Designed by Connie Fahrion
Sixth International Guitar Festival at Round Top
"In its relatively short 5 year history, the International Guitar Festival has garnered acclaim as one of the top music festivals in Texas." (Danno Wise, Texas Travel)
March 6, 2010
Featured artists include:
Minneapolis Guitar Quartet
Flavio Sala, from Italy
Cem Duruoz.
Reservations online or call 979-249-3129
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Highlights
Three Concerts
1:30 pm Flavio Sala, Guitar.
4:00 pm Minneapolis Guitar Quartet.
8:00 pm Cem Duruoz, Guitar.
A buffet dinner will be offered at 6:15 pm in the Dining Hall of Menke House.
An after performance evening reception at 10:00 pm at the Kafe Kaffein.
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Minneapolis Guitar Quartet
With the passion, style, and musical sophistication borrowing from the best chamber music and string quartet traditions, the Minneapolis Guitar Quartet has successfully made its case as one of the world's leading guitar ensembles since its founding in 1986. "Flawless, musical and witty" (Classical Guitar Magazine, England), the MGQ has performed throughout the United States both in recital and with orchestra, balancing a dizzying array of first-rate repertoire ranging from Renaissance and Baroque to Spanish, Latin American and Romantic, to highly imaginative existing and newly commissioned contemporary works. Cutting-edge composer/performer Daniel Bernard Roumain, one of the more than 20 composers commissioned by the MGQ, calls the group "more than a guitar quartet, more than superb musicians, and more than a great chamber group. They are ambassadors of sound, style, and substance."
The Minneapolis Guitar Quartet tours regularly throughout the United States in works with full orchestra such as Joaquin Rodrigo's Concierto Andaluz and Ian Krouse's Cantiga Variations; and with string orchestra in David Hahn's Concerto alla Barocco and a new arrangement of Antonio Vivaldi's Concerto in C. Concerto appearances include the Austin Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Britt Festival Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra and the Columbus (GA) Symphony, among others. In recital, the MGQ appears in such cities as Seattle, Chicago, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Omaha, and Williamstown (MA). Other highlights include Princeton University, the Il Encuentro Internacional de Guitarra at the National Arts Center in Mexico City, the Omni Foundation Dynamite Guitar series in San Francisco, the Stetson International Guitar Workshop in Florida, and the Guitar Foundation of America Festival. Its concerts may feature as wide a range of repertoire as Bach, Piazzolla, Peter Maxwell Davies, Ginastera, Purcell, Rodrigo, Stravinsky, many new works by commissioned composers, and an exceptional arrangement of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. The web magazine minor7th.com called it "the best arrangement of these 16 movements (Pictures at an Exhibition) I have heard…While staying true to the original sense of the pieces, the Quartet brings fresh colors and lyricism."
The MGQ has been heard on the nationally syndicated Saint Paul Sunday, and on National Public Radio's Performance Today. The group's first three CDs on the Albany and GSP labels — New Works for Guitar Quartet, Over Land and Sea and Pictures at an Exhibition — garnered unanimous international critical acclaim. "With (Over Land and Sea)," said Soundboard Magazine, "the MGQ demonstrates that it is one of the major guitar ensembles in the world."
Committed educators as well as performers, members of the Minneapolis Guitar Quartet (Joseph Hagedorn, Jeff Lambert, O. Nicholas Raths, and Jeffrey Thygeson) often appear to teach and present workshops at festivals and universities throughout the United States. The cultural accessibility of the guitar makes it a natural for the MGQ's educational and outreach programs like its two popular versions of "Guitar Talk" for ages 5-12 and 13 through adult.
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Flavio Sala
Flavio Sala, born in 1983, is considered the new classical guitar star, acclaimed by critics and public alike for his extraordinary technique and his outstanding musical sensibility and creativity.
He was awarded the First Prize at the "XXVI Concorso Internazionale di Gargnano" (Italy, 2001) and at the "XXXVI Concorso Internazionale Michele Pittaluga" (Alessandria - Italy, 2003); the Audience's First Prize at the "San Francisco International Guitar Master" (USA, 2004); the First Prize at the "Concurso Internacional Alirio Diaz" (Carora - Lara State - Venezuela, 2006) - in that occasion he won also the "Fundación Vicente Emilio Sojo" Special Prize for the Best Performance of Venezuelan Music; the Best Talent Golden Guitar at the "XI International Guitar Meeting" (Alessandria - Italy).
Starting at the age of 18, Flavio Sala has toured extensively, giving many concerts and master classes in Europe, Russia, United States and South America, played in prestigious concert halls and theatres as soloist, in duo with the flamenco guitarist Juan Lorenzo and with orchestra (Turin Philharmonic Orchestra, Milano Classica Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of Friuli-Venezia-Giulia, State Hermitage Orchestra, New Russia Orchestra, Primavera Symphonic Orchestra, Russian Philharmonic, Yekaterinburg Big Symphony Orchestra, Modigliani Orchestra, Venezuelan Symphony Orchestra, Mina Gerais Symphony Orchestra).
