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Eighth Annual Long Island Guitar Festival
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C.W. Post's Tilles Center - Hillwood Recital Hall
March 28, 2000 - Guitar enthusiasts, professionals, amateurs
and the general public are invited to attend the Eighth Annual
Long Island Guitar Festival on Saturday, May 6 and Sunday, May
7 at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, Northern
Boulevard (Route 25A) in Brookville. In the past, the Long Island
Guitar Festival has proudly presented such distinguished guitarists
as Carlo Domeniconi (in his U.S. debut), Manuel Barrueco, Michael
Lorimer, Eduardo Fernandez, Eliot Fisk, Bucky and John Pizzarelli,
David Starobin and Benjamin Verdery. This event is co-sponsored
by C.W. Post's School of Visual and Performing Arts, and
supported in part through grants from the D'Addario Foundation
for the Performing Arts, the Augustine Foundation,
D'Aquisto Strings, Thomastik-Infeld Strings, the
American Guitar Museum of New Hyde Park, New York and
the John P. McGrath Fund of Long Island University.
Saturday, May 6, 2000
The festival starts with a high school ensemble workshop,
hosted by the noted duo of Pasquale Bianculli and Harris
Becker at 10 a.m. in the Hillwood Cinema. At noon, C.W.
Post Music Professor Howard Rovics will conduct a seminar
on Computer Music Notation for Guitarists, Composers and Arrangers
in the C.W. Post's new Computer Music Lab, Humanities Hall Room
205. At 2 p.m., Becker and Bianculli host a Chamber
Music Workshop in the Hillwood Cinema, where Mark Marino
will host a Jazz Concert and Workshop at 4 p.m. Admission
to workshops, master classes and alumni concerts is $5; a pass
for seven events is $30. The day culminates in a Classical
Guitar Concert featuring David Leisner at 8:30 p.m.
in the Hillwood Recital Hall; admission is $12 ($5 students and
seniors) and is not included in the seven-event Festival
pass.
Sunday, May 7, 1999
The Festival continues on May 7 with a master class conducted
by David Leisner, to take place at 10 a.m. in the Hillwood
Recital Hall. At 1 p.m., the C.W. Post Department of Music will
host an Alumni Guitar Concert in the Hillwood Recital
Hall, followed by a 3 p.m. master class in arranging led by
Michael Lorimer. Admission to workshops, master classes
and alumni concerts is $5; a pass for seven events is $30. From
2 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Hillwood Cinema, the American Guitar
Museum will host an Open Jazz Session; admission
is free and open to the public. The festival ends with a 7:30
p.m. concert in the Hillwood Recital Hall featuring Michael
Lorimer playing Baroque and Classic Guitar; admission is
$12 ($5 students and seniors) and is not included in the
seven-event Festival pass.
The Long Island Guitar Festival was founded by Harris Becker,
director of guitar studies at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island
University. Now in its eighth year, the mission of the Long
Island Guitar Festival is to explore the broad realm of guitar
music in a local setting, with educational and instrumental exhibitions
for the community. For more information on the Festival, master
classes, or the guitar program at C.W. Post, call
(516) 299-2475, or visit the Guitar Festival web site at www.liu.edu/gfest2000
Distinguished Musicians
Mark Marino
Mark Marino began studying guitar at the age of ten, and has
studied with Joe Monk, Jim Hall and Gene Bertoncini. Mark has
been playing jazz guitar professionally in and around the New
York area since 1977. Recently, he appeared at the Weill Recital
Hall at Carnegie Hall with The Valerie Capers Jazz Ensemble and
has been a guest soloist with the
Nassau Pops Orchestra at Tilles Center for the Performing Arts.
Mark has also performed at the Jazz Standard, City College in
Manhattan and Nassau Community College, and was featured in performances
with Lionel Hampton, Ruth Brown, Billy Mitchell, Joe Morello,
Joe Dixon and Jim Chapin. He is currently on faculty at the
C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, and can be heard
on recent recordings including Valerie Capers latest CD, Wagner
Takes the A Train on Elysium Records; Deeply Rooted
on Cats Paw Records and Standard Stretch on Harbour Records.
David Leisner
David Leisner is a versatile musician with a multifaceted
career as a performing artist, composer and teacher. Regarded
as one of America's leading classical guitarists, his musicianship
and programming have been applauded by critics and audiences
around the world. He has been acclaimed as "a triplethreat
performer" by The New York Times and a "serious,
exploratory and imaginative musician" by The Boston Globe.
Leisner's career began with top prizes in both the 1975 Toronto
and 1981 Geneva International Guitar Competitions. In the 1980s,
a disabling hand injury, focal dystonia, cut off his performing
for nearly a decade. Through a pioneering approach to technique,
Leisner gradually rehabilitated himself; now completely recovered,
he has once again resumed an active performing career. His recent
seasons were highlighted by a three-concert series at Weill Recital
Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York City and debuts in the Far
East, Greece and Latin America.
