Columbus Guitar Society

The January 21, 2012 show featuring the University of Cincinnati Guitar Ensemble has been cancelled due to inclement weather.

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Hello everyone,
It is with great excitement that I write to you about the arrival tonight- despite imperfect weather- of Ronald Pearl! Ron is the most prestigious artist that we have featured for a full concert to date, a former member of one of the finest guitar duos in the world, now performing as soloist and composer. We hope that you can join us for his master class tomorrow at 2:00 at the Music Settlement and his concert on Sunday at 2:00 at Church of the Covenant. You can find his program, bio, and a sound clip here:
http://www.clevelandclassicalguitar.org/www.clevelandclassicalguitar.org/Ronald_Pearl.html
Here is the full information:

Ronald Pearl Master Class: Saturday, March 12, 2011, 2:00 PM. The Music Settlement, 11125 Magnolia Drive, Cleveland. Recital Hall, Main Building. Free to attend!

Ronald Pearl in Concert: Sunday March 13, 2011, 2:00 PM. Church of the Covenant, 11205 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland. Free-will offering accepted. (Don’t forget Daylight Savings Time!)

This is an exciting time for the CCGS. We hope that you can be there to share this moment with us- and invite your friends!

Erik Mann
President, Cleveland Classical Guitar Society
www.clevelandclassicalguitar.org

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Regarding our own Columbus Guitar Society (CGS)

8:00 pm, Saturday, 12 March 2011 will find the Columbus Guitar Society Members’ Ensemble (Waverly Wilkerson, Director) delivering a tasty program of guitar ensembles and solos, “A Winter Evening of Guitar Music”, at Capital University’s Huntington Recital Hall. In addition, the Suzuki guitar students of Lewis Charles will be warming up the crowd at 7:45. Even more affordable than most of our ridiculously affordable concerts, admission to this one the scant sum of $5! If you’re not playing there, shouldn’t you be there to listen? …And bring all your friends to bolster our coffers and help ensure the future of our professional series? There really is no excuse to not.

As I suspect you, my plucky brethren and sistren, know, the old host of our informal, monthly gatherings, Borders Books and Music, has filed for bankruptcy and is closing their Ohio stores. Shortly after that announcement, I was assured they would be open and able to host us through March. Yes, they will still be open, but I learned only at the beginning of this week that they have sold off their furniture and are not able to host our meeting. After some brief consultation with our members and some very hasty discussions with potential venues, the situation has been resolved through a new host. So…

This here is to serve as all you lot’s monthly informal reminder of the monthly informal meeting of the Columbus Guitar Society. March’s meeting falls on Saturday, 19 March 2011, from 1 pm until we get tired of being there, the new there being the Barnes & Noble at the Lennox Town Center, 1739 Olentangy River Road, Columbus, OH 43212, 614-298-9516. Members of the ensemble, come on out and relive the glory of the previous week’s performance; as always, your absence will earn my ridicule. Any other readers who so desire, swing by with your 6-string guitar (of course), requinto, 5-course guitar, 4-course guitar, vihuela da mano, viola da terra, oud, renaissance lute, baroque lute, cittern, theorbo, charango, archcittern, Neapolitan mandolin, mandolino, gittern, English guittar, chitarra battente, (heaven forefnd…) banjo, strumento a pizzico ad infinitum and play us some art music of any era on whatever you happen to be pining to pluck, or just come out to chat and listen. The setting is casual and supportive in the extreme. I’d love to meet all you lot out there.

Hopkinson Smith, venerable overlord of early plucked strings, will be giving a concert cosponsored by our own Columbus Guitar Society and Early Music in Columbus. That concert, entitled “De los Castillos y Calles de España: Spanish Guitar Music of the 17th Century”, will be performed entirely on five-course guitar. The 1 April 2011 concert begins at 8:00 and is preceded by a brief lecture at 7:30 pm. It all takes place at Capital University’s Mees Auditorium and tickets are available in advance from Early Music or Ticketmaster.com. (Of course, I’ll write more on that event as April approaches.)

