2022 Program Indianapolis

GUITAR FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
INTERNATIONAL
CONVENTION &
COMPETITIONS
2022
UNIVERSITY OF INDIANAPOLIS
INDIANAPOLIS, IN
JUNE 29–JULY 2, 2022
Hosted by Nem Ostojić,
Director of Guitar Department
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INTERNATIONAL
CONVENTION & COMPETITIONS
INDIANAPOLIS, IN
Hosted by Nem Ostojić
International Concert Artist Competition
International Youth Competition
Concerts | Lectures | Vendor Expo
Private Lessons | Masterclasses
Technique Workshops
Featured Artists:
Luigi Attademo
Beijing Guitar Duo
Isaac Bustos
Bokyung Byun
Duo Noire
Eduardo Fernandez
Eliot Fisk
Pablo Garibay
Michael Partington
Johan Smith
Tritonus Guitar Trio
GFA Executive Committee
Martha Masters, President
Brian Head, Artistic Director
Jeff Cogan, Vice President
Nathania Isnandar-Mallett, Vice President–Treasurer
Robert Lane, Vice President–Secretary
GFA Board of Trustees

Matthew Cochran
Brad DeRoche
Alexander Dunn
Eric Dussault
Zane Forshee
Rene Izquierdo 2022
Zoë Johnstone
Kenneth Kwan GUITAR FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
Chris Mallett, Chair
Michael Partington INTERNATIONAL
Kim Perlak
Judicaël Perroy
MaryLou Roberts
Kami Rowan
Eric Sakurai INDIANAPOLIS, IN
James Stroud
Ciyadh Wells
Sonia Wilczewski
Hosted by Nem Ostojić
Loong Yong
Abigail Aronson Zocher
GFA Staff
Liel Amdour, Marketing and Development Assistant
Ryan Ayers, Vendor Expo Manager, Executive Producer of GFA Virtual Content
Jean-Pierre Castillo, Mentorship Program Coordinator
Leesa Pruett Ceron, Marketing Director
Robert Ferguson, Editor of Soundboard
Colleen Gates, Publications Art Director
Brian Geary, Convention Manager
Michael Kagan, Artistic Director, International Ensemble Competition
Ebaa Khamas, Operations Administrator, Advertising Manager
Teresa Hayward, Tour Director
Chuck Hulihan, Education Director and Director of Guitar Summit
Jonathan Leathwood, Editor of Soundboard Scholar
Martha Masters, Artistic Director, International Concert Artist Competition
Lynn McGrath, Artistic Director, International Youth Competition
Laura Meador, Education Coordinator
Danny Monaghan, Social Media Coordinator
Sarah Perske, Production Editor of Soundboard Scholar
Connie Sheu, General Manager
Federico Musgrove Stetson, Director of National School Summit
2022 GFA Convention Program Note:

All information is current at time of publishing. Changes may occur to the schedule and will be announced before concerts.
INDIANPOLIS, IN JUNE 29–JULY 2, 2022
CONVENTION & COMPETITION
INTERNATIONAL
GUITAR FOUNDATION
Convention Host: Nem Ostojić 9
Convention and Competition Schedules 10–11
University of Indianapolis Campus Map 12
Vendor Expo 13
Vendor Expo: Floor Plans 14
GFA 2022 Convention Sponsors, Program Advertisers, Vendors 15
Private Lessons 16
XXXIX International Concert Artist Competition (ICAC) | ICAC Jurors 17–18
OF
Set Piece Composer: Andrea Clearfield 19
AMERICA
XVIII International Youth Competition (IYC) | IYC Jurors 20
Technique Workshops (TW) & Masterclasses (M) 21–22
WEDNESDAY June 29 9:00am TW: Michael Partington 26