Leisner was recently signed as a featured recording artist by
Azica Records. He has appeared as a soloist with many orchestras,
including the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Australian
Chamber Orchestra, and the New York Chamber Ensemble, and recently
made his debut with the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and Boston
Chamber Music Society. His first recording, an all Bach album
released in 1998, earned widespread critical praise and his second
CD, featuring the complete solo works for guitar by Heitor Villa
Lobos, was released in January 2000.
A highly respected composer, Leisner's Dances in the Madhouse
has received well over 200 performances. His works have been
performed by such eminent artists as Sanford Sylvan, Paul Sperry
and Robert Osborne. He is currently on the faculties of the New
England Conservatory and the Manhattan School of Music. Primarily
self-taught as both guitarist and composer, he briefly studied
guitar with John Duane, David Starobin and Angelo Gilardino and
composition with Richard Winslow, Virgil Thomson, Charles Turner
and David Del Tredici.
Michael Lorimer
Michael Lorimer, a favorite protégé of Andres
Segovia - who describes him as "one of the most talented
young guitarists of these times " - caught the attention
of American audiences in the early 1970s through tours arranged
by the great impresario Sol Hurok. His popularity quickly extended
beyond the shores of America, when he became the first American
guitarist invited to perform in the former Soviet Union. He has
also appeared throughout Europe, Israel and Cuba and in most
major North American recital series.
He is the first world-class guitarist to regularly feature
the baroque guitar in recital. Twenty years ago, long before
the present vogue in original instruments, Lorimer brought attention
to the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century predecessors to the
modern guitar.
Harris Becker and Pasquale Bianculli
Guitar x 2
Harris Becker, guitarist and lutenist, has an active career
as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher. His performances
have taken him throughout the United States, Europe, Mexico and
Canada where he has premiered many new works for guitar. His
teachers have included guitarists Michael Lorimer, Jerry Willard,
Dennis Koster and tutelage with cellist David Wells. Becker
is a professor of Music and Director of Guitar Studies at the
C. W. Post Campus of Long Island University and Founder of the
Long Island Guitar Festival. He has been on the music faculties
of the Aaron Copland School of Music of Queens College and director
of music for mixed ensembles at the International Institute for
Chamber Music at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich.
He has performed at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Bass
Museum of Art, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, the University
of Richmond, Florida Arts in Education, Pacific Lutheran University
and a private reception for the governor of Connecticut. In
1998, the Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs
selected him to be part of Florida's Artist Residency Program.
His transcriptions and editions are available through T.D. Ellis
Music Publishing.
Pasquale Bianculli began playing the guitar at the age of
13. He began his studies under Joseph Cassano in Brooklyn, New
York, and in 1972, continued intensive studies under Jerry Willard
and Edgard Dana at the Guitar Workshop, one of the foremost centers
of guitar instruction at that time. He has also performed in
master classes with Angel Romero and Timothy Walker, and received
tutelage from Alexandre Lagoya. He received his M. Mus. degree
from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1981.
Since his solo debut at Weill Recital Hall, Bianculli has pursued
a dual career as performer and teacher. As a recitalist, he has
been heard across the U.S., Canada, Europe and the Caribbean.
He performs regularly with his wife Kathleen McDonald, a flutist.
In 1989, both he and Ms. McDonald taught at the Jamaica School
of Music in Kingston, Jamaica, performing throughout the island
in schools, churches, and on television for the Jamaica Broadcasting
Company. In the fall of 1998, they completed a tour that included
performances in the Netherlands, Italy, Germany and France.
He has taught at SUNY Stony Brook and the Rocky Ridge Music Center
in Colorado, and is currently on the faculty of United Nations
International School and the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island
University.
Since 1976, Becker and Bianculli have been both friends and
musical partners. It was during that year when they performed
their first recital as a duo while students of Jerry Willard.
In 1999 they released their first recording together, Catgut
Flambo. and they have been featured artists and teachers
in schools and on recital series throughout the New York area
as the duo Guitar x 2.
Calendar Listing:
Saturday, May 6 and Sunday, May 7: 8th Annual Long Island
Guitar Festival at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University.
Two days of performances and master classes feature internationally
known artists, including David Leisner, Mark Marino, Michael
Lorimer and Becker-Bianculli; also featured is a special
Open Jazz Festival hosted by the American Guitar Museum on
Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m. in the Hillwood Cinema (free admission).
The Long Island Guitar Festival is sponsored by C.W. Post's
School of Visual and Performing Arts, the D'Addario Foundation
for the Performing Arts, the Augustine Foundation, the American
Guitar Museum, D'Aquisto Strings, Thomastik-Infeld Strings, and
the John P. McGrath Fund of Long Island University. For information,
times and ticket prices, call the C.W. Post Music Department,
(516) 299-2475, or access the Guitar Festival web site at www.liu.edu/gfest2000
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