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BRING YOUR CANNED GOODS!! Click here to learn more about "Orchestras Feeding America" Guitar Festival Press Release
Official Festival Line-Up
Festival Kick-Off! Join the
Santa Barbara Symphony at Borders Bookstore in downtown Santa Barbara to
help launch the 2nd International Guitar Festival. Bring your
whole family for free
performances and play some Guitar Hero too! Saturday, March 21, 2009 LIVE at SOhO: Los Angeles Electric 8
The Los Angeles Electric 8, an electric guitar chamber octet of eight classically-trained guitarists, direct their training and musical curiosity towards the electric guitar on stage at SOhO with sizzling results. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Sunday, March 22, 2009 Santa Barbara Youth Symphony featuring Tim Callobre and Sofiya Prykhitko Lobero Theatre at 3:00pm
Led by Music Director Andy Radford, the Santa Barbara Youth Symphony accompanies 16-year old “wunderkind” guitarist Tim Callobre in Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez and 13-year old Santa Barbara Youth Symphony violinist Sofiya Prykhitko at the Lobero Theatre. Callobre is an award-winning classical guitarist, composer and pianist and was recently named a semifinalist in Classical Instrumentation for the 2009 Spotlight Awards. He has performed at Carnegie Hall for the PBS Series, “From the Top, Live at Carnegie Hall.” Prykhitko has been performing with the Santa Barbara Youth Symphony for 3 years and was selected to perform at the Youth Symphony's annual competition held in November. She is a scholarship winner in the Santa Barbara Music Club competition and has performed in local recitals.
"…this kid [Callobre] is the next Mozart."
–
A-J Charron, GuitarNoise.com Sunday, March 22, 2009
**ARTIST CHANGE:
Ricardo Cobo** The Historic
Presidio Chapel at 8:00pm Widely regarded as one of the leading virtuosos of the new Classic Guitar generation, Ricardo Cobo gave his professional debut with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá at age seventeen on a nationwide telecast for an audience of over nine million people. Celebrated for his passionate and mesmerizing performances worldwide, Cobo won numerous awards and competitions as a student, including gold medals at the Sixth Guitar Foundation of America International Competition, and has recorded a variety of award-winning solo recordings of classical and children's music. "Cobo strode onstage clearly ready to melt nylon and mesmerize listeners. Graceful musicality was as evident as superhuman technique." --Los Angeles Times Co-presented by The Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation Monday, March 23, 2009 LIVE at SOhO: Laurence Juber SOhO at 7:30pm
The former lead guitarist of the Paul McCartney’s Wings, virtuoso guitarist Laurence Juber struts his stuff when he plays on stage at SOhO for a musically, up-close encounter. "Juber is a master of acoustic finger style, but with less of the trick-guitar mishmash that seems obligatory among the high-octane pickers. He has a fluid style that shifts gears through simultaneous jazzy chording, lead, and bass lines, while weaving in and out of musical thoughts faster than a Formula One racer." - San Diego Reader Tuesday, March 24, 2009 Guitar Hero: An Evening with the Legendary Leo Kottke Marjorie Luke Theatre
at 8:00pm
The “King of Fingerpicking” and a true guitar hero, Leo Kottke brings his magic for one night only to the Marjorie Luke Theatre. Kottke gained an international cult following with his series of albums on Capitol and Chyrsalis labels, and unforgettable appearances at folk festivals the world over. Kottke has made guest appearances on The Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor and has performed at Radio City Music Hall. "…an American legend in the guitar world, and a king of his own private musical world." – Los Angeles Times Sponsored by Seymour Duncan Wednesday, March 25, 2009 John Cleese in "The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote: Words and Music from the Time of Cervantes" with the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet -- World Premiere! Lobero
