INTERNATIONAL ARTIST SERIES
2023-2024
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Trio Cavalcade
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Marco Tamayo
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Sergio Assad & Richard Scofano
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Tucson Guitar Society Orchestra
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Cecilia Duarte, Trio Chapultepec, & Jesus Pacheco
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David Russell
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Lovro Peretic
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Marcin Dylla
TRIO CAVALCADE
Jeremy Jouve & Mathias Duplessy (guitars), with Amit Kavthekar (tabla)
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It was in 2011 that Mathias Duplessy, a self-taught musician who has been composing on his guitar since the age of 6, met classical guitarist Jérémy Jouve, who very quickly became the ambassador of his pieces for guitar, now played by many of the greatest international soloists. The idea of the Trio Cavalcade was born after the recording of Cavalcade in which Jérémy Jouve played all the works for classical guitar by Mathias Duplessy. The two guitarists then began to play together to weave a bridge between classical music and world music, exploring musical ideas with many instrumental variations. Here we offer a cosmopolitan concert where solos, duos and trios will follow one another, always in a festive spirit: Jérémy Jouve on guitar and Amit Kavthekar on tabla, Mathias Duplessy, sometimes on guitar, vocals, and perhaps flute, create exciting and dynamic music. The elegance and virtuosity of Jérémy Jouve’s classical playing feeds the strength of Mathias Duplessy’s flamenco playing and the rhythmic energy of Amit Kavthekar. Giving pride of place to improvisation, Mathias Duplessy’s pieces are nourished by music from Spain, Brazil, India and by composers such as Ravel and Gismonti.
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$35 general admission, $30 for members, $10 student tickets at the door (must present valid student ID).
Wednesday, October 25 - Holsclaw Hall, 7 PM
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Marco Tamayo, a Cuban guitarist with Austrian citizenship, as “Il Re della Chitarra” (the king of the guitar), started playing guitar at the early age of three, and he was hailed as a child prodigy from the age of six. His first international tour occurred in Europe when he was ten, and his international reputation in all fields of classical guitar has continued to grow. Marco Tamayo, now Professor of classical guitar at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UDK), is a winner of major international competitions with about 25 awards and maintains an active performance career as a soloist, a regular member of chamber music ensembles, and a frequent performer of concertos for solo guitar and orchestra.
His wide repertory includes all different styles. Lately, his interest in composition has led him to create new literature for the instrument. Tamayo’s book "Essential Principles for the interpretation of the Classical Guitar" changed the approach to classical guitar teaching worldwide. His pedagogical experience includes a Professorship at Sidney University /Australia, GMPU / Austria, Mozarteum University of Arts-Salzburg/Austria, Academy of arts Gdańsk /Poland, and recently he was awarded the Professorship at the UDK Berlin out of more than 400 guitarists under consideration.
Marco Tamayo is currently performing on a guitar built by American luthier Stephen Connor. He is a Savarez Artist and uses Cantiga Premium – Alliance / Blue strings. Tamayo is the Chairman of Marco Tamayo Edition, a publishing house he created in 2014.
Maestro Tamayo will also teach 2 masterclasses open to the public for observation at no fee, dates tbd.
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Listen here: Marco Tamayo plays "Canción para ti" by Aureo A Puerta Carreño
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$30 general admission, $25 for members, $10 student tickets at the door (must present valid student ID).
MARCO TAMAYO
Classical Guitar
Saturday, November 11th - Holsclaw Hall, 7 PM
SERGIO ASSAD (GUITAR) &
RICHARD SCOFANO (BANDONEON)
Friday, November 17 - Holsclaw Hall, 7:00 PM
Sunday, November 19 - Holsclaw Hall, 3:00 PM
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The great Brazilian guitarist and composer Sérgio Assad returns, this time pairing with the outstanding Argentinean bandoneón player Richard Scofano. Born into a musical family in Mococa, São Paulo, Brazil, Sérgio Assad began creating music for the guitar not long after he began playing the instrument. He learned Brazilian folk melodies from his father, and by age 14 he was arranging and writing original compositions for the guitar duo he had formed with his brother, Odair. Over the last thirty years Assad has concentrated most of his efforts on building a repertoire for the guitar duo. He has completed over 300 arrangements for different chamber music settings. As a composer Assad has completed over a hundred works for guitar, many of which have become standards in the classical guitar repertoire, along the way garnering several Latin Grammys.
