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All concerts will take
place at the
Settlement
Music School
Mary Louise Curtis Branch
416 Queen Street
Philadelphia, PA
(Unless noted otherwise)
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Duo Live Oak
Sunday, October
12, 2008, 3:00 PM
General Admission - $15; Student/Seniors - $12;
Members - $10
Infectiously
charming in performance, graced with old fashioned
skill and
integrity, Knowles
and Wallace are eloquent, whimsical, passionate, versatile, colorful,
and entirely original.
Rare composer/performers, they
do not merely entertain--they engage the audience with their sense of
drama, Wallace's guitar wizardry and their meltingly beautiful vocal
ensemble.
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Professional
Members' Showcase
Sunday, November 9, 2008, 3:00 PM
General Admission - $15; Student/Seniors - $12; Members - $10
Featuring:
Duo Colori: Daniel Boring & Megan Monahan, soprano,
Ross Mann, Glenn
Llyons and Mark Mullen,
Peter Delaplane, Mark Oppenlander,
William Newman and John Penn, and James Day
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Holiday Party
Sunday, December
14, 2008, 2:00 PM
Home of Joseph and Kathleen Mayes
Collingswood, NJ
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Behdad
Moghaddasi
Sunday, January 11, 2009, 3:00 PM
General Admission - $15; Student/Seniors - $12;
Members - $10
Behdad Moghaddasi
performed in Germany and Canada in addition to his concerts in the
United States. His unique compositions result from attention to
different kinds of Western music - particularly
contemporary pop and classical music,
as well as the traditional music of Iran.
This program will feature selections from Behdad's
new CD, including his originial compositions as well as the
Concierto
de Aranjuez, with Mackenzie Carlson, piano. |
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Christopher
Ladd
Sunday, February 8, 2009, 3:00 PM
General Admission - $15; Student/Seniors - $12;
Members - $10
Praised for his remarkable talent and richness of sound,
Christopher Ladd is rapidly becoming known throughout
the
country as one of the most promising young classical
guitarists.
He has won numerous competitions including the American
String Teachers Association regional competition held in
Richmond, Virginia and the Appalachian Guitar Festival
Solo Competition in Boone, North Carolina, and
for two years in a row, he was named a semi-finalist in the prestigious
Guitar Foundation of America International Competition. |
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Celia
Linde
Sunday, March 15,
2009, 7:00
PM
General Admission - $15; Student/Seniors - $12;
Members - Free
"Celia
Linde is extremely gifted for the right interpretation
of serious music on the guitar, her technique is excellent
and her musicianship exact, noble and expressive!"
- Andrés Segovia |
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PCGS
Student Guitar Competition,
Semifinal Round
Saturday, April 18, 2009,
2:00 PM
First Unitarian Church
2135 Chestnut St.
Philadelphia, PA
General - $10, Students/Seniors/Members - $5
Competition winners are announced!
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James
Day, guitar and Judith Bettina, soprano
Present
an evening of voice and guitar
with composer
Eric Sessler
An interview with the composer
Saturday - April 18, 2009
Pre-concert discussion - 6:30 p.m.
Concert - 8:00 p.m.
The Philadelphia Ethical Society
1906 Rittenhouse Sq
Philadelphia, PA
General Admission - $20; Student/Seniors - $15;
Members - $10
This project was supported by the Pennsylvania
Council on the Arts, a state agency, through its regional
arts funding partnership, Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts
(PPA). State government funding for the arts depends upon
annual appropriation by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and support
from the National
Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. PPA is
administered in this region by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural
Alliance. Funded in part through Meet The Composer's MetLife Creative Connections
program.
Additional support is provided by PECO.
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2009 Annual Guitar Festival
Sunday,
April 19, 2009, 10:30 AM - 9:00 PM
The day's events include a master class and concert by
Martha Masters, Wang
Yameng and Su Meng Guitar Duo, professional seminars, student
recitals,
vendor's fair, final round of the PCGS Student Guitar Competition,
and the PCGS Classical Guitar Orchestra.
2009 Competition Winnners
College Division
1st/ Peter Segal Prize: Jeremy Lyons
2nd prize: Stephen Dadaian
3rd prize: Francesco Barone
HS Division
1st prize: Matt Weschler
2nd prize: Kevin Wiesner
3rd prize: Clint Johnston
Schedule of events
Events will take place in two seperate concert halls.
10:00 - 11:00 Student recital
11:00 - 1:00 Student Guitar Competition
12:00 - 1:00 Student recital
1:00 -
3:00 Master class with Martha Masters
2:00 - 3:00 Student recital
4:00 - 5:00 Wang Yameng & Su Meng Duo
4:00 - 5:00 Student recital
5:30 - 6:00, Jamey Mann, 2008 Competition Winner
6:30 - 7:00 Orchestra
7:30 - 9:00 Martha
Masters
Tickets:
>Festival Pass (Includes ALL Sunday events) - $40
>Student recital pass (Includes student recitals, lectures, vendors fair, Jamey Mann recital & PCGS Orchestra)
Free - for student recital and masterclass participants,
$10 general admission, $20 families (2 or more)
Individual Tickets for:
>Jamey Mann, PCGS Orchestra, Student Guitar Competition
$10, $5 student/senior/members
> Bejing Guitar Duo -
$15, $12 - students, $10 - members
> Martha Masters, Masterclass - $15
> Martha Masters, evening recital
$15, $12, $10
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Prior
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