Additional Performance:

Saturday, December 8, 2018

6:30 PM doors open for wine tasting (and ordering optional food plates and wine)

7:00 PM music begins

Villa Milagro Vineyards

33 County Road 627

(aka Riegelsville – Warren Glen Road)

Finesville (Riegelsville), New Jersey 08865

Seating is limited. For tickets and more information visit: www.VillaMilagroVineyards.com/christmas-concert

Featuring music from the Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical eras, the program includes a wonderful variety of Christmas music, little-known gems, and wonderful variations on familiar themes, composed by Bach, Handel, Mendelssohn, Pachelbel, Brahms, Corelli, and Luther, among others. The program includes music from the Newman & Oltman Guitar Duo’s  critically-acclaimed CD, “A Christmas Pastorale – 600 Years of Carols, Chorales, Preludes & Pastorales for Two Guitars.”

Early Music Duo “Bedlam”

1867 Sanctuary, 101 Scotch Rd

Ewing, New Jersey 08628

Friday, November 2, 2018, 8:00 p.m.

Admission: $5.00 – $20:00

Preservation New Jersey is pleased to welcome the early music duo BEDLAM (www.bedlamearlymusic.com) back to the 1867 Sanctuary. “The magical duo BEDLAM” (Colin Clarke, Fanfare Magazine) is Kayleen Sánchez, soprano, and Laudon Schuett, lute.

More information: http://1867sanctuary.org/event/bedlam-2/

Eduardo Fernández, guitar & David Leisner, guitar

92nd Street Y

1395 Lexington Avenue

New York, NY 10128

Saturday, Novermber 3, 2018, 8:00 p.m.

Admission: Tickets from $53:00

Compositions by both performers are featured on this inventive and wide-ranging program, which also includes several of Villa-Lobos’ groundbreaking Études for Guitar — pieces which set the technical standard for 20th century guitar performance. Fernández and Leisner perform Nagoya Guitars, a complex piece based on constantly-shifting musical patterns by minimalist master Steve Reich; Eduardo Fernández presents his own transcription of Bach’s immortal Chaconne from the D Minor violin sonata; and join together in two selections by two guitarist-composers of an earlier age: Antoine de Lhoyer and Fernando Sor.

More information: https://www.92y.org/event/leisner-and-fernandez

Philadelphia Classical Guitar Society presents Adam Levin

Settlement Music School, 416 Queen Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147

Sunday, November 4, 2018, 3:00 p.m.

Admission: $10.00 – $25:00

Praised for his “visceral and imaginative performances” by the Washington Post, top prize winning classical guitarist and recording artist Adam Levin has performed on four continents across the globe. Levin has performed extensively across the United States at renowned venues such as Chicago’s Pick Staiger, Nichols, and Mayne Stage concert halls as well as at the prestigious Art Institute of Chicago; Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, and Jordan Hall; Spivey Hall in Atlanta; repeat appearances at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City; and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. In Europe, Levin has performed in some of the finest venues across Spain, and in Italy, Germany, and Switzerland. In the 2017-2018 season, Levin makes several debut solo, chamber, and orchestral appearances in China, Finland, and Ireland as well as return appearances in Brazil and Spain. Adam Levin’s live performances have been featured nationally numerous times on NPR’s Performance Today, the nationally syndicated Classical Guitar Alive, and studio performances on top radio stations including WFMT Chicago and WCRB Boston.

More information: http://www.phillyguitar.org/event-3051974

Preservation New Jersey is pleased to welcome internationally acclaimed classical guitarist Stanley Alexandrowicz back to the 1867 Sanctuary for his program, Latin American Guitar Masterpieces, an evening of virtuoso guitar works centered around showpieces by the guitar’s greatest composers from Argentina, Cuba, and Mexico!

Starting with the beloved Aria con Variazioni detta “la Frescobalda” by Italy’s greatest composer of the Early Baroque—Girolamo Frescobaldi—his program next features masterworks by the 19th Century’s greatest composer-guitarists: France’s Napoleon Coste: La Source du Lyson (Fantasie), op. 47, and Vienna’s Johann Dubez: Six Viennese Waltzes for the 10-string Guitar. Primavera Porteña (Spring from “The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires” ) by Argentina’s master of the “Nuevo Tango” Astor Piazzolla begins the second (Latin American) half of the recital. Cuban composer Hector Angulo is represented by his Cantos Yoruba de Cuba—strikingly beautiful evocations drawn from mystical chants of Nigeria’s Yoruba religion. With American composer Maestro Robert W. Butts’ powerful Tombeau—In Memoriam Václav Kučera we experience the poignant tribute of one great composer honoring the memory of another. Manuel Ponce’s impassioned and fiery Sonatina Meridional concludes the recital with a kaleidoscope of moods, in what is perhaps the Mexican composer’s greatest work for the guitar.

Tel: 609-392-6409 or E-mail: 1867sanctuary@preservationnj.org

Thursday, May 10, 2018 at 7:30 PM
92Y – Kaufmann Concert Hall
More Information and Tickets: https://www.92y.org/event/benjamin-verdery

Hear 92Y Art of the Guitar series artistic director, Benjamin Verdery, in a fascinating program ranging from audience favorites by Bach and Boccherini to brand new works.

The dynamic, high-energy St. Lawrence String Quartet joins Verdery for a world premiere by Bryce Dessner (known to many as a guitarist with The National), whose music NPR praised as “gorgeous and full -hearted.” Also on the program: Villa-Lobos’s hauntingly beautiful Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, and NYC premieres of works by Verdery himself and Seymour Bernstein – recently the subject of Ethan Hawke’s loving documentary film, “Seymour: An Introduction.”

Thursday, April 5, at 8:00 PM
Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
57th Street and 7th Avenue

Tickets: http://bit.ly/jara- carnegie
More info: http://guitarsociety.nyc

Program:

DOWLAND Three Fantasies
BACH Concerto No. 1 in D Major, BWV 972 (arr. Perroy)
GOSS Labyrinth
JEREMY COLLINS Snehurka, Elegy
CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO Variations across the Centuries, Op. 71
MARTIN Quatre Pieces Breves
ALBENIZ Cordoba and Cataluna