In addition, at 2 pm on 2 April, I have committed Hoppy to offer a master class in Capital University’s Kern’s Religious Life Center, Columbus, OH. The fee to participate will be US$60. If you can make your way to Columbus, OH come April—lute or early guitar incarnation in hand (or even modern guitar if you’d really like)—and would like me to hold a performance spot for you, please reply to this e-mail ASAP. After I confirm available space, a check made out to the Columbus Guitar Society will confirm your spot. Act fast: there are only three performance spots remaining! The fee to simply attend as an auditor will be $15 at the door. Feel free to also reply with any questions you may have.

Elsewhere in the vastly sophisticated pluckland of Ohio

8:00 pm, Friday, 11 March 2011 (yes, this very evening): Columbus’ own early-music band, the Early Interval, presents “Spanish Splendor” on the concert series of Early Music in Columbus in Capital University’s Mees Auditorium. See links for detail.

2:00 pm, Saturday, 12 March 2011: Ronald Pearl (previously of the world-renowned Gray-Pearl Duo) will give a master class for the Cleveland Classical Guitar Society. Auditing the master class is free. See the Cleveland society’s event page for detail.

2:00 pm, Sunday, 13 March 2011: Ronald Pearl will be delivering an exciting recital for the Cleveland Classical Guitar Society. Again, see the Cleveland society’s event page for detail.

8:00 pm, Friday, 18 March 2011: Past Guitar Foundation of America champion Martha Masters will be performing at the University of Dayton’s Sears Recital Hall. Admission is free. Click here for detail. I’ll actually be speaking about carp at a conference in Celina that day, but am hoping to make the drive down to Dayton for this one. Care to join me on site?

Until then, plonk!

Eugene

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Greetings to those who groom their fingernails without regard for the bilateral symmetry of the human form:

Columbus Guitar Society business

* February brings much pluck, much pluck indeed. Join us for the next concert on the Columbus Guitar Society (CGS) professional concert series. Diverse guitarist Fredrick Norman will deliver a stylish solo recital at 8:00 pm, 19 February 2011 at Capital University’s Huntington Recital Hall. Fred spent much of his career teaching in Germany and performing around Germany and Europe. He has a real knack for 19th-c. music on period instruments. As always, general admission can be had for the trivial pittance of $18 (only $12 for members, students, or seniors: discounted tickets only available at the door). Full-price tickets can be obtained by phoning CAPA at 614-469-0939, logging onto Ticketmaster.com, or at the door.

* The next informal meeting of the CGS falls earlier that same day, 1:00 pm on 19 February 2011. As always, we’ll be at the Borders Books, Music & Cafe, 4545 Kenny Rd., Columbus, OH, 43220 (at the intersection of Kenny and Henderson Rds), and the setting is casual and supportive in the extreme. Don’t be shy now! Bring out that guitar and commence to pluckin’ on your classical/art-music faves.

Guitar elsewhere in Ohio

* Alas, I’ve been too busy to write. Those of you who are pluck-astute, I hope you caught the awesome Eos Duo (Kimberlee Goodman, flute and Karl Wohlwend, guitar) on the 4th. It was a great performance and a great program. Also, if you happened to be at that private party in New Albany where I was playing on the 5th, I hope you enjoyed.

* 12 and 13 February in Cleveland, OH: The fabulous baroque ensemble Les Delices will present “La Guitarre Royalle,” a special pair of concerts featuring Lucas Harris on theorbo and baroque guitar. You can see him perform here: http://vimeo.com/6581625. You can find all the detail you’ll on the band’s concert page: http://www.debranagy.com/Les_Delices1/concerts.html. I would make the road trip for this one myself. …if only I didn’t have day job duties and Valentine’s commitments to Mrs. Eugene that weekend. *sigh…*

* 5:30 – 10:00 pm, Monday, 14 February 2011: I will be on performance rotation with the chamber musicians of Flute Cocktail at the Franklin Park Conservatory Valentine’s Day event. Admission is $11 and includes chocolate and wine! …hopefully enough to make even my presence and the kinds of sounds I generate seem romantic to your significant other.