A master of the bandoneón, Richard Scofano was born in Pasode los Libres, Argentina, and is the descendant of three generations of bandoneonists. Beyond his renowned virtuosity, musicality and sensibility, Scofano is also an accomplished composer, arranger, and musical director. He began his studies at age five, with his father, Ricardo Scofano, himself a landmark in the Argentine musical genre of the Chamamé. Richard grew up in the center of the folk traditions and culture of Northeast Argentina in a home constantly filled with musicians and singers and, nowadays, his artistry is a testimony to his mastering of the genre, to his musical craft, and to his ability to combine both through an exceptional creative genius. Scofano always nurtured interest for the music of neighboring Brazil and is passionate about the study of concert music. With forty years of professional work, Scofano has taken his music literally throughout the world and is held in high esteem by fellow musicians and audiences alike.
A new duo, the great master of guitar and of composition Sergio Assad joins with the great master of bandoneón and composition Richard Scofano. Come for the fireworks!! This will be amazing.
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$35 general admission, $30 for members, $10 student tickets at the door (must present valid student ID).
Note that this concert is in collaboration with the UA which will also be ticketing from the Centennial Hall Box Office. There may be some processing fees for buyers on the UA site. The Guitar Society does not asses fees to purchase tickets.
TGS Orchestra
Saturday, December 2nd - Holsclaw Hall, 3:00 PM
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ln the summer of 2013, José Luis Puerta, an original member of the orchestra and a doctoral candidate at the University of Arizona took over as conductor and artistic director. The TGSO continued under his baton but added its first performances outside of Tucson, one at the Guitar Foundation of America (GFA) regional conference at the Musical Instrument Museum in Scottsdale, and as part of the Arizona Ensemble Festival at Glendale Community College as part of an 85-player guitar ensemble. Ten representatives of the TGSO performed Shingo Fujii's Concierto de Los Angeles, with Bill Kanengiser as a soloist, as part of an all-Arizona Guitar Orchestra which toured Tucson, Tempe, and Flagstaff.
The Tucson Guitar Society also began to commission music for guitar ensemble; First was “Once We Moved Like the Wind” by Brad Richter, premiered by the Arizona Guitar Orchestra, an ensemble formed of players from the Tucson Guitar Society, Phoenix and Flagstaff under the baton of Chuck Hulihan of Glendale Community College. Our collaborating group also commissioned Andrew York to write for us, and he created “By Chants” for the guitar quartet and ensemble, a piece is based on a gaming song of the Havasupai Tribe of the Grand Canyon area. It premiered in the spring of 2017 with the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet and the Arizona Guitar Orchestra. This was followed by renowned Welsh composer Steven Goss’ piece called “Minimal Effort.” which references the Arizona desert with the silence of morning followed by the startling sounds of its wildlife as the day begins.
This year we engaged Olga Amelkina-Vera to write a guitar ensemble and voice piece, setting the words of poet Ofelia Zepeda, a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation, to music. The “Pulling Down the Clouds” premiered in April 2023 with mezzo Mack Wolz singing.
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$10 general admission, $5 members, free admission for students with valid ID at the door.
Noche Hispanoamericana:
Cecilia Duarte (mezzo)
Trio Chapultepec (guitars)
& jesus Pacheco (percussion)
with special guest Misael Barraza-Diaz (guitar)
Friday, January 26 - Holsclaw Hall, 7:00 PM
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Cecilia Duarte, mezzo-soprano with Trio Chapultepec, guitars, and Jesús Pacheco, percussion, with special appearance by Misael Barraza-Díaz, classical and flamenco guitar.
