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BOSTON GUITARFEST 2007 FACULTY

Rober Beaser, President of the Jury and Composer in Residence

Robert Beaser has emerged as one of the most accomplished creative musicians of his generation. Since 1982, when the New York Times wrote that he possessed a “lyrical gift comparable to that of the late Samuel Barber,” his music has won international acclaim for its balance between dramatic sweep and architectural clarity. He is often cited as an important figure among the “New Tonalists”—composers who are adopting new tonal grammar to their own uses—and through a wide range of media has established his own language as a synthesis of Western tradition and American vernacular.

Matt Hinsley , Discussion Moderator "Survival of the Frettist"

Prior to leading a panel discussion on the future of classical guitar from an art market and outreach education perspective, Dr. Hinsley will play and sing three newly arranged Mexican Folksongs (originally for piano and voice) by Manuel Maria Ponce entitled Palomita, La Peña and Joven Divina.

Dr. Hinsley, acclaimed tenor and classical guitarist, is also director of Austin Classical Guitar Society. Under his direction, ACGS has become one of the foremost organizations of its kind in the country.

Daniela “La Trini” Tran, Yoga Instructor

As a fitness enthusiast all her life, Daniela studied martial arts, tai chi, and cycled for thousands of miles, but only Yoga provided her with total physical conditioning results. Emphasizing relaxation and correct techniques, she loves to encourage students to attain a better physical and mental fitness level in her classes. As an amateur flamenco guitarist, she is aware of the accumulated damages from prolonged hours in the same position and minute muscle movements. She recommends that Yoga be incorporated as part of required curriculum in music programs. The 30-minute daily stretching sessions at Boston GuitarFest will be designed especially for guitarists. Come to Daniela's Yoga Boot Camp to discover relaxation and a more resilient you!

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BOSTON GUITARFEST 2007 CONCERTS

Tickets: $20 general admission (all events)

June 5 (Opening Night) - Steve Lin & Joseph Williams, guitars

Winners of Boston GuitarFest 2006 Competition

8:00 pm - Jordan Hall (purchase tickets at Jordan Box Office - (617) 585-1260)

Steve Lin has performed for audiences throughout the United States, Taiwan and Italy. He is a versatile musician in both solo and ensemble and maintains an extensive repertoire, spanning from the Renaissance to the Romantic. He is also an advocate of contemporary music, actively collaborating in new projects and commissioning new works for the guitar.

http://www.linguitar.com

Guitarist and Composer, Joseph Williams II has performed 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 is the director of guitar studies at Adams State College, a lecturer at the University of New Mexico, and performs as part of the Arts & Medicine Program at the University of New Mexico.

http://josephsguitar.com/

June 6 (Mexico Day) - Robert Bozina and Son Santa Clara

4:00 pm - Williams Hall (purchase tickets at door)

Son Santa Clara will perform Son Jarocho, Son Veracuz, and Cuban Son and their historical antecedents. Son Santa Clara includes Santa Clara University faculty and student group committed to the music of Cuba’s eastern provinces. Credited by Cuban scholars with introducing nengon to the United states in a performance at San Francisco’s Diego Rivera Theater, Son Santa Clara, as well as considerable curricular and program innovations, extend from the SCU Center of Performing Arts and International Programs Office commitment to the music and culture of Cuba and the Caribbean. The group’s participation in GuitarFest 2007 is due to the generosity of Santa Clara University International Programs and Center of Performing Arts.

June 6 (Mexico Day) - Santiago Diaz, Zaira Meneses and Tlen Huicani

8:00 pm - Jordan Hall (purchase tickets at Jordan Box Office - (617) 585-1260)

A native of Mexico, Santiago Diaz began playing guitar at the age of 13 at the National School of Music in Mexico City and made his debut two years later at the Sala Huehuecoyotl. Acclaimed for his lyrical and passionate performances, Mr. Diaz is one of the leading guitarists in the Boston Area and is an active concert guitarist in both Mexico and the United States. Highlighted performances include the Hall of Ideas in Boston, the Newport Art Museum in Newport RI, the Gore Place in Waltham MA, the Boston Athenaeum, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico, and the Universidad de Guadalajara in Mexico. Mr. Diaz received his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in guitar performance at New England Conservatory in Boston where he studied with David Leisner and Eliot Fisk.

Zaira Meneses was born in Xalapa in the state of Veracruz, Mexico. From an early age she showed great talent for music, studying both classical guitar and voice and appearing frequently in a wide variety of public performances both as guitarist and singer. During her years of guitar she studied with Enrique Salmeron, Alfredo Sanchez, Roberto Aguirre and Dmitry Goryachev. She traveled widely, performing with the famed Orquesta de Guitarras founded by Maestro Alfonso Moreno in concert tours around the world. During this time she was the recipient of numerous prizes for guitar performances nationally and internationally.
She now lives in Boston with her husband, internationally famed guitarist Eliot Fisk, and their 6–year-old daughter Raquel. She continues to perform world-wide to public and critical acclaim as guitar soloist and as a member of various chamber music ensembles.

