Sunday August 22nd, 2010. 3PM
Heliconian Hall
35 Hazelton Avenue (map)

Marko Feri took his Diploma in guitar at the “G.Tartini” conservatory in Trieste (Italy) and then attended many masterclasses with D.Russell, M.Barrueco and A.Ponce. He got prizes in national and international contests (“Fernando Sor” in Rome, “Nicola Fago” in Taranto, “Lilian Caraian” in Trieste) and plays regularly in important music festivals (Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, USA, Australia, Japan, Mexico, Spain, Germany, France, Romania, Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Austria, Belgium), both as a soloist and with chamber music ensembles - “Gorni Kramer Quartet”, duo with jazz singer Martina Feri, duo with flutist E.Michelazzi, “Italian Guitar Consort”, “Concordia Chamber Orchestra” (Operita Maria de Buenos Aires by A.Piazzolla). He has recorded seven CD’s: “Nocturnal” like soloist; “Notes Vagabondes - Live” and “Modulante” with the Gorni Kramer Quartet; “20th Century Original Works For Flute And Guitar” with Michelazzi; “Viva Sevilla” with the “Italian Guitar Consort” and the english soprano Lorna Windsor; “Astor Piazzolla-Orchestral Works” with the Concordia Chamber Orchestra; “Evasion” (music by Piazzolla and Bolling) with Evasion group. He is guitar teacher at the Glasbena Matica “Marij Kogoj” in Trieste-Italy. He is also the art director of the International Guitar Festival “Kras” (Slovenia).

Saturday September 18th, 2010. 8PM
Heliconian Hall
35 Hazelton Avenue (map)

Buy Jason Vieaux Tickets

One of America’s leading guitarists, Jason Vieaux is changing the face of guitar programming and has earned a devoted international fan base along the way. As a result of his reputation for making “the single guitar seem like a body of instruments at work…an orchestra of sound…” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), Mr. Vieaux plays over 50 engagements each year across the US and abroad. Highlights of the 2009 – 2010 season include recitals for Lincoln Center and 92nd St. Y in New York, two sold-out concerts for Dumbarton Oaks Concert Series in Washington DC, a debut with Charlotte Symphony, and recitals for Spivey Hall, Indiana University, and Toronto’s Mooredale Series. In addition, Jason will travel to Poland and Korea this season, and has return invites to concert series and festivals in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Hartford, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Norfolk, Greenville, and Steamboat Springs.
read full biography at www.jasonvieaux.com
Saturday October 9th, 2010. 8PM
Heliconian Hall
35 Hazelton Avenue (map)

Buy Fernando Espi Tickets


The brilliant success of guitarist Fernando Espí is the result of his an innate musical sensitivity, combined with a solid technical grounding. Considered by the classical music press to be ‘one of the greatest Spanish classical guitarists’ (Ritmo), and ‘an emerging new talent...an outstanding guitarist of the new generation’ (Classical Guitar), he has also been situated ‘amongst the most shining interpreters of the six strings’ (Scherzo).
GFA Winner's Concert Tour
Saturday November 20th. 2010. 8PM
Heliconian Hall
35 Hazelton Avenue (map)

Buy Florian Laroussei Tickets


Born in 1988, Florian Larousse began his study of the guitar at the age of eight with Philippe Vanderstichel. He continued his musical education under the tutelage of guitarist Pedro Ibanez at the Conservatoire National de Région de Paris and obtained the first prize in 2006. Entering the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris the same year, he studied in Roland Dyens’s class while also working intensively with Judicaël Perroy. His recent victories at the Guitar Foundation of America’s competition in 2009 and the Hubert Kappel competition in Koblenz have assured him a large international audience with a series of concerts planned in the United States, Canada, Mexico, China, Germany and elsewhere. Florian Larousse’s international awards also include first prize at the José Tomás International Competition in 2007, second prize at the Southwest Guitar festival, San Antonio, Texas, third prize at the International Competition of Iserlohn, Germany, and third prize at the International Competition of Sernancelhe, Portugal. He plays a guitar by the French luthier Hugo Cuvilliez and is endorsed by Savarez strings.
Wednesday December 8th, 2010. 8PM
Glenn Gould Studio
250 ST FRONT W (map)
$60