* 3:00 pm, 20 February 2011: The Cleveland Classical Guitar Society will host their very first collaborative concert with the Cleveland Composers Guild of seven works selected from those submitted to the society’s review. The music—for solo guitar, guitar duo, piano and guitar, and flute and guitar—will be performed by eleven of the Cleveland area’s best musicians, including Jason Vieaux, James Marron, George Bachmann, and more! This will be at Christ Episcopal Church, 3445 Warrensville Center Rd, Shaker Heights. The concert is free, and everyone is invited to dinner after the concert at Pearl of the Orient, with a 15% discount if you bring your program or mention the concert! You can see the program and read what the composers say about their pieces here: http://www.clevelandclassicalguitar.org/Guitar_Plus_Concert.html.

* 8:00 pm, 24 February 2011: Russian-Israeli guitarist Yuri Liberzon will perform Thursday, February 24 at 8:00 pm at Kulas Chamber hall at the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory.

* The Northeast Ohio Guitar Festival and the James Stroud All-Ohio Guitar Competition takes place at the University of Akron, 25 – 27 February 2011. It will include concerts by world-class artists Marco Sartor and SoloDuo, a vendor fair, and a competition for Ohio students.

* 2:30 pm, 27 February 2011: Croatian virtuoso Robert Belini? performs on Xavier University’s excellent guitar series in Cincinnati. General admission is only $15 and only $3 for students!

* Finally, 6:30 – 8:30 pm, Monday, 28 February 2011: Dayton’s own classical guitarist, Jim McCutcheon, will perform at the Centerville Library, 111 W. Spring Valley Rd., Centerville, OH 45458. You can find details of this and their other featured musical performances on their event page: http://www.wclibrary.info/events/index.asp.

‘Til then, pluck on!

Eugene

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Happy initiation of the punteado-rich 2011 annum!

CGS bidness:

* 22 January, 8:00 pm: The concert series continues when the perpetually cordial Clare Callahan brings her excellent student ensemble up from the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music to perform at Capital University‘s Huntington Recital Hall near the corner of College and Mound. Admission is the mere trifle of $5! See the Columbus Guitar Society (CGS) site for detail. Prof. Callahan’s ensemble always represents some of the finest up-and-coming talent in the region. Participants in her program go on to become active professionals across the country. Clare always assembles a tastily diverse program; we are fortunate to have her and her protégés here again this year.

* 15 January, 1:00 pm: The next informal meeting of the CGS falls at 1:00 pm on 15 January. Nothing planned but the usual: come on out to play some “classical” music on your guitar (…lute, mandolin, domra, tamburitza, requinto, vihuela, cittern, saz, charango, laute, viola da terra, or whatever) or just casually socialize and listen. As always, we’ll be at the Borders Books, Music & Cafe, 4545 Kenny Rd., Columbus, OH, 43220 (at the intersection of Kenny and Henderson Rds). Also as always, the setting is casual and supportive in the extreme.

Pluck around Ohio:

* 7-9 January: Local renaissance band The Early Interval takes the stage with the CGS’s very own Sean Ferguson on theorbo and 5-course guitar for their annual, extremely popular 12th Night celebration at 8:00 pm on 8 and 9 January and at 2:30 pm on 10 January. These concerts are held in the acoustically lush Pontifical College Josephinum, 7625 N. High St. just north of Worthington (43235). If you’ve never heard a classical concert in this tremendous gothic cathedral, you owe it to yourself to do so this weekend! You can find details (and even see a shot of Sean, theorbo in hand) at the Early Music Columbus web site.