Born in Bojano (Campobasso - Italy) in a family of musicians, he studied with Pasqualino Garzia and Oscar Ghiglia, and developed his art encouraged and inspired by the meetings with Alirio Diaz and Paco de Lucia.
His recordings, "Flavio Sala at the Hermitage Theatre" (Map) and "Encuentro", in duo with Juan Lorenzo and “Mi Alma Llanera – Music from Venezuela” (FelMay/Egea International), have received great approvals.
He plays an instrument built by the Italian guitar-maker Camillo Perrella.
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Cem Duruöz
"His excellent stage presence complements his virtuosic technique and musical, elegant artistry.” said Grammy winner guitarist Sharon Isbin –one of the many accolades that guitarist Cem Duruöz has received from performers and critics alike.
With a recent cover article feature published by the UK based Classical Guitar magazine, Cem Duruöz was characterized as an "extraordinarily gifted player” and "cultural ambassador who delivered a generous and landmark introduction of new repertoire”. The American Record Guide/Music in Concert recently wrote: "His flawless classical technique, depth of color, long flowing lines, clean playing and tight rhythmic style made everyone listen in an entirely different way. In a total hush, I felt the audience transformed."
Mr. Duruöz has performed in four continents in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Japan, France, Greece, Bosnia, Spain, Serbia, Kosovo, Poland, Mexico, throughout Turkey and the USA. His recent concert appearances include a return performance at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York in a program titled Guitar in Turkey, his Concierto de Aranjuez performances with the Turkish National Symphony Orchestra, a French Baroque Concert at the prestigious Istanbul Festival, recitals at the Baščaršijske Noći Festival in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Hondarribia Guitar Festival in France, Gliwice Guitar Festival in Poland, Ramon Noble Festival in Mexico and Semana de Guitarra Sainz de la Maza in Spain as well as the World Premiere performance of the Concerto Anatolia by David Hahn in Round Top, Texas. His 2008-2009 season concerts include his UK premiere performance at the Purcell Room in London, Turkish premiere of the Concierto Anatolia in Ankara, recitals at the Minnesota Guitar Society, Marlow Guitar Series and Redwood Arts Council Series in the US and Circulo Guitarristico in Argentina.
A multi-faceted musician, Cem Duruöz has collaborated with bandoneón/tango master Raul Jaurena, gambist John Dornenburg and soprano Camille Zamora. A frequent soloist, he has appeared with more than ten orchestras regularly performing Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez among others, under the batons of such conductors as Michel Tabachnik, Angel Gil-Ordóñez, Antonio Pirolli and Erol Erdinç. In January 2008 he gave the world premiere performance of Concierto Anatolia, a guitar concerto featuring Turkish melodies and rhythms written for him by American composer David Hahn.
Cem Duruöz has released three CDs to international critical acclaim: His debut album Pièces de Viole,which features his arrangements of Marais’ French baroque gamba music, was released by Centaur and received rave reviews in magazines such as American Record Guide, Fanfare, Classics Today, Classical Guitar and BBC Music. Being a contemporary music enthusiast, he commissioned new works from emerging composers and recorded them in his second Centaur release Contemporary Music for Guitar along with masterpieces of the guitar repertoire by Walton and Davidovsky.
His most recent solo CD, Desde el Alma - Tango Classics was released in 2006 under ADA-Müzik label and called “A masterpiece” by Argentine critics. The CD features a variety of tango styles such as the milonga and vals as well as some of the most famous tangos transcribed by him using the interpretations of the legendary Argentine Tango orchestras of the 20th century. The CCGS Newsletter wrote: "His rich tone of execution is superbly captured on this high quality recording, as is the exactness of every note without any sacrifice of the rhythmic pulse.”
Turkish born guitarist Cem Duruöz (or "Gem" as pronounced in his native tongue) began his training with Safa Gürbüz and continued with Ahmet Kanneci. He won the first prize in the Turkish National Guitar Competition at the age of seventeen. Subsequently he participated in the master-classes of John Duarte, Oscar Ghiglia and Eliot Fisk in Europe, received his Master’s degree at the San Francisco Conservatory and completed his graduate guitar studies at The Juilliard School with Sharon Isbin. As an enthusiastic educator, Cem Duruöz has been giving master-classes throughout the world and teaching guitar performance at Wesleyan University in the USA.
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Created on 08/22/2006 05:17 PM by ad
Updated on 01/21/2010 11:23 AM by ad
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