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2009-2010 CONCERT SEASON



PCGS 2010  Student Competition

FINAL RESULTS ANNOUNCED!!!


WHYY TV-12's profile of
PCGS can be viewed online





HEAR HERE! -

 Manuel Barrueco interviewed by Jill Pasternak on
WRTI's Crossover just last Saturday, April 10, 2010



Manuel Barrueco
Saturday, April 17, 2010, 7:00 PM

First Unitarian Church
2125 Chestnut St.
Philadelphia, PA


VIP Tickets, post concert reception: $100;

2 VIP Tickets, post concert reception: $150;

 General admission: $25;  Student/Senior: $20; Members: $15

Tickets now available at the
 Classical Guitar Store,
by mail,   or Online - via Paypal




2010 Guitar Festival
Sunday, April 18, 2010
10:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Featuring Barrueco masterclass, Lukasz Kuropaczewski concert,
the PCGS Guitar Orchestra, 2009 PCGS competition winner,
2010 student competition finals, Student Recitals and more!
TIME Presser Hall Field Hall
10:00 am _ Student Recital
11:00 2010 PCGS
Student Competition
 Alexander Technique
(Dance studio)
12:00 pm _ Student Recital
1:00 Manuel Barrueco _
2:00 Masterclass Student Recital
3:00 _ Finale Workshop
(Dance studio)
4:00 _ Student Recital
4:30 Jeremy Llyons,
2009 competition winner
_
5:30 PCGS Guitar Orchestra
_
7:30 Lukasz Kuropaczewski,
solo recital
_
 Complete Schedule

Individual Events

Lukasz Kuropaczewski recital - $20
Barrueco masterclass - $15
PCGS competition winner/PCGS orchestra - $10

All Day Festival Pass  - $45

Student Recital Pass (admission to student recitals,
workshops, orchestra and competition)
Single: $10,  family (2+): $20,  students in recital/competition: Free.




William Yelverton
Sunday, October 11, 2009, 3:00 PM
Settlement Music School
416 Queen Street    Philadelphia, PA
General admission: $20;  Student/Senior: $15; Members: $10

William Yelverton's exceptionally diverse repertoire and brilliant technique set him apart as one of today's most exciting and unique concert artists.. As an authority on the art of guitar transcription, his unprecedented performances and recordings of masterworks by great composers have received wide critical acclaim.  Yelverton has performed throughout the United States, Europe, Mexico, Canada, and the Caribbean. As a founding member of the Stones River Chamber Players, he has performed with the group throughout the US and on their May '03 European tour of Switzerland, Germany and France. In February 2000, he was selected to accompany legendary tenor Luciano Pavarotti in concert with the Nashville Symphony before an audience of 16,000. William Yelverton holds a Doctorate in Guitar Performance from the Florida State University and has won top prizes in the GFA International Competition and the NFMC Competition
Professional Members' Showcase
Sunday, November 15,  2009,  3:00 PM
Settlement Music School
416 Queen Street    Philadelphia, PA
General admission: $20;  Student/Senior: $15; Members: Free

CONCERT PROGRAM
Keith Calmes
Parade of Skeletons                                           Keith Calmes
Remembering (in memory of Chet Baker)       Frank Campo (1927- )
Nothing Else Matters                                       L. Ulrich and J. Hetfield (arr. Calmes)
 
William Newman - with Veronica Mascaro (flute)
Trio in C Major                                      Karl Stamitz (1745-1801)
     Allegro                                               (Arr. Wm. Newman)
     Andante Moderato
     Rondeau Allegro

Tom Emery
Cancion de la Hilandera                               Agustin Barrios (1885-1944)
Preludio y Danza                                          Julian Orbon (1925-1991)

Lynn Pompa - with Elizabeth Mendoza (cello)
Three Lyrical Pieces                                    Lynn Pompa
    I. Meditation                       
    II. Serenade                       
    III. Berceuse Triste                   

Marisol Rompolla
Quaderno Brasiliano Per Chitarra            Carlo Domeniconi (1947- )
   I. Bossa Triste
   III. Impressioni
   V. Abraccio
   VII. Che Mondo!
INTERMISSION

Duane Large
 with Julia Madden (soprano) and Amanda Heckman (flute)
Monolog der Maria Stuart von Zumsteeg        Albert Methfessel (1785-1869)
 
Nick Geracitano
Allegretto                        Napoleon Coste (1805-1883)
Etude #11                        Heitor Villa-Lobos  (1887-1959)