10:00am L: Felipe Garibaldi 27
11:00am C: Isaac Bustos 29–30
11:00am C: Tritonus Guitar Trio 31–32
1:30pm M: Eliot Fisk bio page 55
2022
4:00pm C: Bokyung Byun 33–34
8:00pm C: Eduardo Fernandez 35–36
THURSDAY June 30 9:00am TW: Luigi Attademo 37
10:00am L: Katalin Koltai 38
11:00am L: James Stroud 39
10:00am–12:45 ICAC Semifinals 25
1:30pm L: Michael L. Andriaccio 40
2:30pm–5:15 ICAC Semifinals 25
TABLE OF CONTENTS
8:00pm C: Beijing Duo 42–43
FRIDAY July 1 9:00am TW: Johan Smith 44
10:00am L: Alvaro Henrique Siqueira Campos 45
Santos
11:00am C: Luigi Attademo 46–47
11:00am C: Duo Noire 48–49
1:30pm Luthier Showcase 50
4:00pm C: Michael Partington 51–52
4:00pm C: Pablo Garibay 53–54
8:00pm C: Eliot Fisk 55–56
SATURDAY July 2 9:00am TW: Meng Su 57
10:00am L: Luigi Attademo 58
11:00am IYC Finals (Jr.) 62
1:30pm IYC Finals (Sr.) 62
1:30pm M: Eduardo Fernandez bio page 35
4:00pm C: Johan Smith 59–60
6:00pm ICAC Finals 62
9:00pm Hall of Fame & Awards Ceremony 63
GFA Personnel: Executive Board, Board of Trustees, and Staff 64–71
GFA Donor Acknowledgment 72
GFA ICAC and IYC Competitions Past Winners 73
Competitors 2022 76–85
KEY: C–Concert; L–Lecture; M–Masterclass; TW–Technique Workshop;

ICAC–International Concert Artist Competition; IYC–International Youth Competition
INTERNATIONAL
INDIANAPOLIS, IN JUNE 29, 2022 2022
Letter from the President
Dear Friends,
It is with great joy and anticipation that I welcome you to the 2022
GFA International Convention and Competitions! It has been 3
years since we gathered in Miami. I have missed our guitar family,
and this week, I look forward to seeing old friends reconnect,
meeting new arrivals to our community, and to us all finding our
comfort zone together.
If you come with a mask or without a mask, from Eureka or from

Europe, for the first time or for the tenth time—we welcome you!
This week we celebrate the Hall of Fame induction of legends
Eduardo Fernandez and Eliot Fisk; we celebrate the inclusion of
what we learned from the last two years with the inclusion of more
streamed events, including our education, research, and guitar society track days; and we celebrate the return of all of us, together.
I’d like to give a big shout out to our host Nemanja Ostojic, who has weathered the ups and downs of scheduling and rescheduling
this event with grace. This week is possible thanks to the generosity of our sponsors, and the hard work and creative imagination
of our staff – hats off to these behind-the-scenes heroes who allow us to enjoy the events of the week. May Convention 2022 be an
event that reinforces the power of our presence together!
Martha Masters
President, GFA
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INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION & COMPETITIONS
2022
INDIANA
A Message from Nem Ostojić

