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

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)!