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Guitar Masterclasses
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Isaac Bustos (Nicaragua) —solo classical guitar—1st Prize Winner of the 2004 Competition and numerous other international competitions.
Friday, May 27, 9:00 am and 2:00 pm
Leah Spratt Building (MC 101), Missouri Western State College
 Born in Managua, Nicaragua, Isaac Bustos began playing popular Latin-American music on the guitar when he was 11. By age 12, he was accepted into the Conservatorio Nacional De Musica in Managua where he received top honors in guitar performance.
Isaac immigrated with his family to the United States in 1988 and continued his studies with the late Cuban guitar virtuoso Juan Mercadal.
An extensive performance career has brought Bustos from Boston to Texas where he has gained critical acclaim and quickly became recognized as one of the top young guitarists of his generation.
"Soulful and virtually flawless", hails the Portland Oregonian and the Boston Globe wrote, "In warm, round tones, the notes of Bach cascaded from the guitar, every note correct and played without hesitation."
First Prize winner in numerous international competitions, including the St. Joseph International Guitar Festival and Competition, Bustos has premiered many contemporary works for guitar. Most recently, those by composers Andrew Dickinson (for four guitars), a work for two guitars and electronic sound effects by Jeremy Cumbo and "After Sylvius," a solo guitar work written for Isaac by composer/guitarist Frank Wallace.
Having studied with some of the world’s leading guitarists, Isaac holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of New Hampshire and a Master of Music degree from the University of Texas at Austin where he is currently the teaching assistant working towards a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Guitar Performance under the tutelage of world-renowned guitarist Adam Holzman.
Isaac’s appearance in St. Joseph is part of his prize as First Prize Winner in the 2004 St. Joseph International Guitar Festival and Competition
Robert Trent (USA) 10-string classical guitar — famed international performer / recording artist and Prize Winner of the International Toscanini Competition (Italy), etc..
Thursday, May 26, 9:00 am and 2:00 pm
Leah Spratt Building (MC 101), Missouri Western State College
 As a soloist, performer of chamber music and concerti, Robert Trent has performed on the continents of North and South America and in Europe. He has performed and recorded with the Grove Guitar Quartet. Dr. Trent also performs frequently on an original instrument from the early 19th-Century both in solo recital and with fortepianist Pamela Swenson annually in Europe (as Duo Firenze) and as lutenist.
Dr. Trent has been a first prize winner in the Webb National Guitar Competition and the Masterworks Young Artist Competition. Duo Firenze was the Prize winner at the Concorso Internazionale "Arturo Toscanini" in Italy.
Committed to teaching as well as performing, Dr. Trent, at the age of 21, was formerly director of guitar studies at Westminster Choir College-Conservatory and Trenton State College. In past summers he and Pamela Swenson Trent have been in residence as performers and teachers in period instrument performance practice at the "Accademia L'Ottocento" in Rome and Verbania. He was one of fifty Fellows selected internationally to participate in the 1994 Aston Magna Academy.
Dr. Trent is the first and only recipient of the Doctor of Musical Arts in Guitar at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University where he studied guitar with Julian Gray and Manuel Barrueco and lute with Ronn McFarlane. He is currently Director of Guitar and Lute Studies at Radford Univeristy in Radford, VA.
Duo Firenze is the only early music ensemble and the only ensemble to include classical guitar, to have been invited to perform at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts as part of it's Millennium Series. Dr. Trent's debut CD with Duo Firenze, entitled Italian Nocturnes: Early Music for Guitar and Fortepiano, is on the Dorian Label (DIS 80156). This recording is distributed worldwide and has received accolades as far as the Asian continent.
For further information, see: http://www.radford.edu/%7erstrent/
Tango Lorca One of the leading Tango ensembles featuring musicians and dancers from Eastern Europe, North and South America.
Saturday, May 28, 9:00 am and 2:00 pm
Leah Spratt Building (MC 101), Missouri Western State College
 If you merge Old World Argentinean Tango aesthetics with a sinuous texture of jazz, flamenco and classical music, you MIGHT begin to understand the violent, seductive and distinct sound of Tango Lorca.
Founded in 1999, this fiery ensemble has created a fresh and expansive body of original compositions and arrangements which they have presented world-wide both in the traditional Tango dance hall, on the concert stage and at select Tango competitions in Europe.