* 9 January, 3:00 pm: Jim McCutcheon will present a family-friendly recital at David’s United Church of Christ on Rt. 48 just south of Stroop Road in Dayton, OH. The program will include music from Rachmaninov, J.S. Bach, Mason Williams, and also some of Jim’s original music and arrangements for solo guitar. It may also include some music for children from Jim’s award-winning “A Day with the Guitar Man” CD. The program is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Jim McCutcheon at jim at mccutcheon dot biz or 937-287-7755.

* 16 January, 11:30 am-6:00 pm: Ohio’s Winter Guitar Show runs at Columbus’ Aladdin Shrine Temple. The winter show is traditionally much bigger than the summer show, sometimes approaching 300 dealers, and old friends of mine often make the trip in from NYC, Iowa City, various places in between, etc; it’s always good to see the lot. Unfortunately, modern classical guitars of quality are scarce. Every once in a great while, a decent piece like something from the Kenny Hill shop or even a rare 19th-c. guitar will appear. …And once again, the show will be graced with Gary Demos’ presence as a vendor. Also once again, I’ll be helping to staff Gary’s table. See the link for detail. I hope to see you there!

* 21 January, 6:00-9:00 pm: I will be on rotation with the members of Flute Cocktail at Franklin Park Conservatory’s annual bridal show. Franklin Park demonstrates their wisdom in stationing our performance space next to the full-service bar, where attendees perceive us as sounding even better…although that doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with how we actually sound. (Yes, for the minimally astute, there was a touch of self-deprecating humor embedded in the previous statement for your amusement.) If you happen to be getting married (or happen to simply have an unnatural fondness for the pomp of excessive ceremony), I’ll look forward to seeing you there. Please offer us your “howdy” as you place your drink order!

* 29 January, 8:00 pm: Wacky fingerstyle songster Leon Redbone will be performing for the Greater Cincinnati Performing Arts Society in, of all places, the city of Cincinnati. For details or tickets, check out http://www.gcparts.org/ or phone 513-484-0157.

* 29 January, 3:00 pm: The extraordiniary baroque orchestra with Apollo’s Fire is giving a family-friendly concert ($10 admission for adults and only $5 for childres). To make this interesting for those of us with a propensity to indulge in the punteado (and perhaps an occasional rasgueado), Daniel Shoskes (aka Danny, aka kidneycutter) will be playing along on archlute and 5-course guitar. It all happens at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 2747 Fairmount Boulevard, Cleveland Heights, OH 44106.

* 29 January, 8:00 pm: Our very own Karl Wohlwend will be giving an entire recital dedicated to baroque repertoire actually written for guitar (Foscarini, Bartolotti, and Mateis) on OSU’s faculty recital series. I personally won’t miss this one! For details on ticketing, see http://music.osu.edu/concerts-and-events/concert-calendar/.

* 30 January, 2:30 pm: One of the most exciting guitarists on the current scene, Marcin Dylla will be performing on Xavier University’s excellent and affordable guitar series (Gallagher Student Center Theatre, 3800 Victory Parkway, Cincinnati, Ohio 45207: $15.00 general admission, only $3.00 for students with ID). Seeing Marcin perform inspires gape-jawed, wide-eyed comments like “Wha… How!?” I’m inclined to want to see that again. And you?

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The Columbus Guitar Society

proudly presents

Guitarist

Michael Isla

In concert Saturday, 17 October 2009, 8:00 pm

Capital University‘s Huntington Recital Hall, NE corner of College & Mound, Bexley
$18 general admission / only $12 for students, members, or seniors

For tickets: CAPA at 614-469-0939 or Ticketmaster.com

(discounted tickets can only be obtained at the door)

For info: 614-561-9204

Michael Isla is a highly sought after composer and performer of the guitar repertoire.  He holds a Bachelor of Music in Performance from Duquesne University’s Mary Pappert School of Music and received music scholarships from Akron University, Boston Conservatory of Music, Cleveland Institute of Music and Duquesne University School of Music.  He earned his Master’s in Performance under the tutelage of world-renowned teacher and performer, Stephen Aron, Chair of Guitar at the Akron University School of Music.  With performances in Boston, New York, Columbus, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Toronto he is a guitar performance veteran of over 20 years.