Ross Mann
Etude in C                         N. I. Aleksandrov (1818-1884)
Etude in G
 
Variations on                   Andrei Sychra (1773-1850)
"Of all the flowers, I loved the rose the most"

Behdad Moghaddasi
Chaahaar Gaah                    B. Moghaddasi  (1958- )
PCGS Holiday Party
Sunday, December 13, 2009, 2:00 PM
Home of Joseph and Kathleen Mayes
324 Virginia Ave
Collingswood, NJ

Members Free
Dan Lippel
Sunday, January 10, 2010,  7:00 PM
Settlement Music School 416 Queen Street    Philadelphia, PA
General admission: $20;  Student/Senior: $15; Members: $10

 Active as a soloist, chamber musician, and recording artist. Recent and upcoming performances include a solo tour of Germany, recitals in Istanbul, Philadelphia, and New York, and chamber music performances on Helsinki's Musica Nova Festival, the Macau Arts Festival in China, and on the Mostly Mozart Festival at New York's Alice Tully Hall. Lippel's recordings have garnered him critical acclaim from Gramophone, American Record Guide, Guitar Review, and Music Web International.  He is very involved in the contemporary classical music scene and performed as soloist in Gyorgy Kurtag's Grabstein fur Stephan for guitar and small orchestra for the gala opening concert of Troy, NY's new concert hall, EMPAC. Lippel is a regular member of ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble), and Flexible Music, having performed with these ensembles at Lincoln Center's Rose Penthouse for the Mostly Mozart Festival, Miller Theatre in New York, Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Pick-Staiger Hall at Northwestern University, Madsen Hall at BYU, and Hertz Hall at UC Berkeley. He has performed at Carnegie's Zankel and Weill Halls, Merkin Hall, Sydney Festival (Australia), Princeton University, SUNY Buffalo, New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes, GFA Festival (Oberlin College) and on the Cooperstown, Manchester, Monadnock, Finger Lakes, and Norfolk Chamber Music Festivals. Lippel won first prizes in the Stafford (England) Guitar Competition, ASTA Competition, and Boston Guitar Society’s Guitar Competition. He has toured four continents and recorded extensively with Fat Cat Record's indie rock band Mice Parade, and was a member of the Zvi Migdal Tango
Thomas Smith & Sharon Rhinesmith,  guitar and voice
Sunday, February 14, 2010,  3:00 PM


General admission: $20;  Student/Senior: $15; Members: $10

        The voice and guitar duo of Rhinesmith & Smith first met at Temple University as music students often performing together.  Since reuniting in 2004, the duo has shared their talents in a variety of settings.   Their recent CD, Child of Song, features music for guitar and voice spanning four centuries
Kathrin Murray and Troy King, guitar duo
Sunday, March 14, 2010, 3:00 PM
Settlement Music School
416 Queen Street    Philadelphia, PA
General admission: $20;  Student/Senior: $15; Members: $10

    Formed in 2000, the husband and wife duo of Kathrin Murray and Troy King have performed to critical acclaim at concert venues in New York, Baltimore, Honolulu, Hawaii, and Cheltenham, England, to name a few. The Glouchestershire ECHO (England) proclaimed, "Their strong musical rapport was evident in their playing… atmospheric… guitarists of world stature."
With a repertoire spanning many stylistic periods and cultures, their performances are imbued with a passionate commitment to bringing the music alive.

Manuel Barrueco
Saturday, April 17, 2010, 7:00 PM

First Unitarian Church
2125 Chestnut St.
Philadelphia, PA


VIP Tickets, post concert reception: $100;

2 VIP Tickets, post concert reception: $150;

 General admission: $25;  Student/Senior: $20; Members: $15

Tickets now available at the
 Classical Guitar Store,
by mail,   or Online - via Paypal




2010 Guitar Festival
Sunday, April 18, 2010
10:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Featuring Barrueco masterclass, Lukasz Kuropaczewski concert,
the PCGS Guitar Orchestra, 2009 PCGS competition winner,
2010 student competition finals, Student Recitals and more!
TIME Presser Hall Field Hall
10:00 am _ Student Recital
11:00 2010 PCGS
Student Competition
 Alexander Technique
(Dance studio)
12:00 pm _ Student Recital
1:00 Manuel Barrueco _
2:00 Masterclass Student Recital
3:00 _ Finale Workshop
(Dance studio)
4:00 _ Student Recital
4:30 Jeremy Llyons,
2009 competition winner
_
5:30 PCGS Guitar Orchestra
_
7:30 Lukasz Kuropaczewski,
solo recital
_



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