GuitarFest 24 expands on American Primitive, with the wildly inventive Ictus Novus, the Curtis Guitar Quartet, soprano Sharon Harms, and many of New York’s best guitarists. It features music by American Primitives John Fahey, and Julián Carrillo and works by Paul Lansky, Kyle Miller, David Amram, Agustín Castilla-Ávila, and Gary Philo, among others.
The GuitarFest 24 program:
- Lou Harrison’s Canticle III
- excerpts from Jonathan Dawe’s microtonal opera: Amor nello Specchio (Love in the Mirror) for microtonal guitars, with Sharon Harms, soprano
- music touching on Connie Converse, one of the earliest musicians to work in the singer-songwriter genre who mysteriously disappeared in 1974, and John Fahey, whose style has been described as the foundation of American Primitive guitar
- No Benign Umbrella, Nora Stanley, commissioned by The Village Trip for Ictus Novus
- Kyle Miller’s “Wavering Radiant”
- a memorial tribute to Larry Polanski, guitarist and composer
- Four’s Company, composed by Paul Lansky for David Starobin’s guitar class at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia
Performers: Ictus Novus; The Curtis Guitar Quartet – Xingxing Yao, Ruqi Jiang, Radomir Romashkov-Danilov, and Muxin Li—coached by Curtis Professors David Starobin and Jason Vieaux
Vocalists: Zige Wang and Sharon Harms
Cellist: Richard Jimenez
Flutist: Roberta Michel (ocarina)
Guitar soloists: Giacomo Fiore, Oren Fader, Dan Lippel, Kyle Miller, Jackie Ward, Daniel Conant
Percussionists: Dylan Ofrias, Jordana Sidlow, and Najee Marcelin
Composers: Estrella Cabildo, Paul Lansky, Kyle Miller, Zige Wang, Shoko Suzuki, Larry Polansky, Nora Stanley, Noam Beili, Lou Harrison, Daniel Zapata, Jonathan Dawe, Milton Babbitt, Jorge Caballero, John Fahey, Andrew McKenna-Lee, Todd Tarantino, David Amram, Agustín Castilla-Ávila
TVT Guitar Orchestra Members
Dan Lippel
Noam Beili
Riane Mision
Adam Negrin
Stephen Griesgraber
Daniel Conant
Pascual Araujo
Austin Tobia
Oren Fader
John Chang
Daniel Zapata
Kyle Miller
Valentina
Jackie Ward
Kim Kramer
Sean Ferguson
Juan Calderon
Matt Zlotkin
Chris Rispoli
Jorge Caballero
Jay Sorce
A marathon 6pm to 8pm and 8pm to 10pm.
Come to either or both with one ticket.
The concert is part of The Village Trip’s American Primitive and Inventors of Genius Weekend.