A soloist in the GRAMMY® winning album Duruflé: The Complete Choral Works, Cecilia has been praised by The New York Times as “A creamy voiced mezzo-soprano.” Born in Chihuahua, Mexico, Cecilia is a versatile singer who has performed around the world singing a variety of musics tyles, with a focus on early and contemporary music. Cecilia has been greatly recognized for creating the role of Renata in the first Mariachi Opera Cruzarla Cara de la Luna with the famous Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán, commissioned by Houston Grand Opera in 2010. Cecilia has taken this opera to many stages around the world. She reprised the role of Renata with Houston Grand Opera in the opera El Milagro del Recuerdo, along with the musicians who perform on her album Reencuentros.
Cecilia Duarte writes this about the origin of Reencuentros: “This album is a reencounter with my past, a remembrance of the moments when I listened to my mother sing many of the songs compiled here, and a reflection of who I am as an artist today… Reencuentros represents where I come from and the stories that formed me. It is important for me to share this legacy of beautiful music, only a small token of the artistic richness of Latin American music.”
The twelve romantic boleros on Reencentros, sung in Spanish, will be the program of one set of this concert, with Cecilia accompanied by Trio Chapultepec: Vincent A. Pequeño, Israel Alcala, and William Carlton Galvez, joined by Jesús Pacheco on percussion. These Latin popular standards are truly art songs from the mid-20th century. In the second set, Cecilia will be joined by Mexican flamenco and classical guitarist Misael Barraza-Díaz with a program primarily of Spanish song for voice, guitar, and percussion.
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$40 general admission, $35 for members, $10 student tickets available at the door (must present valid student ID).
David Russell
Classical Guitar
Saturday, February 10 - Holsclaw Hall, 7:00 PM
Sunday, February 11 - Holsclaw Hall, 3:00 PM,
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During his studies at the Royal Academy, David Russell won twice the Julian Bream Guitar Prize. Later he won numerous international competitions, including the Andrés Segovia Competition, the José Ramírez Competition, and Spain’s prestigious Francisco Tárrega Competition. David Russell spends his time touring the world, appearing regularly at prestigious halls in main cities, such as New York, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Madrid, Toronto or Rome. Concertgoers everywhere are in awe of his musical genius and are inspired by his captivating stage presence. His love of his craft resonates through his flawless and seemingly effortless performance. His attention to detail and provocative lyrical phrasing suggest an innate understanding of what each individual composer was working to achieve, bringing to each piece a sense of adventure.
In May 2005 he received a homage from the music conservatory of Vigo, culminating with the opening of the new Auditorium, to which they gave the name “Auditorio David Russell”. In 2009 David was named an honorary member of “Amigos de la Guitarra”, the oldest guitar society in Spain. A prolific recording artist, his collection includes seventeen CDs with Telarc International.
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$35 general admission, $30 for members, $10 student tickets at the door ( valid student ID may be checked).
Note that this concert is in collaboration with the UA which will also be ticketing from the Centennial Hall Box Office. There are no processing fees for buyers on the UA site or on The Tucson Guitar Society site. General admission and discounted student tickets are available from the UA at https://am.ticketmaster.com/uacfa/buy/tgs
Lovro Peretic
Classical Guitar
Friday, March 15th - Holsclaw Hall, 7:00 PM
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Rising star in the guitar firmament Lovro Peretić is another talent coming out of the studio of the great Judicaël Perroy who has gone on to win the Guitar Foundation of America International Concert Artist Competition (ICAC). The Tucson Guitar Society always presents these young artists because they are our chance to hear the stars of the future.
