Sunday, September 16, 2007 | 3 PM Lakewood Village
Guitar Orchestra will perform at Lakewood Village Retirement Community
Tom Sheeley - Friday, September 21, 2007 | 7:30 PM Martin Hall - Texas Wesleyan University
Tom Sheeley has performed numerous concerts on three continents. In addition to solo recitals, he has performed with small and large ensembles including the Blair Quartet, The St. Petersburg Quartet, The National Symphony of Ecuador, the Redlands Summer Festival Orchestra, and many others. He was the first place winner of the first Manuel M. Ponce International Guitar Competition in Mexico City and since that time has performed at the Radio France Concours Internationale as a guest soloist and the European International Festival in Geneva, Switzerland.
"...the program he laid out was a minefield of six-stringed challenges – ranging from devilishly fast runs to delicate, tricky harmonics. " Star-Telegram more info
Pablo Sáinz Villegas - Friday, November 16, 2007 | 7:30 PM Martin Hall - Texas Wesleyan University
By capturing the Gold Medal Stotsenberg Prize at the inaugural Christopher Parkening International Guitar Competition, Pablo Sáinz Villegas has quickly established himself as one of the world's leading classical guitarists. He has performed in over twenty countries around the globe and on such prestigious stages as New York’s Carnegie Hall and Milan’s Sala Verdi. Recipient of more than twenty-five international awards including the “Andrés Segovia” award, Mr. Sáinz Villegas has been soloist with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Canberra Symphony Orchestra, the New York Virtuosi Chamber Symphony, Orchestra I Pomerigi Musicali and Orquesta de Radio Televisión Española, among others. Pablo Sáinz Villegas has recorded Luciano Berio´s monumental Sequenza XI on the Naxos label and has released a CD of Spanish music on the same label that features the world première recordings of Five Anecdotes by Andrés Segovia and Sonata-Fantasía by Federico Moreno-Torroba. “Musik Heute” magazine selected this recording as “CD of the Week.”
Zaira Meneses - Friday, January 25, 2008 | 7:30 pm Martin Hall - Texas Wesleyan University
Zaira Meneses was born in Xalapa in the state of Veracruz, Mexico. From an early age she showed great talent for music, studying both classical guitar and voice and appearing frequently in a wide variety of public performances both as guitarist and singer. During her years of guitar she studied with Enrique Salmeron, Alfredo Sanchez, Roberto Aguirre and Dmitry Goryachev. She traveled widely, performing with the famed Orquesta de Guitarras founded by Maestro Alfonso Moreno in concert tours around the world. During this time she was the recipient of numerous prizes for guitar performances nationally and internationally.
She now lives in Boston with her husband, internationally famed guitarist Eliot Fisk, and their 6–year-old daughter Raquel. She continues to perform world-wide to public and critical acclaim as guitar soloist and as a member of various chamber music ensembles.
Johannes Möller - Friday, March 21, 2008 | 7:30 pm Martin Hall - Texas Wesleyan University
The Swedish guitarist Johannes Möller has captivated audiences throughout the world with charismatic performances and ability to communicate a musical message. He is known for his innovative programming which is designed to please listeners from any cultural background, age or level of musical experience.
His recitals include pearls of the standard repertoire as well as rarely encountered 19th century music which he performs on an authentic instrument. He is also able to include inspiring and beautiful music from the 21st century by composing himself and actively cooperating with composers of our time.
Eliot Fisk - Friday, April 18, 2008 | 7:30 pm Martin Hall - Texas Wesleyan University
A creative innovator linked to the great romantic tradition of the past, guitarist Eliot Fisk is one of the most exciting and unique artists before the public today. Known world wide for his adventurous repertoire and willingness to take art music into unusual venues (including schools, senior centers and even prisons!) he belongs, as his great mentor Andrés Segovia once wrote, “at the top line of our artistic world.”
Eliot Fisk has performed to dazzling critical and public acclaim in recital, as soloist with major orchestras and in a wide variety of chamber music combinations in most of the great concert halls of the world and in 1996 in a command performance in the Palacio de los Cordova in Granada, Spain, for then U.S. President Bill Clinton and King Juan Carlos of Spain and their family.
