GRCC International Guitar Series 2008-09

GRCC International Guitar Series Concerts will be held in the GRCC Recital Hall, Room 200 of the Music Center at the corner of Ransom and Lyon. Parking is available in the GRCC student parking ramp for the cost of $1.00 for a guest parking voucher sold at the door.

Advanced tickets available for this concert from the GRCC Music Department Office. Call 234-3940 or e-mail bmorris@grcc.edu for further information.

Matthew Ardizzone

Thursday, October 16, 2008 • 7:30 pm
GRCC Recital Hall

$10.00 General Admission
$  7.00 Students

Matthew Ardizzone has performed throughout the US and Canada, including appearances in New York, Montréal, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Houston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. The Pittsburgh Tribune has described his "sensitive nuances" and the NYC Guitar Society his "incredible tone, marvelous technical facility, and poetic phrasing." He has recorded a CD with violinist Movses Pogossian (Duo Forza) and a solo guitar CD titled "Mazurka!" which won a 2001 Communicator Crystal Award of Excellence. Other awards include First Prize in the 1995 Rantucci Guitar Competition and fifth place in the 1997 Stotsenberg International Guitar Competition.

Concerto performances with orchestra include Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez with the Anderson Symphony Orchestra, the Livingston Symphony Orchestra, and the orchestra of the Conductor's Retreat at Medomak (with members of the Portland Symphony Orchestra). He has collaborated with such major artists as flutist Leone Buyse, soprano Audrey Luna, and with members of the Detroit and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestras, and the University of Michigan music faculty. He formed Duo Forza with violinist Movses Pogossian (Tchaikovsky, Lipizer, and USSR Competition prizewinner). They've recorded a CD of Spanish and Latin American music and have toured throughout the US.

Matthew Ardizzone has performed and taught master classes at schools throughout the country, including the Cleveland Institute of Music, the University of Michigan, Brooklyn College, Houston Baptist University, Ball State University, Eastern Michigan University, and Bethany College. A dedicated educator, he has been on the guitar faculties of Bowling Green State University, Nazareth College of Rochester, and the Eastman Community Music School. The first guitarist to receive the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Eastman School of Music, his teachers have included Nicholas Goluses, Paul O'Dette (Baroque performance), Eliot Fisk, and Sir Angel Romero. He lives in Ann Arbor with his wife, conductor and violinist Rachel C. Lauber, and their daughter Siena.

Marcin Dylla

2007 GFA Competition Winner

Thursday, November 20, 2008 • 7:30 pm
GRCC Recital Hall

$10.00 General Admission
$  7.00 Students

After having already won 17 first prizes in competitions around the world, Polish guitarist Marcin Dylla received his most recent win in 2007 at the Guitar Foundation of America International Competition, which earned him a 50 concert tour of the United States, Canada, and Mexico. His list of accolades also includes concerto competition wins, audience prizes and critics awards.

Marcin Dylla has graced the stage of distinguished concert halls across the globe including Konzerthaus, Musikverein and Palais Lobkovitz in Vienna (Austria), Auditorio Nacional and Auditorio Conde Duque in Madrid (Spain), St. Petersburg Philharmonic Hall (Russian Federation), Kleinhans Music Hall in Buffalo (USA), Villa Hügel in Essen (Germany) and the Palazzina Liberty in Milan (Italy).

In addition to being invited to perform in virtually every major European and North American guitar festival, Marcin Dylla has been regularly invited to appear at international music festivals including Festival Internazionale Settimane Musicali di Stresa (Italy), Don Quijote Music Festival (Paris, France), Burghofspiele Eltville (Germany), International Festival Musical Olympus (St. Petersburg, Russian Federation), Inverno Musicale (Alzano, Italy), Central European Music Festival (Zilinai, Lithuania), Festival Internacional de Música (Toledo, Italy) and Musique Dans la Rue (Aix-en-Provence, France). In February 2007 Marcin performed as a soloist with the Hermitage State Orchestra at the Hermitage Festival in St. Petersburg.

The Grand Rapids Guitar Quartet

Thursday, March 12, 2009 • 7:30 pm
GRCC Recital Hall

$10.00 General Admission
$  7.00 Students

The Grand Rapids Guitar Quartet's performances have received an overwhelmingly positive response from the audiences at their sold out performances. This season the Quartet will again present a program of transcriptions of masterworks as well as music originally written for guitar quartet. The Quartet is comprised of four active performing and teaching guitarists who currently make their homes in the West Michigan area. For individual bios, click here.

The Grand Rapids Guitar Quartet
From left to right: Brian Morris, Michael Stockdale, Andrew Bergeron, Jason Werkema

Jason Vieaux

Thursday, April 2, 2009 • 7:30 pm
GRCC Recital Hall

$10.00 General Admission
$  7.00 Students

One of America's leading guitarists, Jason Vieaux is changing the face of guitar programming and has earned a devoted international fan base along the way. As a result of his reputation for making "the single guitar seem like a body of instruments at work...an orchestra of sound..." (The Philadelphia Inquirer), Mr. Vieaux played well over 100 engagements internationally during the last two seasons. Highlights of the 2008 - 2009 season include recitals for New York's 92nd St. Y Series and San Francisco's OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts, concertos with North American orchestras from coast to coast, a debut for the prestigious Nürtingen International Guitar Festival in Germany, tours of Mexico, debuts in Brazil and Poland, and triumphant returns as "series favorite" in Boston, Hartford, Cleveland, Knoxville and St. Petersburg.

Mr. Vieaux is a frequent guest with orchestras across the United States. He has performed as concerto soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra, Ft. Worth Symphony, San Diego Symphony, the Florida Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Orchestra 2001, IRIS Chamber Orchestra, and the Auckland Philharmonia, while working with such renowned conductors as Miguel Harth-Bedoya, David Robertson, Michael Stern, Jahja Ling, Stefan Sanderling and Alasdair Neale. Vieaux's triumphant programs and collaborations for Music@Menlo, Strings Music Festival, Grand Teton, Jupiter Chamber Players, etc., have forged his reputation as a first-rate chamber musician. As a passionate advocate of new music, Vieaux has premièred new pieces by Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate, José Luis Merlin, Eric Sessler, Arthur Hernandez, Gary Schocker and Fazil Say, and frequently plays works by Mario Davidovsky, Augusta Read-Thomas, Roberto Sierra, and John Corigliano.

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