August 6-12, 2018

A week of lessons and group workshops immersed in the art of jazz improvisation — with classically trained musicians in mind.  Learn different improvisational techniques for any instrument with jazz professor, Philip Weberndörfer. This week-long program is designed for (but not limited to) “classically” trained musicians and will include Private Lessons, Group Improvisation/Group Theory Workshops, and a Registrants’ Concert at the National Opera Center in New York City.

Saturday, April 28, 2018
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. CONCERT: William Paterson University Guitarists featuring faculty
members Gabriel Handy and Seth Himmelhoch and students of the WP guitar program
2:00-3:00 p.m. CONCERT: Riverside Guitar Duo (Matt Pidi and Matt Kaplan)
4:00-6:00 p.m. MASTER CLASS: Virginia Luque
8:00-9:30 p.m. CONCERT: Virginia Luque

William Paterson U. Guitarfest 2018
For information, contact the William
Paterson Music Department at
973.720.2315 or William
Paterson guitar faculty:
Professor Gabriel Handy,
646.382.1190 or Professor Seth
Himmelhoch, 201.928.1641
www.wpunj.edu/guitarfest

Join International Classical Guitar Virtuoso Stanley Alexandrowicz and Composer-Conductor Maestro Robert W. Butts of the BONJ when they join Princeton’s Premiere Classical Music Radio Host Marvin Rosen this Wednesday 11 April @ 10:00 AM on “Classical Discoveries” at WPRB 103.3 FM! They will discuss Stanley’s upcoming recital at the magnificent 1867 Sanctuary in Ewing NJ (29 April @ 7:30 PM) wherein he will perform Romantic Period Virtuoso Guitar Works, Maestro Butts’ world-famous “Early Morning Suite” and moreover will pay homage to the late Czech composer Maestro Vácav Kučera (1929-2017). They will speak about the NJ Premiere of Maestro Robert W. Butts’ Tombeau—In Memoriam Vácav Kučera, the concert’s “centerpiece work” the profoundly moving Diario—Omaggio a Che Guevara by Vácav Kučera, and the “working relationship” between today’s living composers and concert performers! Numerous sound clips of compositions by Vácav Kučera, Maestro Butts, Baltimore composer Prof. Kendall Kennison will be featured!