Mannes College of Music of New School University, announces “Brazil & Beyond,” the 4th New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes, from Tuesday, July 6 - Saturday, July 10, 2004 at Mannes. This year’s Seminar brings together a distinguished faculty of New York and Brazilian guitar masters and guest speakers. For more information on the 4th New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes, call (212) 580-0210, ext. 285, fax (212) 580-1738, e-mail [email protected] or visit the Web site at www.mannes.edu/guitar for links to all festival sponsors and artists, full artist bios, and complete schedule of events. All events will be held at Mannes College of Music, 150 West 85th Street, NYC, and are open to the public. Costs: Evening concert ticket $10; each daytime event $15; entire day $60; auditor for entire seminar $225.
The Seminar, geared towards aspiring professionals, college and high school students, and guitar lovers of all ages seeking to broaden their musical horizons, will include master classes, faculty performances, participants concert, ensemble coaching, and a composers forum. Sessions include: Techniques in Music in Guitar Practice, Baroque Interpretation Workshops, Rhythms of Brazil Workshop, Performance Success: Stress management and Yoga for Guitarists, Ear Training Skills for Sight Reading Proficiency, The Tapping Technique: An Invention for the Contemporary Guitar, and Villa-Lobos and Beyond: Nationalist Guitar Music in Brazil.
This year’s distinguished faculty features The Newman & Oltman Guitar Duo; Fabio Zanon; Carlos Barbosa-Lima; Celso Machado; Frederic Hand; Mario Ulloa; and The Guitar Project. They will be joined by composers Arthur Kampela; Alexandre de Faria and Terry Champlin; jazz guitarist Corey Christiansen; Baroque scholar and dean of Mannes, Joel Lester; Techniques of Music instructors and chamber music coaches Srdjan Berdovic, Mariano Aguirre, Stanley Dorn and Christopher Park, and yoga physiotherapist Robin Rigby.
International artists making their New York Concert Debut performances are Celso Machado (São Paulo/Vancouver), Mario Ulloa (Salvador de Bahia), and The Guitar Project (Baltimore). The four evening concerts will feature the world-, USA-, and NYC-premiere performances of music composed by Arthur Kampela, Alexandre de Faria, Terry Champlin, Celso Machado, Lina Pires de Campos, Wellington Gomes, Leonardo Boccia, Darin Au, and Bryan Johanson.
The evening concert schedule follows:
Tuesday, July 6 at 8 p.m.
Celso Machado (São Paulo/Vancouver)
The Newman & Oltman Guitar Duo (Ensemble-in-Residence at Mannes)
Wednesday, July 7 at 8 p.m.
Fabio Zanon (São Paulo/London)
Frederic Hand (Mannes faculty)
Thursday, July 8 at 8 p.m.
Carlos Barbosa-Lima (São Paulo/Puerto Rico)
Terry Champlin and Friends (Mannes faculty)
Friday, July 9 at 8 p.m.
Mario Ulloa (Costa Rica/Salvador de Bahia)
The Guitar Project (Baltimore)
The 4th New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes is made possible in part with support from Mel Bay Publications, Inc., the Augustine Foundation, and by a grant from The D’Addario Foundation for the Performing Arts with support from J.D.Addario & Company, Inc., world renowned manufacturer and distributor of musical instrument strings and accessories. The Seminar is presented in cooperation with Classical Guitar Alive!, the New York City Classical Guitar Society, Guitar Salon International, and Robert Olmsted Recordings. Varig Airlines is the official airline of the New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes.
Mannes College of Music, founded in 1916, is one of the world’s major conservatories of music. A division of New School University, Mannes offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs, as well as a Professional Studies Diploma program. Notable alumni from Mannes include soprano Frederica von Stade, pianists Murray Perahia and Richard Goode, and conductors Semyon Bychkov, Myung-Whun Chung, JoAnn Falletta and Julius Rudel. Joel Lester is Dean of the College. For further information on Mannes College of Music, call (212) 580-0210 or go to the Web site at www.mannes.edu.