2006-2007 Season

August | September | November | December | January |February| March

All Guitar Albuquerque concerts will be held at

Robertson and Son's Violin Shop Recital Hall

3201 Carlisle NE  (between Comanche & Candelaria) click here to learn more

This superb hall is one of Albuquerque's best kept secrets and is perfectly suited for guitar concerts.

Seating is limited and reservations are recommended.

August 12

Saturday Evening     7:00pm

Thomas Patterson Director of Guitar Studies University of Arizona

Emily Jones began her musical studies at the age of seven with the bluegrass mandolin. At age fourteen, she started learning classical guitar with Margarita Valls de Quesada and at age fifteen was encouraged by Dr. Miroslav Loncar and his wife, Dr. Natasa Klasinc, to pursue music as a career. For her undergraduate degree, Miss Jones studied guitar with Dr. Loncar at William Carey College in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. While there, she won all the solo competitions in the Mississippi Music Teachers' Association Convention and received honorable mention in the Southern Division MTNA Collegiate Artist Competition. In 2003, Emily won a top prize in the Portland International Guitar Competition. In 2005, Emily graduated with her master’s in music from the University of Arizona under Thomas Patterson. She has participated in masterclasses with Ricardo Cobo, David Leisner, Roland Dyens, Denis Azabagic, and William Kanengiser. In addition to her performances as a soloist, Ms. Jones currently directs guitar studies and teaches music history and theory at the Baptist College of Florida. She also teaches at The Studio and the Fine Arts Academy in Dothan, Alabama.

Michael Lich, Guitar Faculty, Music Academy of Tucson

September 23rd

Saturday Evening     7:00pm    

Michael Chapdelaine, Acoustic Guitar Virtuoso

Original compositions, arrangements and guitar wizardry!

Only one person has ever won the world's top competitions in both "fingerstyle" and "classical" guitar, the National Fingerpicking Champion and the Guitar Foundation of America International Classical Guitar Competition. That person, Michael Chapdelaine will play a solo concert featuring the brilliance and versatility of his own compositions and arrangements.

"Chapdelaine is much admired for his sensitive, even soulful performances."

Guitar Review Magazine

Prior to winning the Championship, Chapdelaine had also won top honors in four international “classical” guitar competitions, including First Prize in the Guitar Foundation of America Competition.  He has been awarded two National Endowment for the Arts Solo Recitalist Fellowships and holds a Master of Music degree from Florida State University.  In recent years he has toured 4 continents and been seen around the world on CNN and Headline News.

Chapdelaine, who studied with Andrés Segovia, earned the distinction of winning the 20th annual National Fingerpicking Championship, traditionally dominated by steel string players, while playing on a nylon string classical guitar. He bested an international field of guitarist by playing a broad spectrum of musical genres ranging from traditional South American dance music to his own fingerstyle compositions, which included a blues number he calls Blue Chile. "The biggest thrill about winning Winfield was seeing how much people like my original compositions," Chapdelaine said.

"As carelessly as the word "virtuoso" gets tossed around these days, it still only characterizes a minuscule percentage of artists. New Mexico-based guitarist Michael Chapdelaine is one of the chosen few. . And Michael Chapdelaine is a consummate live performer whose passion bleeds from his fingertips." Weekly Alibi

His original works, which he has only recently introduced to the public, bring together a broad variety of musical styles from classical to country to blues.  "I grew up playing pop music in Navy clubs....I needed to find a way to mix the groove and fun of that music with the discipline and expressive beauty of classical music."  “Music is fun, if it's not fun, why bother?”

DUOLOGUE flute and guitar

Susan Morris De Jong, flute

Benjamin Silva, guitar

Sunday October 29, 2006

3:00 pm

Keller Hall

UNM/ Popejoy Fine Arts Center

Tickets through UNM

Music commissioned by and for Duologue.  Composers include Katherine Hoover, William Bolcom, and Roberto Sierra, among others.

For More Info:

www.benjaminsilva.com/duologue

November 4th

Saturday Evening     7:00pm

Joseph Vaughn Williams II, classical guitar

Williams has performed on radio and throughout the United States, Brazil and Canada. He regularly concertizes as a solo performer, as part of the contemporary guitar duo Toccata, and with other collaborators.

Williams has distinguished himself by winning prizes in ten international guitar competitions:

• New England Conservatory’s Boston GuitarFest (2006)

• St. Joseph International Guitar Festival (2005)

• Fresno Guitar Panorama (2005 & 2006)

• Thomas Beesten Guitar Competition (2003 & 2004)

• Portland Guitar Festival and Competition (2004)

• 23rd & 24th Annual Norman Douglas Sholin Memorial Guitar Competition (2003 & 2004)

• 7th Annual Ralph Stevens Guitar Competition (2002)

"...Williams played with tremendous energy and musicality, fully exploiting the excellent qualities of D'Andon's guitar."

