Artist Series Guitar Faculty Recital Saturday, March 10, 2018 at 5pm Lagerquist Concert Hall, Mary Baker Russell Music Center Pacific Lutheran University School of Arts and Communication / Department of Music presents Artist Series Guitar Faculty Recital Elizabeth C.D. Brown & Stephen Howland with guests Paul Galbraith, guitar Sean McGowan, guitar Elliott Turner, guitar Saturday, March 10, 2018 at 5pm Lagerquist Concert Hall, Mary Baker Russell Music Center Welcome to Lagerquist Concert Hall. Please disable the audible signal on all watches, pagers and cellular phones for the duration of the concert. Use of cameras, recording equipment and all digital devices is not permitted in the concert hall. PROGRAM Étude No. 2 ......................................................................................................................................... Ida Presti (1924-1967) Danse Rythmique ....................................................................................................................................................Ida Presti Raganana ................................................................................................................................ Annette Kruisbrink (b. 1958) Elizabeth C.D. Brown, guitar Two Pieces from Caught in the Headlights ............................................................................... Michael Karmon (b. 1969) High Beams Big Fuzzy Circles Elizabeth C.D. Brown and Stephen Howland, guitar duo Four Preludes .................................................................................................................... Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) op. 11, no. 17 op. 2, no. 2 op. 16, no. 4 op. 11, no. 21 Mallorca, op. 202 ......................................................................................................................... Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909) Sevilla, from Suite Española, op. 47 ................................................................................................................ Isaac Albéniz Paul Galbraith, guitar INTERMISSION In an Instant .............................................................................................................................................. Stephen Howland Stephen Howland and Elliott Turner, guitar duo Program to be announced from stage Sean McGowan, guitar About the performers A specialist in standard classical guitar as well as various early guitars and lutes, Elizabeth C. D. Brown is a very active performer throughout the Pacific Northwest. Highlights from recent seasons include being a featured soloist at the Northwest Guitar Festival, performing concertos by Vivaldi and Sierra and premiering a new work for guitar and orchestra with the Seattle Symphony. She has performed in operas by Purcell, Blow, Paisiello, Rossini and Verdi, as well as all of Monteverdi's surviving operatic works. Elizabeth's first solo recording, La Folia de España: Dances for Guitar, features works for baroque, 19th century, and modern guitars, and has been praised for its "...apparently effortless ease," (Lute News, UK). She is also featured in the recording Dolce Desio as a member of the early music trio Le Nuove Musiche, and in the recording Navidad: Christmas in the New World with Seattle Pro Musica. Her second solo recording, In Her Honor, includes music from the Princess [Queen] Anne Guitarbook and the Elisabeth of Hesse Lutebook, as well as her own arrangements of works by Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre. An enthusiastic advocate for the guitar and lute, Elizabeth has given numerous outreach performances at schools, senior centers, and community centers for the Seattle Classic Guitar Society and the Early Music Guild, as well as by arrangement while on tour. She is head of the Guitar and Lute program at Pacific Lutheran University, and has taught at Cornish College of the Arts and Seattle Pacific University. See her on YouTube at www.youtube.com/user/ElizabethCDBrown or for more information visit: www.elizabethcdbrown.com. Internationally renowned as a brilliant innovator of the classical guitar, Paul Galbraith has been working since the 1980s towards expanding the technical limits of his instrument, besides augmenting the quantity and quality of its repertoire. Paul plays a unique 8-string guitar, which he developed in 1993 together with legendary luthier, David Rubio. On this instrument, Paul has recorded a series of highly acclaimed albums, starting with the music of Brahms (his op. 21A piano variations), and continuing with a Haydn Sonata CD; French Impressions, with music by Debussy & Ravel; a DVD recital, with Britten’s famous Nocturnal for guitar as the center-piece; and Bach’s complete Solo-violin Sonatas & Partitas, which was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1998. Paulʼs