Reuben Gonzales

Sunday,  October 14,  2007,  7:00 PM
General Admission - $15; Student/Seniors - $12;
Members - $10

        Guitarist Ruben Gonzáles-Avila received his degree music from the Instituto Superior de Artes de la Habana. He has studied with excellent teachers who includie Alina Quezade, Efrain Amador, Aldo Rodriguez and Maestro Leo Brouwer. Mr. Gonzáles-Avila teaches, performs and provides master classes in the Dominican Republic, Venezuela and Argentina. He has been winner of several notable guitar competitions.

Holiday Party
Home of Joseph & Kathleen Mayes

Sunday,  December 9,  2007,  Time TBA

Jorge Caballero

Sunday, January 13, 2008,  3:00 PM
General Admission - $15; Student/Seniors - $12;
Members - $10

      Jorge Caballero was awarded First Prize at the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation Competition, one of the most coveted awards in classical music, at the age of 19. He has appeared with many orchestras and chamber groups in the US, having played with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, New York Chamber Symphony Orchestra. He has given recitals in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, the Great Performers series at the Library of Congress, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and others.

    for students residing in PA/DE/NJ
Sunday March 9, 2008
1:00 PM -

    Application requirements and other details will
be pubilshed soon!

David Russell

Saturday, April 12, 2008,  8:00 PM

           PCGS is proud to provide the opportunity to hear one of the finest instrumental soloists playing today, Grammy Award winning guitarist David Russell, in a special pre-Festival Concert. Mr. Russell’s concert will be the opening event of the PCGS  40th Anniversary Guitar Festival.  Mr. Russell grew up in Minorca and studied at the Royal Academy.  He has earned many prestigious prizes for his musicianship and technical mastery.

2008 Guitar Festival featuring a recital by
GFA winner Thomas Viloteau, student recitals
and a David Russell masterclass.

Sunday, April 13, 2008,   10:00 AM - 8:00 PM
General Admission - $15; Student/Seniors - $12;
Members - $10

Thomas Viloteau, 2006 winner of the Guitar Foundation of America Competition, studied at the Escuela de Música Juan Pedro Carrero in Barcelona, Spain, and later at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Barcelona. Awarded a scholarship, he studied under the direction of Alberto Ponce at the Ecole Normale in Paris, receiving the Diplôme Supérieur de Concertiste in 2004. He continued his guitar studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. In addition to winning the GFA competition, Mr. Viloteau has placed first in several other international competitions.