Classical Corner Concert Review|AcousticGuitar.com

As part of his training, Williams has received master classes with the maestros John Williams (Australia), Pepe Romero (Spain), Roland Dyens (France), Sergio Assad (Brazil), Eliot Fisk (U.S.) and many others. His primary teachers have been the accomplished American guitarist and composer Michael Chapdelaine and the master pedagogue Thomas Patterson. Williams earned a Bachelor of Music in Guitar Performance from the University of New Mexico and a Master of Music from the University of Arizona.

"Joseph's expressive playing, along with an astonishing display of virtuosity, captivates the listener's heart."

GuitarraMagazine.com

As a composer, Williams’ pieces have been internationally performed and lauded as “decidedly rhythmic and lyrical.” He has written for strings, marimba, guitar(s), bassoon, voice, harp, and orchestra. His most recent work 5 Sounds for guitar explores percussive timbres and extended techniques coupled with the rhythms of the Americas. Williams is a laureate of the 2000 and 2001 John Donald Robb Composer’s Symposium and his principle teachers have been Patrice Repar, Daniel Asia, William Wood, and Christopher Shultis.

He is an Artistic Director and co-founder of GUITAR Albuquerque.

Michael Chapdelaine

Corrales

3 November 3PM

San Ysidro Old Church

505 277 3928

December 2nd

Saturday Evening     7:00pm

The New Mexico Guitar Duo, Mickey Jones and Jeremy Mayne

Music of Gnattali, Dyens, Granados, and more!

Formed in 1989 by Mickey Jones and Jeremy Mayne, the New Mexico Guitar Duo has performed extensively since it's inception. Recent performances have included concerts for the Keller Hall Faculty Series, the Grinnell College Performing Arts Series, the Luna County Arts Council, the  Classical Guitar Society of Albuquerque, the Menaul School, and Albuquerque Academy, as well as numerous outreach seminars and performance/lectures around New Mexico. Their first CD, Villanesca, was released in 2001.

The New Mexico Guitar Duo is currently preparing new arrangements of masterworks by Ravel, Ginastera, Debussy, and Barber. Future activities include release of their second CD for Cross-String Productions, and performances during the 2006-07 concert season.

After receiving his Master's degree in Classical Guitar Performance from UNM in 1998, Mickey Jones became a guitar instructor at the Albuquerque Academy. As a performer, he was a finalist in the MTNA Competition and has performed throughout the Southwest. He also gave the American Premiere performance of Nicolas Maw's Little Suite for the Guitar. Mickey Jones has studied with many prestigious teachers including Sharon Isbin of the Julliard School and flamenco master Pedro Cuadra.

Jeremy Mayne has performed throughout the US, as well as in Canada and Mexico. Winner of the UNM Concerto Competition, he has been a featured soloist with the UNM Orchestra, the UNM Faculty String Quartet, the Taos Chamber Music Group and the IU Latin Ensemble. Jeremy Mayne holds music degrees from UNM and Indiana University, and currently teaches in the guitar program at UNM.

Events through other organizations

January 20th

Saturday Evening     7:00pm

Corey Whitehead, classical and flamenco guitar

Music of Spain, Brazil, and Argentina

Dr.  Corey  Whitehead has  performed  on television, radio and in concert halls in North America, South America,  Europe, Africa, and Asia to critical acclaim. He has has performed  as a Cultural Ambassador for the U.S. Department of State on three occasions  with his guitar duo Douze Cordes. They were the first Americans to perform in Kuwait  after September 11th, 2001. He has given performances  for the Kennedy Center Millennium Series (three times), Chitarra Imperia  Italia (2001,2003), Casa Thomas Jefferson (Brasilia, Brazil), Club de Jazz  de Santiago (Chile), Strathmore Hall (Bethesda, Maryland), The California  Guitar Panorama (2003-2005), the Washington D.C. Guitar Society, The  Columbus State Guitar Symposium, Virginia  Commonwealth University, The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and  the Musee de la Musique  in Paris, France just to name a few. His duo Douze Cordes have  performed in the U.S.A. for fourteen U.S. Senators, and for Royalty and dignitaries in Kuwait, Jordan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Yemen. Corey  has been appointed to the Guitarist-Lecturer position at California State  University, Fresno  where has been teaching Flamenco, and  Classical  guitar performance during the sabbatical terms of one of  the greatest guitarists of all time; the incomparable Maestro Juan  Serrano, and has since assumed his duties at CSU, Fresno. He has  studied Flamenco guitar privately with Juan Serrano and at the Curso Flamenco XIV with Gerardo Nuñez.

Corey made his debut at the  Kennedy Center on April 17th, 2000 with saxophonist  Davey Yarborough. His Kennedy  Center solo concert on October 18th, 2000.  On Dec. 8th 2002 Douze Cordes  made its Kennedy Center debut on Kennedy Center Honors Night at  the Millennium Stage Concert Series in the Theater Lab, where Billy Taylor's Jazz at the Kennedy Center has frequently hosted some of the  greatest names in in jazz. 

