MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — An acclaimed MTSU alumnus and a Peruvian-American
virtuoso will perform in free concerts and present free master classes for
music aficionados when MTSU celebrates the 16th annual Tennessee Guitar Festival Jan. 29-31 on campus.
Headlining this year’s
festival are Matt Palmer, the MTSU
alumnus who debuted at Carnegie Hall in 2014 in that venue’s D'Addario
Performance Series, and Peruvian-American guitarist Jorge Caballero.
Palmer will present
the MTSU festival’s Sunday, Jan. 29, concert at 8 p.m. on the Hinton Music Hall
stage inside the university’s Wright Music Building, and Caballero will perform
at 8 p.m. Monday, Jan. 30.
A searchable campus parking
map is available at http://tinyurl.com/MTSUParkingMap.
Off-campus visitors attending the master classes can obtain a special one-day
permit at http://www.mtsu.edu/parking/visit.php.
A Tennessee native
and 2003 magna cum laude graduate of MTSU who is now director of guitar studies
at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, and coordinator of the Eastern
Shore Guitar Festival and Workshop, Palmer has received rave reviews at
international performances. Guitar International Magazine described his work as
having "the soul of an artist, with the technical virtuosity of the highest
caliber and a heightened sense of musicality."
You can get a
preview of his MTSU appearance by watching a video of his performance of Sergei
Rudnev’s “Night” at http://youtu.be/12p72hXRgy4.
Caballero is
renowned for his historic recordings, including Antonín Dvorâk's "New
World" Symphony transcribed for solo guitar, making him one of only two
guitarists in the world to perform and record the monumental work. He’s
performed as a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Orchestra of St.
Luke's, the New York Chamber Symphony, the Naples Philharmonic and the
Presidential Symphony of Ankara, Turkey, among others.
You can preview
Caballero’s MTSU visit by watching a video of his performance last year of
Modest Mussorgsky’s “The Great Gate of Kiev” from “Pictures at an Exhibition”
at http://youtu.be/ohsxrPW_GcQ.
Palmer’s master
class is set for Jan. 30 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Hinton Hall. Caballero
will present his master class Tuesday, Jan. 31, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in
Hinton Hall.
“We have been doing
this festival for many years, and I can attest that these two performers are of
the best we've ever had,” said William
Yelverton, festival director and a professor of music at MTSU. “This is a
unique opportunity to hear truly two of the finest guitarists in the world
today.”
More information is available at http://www.TennesseeGuitarFestival.com.
For details on more MTSU School of Music
events, call 615-898-2493 or visit the MTSU School of Music Concert
Calendar at http://www.mtsu.edu/music/calendar.php.
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