MASTERS' CONCERT SERIES - 2017/2018
Cambrian Music PotpourriJanuary 5th, 2018
730pm, Cambrian College Amphitheatre 1400 Barrydowne Road, Sudbury, ON $15regular/$1osenior&student |
The annual Cambrian faculty of music showcase, come celebrate the new year with the music department. The concert will feature performances from Pamela Teed (voice), Jamie Arrowsmith (viola), Charlene Biggs (piano), Matthew Gould (guitar), Geoffery Tiller (trumpet) and Beth Schneider Gould (violin).
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Canadian Guitar Quartet
January 12th, 2018
730pm, Cambrian College Amphitheatre 1400 Barrydowne Road, Sudbury, ON $15regular/$10senior&student |
Since its debut in 1999, the Canadian Guitar Quartet has toured extensively in North and South America, from one standing ovation to the next, establishing a reputation as one of the finest guitar ensembles in the world. The CGQ has appeared with orchestra across Canada, and has recorded three critically acclaimed CDs.
The quartet has been broadcast on both CBC and Radio-Canada, has had a special performance feature on Bravo! Television, was featured in the webcast at Chicago’s Northwestern University, on CBC’s overseas networks, and in various international magazines. The CGQ’s first concert at the 92Street Y in New York, part of the Art of the Guitar series, was extremely well received. Don Witter Jr., of the New York Classical Guitar Society, wrote: “The Canadian Guitar Quartet made one of the greatest New York City Debuts of any artistic ensemble in decades … STUNNING !!!”. Concerts in some of Canada’s most prestigious concert halls, such as the Winspear Center, the Palais Montcalm, the Glenn Gould Studio, and National Gallery of Canada, as well as their performances in seminal events such as the Guitar Foundation of America’s annual convention, Yale’s Guitar Extravaganza, the Norfolk and Ottawa chamber music festivals, have allowed the Canadian Guitar Quartet to develop an international reputation. The mix of dynamic original music and classical masterpieces make a CGQ concert an unforgettable experience. |
GFA winner Xavier JaraMarch 28th, 2018
7:30pm, Cambrian College Amphitheatre 1400 Barrydowne Road, Sudbury, ON $15regular/$10senior&student |
American classical guitarist, Xavier Jara (1993), is the 1st prize winner of the 2016 GFA International Concert Artist Competition. A native of Minnesota, Jara was a student of Alan Johnston at the MacPhail Center for Music in Minneapolis until 2011 when he moved to Paris, France to study with Judicael Perroy.
Jara studied in Paris for six years with Perroy. During this time he completed his Bachelor’s Degree at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris where he also studied with French guitarist, Olivier Chassain, and lute master, Eric Bellocq. He received 1st place in a number of international competitions including the Viseu International Competition (2014), the Boston Guitarfest (2014), the Gargnano, Italy Competition (2015), the Ciudad de Coria Competition (2015), and the Tokyo International Competition (2016). In 2016 Jara returned home to the United States to win the prestigious Guitar Foundation of America’s Rose Augustine Grand Prize. Jara's 2017-2018 concert tour begins in September 2017. He will perform more than 50 concerts in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala & Panama, including a concert at Carnegie Hall (April 5, 2018.) |