia Guitar Quartet is widely acclaimed as one of the top contemporary guitar ensembles. The quartet’s performances first attracted international critical attention in 1998, after it was awarded the Ensemble Prize at the International Guitar Competition of Havana. Over the past 15 years, the ensemble of João Luiz, Fabio Ramazzina, Paola Picherzky, and Sidney Molina were “attracted by opportunity to add experience and spice to a young genre, creating a canon of fire” (Los Angeles Times) in which many leading Brazilian composers have collaborated with the quartet. We are very excited to bring you an exciting concert by this acclaimed ensemble on 24 April 2010. |
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All performances, 8 pm at Capital University’s Huntington Recital Hall. General admission is $18 (or $12 for members/students/seniors). For more info: 614-561-9204. Tickets can be purchased in advance from the CAPA box office (614-469-0939) or Ticketmaster.com. However, you can purchase a subscription to all four dates on the professional series for the absurdly low price of $48 by calling CAPA.
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