Please join us this Friday, 3/23, as The Philadelphia Classical Guitar Society Concert Ensemble, directed by Kathleen Mayes, will perform a free concert at the Unitarian Universalist Church on 401 N Kings Hwy in Cherry Hill, NJ @ 7pm.

When: 8:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 18
Where: 1867 Sanctuary at Ewing, 101 Scotch Road, Ewing, NJ
Info: http://www.1867sanctuary.org/event/bach-to-today-aaron-larget-caplan-classical-guitar/
Tickets can be purchased online or reserved at the box office for payment by cash, check or credit card by calling 609-392-6409 or emailing: 1867sanctuary@preservationnj.org

Bach to Today – Music from Japan, India, Europe, Russia, USA, by J.S. Bach, Modest Mussorgsky, John Cage, Vineet Shende and Keigo Fujii. Featuring New Jersey premieres of Shende, and Aaron’s arrangements of Bach and Cage.

Guitarist/composer Frank Wallace and mezzo-soprano/poet Nancy Knowles are an acclaimed duo pioneering their own outstanding body of original contemporary art song with classical guitar. Touring throughout North and South America and Europe since 1979, they have numerous recordings on the Gyre label.

Tuesday, April 24, 2018, at 7:30 PM
Diller-Quaile School of Music, 24 East 95th Street, New York City

Program:
Music of Mertz, Tárrega, Sagreras, Villa-Lobos, Rodrigo, and Wallace

Ticket information

Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts (WIPA) presents an evening of contemporary and original works for guitar by faculty member Matthew Van Dongen at the Salon Series on Thursday, March 15 at 7:30 p.m. at 60 Locust Avenue in Berkeley Heights.

In addition to featuring works by 20^th century Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo including Tiento antiguo, Un tiempo fue Italica famosa, and Zarabanda lejana, the one-hour concert will include a Beyond the Notes Q&A with Van Dongen, covering topics from composing for the guitar today to how music theory enhances the understanding of music written for the guitar. Tickets are $12 for adults, $6 for seniors, and free for Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts students. Tickets are available online, at the door or by calling 908-790-0700.

Adath Israel Congregation
1958 Lawrenceville Road
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
Sunday 4 March, 2018
4:00 to 6:00 PM
Admission to Event: $5.00
RSVP’s appreciated—please RSVP to Gale Cohen at 609-530-0087 0r gabike4@aol.com

Please join me for my upcoming concert of Baroque, Classical, and Romantic Masterworks presented at the OBOJC—Adath Israel Congregation 2018 cultural event discussing New York Times best-selling author Lauren Belfer’s wonderful book “After Fire!” 

Beginning with the masterful “Ouverture de la Grotte de Versailles (de Lully)” by Robert de Visee (court guitarist to Louis XIV), my program will feature masterworks by the 19th Century’s greatest composer-guitarists: Napoleon Coste (France), J. K. Mertz (Hungary), and Johann Dubez (Vienna), and include Felix Mendelssohn’s famous “Venetian Boat Song” from his collection of Songs without Words (Lieder ohne Worte)!

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.