individual approach to guitar technique stems from an idea he had in 1984 to free the right arm from holding, or resting on, the instrument. The resulting freedom enables an unencumbered flow between movement and sound. Paul continued to develop and refine his new-found playing position until, by 1987, it had evolved into the cellist’s posture he is associated with today. Paul began concertizing in his late teens, having come to public attention in Great Britain through a series of televised competition successes. Asked by a member of the press after the 1981 Leeds Castle Segovia competition what he thought of Paul, who was awarded silver medal, Segovia raised his hand, and exclaimed: “Paul is magnificent. He will be a great artist.” Since the early nineties, Paul has toured the USA annually, and performed throughout the UK and the European Union, as well as in China, South America, Russia, Norway, Australia, Canada, India, etc. He also has appeared with several of the major orchestras and ensembles in Britain and Europe, such as: the BBC Orchestras, the Royal Philharmonic, the St. Petersburg Quartet, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Halle, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the European Chamber Orchestra, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, and the Shanghai Quartet. For more information visit: http://www.paul-galbraith.com. Stephen Howland has a diverse professional background, playing solo classical and flamenco guitar and performing in nightclub bands; jazz combos and big bands; and a wide variety of classical and early music ensembles. He has been a featured guitarist-composer in new music festivals and a visiting concert artist and clinician at universities, colleges, and guitar societies throughout the West. He has been featured on recordings as a jazz soloist with big band, classical and early music chamber musician, solo guitarist in various styles, and writer and studio guitarist for independent artists and bands, including the Seattle based band Motopony. He has performed with some of the best talent in the Seattle Jazz scene, including Melyssa Stone, Nate Omdal, Jared Hall, Clipper Anderson, Mark Ivester, Marco De Carvalho, Gordy Ryan, Adam Kessler, Jason Parker, and Courtney Fortune, among others. He has been a prolific composer, arranger, songwriter in jazz, classical, and popular styles since his teens. Howland earned his Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance from Arizona State University, Master of Music from ASU, and Bachelor of Music from the University of Idaho. He received the highest marks and many academic honors and awards, including a teaching assistantship at ASU, the Presser Award, and the Eleanor Mader Memorial String Award. He has taught at Pacific Lutheran University since 2009, teaching jazz guitar, classical guitar, ear training, and jazz history. He has also taught privately at the Rosewood Guitar in Seattle since 1998. For more information visit: www.stephenhowland.com. Sean McGowan is a fingerstyle jazz guitarist who combines many diverse musical influences with unconventional techniques to create a broad palette of textures within his compositions and arrangements for solo guitar. His first recording River Coffee won the Best Independent Release of the Year Award (2002) from Acoustic Guitar magazine and music from the recording has been published in Japan’s Acoustic Guitar magazine and Mel Bay’s Master Anthology of Fingerstyle Guitar, Vol. 3 (2005). His subsequent recordings Indigo (2008) and Sphere: the Music of Thelonious Monk (2011) offer compelling portraits of classic jazz standards performed on solo electric archtop guitar. Sphere was named one of Acoustic Guitar magazine’s “Essential Albums of 2011”, and Sean was recently featured on the cover of Fingerstyle 360 magazine (Summer 2012). His most recent solo guitar recordings include Thanksgiving & Christmas Tidings (2014) a collection of seasonal hymns and carols arranged for acoustic guitar, and My Fair Lady (2015) a collection of songs from Lerner & Loewe’s masterpiece. As a soloist, Sean has performed at several festivals including the Novi Sad International Jazz Festival in Serbia, the Healdsburg Guitar Festival in Napa Valley, Copper Mountain Guitar Town, the Newport Guitar Festival, and the Chet Atkins CAAS Convention. He has also collaborated with several dance and improv companies, as well as with jazz and acoustic musicians throughout the Rocky Mountain region. Sean is an avid arts educator and currently serves as an Associate Professor of Music and the Guitar Program Director at the University of Colorado Denver. He earned a DMA in Guitar Performance from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and has conducted workshops at colleges throughout the country. Sean is a strong advocate for injury prevention and