Lovro represented Croatia in important festivals such as the Vladimir Spivakov International Foundation’s festival in Moscow and the European Union of Music Competitions for Youth’s Young Hearts for Music in Austria and Germany. He also regularly performs in various chamber music groups including his duo with violinist Katarina Kutnar and in the guitar trio Evocación. He has performed as a soloist with the Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra, and Zagreb Soloists, among others. Lovro was awarded the Dean’s and Rector’s prizes of the University of Zagreb.
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$30 general admission, $25 for members, $10 student tickets available at the door (must present valid student ID).
Marcin Dylla
Classical Guitar
Friday, March 29 - Holsclaw Hall, 7:00 PM
UPDATE:
Unfortunately, Marcin Dylla was unable to travel for circumstances out of his control. Luckily, Italian virtuoso Andrea Roberto will grace us with a free concert instead. Click here for more info!
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The Tucson Guitar Society signed a contract in 2020 to bring Marcin Dylla to play a fourth time for our audiences when Covid wreaked its havoc. Just as we approached Marcin to return, the war in Ukraine created uneasy conditions in the eastern part of Poland where Marcin lives with his young family, so we waited some more…and finally we have been lucky enough to schedule a return visit. We can promise that he is worth waiting for!
Hailed by Washington Post as “among the most gifted guitarists on the planet” Polish guitarist, Marcin Dylla is a rare phenomenon in the recent history of Classical Guitar. Many music critics, connoisseurs, and music lovers consider him to be among the world’s elite of classical guitar players. He has earned this position not only due to his unparalleled accumulation of awards at the most prestigious international music competitions around the world, but also from his extraordinarily brilliant live performances on the concert stage. His live recital DVD “Wawel Royal Castle at Dusk” was nominated for 2010 Fryderyk Award (equal to American Grammy) in the category of Solo Classical Music Album of the Year. His renown as a teacher is known everywhere, bringing him positions at major institutions in Europe and the USA.
It is the great pleasure of the Tucson Guitar society to bring this extraordinary musician back for his fourth concert in Holsclaw Hall to close our International Artists’ 2023-24 Series.
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$30 general admission, $25 for members, $10 student tickets at the door (must present valid student ID).
TGS Orchestra
Saturday, May 4th - Holsclaw Hall, 3:00 PM
XV Anniversary Concert
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ln the summer of 2013, José Luis Puerta, an original member of the orchestra and a doctoral candidate at the University of Arizona took over as conductor and artistic director. The TGSO continued under his baton but added its first performances outside of Tucson, one at the Guitar Foundation of America (GFA) regional conference at the Musical Instrument Museum in Scottsdale, and as part of the Arizona Ensemble Festival at Glendale Community College as part of an 85-player guitar ensemble. Ten representatives of the TGSO performed Shingo Fujii's Concierto de Los Angeles, with Bill Kanengiser as a soloist, as part of an all-Arizona Guitar Orchestra which toured Tucson, Tempe, and Flagstaff.
The Tucson Guitar Society also began to commission music for guitar ensemble; First was “Once We Moved Like the Wind” by Brad Richter, premiered by the Arizona Guitar Orchestra, an ensemble formed of players from the Tucson Guitar Society, Phoenix and Flagstaff under the baton of Chuck Hulihan of Glendale Community College. Our collaborating group also commissioned Andrew York to write for us, and he created “By Chants” for the guitar quartet and ensemble, a piece is based on a gaming song of the Havasupai Tribe of the Grand Canyon area. It premiered in the spring of 2017 with the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet and the Arizona Guitar Orchestra. This was followed by renowned Welsh composer Steven Goss’ piece called “Minimal Effort.” which references the Arizona desert with the silence of morning followed by the startling sounds of its wildlife as the day begins.
This year we engaged Olga Amelkina-Vera to write a guitar ensemble and voice piece, setting the words of poet Ofelia Zepeda, a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation, to music. The “Pulling Down the Clouds” premiered in April 2023 with mezzo Mack Wolz singing.
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$10 general admission, $5 members, free admission for students with valid ID at the door.