Co-presented with the Toronto Fingerstyle Guitar Association
Grammy nominated Manuel Barrueco is internationally recognized as one of the most important guitarists of our time. His unique artistry has been continually described as that of a superb instrumentalist and a superior and elegant musician, possessing a seductive sound and uncommon lyrical gifts. career has been dedicated to bringing the guitar to the main musical centers of the world. During three decades of concertizing, he has performed across the United Sates from the New World Symphony in Miami to the Seattle Symphony, and from the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic to New York’s Lincoln Center. He has appeared with such prestigious orchestras as the Philadelphia Orchestra and with the Boston Symphony under the direction of Seiji Ozawa, in the American premiere of ToruTakemitsu’s To the Edge of Dream. In addition, he appears regularly with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and with San Francisco Performances.

Saturday January 15th, 2011. 8PM
Heliconian Hall
35 Hazelton Avenue (map)

Buy Marc Teicholz Tickets


Guitarist Marc Teicholz was awarded first prize at the 1989 International Guitar Foundation of America Competition, the largest, most prestigious contest of its kind in the United States. He was also a prize winner at the 1991 New York East-West Artists Competition.

Described by Gramophone as "arguably the best of the new young guitarists to have emerged," and by Soundboard magazine as "among the best we have ever heard," Teicholz’s performances throughout the world include tours of the United States, Canada, Russia, Poland, Switzerland, Southeast Asia, New Zealand and Fiji. His recitals and master classes have received critical acclaim, and he has been featured in concert with orchestras in Spain, Portugal, California and Hawaii.
He has also had new works written specially for him. Teicholz tours the United States extensively with The Festival of Four. He has recorded solo CDs for Naxos, Sugo, and Menus and Music, as well as the pilot soundtrack for George Lucas’ Young Indiana Jones.

For Naxos, Marc Teicholz has made his mark with two collections of Sor's music already committed to disc. In a show of his versatility, he has also recorded the fifth volume of the collected works for guitar by the 19th Century French virtuoso guitarist and composer Napoleon Coste.

Teicholz, currently on the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory, teaches in the summer at the California Summer Arts Festival and the Weatherfield Music festival in Vermont. He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the Yale School of Music, and holds a J.D. from the University of California Berkeley Boalt School of Law.

Saturday February 19th, 2011. 8PM
Heliconian Hall
35 Hazelton Avenue (map)

Buy Soloduo Tickets


Matteo Mela and Lorenzo Micheli met in Texas, far away from their native Italy, in Autumn 2000. Since then, they have shared a number of ideas, musical projects, and travels all over the world. In 2003 they formed a duo that has already performed throughout Europe and North America, and has been acclaimed everywhere as one of the best ensembles ever heard. About one of their performances, The Washington Post wrote: “Extraordinarily sensitive, with effortless command and an almost unbearable delicacy of touch, the duo’s playing was nothing less than rapturous – profound and unforgettable musicianship of the highest order.”
In addition to classic, romantic and modern repertoire, Matteo and Lorenzo – joined by lutenist Massimo Lonardi – enjoy exploring the early literature for baroque guitar and theorbo. Together, Matteo and Lorenzo have recorded François de Fossa’s Three Quartets, op. 19 (Stradivarius), a CD of Italian Music from the XVII Century for baroque guitar, archlute and theorbo (Stradivarius, forthcoming), Solaria, an anthology of 20th century masterpieces for two guitars (Pomegranate), the Duos Concertants by Antoine De Lhoyer (Naxos) as well as a dozen solo recordings on the labels Naxos, Brilliant Records, Kookaburra, Mel Bay, and Stradivarius. For further information, please visit soloduo.it, matteomela.it, and lorenzomicheli.com.

March 27th, 2011. 8PM
Royal Conservatory of Music, Koerner Hall
273 Bloor Street West (map)
$60

Co-Presented with the Royal Conservatory of Music and the Aaron Brock Foundation.
Born in Melbourne, Australia, John Williams can be regarded as a foremost ambassador of the guitar. He was taught by his father, afterwards attending summer courses with Segovia at the Academia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy, and studying music at the Royal College of Music in London. By the early 1960s he had performed in London, Paris, Madrid, Japan, Russia and the US: he has since toured the world playing both solo and with orchestra and regularly on radio and TV. John Williams records for SONY Classical.