Members of Tango Lorca (who rotate concerts depending on who is in what country at what time...) includes musicians and dancers from Eastern Europe, North and South America as well as one member who currently resides in Hong Kong.
Their commitment to the art of Tango has included work throughout virtually every continent on earth and their concerts, recordings and presentations have been hailed by the press world-wide.
While paying homage to their undeniable Argentine roots with classics from the South American "Golden Age of Tango," Tango Lorca has expanded that traditional genre to a new, innovative sound with a timeless sense of beauty and sensuality for which Tango music and dance is so famous.
The music of Tango Lorca infuses a profound understanding of tradition with an obsessive passion to evolve their art to new horizons.
Beau Bledsoe - guitar
Since completing his Masters in Music at the Kansas City Conservatory of Music in 1997, Beau has studied flamenco with Pedro Cortez and Luis Heredia in New York City. His interest in exploring new repertoire, cultures and programming ideas has lead to the creation of a large body of arrangements, transcriptions and compositions for the solo guitar and guitar chamber music. In addition to many engagements as a soloist, Beau has also worked extensively both domestically and internationally with the Guthrie Theater, operatic tenor Nathan Granner, classical violinist Gregory Sandomirsky and with flamenco dancers Miel Castagana , Ray Duran and Antonio Vargas. He has served as music faculty at both Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas and Rockhurst College in Kansas City, Missouri. Most recently, he has co-founded the record label Tzigane and the flamenco music and dance school Manos Rojas .
For further information, see:
http://tangolorca.com
Additional Classes (open to the public) are here.
Anthony Glise - Festival Director
The only American-born guitarist to win First Prize at the International Toscanini Competition (Italy), Anthony Glise is a product of the Konservatorium der Stadt (Vienna) and the New England Conservatory (Boston) with additional study at Harvard, Université Catholique de Lille (France) and the Accademia di Studi "L'Ottocento" (Italy).
A Pulitzer Prize Nominee for composition, Anthony has been awarded diplomas and performed at such festivals as Festival des Artes (Hautecombe), Ville Sable (France), ARCUM (Rome), and the Nemzetközi Gitárfesztivál (Hungary). In addition to traditional classical repertoire, concerts often include 19th-Century works performed on a priceless 1828 Staufer Viennese guitar.
Anthony’s commitment to the art has led to many diversified activities. His writings have been published extensively in The Soundboard (U.S.), Guitar International (England) and Gitarre und Laute (Germany). He has acted as an Artist-in-Residence and Touring Artist for a number of U.S. state arts councils and similar European programs. He is also the editor of the internationally-acclaimed series of guitar music, "The Anthony Glise Editions," published by Willis Music Company and "The Anthony Glise Urtext Editions" by Mel Bay Publications.
An active composer, Anthony’s original compositions have been premiered in such cities as New York, Chicago, Rome, Vienna, Lille (France) and Esztergom (Hungary).
His recordings include traditional works (solo, chamber, orchestral and ballet) as well as original compositions for such labels as Éclipse (France), Young Recording Artists (USA) and Dorian Recordings (USA). His first album, Overview, was chosen as one of the year’s "Top-5 Classical Releases" by Vienna Life Magazine.
Anthony lectures at the Academy for the Study of 19th-Century Music (Italy), and when not on tour, he lives and teaches part-time in the Flandres region of Northern France, part-time in the Black Forest region of Germany and part-time in the US.
Mr. Glise proudly endorses:
Classical Guitars by: Gioachino Giussani (Anghiari-Arezzo, Italy),
Acoustic Guitars by: C.F. Martin (Nazareth, US),
Classical Strings by: E&O Mari—LaBella (New York),
Steel Strings by: C.F. Martin,
Amplifiers by: Marshall, Ltd. (London, England),
Microphones by: Audio Technica (US),
Legal Support by: Volunteer Lawyers & Accountants for the Arts (St. Louis, US).
For further documentation on Anthony Glise, see the websites for the above firms as well as:
• Summerfield, Maurice. The Classic Guitar. It’s Evolution, Players and Personalities since 1800. London: Ashley Mark Publishing, 2002.
• Who’s Who in America. New Providence: Marquis, 2002—present.
• Guitar Foundation of America Archives (attn: Bierce Library, University of Akron, US).
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