Corey  Whitehead has been awarded the Doctor of Musical Arts, Master of Music and Bachelor of Music  degrees in guitar performance from The University of Arizona where he  studies with Thomas Patterson, John Ingwerson, Steven Saulls and Andrea  Förderreuther.  He  was a prize winner in the 1996 Music Teacher's National Association Collegiate  Artist Competition, and was a prize-winner as an undergraduate in the Norman Sholin Memorial Guitar  Competition for graduate students at The University of Arizona in 1990 and  1991. He has performed in master classes for David Russell, Thomas Patterson, Phil Rosheger, and Carlo Barone. He  has audited master classes of Abel Carlevaro, David Tannenbaum, Roberto  Aussel, The Assad Duo, Benjamin Veredery, Stanley Jordan, John Pattitucci,  Gerardo Nuñez and many more.

Juan  Serrano and Corey Whitehead  have  completed an    instructional method for classical and flamenco guitar that will be  released in July, 2007 by Mel Bay publications.

 

Visit his websites
www.coreywhitehead.com	Professor of Guitar at CSU Fresno
Listen to MP3s
Tickets:
at the door	with reservations
$15.00 Adults | $10.00 Students with I.D.	$13.00 Adults | $8.00 Students with I.D.
	for reservations please call: 507-4780 or email silva@benjaminsilva.com
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Roland Dyens Tribute Festival

February 22-24, 2007

Simms Auditorium

Albuquerque Academy

Tickets:

Chamber Music Albuquerque

Feb 22 Solo recital-Roland Dyens

Feb 23 Music of Dyens for guitar ensemble

Feb 24 Masterclass with Dyens

For more info, email:

dyenstribute@aa.edu

Guitar Albuquerque Does not have an event this month

Roland Dyens Tribute Festival

Come support this once in a lifetime experience:  A recital by renound master of the guitar and composer Roland Dyens and a retrospective concert of his ensemble works for multiple guitars!

Benjamin Silva, guitar

University of New Mexico

February 8 at 7:30pm

Keller Hall

Public Academy for Performing Arts

Faculty Recital

with Benjamin Silva, guitar

University of New Mexico

February 14 at 7:30pm

Keller Hall

Roland Dyens Tribute Festival

February 22-24, 2007

Simms Auditorium

Albuquerque Academy

Tickets:

Chamber Music Albuquerque

Feb 22 Solo recital-Roland Dyens

Feb 23 Music of Dyens for guitar ensemble

Feb 24 Masterclass with Dyens

For more info, email:

dyenstribute@aa.edu

Michael Chapdelaine, guitar

University of New Mexico

February 24 at 7:30pm

Keller Hall

New Music New Mexico

Various Chamber Groups

University of New Mexico

February 25 at 7:30pm

Keller Hall

Events through other organizations

March 10th

Saturday Evening     7:00pm

Benjamin Silva, classical guitar

Giuliani, Albeniz, Rochberg, Segovia, and Dyens

+plus World Premier of OPENING by Michael Chapdelaine!

Guitarist Benjamin Silva comes from a musical family.  He is the grandson of the renowned cellist Luigi Silva, and a laureate of numerous guitar competitions including the MTNA, Sholin, and Stotsenberg among others.

Silva has performed for audiences across the United States and Spain. Recent appearances include concert series in New Mexico, Arizona, California, Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Utah, Washington, D.C., and Santiago de Compostela.

Silva’s most influential teachers include Thomas Patterson, Michael Chapdelaine, Richard Hermann, the Indian sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, and Jose Luis Rodrigo (a former student of Andres Segovia).

He is currently on the music faculties of the Public Academy for Performing Arts, the New Mexico School of Music, and the University of New Mexico. Artistic quality and craftsmanship are attributes that Silva strives for in his teaching and as a result his students have garnered prizes in several contests including, most recently, the “Hey, Mozart” competition for young composers under 12 years old.

Here are a few facts about me that you may or may not know:

• Performed for the US First Lady, Spring 2003

• Award for study from the Spanish government, Summer 2004

• Second guitarist in history of UNM to win their concerto competition, Spring 1999 (I was only 5 years old!)

• Member of the Bosque Chamber Music Society

• Member of flute and guitar duo DUOLOGUE who have commissioned works by many of the nation's leading composers

• Fourth generation of musicians dating back over 130 years and involved with La Scala, Julliard, Yale, among others

He is an Artistic Director and co-founder of GUITAR Albuquerque.

New Mexico District VII

Solo and Ensemble High School and Middle School Guitar Festival

Cibola High School

March 3, 2007

UNM Guitar Ensemble

Benjamin Silva and Joseph Williams, directors

University of New Mexico

March 5 at 7:00pm

Keller Hall

Joseph Williams, guitar

University of New Mexico

March 30 at 8:00pm

Keller Hall