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Winter Issue 2020 Minnesota Guitar Society Mission Statement Promote the guitar in all its stylistic and cultural diversity through sponsorship of public forums, concerts, and workshops. Serve as an educational and social link between the community G u i t a r i s t and amateur and professional guitarists of all ages. The Minnesota Guitar Society PO Box 14986 / Minneapolis MN 55414 Vol. 35 No. 6 / Winter Issue 2019 Warm Up Your Winter with Concerts at Sundin Music Hall Acoustic Guitarathon Saturday, January 18th ur annual non-classical guitarathon provides a way to share the talents O of locally based (and of- ten internationally known!) artists in many styles. This year’s program, curated by Ben Gateno, is rich in Mak Grgić Returns! both virtuosity and variety. Andrea González Caballero Saturday, December 7th Ben Abrahamson is a dynam- Saturday, February 15th ic, original voice on the acoustic ak Grgić first per- guitar. His compositions and fin- ne of today’s most formed on our series gerstyle approach blend jazz im- acclaimed young gui- several years ago, and provisation with flamenco dexterity. tarists, Andrea Gonzá- we’ve been eager to His passion for flamenco drove him lez Caballero is a star- M to Taller de Músics School of Music bring him back ever since. His talent O in-the-making. She has been de- and taste as soloist, collaborator, and in Barcelona, where he studied un- scribed by Operaworld Maga- recording artist are fueled by curiosi- der Juan Ramón Caro. He has com- zine as “the female voice of the ty, imagination, and boundless ener- posed works for the Minneapolis Spanish guitar.” She has been an gy. His repertoire attests to his versa- Guitar Quartet, Zorongo Flamenco award winner at numerous inter- tility and wide-ranging interests from Dance Theatre, the Mac Jazz big national guitar competitions, the Baroque and Renaissance to mu- band, and the Muhlenberg College including First Prize and Special sic of the cinema, from ethnic music Theatre and Dance Department. He Prize at the XL International of his native Balkans to extreme has shared the stage with mentors Competition F. Sor in Rome, and avant-garde and microtonal music. Michael and Tony Hauser, Susana the XIII Alhambra International He averages 85 performances a di Palma, La Conja, Chuscales, Ped- Guitar Competition in Valencia year as a soloist and with many col- ro Cortes Jr., Joan Griffith, and (Spain), at which she was the laborators. He is a founding member Gary Lee Joyner. This year, he re- youngest guitarist to ever receive of the flamenco-style “Duo Deloro” leased his debut album, Neolithic. First Prize. with Adam Del Monte, and the new Adam Bjoraker is a guitarist González Caballero has ap- and a singer/songwriter originally peared at international festivals continued on page 2 continued on page 3 continued on page 4 Upcoming Concerts At-A-Glance Also In this issue… Dec. 7, Saturday Mak Grgić Letter to Our Members…………………..…...…….page 5 Jan. 18, Saturday Acoustic Guitarathon Guitaristical News………………..…………………...page 6 Feb. 15, Saturday Andrea González Caballero Mar. 14, Saturday Austin Wahl Update on Guitar In Our Schools………………..page 7 April 24, Friday Raphaël Feuillâtre May 16, Saturday Classical Guitarathon SUNDIN MUSIC HALL CONCERT SERIES December Concert continued from page 1 music “FretX Duo” with Daniel Lippel. As Young Artist in prototype guitar” that capture the temperaments of the Ba- Residence with the Da Camera Society of Los Angeles, he roque period. founded “DC8,” an octet dedicated to contemporary music. Born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 1987, Grgić studied gui- In 2009, Grgić made his debut in Russia, performing tar in Zagreb with Ante Cagalj at the Elly Basic Music Acad- Rodrigo’s Concerto de Aranjuez with the St. Petersburg emy. By age 14, he was balancing his world champion status Symphony Orchestra. The following year, he toured the US in karate with his love for the guitar. Throughout high as a member of the Zagreb Guitar Quartet, and also ap- school, he concertized in Ljubljana and Zagreb, splitting his peared at the Lancaster Festival in Ohio, performing Rodri- weeks between the two cities, while competing in profes- go’s Fantasia para un Gentilhombre and Boccherini’s In- sional martial arts contests across Europe and Asia. After troduction et Fandango. an injury to his left thumb, he decided to focus solely on a He has toured China, Japan, and the Balkans, and has career in music, completing a bachelor’s degree with Alvaro had performances and residencies in Slovenia, Portugal, Pierri at the University for Music and Performing Arts in and Spain, as well as at the Sarajevo Music Academy, the Vienna. Pursuing advanced studies in the US, Grgić was Paris Guitar Foundation, the Zurich University of the Arts, one of the first students to apply for the University of the Hong Kong International Guitar Festival, and in the US, Southern California (USC) Thornton’s new Arts Leadership at the Austin Classical Guitar Society, the Beyond Micro- graduate