Tlen Huicani (náhuatl vocabulary meaning “the singers”) is a group dedicated to rescuing and spreading the musical heritage of the town of Veracruz. Its members investigate and faithfully perform both new and almost forgotten traditional music. The repertoire of the group has been enriched during tours through the different countries of Central and South America, where its members have learned a big part of their present musical production, assimilating each place’s own style and incorporating the techniques of the local artists.

June 7 (Cuba Day) - Arturo Stable's Latin Jazz Quartet

Aruan Ortiz (piano), Jorge Najarro (Timbal), Edward Perez (bass), Arturo Stable (pecussion)

4:00 pm - Williams Hall (purchase tickets at door)

Talented Multi-Percussionist/Composer Arturo Stable was born in Santiago de Cuba. At the early age of four, he started to study piano and music theory with different private teachers. Arturo has share the stage with artists such as Dave Samuels, Paquito D Rivera, The Caribbean Jazz Project, David Sanchez, Victor Mendoza, Toni Perez, Oscar Cartalla, Giovanni Hidalgo, Horacio Hernandez, Jane Bunnett, Juan Serrano, George Garzone, Hector Martignon, Edmar Castaneda, Aaron Parks, Leonel Loueke, Lincoln Goines, the Philadelphia Symphony with Peter Nero, among others.

http://www.arturostable.com/

June 7 (Cuba Day) - Rene Izquierdo, guitar

8:00 pm - Williams Hall (purchase tickets at door)

Rene Izquierdo graduated from the Amadeo Roldan Conservatory and Superior Institute of Art in Havana, where he studied with renowned guitarist Jesus Ortega. After his arrival in the United States, he graduated from Yale University School of Music. Mr. Izquierdo is currently recording his debut CD with Luthier Music Corporation. He is now faculty at University of Wisconsin Madison.

http://www.myspace.com/reneizquierdo

Joaquin Clerch was born in 1965 in Havana and from childhood studied the guitar with Leopoldina Nuñez. He continued his study at the National School of Arts and then at the Instituto Superior de Arte. With the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria under Adrian Leaper, he made the first recording of two guitar concertos dedicated to him by Leo Brouwer (Concierto de la Habana, 1998) and Carlos Fariñas (Concierto, 1996). Since 1999, Joaquín Clerch has been professor of guitar at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf.

June 8 (Venezuela Day) - Latin American Symposium

1:30 pm - Williams Hall - FREE!

Matthew Allen - Musicologist, Wheaton College

Topic: "Engaged and on Fire: The Guitar in Brazilian Popular Music"

Click here for Professor Allen's bio.

Walter Clark - Musicologist, University of California Riverside

Topic: "From Pampa to Puerto: The Argentine Guitar and Its Many Contexts"

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June 8 (Venezuela Day) - Aquiles Baez, cuatro & guitar

5:00 pm - Williams Hall (purchase tickets at door)

Aquiles Báez studied at Simón Bolívar Conservatory in Caracas, the New England Conservatory and Berklee College of Music. He has recorded and performed worldwide with Paquito D’Rivera, Danilo Pérez, John Patitucci, Romero Lubambo, Fareed Haque, Giora Feidman, Raul Jaurena, Solo Razaf, Marco Pereira, Oscar Stagnaro and Ensemble Gurrufío among others. Aquiles has received several awards for his arrangements and compositions. Such as the William Leavitt Award from Berklee College of Music, the Venezuelan “Casa del Artista” award as arranger of the year, among others for music composition for film, theater and dance.

http://www.aquilesbaez.com

June 8 - Ensemble El Mundo and Richard Savino, Latin American Baroque

8:00 pm - Williams Hall (purchase tickets at door)

El Mundo is a chamber group dedicated to the performance of sixteenth through nineteenth century Latin American, Spanish and Italian chamber music. Under the direction of lutenist/guitarist Richard Savino and made up of well known period instrument performers, El Mundo combines virtuoso string playing with guitars, lutes and harpsichord in a setting that recreates the distinctive Latin sound of the old and new world Castellanos, and José Quiroz.

Guitarist/Lutist Richard Savino has been a featured performer and concerto soloist with many groups and on many concert stages including the Frick Collection, Cloisters (Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY), Boston Early Music Festival International Series, Tage Alter Musik, Regensburg, London Early Music Network, Shrine To Music Museum, San Francisco/Seattle/ Vancouver/Victoria Early Music Societies, and the Portland and Los Angeles Baroque Orchestras. In recent years he has been a featured artist, faculty member and judge at numerous festivals throughout the US and Europe the International Guitar Festival in Gargnano, Italy, Guitar Foundation of America Festival and the National Guitar Summer Workshop.

http://www.csus.edu/music/faculty/savino.html

June 9 (Brazil Day) - Nando Michelin Brazilian Quintet

Leala Cyr (voice), John Lockwood (bass), Tiago Michelin (drums), Ricardo Vogt (guitar) Nando Michelin (piano)

4:00 pm - Williams Hall (purchase tickets at door)

The Nando Michelin - Ricardo Vogt Quartet performs the music of the legendary Brazilian song writer/guitarist Guinga. This incredible music encompasses a wide variety of Brazilian styles, combining tradition with sophistication, forming a highly original style.