Theatre at 8:00pm The LAGQ, the 2nd International Guitar Festival Artistic Ambassadors, will be joined by Academy-award nominated actor, comedian, writer, producer and singer, John Cleese (Monty Python, A Fish Called Wanda, Harry Potter), for a side-splitting, world premiere performance of Don Quixote and the music of Cervantes featuring an original score by LAGQ’s Bill Kanengiser. The Grammy Award-winning LAGQ will fill out the evening with familiar and new musical favorites from their extensive repertoire. “…the group has set an enviable standard for the range of repertoire, the craftsmanship of the playing and the entertainment potential of a four-acoustic-guitar ensemble”. –Los Angeles Times “…revelatory…this is a repertory in which barriers between classical, jazz and pop have long been abandoned.”—The New York Times Concert sponsored by Chris Lancashire Thursday, March 26, 2009 Ron Carter Trio with Russell Malone Lobero Theatre at 8:00pm
Russell Malone joins the Ron Carter Trio for an unforgettable night of solid jazz at the Lobero. One of the most commanding and versatile guitarists performing today, Russell Malone can move from blues to gospel to pop to R&B and jazz without hesitation, a rare facility that has prompted some of the highest profile artists in the world to call upon him: Diana Krall, Gladys Knight, Aretha Franklin, B.B. King, Natalie Cole, Wynton Marsalis, David Sanborn, Shirley Horn, Christina Aguilera and Harry Connick, Jr.. Two-time Grammy Award winner, upright bass player Ron Carter has played and recorded with many of music’s greats including recorded with many of music's greats including Lena Horne, Bill Evans, B.B. King, the Kronos Quartet, Dexter Gordon, Wes Montgomery, and Bobby Timmons, Randy Weston and Thelonious Monk., and was a member of the Miles Davis Quintet for five years. Carter was named Most Valuable Player by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. “…a renowned figure of jazz…Carter…is consistently hailed as a master artisan.” –AllAboutJazz.com “A dazzling sense of fluency and imagination…” –Variety Friday, March 27, 2009 Brasil Guitar Duo in Recital Hahn Hall at
the Music Academy of the West at 8:00pm
Winners of the Concert Artists Guild International Competition and YouTube celebrities, Brasil Guitar Duo’s João Luiz and Douglas Lora will spice up Hahn Hall on the campus of the Music Academy of the West in an elaborate program ranging in works from Bach, Debussy and Piazzolla to waltzes and other Brazilian dances. “As performers, these two play like the close brothers they are. They pick up instantly on the other’s cues, respond as if intuitively and seem to be wired in to the same operating system. What’s projected is a sort of ‘über-guitar,’ two instruments and one brain.”—Washington Post “…a stunning display of the music of the Western Hemisphere.” – Los Angeles Times Saturday, March 28, 2009 Guitar Family Concert
The Granada
at 12:00pm
The Brasil Guitar Duo presents an entertaining and educational program designed for kids of all ages. Thanks to the generosity of sponsors, the Santa Barbara Symphony is providing free tickets for families through local youth agencies for the underserved. Sponsored by Montecito Bank & Trust, Santa Barbara Bank & Trust, Cox Media, Seymour Duncan, SBParent.com, Univision and Santa Barbara Education Foundation. Saturday, March 28, 2009
8:00pm Festival Grande Finale
“Return of the Guitars!” The Granada 1214 State Street Santa Barbara 805-899-2222 The LAGQ will give the West Coast premiere of the newly commissioned concerto Interchange for four guitars and orchestra composed by acclaimed Brazilian guitarist and San Francisco Conservatory of Music faculty member, Sergio Assad. Guest conductor Rossen Milanov (Philadelphia Orchestra, Associate Conductor) will open the program with Bizet’s L’Arlesienne Suite #1 (recognizable to many from the British science-fiction television series “The Prisoner”) and round out the concert by taking musicians and audience alike through The Fairy Garden in Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite. Concert Sponsor: The
Samarkand Retirement Community
Free Lunchtime Guitar Recitals The Santa Barbara Symphony’s 2nd International Guitar Festival will present free lunchtime guitar recitals, Tuesday, March 24 through Friday, March 27 on the steps in front of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art at 1130 State Street.
Tuesday, March 24: Chris Fossek, Flamenco
guitarist
Wednesday, March 25: Thomas Yee, violin and Jose Rodriguez, guitar
Thursday, March 26: Kenny
Sultan, blues guitarist
Friday, March 27: AlmaNova Duo
This project is funded in part by the
COMMUNITY EVENTS & FESTIVALS Program using funds provided |
Ticket Information Press Conference at The Granada
Free Lunchtime
Concerts at Santa Barbara Museum of Art! Festival
tickets on sale at
the Lobero Box Office
Laurence Juber and Los Angeles Electric 8 tickets
on sale at SOhO Family Concert and Festival
Grand Finale Concerts on sale at
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