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Allegro Guitar Series Presents American Guitarist Jason Vieaux
Fort Worth: April 7, 7:30PM, Jason Vieaux at Kimbell Art Museum, Renzo Piano Pavilion Auditorium
Dallas: April 8, 8:00PM, Jason Vieaux at University Park United Methodist Church
Fort Worth: April 6, 7:PM to 9:30PM, venue TBA, Jason Vieaux will teach one of our Allegro Guitar Camps which are intended for guitarists of all levels and ages.
April 4, 2016 (MMD Newswire) — Ticket information and venue maps are at GuitarSociety.org or call 817-498-0363. Ticket prices are $35. Discounts are available for Students, First Responders, and all US Service personnel.
NPR describes Grammy-winning guitarist Jason Vieaux as, “perhaps the most precise and soulful classical guitarist of his generation,” and Gramophone magazine puts him “among the elite of today’s classical guitarists.” His most recent solo album, Play, won the 2015 Grammy Award for Best Classical Instrumental Solo. In June 2014, NPR named “Zapateado” from the album as one of its “50 Favorite Songs of 2014 (So Far).”
Vieaux has earned a reputation for putting his expressiveness and virtuosity at the service of a remarkably wide range of music, and his schedule of performing commitments is distinguished throughout the U.S. and abroad. His has performed at every major guitar series in North America and at many of the important guitar festivals in Asia, Australia, Europe, and Mexico. Vieaux’s appearances for Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Music@Menlo, Strings Music Festival, Grand Teton, and many others have forged his reputation as a first-rate chamber musician and programmer.
Jason Vieaux has performed as concerto soloist with nearly 100 orchestras, including Cleveland, Houston, Toronto, San Diego, Ft. Worth, Santa Fe, Charlotte, Buffalo, Grand Rapids, Kitchener-Waterloo, Richmond, Edmonton, IRIS Chamber, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Chautauqua Festival, and New Hampshire Music Festival. Some of the conductors he has worked with include David Robertson, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Jahja Ling, Stefan Sanderling, Michael Stern, David Lockington, Steven Smith, and Edwin Outwater.
His latest album Together, with harpist Yolanda Kondonassis, was released in January 2015. Of his 2014 solo album Play, Soundboard Magazine writes, “If you ever want to give a friend a disc that will cement his or her love for the guitar, this is a perfect candidate.”
Vieaux’s previous eleven albums include a recording of Astor Piazzolla’s music with Julien Labro and A Far Cry Chamber Orchestra; Bach: Works for Lute, Vol. 1, which hit No. 13 on Billboard’s Classical Chart after its first week and received rave reviews by Gramophone, The Absolute Sound, and Soundboard; Images of Metheny, featuring music by American jazz legend Pat Metheny (who after hearing this landmark recording declared: “I am flattered to be included in Jason’s musical world”);and Sevilla: The Music of Isaac Albeniz, which made several Top Ten lists the year of its release. Vieaux’s albums and live performances are regularly heard on radio and internet around the world, and his work is the subject of feature articles in print and online around the world, including such magazines as Acoustic Guitar, MUSO, Gramophone, and on NPR’s “Deceptive Cadence.” Vieaux was the first classical musician to be featured on NPR’s popular “Tiny Desk” series.
Please view our electronic press kit: http://www.GuitarSociety.org/EPK
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Contact: Christopher McGuire Cell: 817-229-3617 Email: [email protected] Office: 817-498-0363
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For more information please contact Christopher McGuire at 817-229-3617 (cell) or by email [email protected] – Website: www.GuitarSociety.org
Source: http://mmdnewswire.com/allegro-guitar-series-jason-vieaux-131709.html