Michael’s CD Acoustica has been featured on PBS and Columbus Alive Podcasts. In addition, he has been featured on NEON network’s television show Random Acts of Music with his video series entitled FingerTips. He has premiered new music at Ohio State University’s Music School and recently performed with the Cleveland Contemporary Youth Orchestra at Cleveland State University.  His Rhythmic Light Ensemble has also performed for WVIZ at the Cleveland Ingenuity Festival.  Michael is currently contracted with The Orchard and is being placed into worldwide distribution. As a member and advocate of The Guitar Foundation of America, Michael is expanding the audience of the classical guitar through creative performances and marketing.

As always, you are cordially invited!

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The Columbus Guitar Society

proudly presents the annual pre-season fund raiser

Carulists vs. Molinists

“A just post-Summer Evening of Guitar Music”

with the Members’ Ensemble of the Columbus Guitar Society

Waverly Wilkerson, Director

8:00 pm, Saturday, 26 September 2009 at

Capital University’s Huntington Recital Hall, Bexley

Only $5 general admission!

For info: 614-561-9204

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1:00 pm, Saturday, 19 September 2009: I am very proud to announce the first Columbus Guitar Society Luthiers’ Forum, hosted by the gracious host of our monthly meetings, Borders Books & Music, 4545 Kenny Road, Columbus, OH 43220, phone: 614.451.2292. My intent for this event was to assemble three local builders from differing classical-like/guitar-like traditions to contrast the construction features associated with the instruments in which each specializes. Please join us to learn a few things about our/your instruments, play some excellent locally built pieces, have some fun, and maybe even commission your next fine guitar/lute! I hope to see you there…as well as every month’s third Saturday. For info: 614.561.9204.

Eugene

Gary Demos is a luthier located in Hilliard, Ohio. A very prolific builder of fine classical guitars, he has also been an accomplished carpenter and craftsman for over 30 years. Gary has made harps, dulcimers, classical and steel string guitars.	Gary at work
Pete at work	Peter Cary has been building and repairing guitars since the age of eighteen, and has improved quite a bit since then! While having never “apprenticed” or taken any formal courses, he always read voraciously on the subject and has been quite willing to experiment with the building process and (with much more caution) the repair process. He builds and repairs both nylon- and steel-string instruments but is particularly fond of the flamenco guitar with its quick response and strong upper-midrange sound. He embraces a somewhat puritan building philosophy, admiring beautifully appointed guitars, but prefers to build an instrument that is elegantly simple. If ornament doesn’t make it sound or play better, he prefers not to spend too much time on it! His most recent guitars use a soundhole both on the front and upper side of the instrument, and he has been experimenting with lattice bracing and lattice/kasha hybrid bracing on soundboards.
Chadwick Neal began instrument making in the summer of 2000 after a recital he heard of the Bach violin sonatas performed on 13-course baroque lute. Actually, he had been thinking of building a guitar before then, but after hearing the lute, his path had been altered. A graduate of the Columbus College of Art and Design, his formal training was in the visual arts. He was already proficient at fabricating miscellaneous things, so took it upon himself to study luthiery. Fortunately, UK luthier David van Edwards had completed a CD-ROM with a set of plans on how to make a lute. In 2002, he met Michael Schreiner, a lutemaker in Toronto; since that initial meeting, Chad has been making tuning pegs and carving lute rosettes to help Schreiner’s work flow and to gain additional shop time for himself. He has also learned from doing seemingly endlessly necessary lute repairs, often taking a very long time trying to figure out just how to go about it. He finds repair more difficult, but uses lessons learned from inferior instruments to guide his building regarding what not to do. Chad’s initial inspiration was the craft of making a magnificent object, which has been replaced by the more fundamental aspects of how to craft magnificent sound.	Chad at work

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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.

Call CAPA for your season subscription now!
614-469-0939

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