June 9 - Paula Robison, flute & Eliot Fisk, guitar

8:00 pm - Jordan Hall (purchase tickets at Jordan Box Office - (617) 585-1260)

Paula Robison’s elegant artistry and passionate intellect have inspired the musical world. Born to a family of writers, actors, dancers and musicians, her groundbreaking performances have made her a role model for young flutists everywhere. Ms. Robison’s playing spans a strikingly diverse repertoire and she has commissioned well over 30 works for flute. Her delight in Brazilian music adds yet another dimension to her programming of solo and chamber music. Beyond the concert stage, Ms. Robison is renowned for her masterclasses, original transcriptions and books on the art of flute playing.

http://www.paularobison.com/

A creative innovator linked to the great romantic tradition of the past, guitarist Eliot Fisk is one of the most exciting and unique artists before the public today. Known world wide for his adventurous repertoire and willingness to take art music into unusual venues (including schools, senior centers and even prisons!) he belongs, as his great mentor Andrés Segovia once wrote, “at the top line of our artistic world.”

http://www.eliotfisk.com/

June 10 (Argentina Day) - Classical Compositions by Argentine Composers

Works of Alberto Ginastera, Osvaldo Golijov and Astor Piazzolla

4:00 pm - Williams Hall (purchase tickets at door)

Member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 2004, Israeli cellist Mickey Katz has distinguished himself as a solo performer, chamber musician and contemporary music specialist. He received the Presser Music Award in Boston, the Karl Zeise Prize in Tanglewood, and won first prize at the Rubin Academy Competition in Tel Aviv. He has been a recipient of the America Israel Cultural foundation scholarships since 1988. He Has played as a soloist with several Israeli orchestras, and locally with the Civic Symphony of Boston, Symphony Pro Musica and the Hudson Valley Philharmonic.

Yelena Beriyeva, award-wining pianist, was born in 1982 and raised in Tbilisi, rep. of Georgia (former Soviet Union ). Since her first concerto appearance with an orchestra at age of five, she has performed regularly in recitals and as a soloist with orchestras in Georgia, Armenia, Ukraine, Russia, Italy, and United States. She received her early education in the Special Gymnasium in Tbilisi where students are chosen for their unusual talent. She went on to attend the State Conservatory until immigrating to the United States in May of 2002. Throughout the years of studying, Ms. Beriyeva has won numerous local and international piano competitions. Ms. Beriyeva is currently majoring in piano performance at the New England Conservatory, where she is pursuing her Master's degree and studying with Professor Alexander Korsantia to whom she is serving as a teaching assistant.

Hilary Anne Walker, Mezzo Soprano, is a student of D’Anna Fortunato at New England Conservatory where she is working on her Masters in Vocal Performance. This past year, she has had two solo opportunities to perform in NEC Mainstage Productions, playing Cupid in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld and the Mezzo main role of la Marchande in Poulenc’s The Breasts of Tiresias . Before moving to Boston, the native Mainer received her Bachelor of Arts in Music and Italian at Vassar College, where she studied voice with Mary Nessinger, Karen Holvik and early music with Drew Minter.

June 10 (Argentina Day) - Tango de Camara with Daniel Binelli

Dan Binelli (bandoneon), Steven Mauk (sax), Nicholas Walker (bass), Pablo Cohen (guitar)

8:00 pm - Williams Hall (purchase tickets at door)

Internationally renowned master of the bandoneon, Argentine Daniel Binelli tours extensively in concert and recital. This unique and sensuous instrument is showcased in a wide range of compositions, many of which have roots in the tango of Binelli’s native land.

A seasoned composer in his own right, Binelli is also widely acclaimed as the foremost exponent and torchbearer of the music of Astor Piazzolla. In 1989 Daniel Binelli joined Astor Piazzolla´s New Tango Sextet, touring with them Brazil, Chile, Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Holland and Switzerland before Mr. Piazzolla’s death in 1992.

He was chosen "Year 2000 Guest Artist" at T.C.U of Fort Worth, Texas. In October 27th, 2001, Binelli performed with the Montreal Symphonic Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Charles Dutoit, at Carnegie Hall, in New York. In September 2003, Daniel Binelli played four concerts with the Sidney Symphonic Orchestra, conducted By Charles Dutoit, at the Sidney Opera, Australia.

http://www.danielbinelli.com/ndb/home/default.asp

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