University of Indianapolis
Dear friends of guitar,
I am simply thrilled to be able to resume the in-person annual Guitar Foundation of America International Convention and
Competitions, humbly serving as the host for the very first time, but hopefully not the last.
The last two years were very challenging and testing for all of us in the field of performing arts. I am glad we were able to
resume this wonderful and deeply impactful event, overcoming the serious obstacles you and I were all facing.
As some of you know, UIndy was scheduled to host the 2020 GFA convention, but then the world turned dark. Needles to say,
our enthusiasm is renewed, and we are looking forward to see the convention unfold in Indianapolis, after nearly 7 years of
planning, hoping, and fundraising.
This 2022 convention is a recovering one, a spring towards to the great old times. As such, it may not be the most visited one
in the history, but it certainly is the special one, a stepping stone towards the GFAs we all remembered, looked forward to, and
planned our lives around every summer!
Furthermore, now nearing its 50th anniversary, the GFA never took place in the state of Indiana. As a Hoosier and, since
recently, a citizen of the United States of America, I take pride in bringing this extraordinary event to the city I call home, to
share with my students, friends, colleagues, and everyone else.
None of this would have been possible without the continuous, seven-year long effort and commitment by our UIndy
GFA team. I would like to give special thanks to our Vice President Andy Kocher, our Associate VP of Advancement Janel
Bogenschutz, UIndy professors Dr. Brett Leonard, Peter Nichols, Associate Dean Dr. Brenda Clark, our incredible friend Linda
Conti, as well as many others who wholeheartedly supported this endeavor in many ways from its beginning!
Above all, I want to thank a very special and generous person, Mr. Jerry Roush. All of us at the convention would hereby like to
express our most sincere gratitude for supporting our students, our department, our concert series, as well as this one-of-a-kind
convention! Thank you, Jerry!
To conclude…Welcome to Indianapolis, the racing capital of the world! Although we won’t watch any automotive races this
week, we are sure to enjoy some skillful and fast fingers on guitar! And no, we won’t be at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, but
you will enjoy one of the finest concert halls in the world, the Viennese-styled Ruth Lilly Performance Hall!
Welcome to Indy, and have a great time!
Dr. Nem Ostojić
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I N T E R N AT I O N A L C O N V E N T I O N & C O M P E T I T I O N S SCHEDULE
E A S T E R N T I M E
Wednesday, June 29 Thursday, June 30 Friday, July 1 Saturday, July 2

9:00 am
TW: Michael Partington TW: Luigi Attademo TW: Johan Smith TW: Meng Su
Room UIndy B Room UIndy B Room UIndy B Room UIndy B
10:00 am
L: Felipe Garibaldi: L: Katalin Koltai:
New soundscapes L: Alvaro Henrique Siqueira L: Luigi Attademo:
The Guitar Works of Claudio Santoro:
on the ‘Ligeti guitar’: Campos Santos: Giulio Regondi’s Extended Technique
Challenging the Performer and the
Chopin, Kurtág The guitar of Cesar Guerra-Peixe in the Ten Studies for Guitar
Brazilian Guitar Canon ICAC
and Saariaho Room UIndy C Room UIndy C
Room UIndy C Semi-Finals
Room UIndy C
11:00 am L: James Stroud: (10:00-12:45)
“From Botox to Brain Ruth Lilly
C: Isaac Bustos Surgery,” My 12-year Recital Hall C: Luigi Attademo IYC Finals (Jr.)
Tritonus Guitar Trio struggle to overcome Duo Noire Ruth Lilly Performance Hall
12:00 pm Ruth Lilly Performance Hall Focal Dystonia and Ruth Lilly Performance Hall
ways you can avoid it
Room UIndy C
2022
1:00 pm
L: Michael L. Andriaccio
Financial Planning and Giving Luthier Showcase IYC Finals (Sr.)
2:00 pm Room UIndy C M: Eduardo
M: Eliot Fisk (1:30–3:30pm) Ruth Lilly
Fernandez
Room 108 Ruth Lilly Performance Hall Performance
Room 108
Hall
SCHEDULE
3:00 pm
ICAC
4:00 pm Semi-Finals (2:30-5:15) C: Michael Partington
C: Bokyung Byun C: Johan Smith
Ruth Lilly Performance Hall Ruth Lilly Performance Hall Pablo Garibay Ruth Lilly Performance Hall
Ruth Lilly Performance Hall
5:00 pm
6:00 pm ICAC Finals (6:00pm)

Ruth Lilly Performance Hall
8:00 pm
C: Eduardo Fernandez C: Beijing Duo C: Eliot Fisk
Ruth Lilly Performance Hall Ruth Lilly Performance Hall Ruth Lilly Performance Hall
Awards Ceremony (9:00 pm)
KEY: C–Concert; L–Lecture; M–Masterclass; TW–Technique Workshop; ICAC–International Concert Artist Competition; IYC–International Youth Competition
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2022 VIRTUAL SCHEDULE
G FA I N T E R N AT I O N A L C O N V E N T I O N & C O M P E T I T I O N S
E A S T E R N T I M E
SCHOLARLY TRACK EDUCATION TRACK

Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
June 26 June 27 June 28 June 29 June 30 July 1 July 2
9:00 am
10:00 am
11:00 am ICAC
Semi-Finals (10:00-12:45)
IYC Finals (Jr.)
12:00 pm
1:00 pm ICAC
Prelims
2:00 pm
SCHOLARLY
ROUNDTABLE
AND HAPPY HOUR IYC Finals (Sr.)
3:00 pm EDUCATION
ROUNDTABLE AND
HAPPY HOUR
ICAC
4:00 pm
Semi-Finals (2:30-5:15)
5:00 pm
6:00 pm
ICAC Finals (6:00pm)
8:00 pm Awards Ceremony

(9:00pm)
COLOR KEY:
Click on event name links
for more information. MEMBERS ONLY STREAMED (YOUTUBE & FB)
KEY: ICAC–International Concert Artist Competition; IYC–International Youth Competition

PLEASE NOTE: This schedule is subject to change.
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2022 CAMPUS MAP
2022
UIndy venues used in this year’s convention are:

• C: Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center
• G: Schwitzer Student Center
• M: Central Hall
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AFTER HOURS 2022 VENDOR EXPO 2022
Books and Brews
3808 Shelby St, Suite 1 UIndy Hall
Indianapolis, IN 46227
in the Schwitzer Student Center
(317) 438-5151
Join us each evening after the 8pm concert for a time to
unwind and socialize with fellow GFA Convention attendees. The 2022 Vendor Expo includes luthiers, publishers,
distributors, guitar societies, guitar accessories, and more.
Visit the Vendor Expo to find a perfect new instrument,
browse sheet music, or sample guitar accessories. The Expo
is located in Uindy Hall in the Schwitzer Student Center.
VENDOR EXPO HOURS:

10 am to 4 pm Wednesday (June 29)
10 am to 4 pm Thursday (June 30)
10 am to 4 pm Friday (July 1)
10 am to 2 pm Saturday (July 2)
The rooms will be locked at times other than the Vendor

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2022 VENDOR EXPO Schwitzer Student Center
All vendors are located in the Schwitzer Student Center. Sponsors listed in bold type.
NOTE: Floor plans and vendors shown are current at the time of program publishing.
GFA
GFA Steven Walter Guitar by Stebbins
Guitars Masters Guitars
Savarez
Reverie Guitars
Marc Dickinson
Thomas Baldwin AUX Instrument

Stringed Instruments Support
Guitar Chamber
Music Press
Manufacturas
Alhambra S.L.
Jean Rompré
Luthier
--- D'Addario
Michel Bélair
Luthier
Kobs Strings by
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Joshia de Jonge Les Productions d’OZ

Guitars
Hill Guitar
Jonathan Marshall
Company
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Turrentine 52 Instrument Mark Scafati

Guitars Co. Usherovich Guitars
Sponsors
52 Instrument Co. Guitar by Masters Savarez