program, which he incorporated into his doctoral tonal Music Festival in Pittsburgh, the Dallas Opera, the studies in guitar. He has been a student of William Kanen- New York Classical Guitar Society, and many more. giser and Scott Tennant of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, and Brian Head, artistic director of the Guitar Foundation An active entrepreneur and educator, Grgić is director of of America. In 2017, he began the Artist Diploma program EuroStrings, a consortium of 17 guitar festivals in Europe, at USC, the first guitarist in their history to be admitted to the European Guitar Festival Collaborative, the Zagreb Gui- this elite program. tar Festival, the Roots & Notes Interactive Music Festival in Croatia, and Music@Rush Hour in Los Angeles. He serves as director of Elemental Guitar in Santa Monica, a program Mak Grgić Concert Program for youth, and as an adjunct faculty member at Mount St. Sonata No. 1 for Solo Violin in G minor, BWV 1001 Mary’s University in Los Angeles. by J. S. Bach (1685–1750) Grgić’s recordings explore the world of guitar and its Toccata by Joaquin Rodrigo (1901–99) possibilities. His latest, Balkanisms for Naxos Music in col- laboration with RTV Slovenija and MAKrotonal for Micro- Three Etudes by Fernando Sor (1778–1839) Fest Records, cover ethnic, microtonal, new, and early mu- “Gabriel’s Oboe” and Theme from The Good, the Bad, sic on re-fretted instruments such as a “zig-zag fretted Bach and the Ugly by Ennio Morricone (b. 1928) Asturias by Isaac Albeniz (1860–1909) MGS Board Officers President Joe Haus Intermission Vice-President Annett Richter Levantine Suite by Dusan Bogdanović (b. 1955) Treasurer Douglas Whorton Five Balkan Pieces by Miroslav Tadić (b. 1959) Secretary Dan Lehn Artistic Director Joe Hagedorn Managing Director Paul Hintz MGS Board Members Jerry Bannach, Mary Ellison, Scott Criqui, Enrique Ortega Newsletter Production Editor Paul Hintz Copyeditor Annett Richter Fox Ridge Printing Website Design and Maintenance Ann Wempner Guitar In Our Schools Coordinator Milena Petković OpenStage Coordinator Douglas Whorton Proofreader at Large Jennifer Stewart 2 g u I t a r I s t SUNDIN MUSIC HALL CONCERT SERIES January Concert continued from page 1 Left to right: (top) Ben Abrahamson, Adam Bjoraker, Tom Feldmann; (bottom) Ben Gateno, Joel Shapira, Mathias Simon. from St. Paul. After spending his formative years on the throughout the US, as well as on the nationally broadcast Midwestern plains, Adam decided to bring what he'd radio program Performance Today. Ben also appears on learned in the Finger-Style Guitar program at the Univer- the MGQ’s 2014 release Thrum, a well-received album of sity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee back to Minnesota. He has commissioned music released on the Innova label. An been reconnecting with his hometown and immersing extremely versatile musician, Ben enjoys presenting solo himself in the strong music and art scenes here, compos- guitar programs that feature a wide range of styles and ing both instrumental and sung music under the moniker genres, with a special emphasis on classical, country St. Anthony Mann. Adam plays guitars made by Dave blues, and ragtime. He now lives in Rochester, MN, Livermore in Forest Lake. where he maintains a busy private teaching schedule. Minnesota native Tom Feldmann has been heralded Joel Shapira is an internationally acclaimed guitar- as one of the premier acoustic guitar players specializing ist who lives in St. Paul. He's a leader and/or member of in bottleneck slide and prewar country blues. Tom taught many top Twin Cities jazz ensembles, as well as a master himself to play guitar at age 17, spending untold hours of the demanding discipline of solo guitar. He performs dissecting original recordings by everyone from Charley regularly with world-class musicians, has over a dozen Patton to Skip James, Bukka White to—of course— Rob- recordings to his credit, and is an artist featured on the ert Johnson. His mastery of that style has aligned him NYC record label Unseen Rain Records. In 2017, with the with the who’s who in acoustic music, working alongside release of his first solo guitar recording, In Essence, Jorma Kaukonen at Kaukonen’s famous Fur Peace Shapira received glowing reviews from critics in Vintage Ranch, making numerous instructional videos for Stefan Guitar magazine, the Jazz Police website, and the Villag- Grossman’s Guitar Workshop, and contributing articles er newspaper, as well as jazz writer Andrea Canter and to Acoustic Guitar and Vintage Guitar. Tom has released listeners to KBEM Jazz/88.5FM, which has given the re- 12 studio albums. His latest is Dyed in the Wool. cording extensive airplay. A native of southern Minnesota, guitarist Ben Gate- Mathias Simon grew up playing many instruments no earned master’s and doctoral degrees in classical gui- (violin, saxophone, bassoon) and has found a great inter- tar performance from the Eastman School of Music in est and challenge in learning fingerstyle guitar.
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