May 9th 2016 MST
Two free events on this week's calendar, on Wednesday evening LA City College presents its Guitar Faculty Recital, and on Sunday afternoon the Orange County Guitar Orchestra (under the direction of David Grimes) offers a concert in Newport Beach. Things can change fast, always check the SoCal Classical Guitar Events Schedule at: http://www.ocgc.org/pages/SoCalEvents.htm Cheers, George Gutman gagutman@uci.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- To cancel or change your subscr ...Continue Reading
May 2nd 2016 MST
Just two events on this week's calendar, both in Valley Glen...on Wednesday at lunchtime LA Valley College offers a free faculty recital featuring Greg Newton, Jordan Charnofsky and guests, and on Saturday evening the American Guitar Society holds its regular monthly meeting. Things can change fast, always check the SoCal Classical Guitar Events Schedule at: http://www.ocgc.org/pages/SoCalEvents.htm Cheers, George Gutman gagutman@uci.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- T ...Continue Reading
April 21st 2016 MST
Just three weekend events on our calendar, on Saturday afternoon USC's Classical Guitar Department offer a free departmental recital, and on Sunday afternoon the Campanella Guitar Quartet perform in Laguna Niguel, also free. And also on Sunday afternoon the fabulous Adam del Monte appears with the Santa Monica Orchestra, performing Rodrigo's "Concierto de Aranjuez" as well as "Paisajes", his own concerto for flamenco guitar. Things can change fast, always check the SoCal Classical Guitar Events Sche ...Continue Reading
April 12th 2016 MST
It's that time again, this Saturday at Chapman will be the Orange County Guitar Circle's last Featured Artist recital of this season, presenting the brilliant young Brazilian artist Josinaldo Costa. Don't miss this one, and bring your friends! There are a couple of other events on this week's schedule, on Friday afternoon Christopher Parkening's Pepperdine guitar program offers its free monthly recital in Malibu, and on Saturday evening the American Guitar Society presents a recital by the young Belarus-born star Alexa ...Continue Reading
March 28th 2016 MST
It's actually not Pepe Romero but his incomparable brother Angel who is performing in Rancho Mirage on Friday - still definitely worth the drive! Things can change fast, always check the SoCal Classical Guitar Events Schedule at: http://www.ocgc.org/pages/SoCalEvents.htm Cheers, George Gutman gagutman@uci.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- To cancel or change your subscription visit the following URL: ...Continue Reading
March 28th 2016 MST
There are two free events this Wednesday at lunchtime as Ines Thome appears in the Music at Noon series at the Pasadena Presbyterian Church and Lee Zimmer performs at Cypress College, and a third that evening when the Ventura County Classical Guitar Society holds its monthly meeting in Camarillo, this one featuring the wonderful Orange County Guitar Orchestra under the direction of David Grimes. On Friday evening the incomparable Pepe Romero performs in Rancho Mirage (a bit far afield for us OC-ites but definitely worth ...Continue Reading
March 15th 2016 MST
This Saturday evening at Chapman the Orange County Guitar Circle holds its monthly meeting, this one a Members' Showcase. You can see the program on our web site, this will be a highly varied and entertaining evening, don't miss it! And our Showcase is in the midst of an exceedingly busy week beginning with two free events, the first tonight (Tuesday), a concert of Flamenco and classical at the Pasadena Conservatory of Music, and the second on Wednesday when Taro Wayama and David Lee Ruest offer a noontime guitar/vio ...Continue Reading
March 8th 2016 MST
On Thursday evening in Northridge, Syracuse's Ken Meyer and CSUN's Steve Thachuk will perform Castelnuevo-Tedesco's double guitar concerto, a rare opportunity to hear this piece, and on Friday afternoon Christopher Parkening's students offer their free monthly concert in Malibu. On Friday, Pepe Romero will offer two free masterclasses at USC, one at 11 AM and the other in the evening...with some careful (and marginally legal) driving an enterprising aficionaco could attend all three Friday events. ;-) Then on Saturday ...Continue Reading
February 29th 2016 MST
We have three opportunities to hear the Ensemble Fret this week (that's Buzz Gravelle, Walter Marsh and Peter Yates playing guitar, mandolin and arpeggione, among other instruments), on Tuesday they offer a free noontime recital at LA City College, another recital at Cal Poly Pomona on Friday evening, then one more free recital on Saturday evening in a private home in Pacific Palisades for which an RSVP is required. There are two more events on the schedule on Saturday evening, when the American Guitar Society holds its ...Continue Reading
February 16th 2016 MST
This Saturday is the OCGC's monthly meeting at Chapman, featuring the brilliant young Thai artist Ekachai Jeareakul. This recital is part of his international concert tour which he won as part of his first prize award at last year's GFA competition, it's an event not to be missed! This week's events begin on Wednesday when the renown guitarist Eric Henderson (who studied privately with Segovia) will offer a free lecture at UCI on the history of the Spanish Guitar, registration is available online. On Saturday afternoon ...Continue Reading
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