Tuesday, Feb 13, 2018
7:30 pm
Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
Tickets: $25 General; $15 Students
More Information: http://www.concertartists.org/cag-presents/jiji-guitar

Guitarist Jiji is an adventurous artist on both acoustic and electric guitar, playing an extensive range of music from traditional and contemporary classical music to free improvisation. Her impeccable musicianship combined with compelling stage presence and fascinating repertoire earned her First Prize at the 2016 CAG Competition. She will perform works by Steve Reich, J. S. Bach, Ginastera, and Leo Brouwer, as well as a new work for electric guitar and electronics by Gulli Björnsson.

February 10, 2018
8:00 p.m.
Kaufmann Concert Hall
Tickets from $45
More Information: https://www.92y.org/event/jorge-caballero

Art of the Guitar
Jorge Caballero, guitar (92Y recital debut)

BACH: Partita, BWV 1013
ALBÉNIZ: Five Pieces from Iberia
JORGE CABALLERO: Midsummer Love Serenade (world premiere)
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV:  Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34

*All arrangements for solo guitar by the artist

Called “A masterly classical guitarist” by the New York Times, Jorge Caballero is the youngest musician and the only guitarist to win the Naumburg International Competition Award.  Born in Peru, Caballero has toured extensively throughout the world, and has been featured with such ensembles as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestra of Saint Luke’s, the Iserlohn Guitar Symposium in Germany and the Great Performers Series in Washington, D.C. among others.  In his 92Y debut recital, Caballero presents a program of music spanning the eras from Bach to Rimsky-Korsakov to Albéniz and a world premiere of a work he composed himself, written as a love song for his wife, and which encrypts the letters of her name in musical pitches.

Sunday, February 11, 2018

3:00 PM

Settlement Music School, 416 Queen St, Philadelphia, PA

Admission: General $25.00; PCGS Member $10.00 Student/Senior $15.00

More information: https://pcgs.wildapricot.org/event-2588211

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Since his concert debut at the age of 6, Celil Refik Kaya has received high promised repetitions and accolades for his myriad accomplishments at an early age, winning First Prize in the 2012 JoAnn Falletta International Guitar Concerto Competition with the Buffalo Philharmonic; prizewinner of international guitar competitions including Sofia Bulgaria, Naxos Greece, Vienna, Istanbul, and throughout the United States, highlighted awards winner at top competitions such as 2012 Guitar Foundation of America (GFA), Indiana International Guitar Competititon, Boston Guitar Competition, Texas International Guitar Competition, Schadt String Competition, Philadelphia Guitar Competition, Texas International Guitar Competition, Indiana International Guitar Compeition and Boston Guitar Competition. In 2017 He has been awarded “Rising Young Musician of the Year” by the Donizettti Music Classical Awards in Istanbul.

Sunday, January 7, 3:00 p.m.

Settlement Music School, 416 Queen Street, Philadelphia PA 19147

Admission: General,$25.00; PCGS Member, $10; Student/Senior, $15.00

Iranian guitarist and composer, Behdad Moghaddasi, is the former chair of the guitar program at Theran Azad University, before immigrating the United States in 2000. Mr. Moghaddasi is the first Iranian solo guitarist to ever step on stage with Iranian Symphony Orchestras to perform Concerto de Aranjuez. He has also performed several solo concerts throughout the United States Canada,Germany, and England. Mr. Moghaddasi has been hailed as an innovator when it comes to composing music for classical guitar.

More information: https://pcgs.wildapricot.org/event-2588210