Manufacturas Alhambra S.L. Guitar Chamber Music Press Scafati Guitars
AUX Instrument Support Hill Guitar Company Stebbins Guitars
Thomas Baldwin Stringed Instruments Kobs Guitars Strings by Mail
Michel Bélair Luthier Les Productions d’OZ Turrentine Guitars
D’Addario Jonathan Marshall Guitars Mark Usherovich
Joshia de Jonge Guitars Reverie Guitars Steven Walter Guitars
Marc Dickinson Jean Rompré, Luthier
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INTERNATIONAL
INDIANAPOLIS, IN JUNE 29–JULY 2, 2022 2022
Advertisers * Vendors*
Sponsors listed in bold type. All vendors are located in the Schwitzer Student Center.
Sponsors listed in bold type.
Acoustic Guitar
52 Instrument Co.
Augustine Manufacturas Alhambra S.L.
Classical Guitar Store AUX Instrument Support
D'Addario Thomas Baldwin Stringed Instruments
Denver Guitar Festival and Competition Michel Bélair Luthier
Mel Bay D’Addario
Savarez Joshia de Jonge Guitars
Stringletter Publishing Marc Dickinson
Strings By Mail Guitar by Masters
Guitar Chamber Music Press
Hill Guitar Company
Kobs Guitars
Les Productions d’OZ
Jonathan Marshall Guitars
Reverie Guitars
Jean Rompré, Luthier
Savarez
Scafati Guitars
Stebbins Guitars
Strings by Mail
Turrentine Guitars
Mark Usherovich
Steven Walter Guitars
*Lists on this page are current at time of Program publishing. See Vendor Expo floor plans on pages 14.
Click on hyperlinks for website and email contact information for all of the Vendors listed in this Program.
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2022 PRIVATE LESSONS
GFA is proud to offer private lessons packages (thirty-minute lessons with three convention artists) that are available to all
registered convention participants. This is a wonderful opportunity to learn from world-class artists. Visit the GFA table
for schedule information or to check for available openings. Lessons will be held in rooms 124, 125, 130 of the Christel
DeHaan Fine Arts Center. Volunteers and signage will guide you to your lesson location. Photos/names below are followed by
their biography page numbers. Additional teachers may be assigned during the week at dates and times to be determined.
SCHEDULE 10:00 am | Wednesday–Saturday
Wednesday, June 29
Christ Habib
Jérôme Ducharme
Yameng Wang
Christ Habib Jérôme Ducharme Yameng Wang (40)
Thursday, June 30
Chris Mallet
Bokyung Byun
Johan Smith
Chris Mallet Bokyung Byun (31) Johan Smith (29)
Friday, July 1
Renauld C. Giguère
Joe Hagedorn
Maja Radovanlija
Renauld C. Giguère Joe Hagedorn Maja Radovanlija
Saturday, July 2
Joe Hagedorn
Pablo Garibay
Levente Molnár
Joe Hagedorn Pablo Garibay (51) Levente Molnár
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XL INTERNATIONAL CONCERT ARTIST COMPETITIONS
PRIZES 2022
Rose Augustine Grand Prize:
$10,000 Cash*
GFA Sponsored International Concert Tour, including approximately 50 concerts throughout the United States, Canada, and
possible other destinations.
Carnegie Hall Concert in Weill Recital Hall, sponsored by the GFA and New York City Classical Guitar Society
NAXOS CD Recording | Publication with Mel Bay
Generous string packages provided by Augustine, Savarez, and D’Addario
Video recording opportunity of GFA set piece and one free choice piece with Guitar by Masters ($1000 assistance and
royalties provided)

2nd Prize:
$7,000 Cash*
Generous string package provided by Augustine Strings
Video recording opportunity of one piece with Guitar by Masters ($500 assistance and royalties provided)
3rd Prize:
$5,000 Cash*
4th Prize:
$3,000 Cash*
All Semifinalists will receive a $500 Travel Stipend. Foreigners must provide receipts to avoid tax withholding.
Other prizes awarded to all finalists will include gift certificates donated by GSP, Strings by Mail, and KLING-ON products.
JURY
Preliminary Round: Luigi Attademo, Joe Hagedorn, Thomas Flippin, Chris Mallet, and Yameng Wang
Semifinal & Final Rounds: Zach DePue, Stephen Mattingly, Eduardo Fernandez, Eliot Fisk, Pablo Garibay, Michael Partington, and Maja Radovanlija
COMPETITION SUMMARY
The Guitar Foundation of America International Concert Artist Competition takes place in three rounds. The Preliminary Round is open to all
applicants, ages 18 and older, of any nationality. All rounds are open to the public. Competitors’ performance includes ten minutes of free choice
repertoire, plus the performance of the GFA-commissioned set piece by Andrea Clearfield (see photo/biography on page 15).

Twelve players will be selected to advance to the Semifinal Round. In the Semifinal Round, each competitor will play twenty-five minutes of music,
including the required piece, Fantasia, by Roberto Gerhard. Material from the Preliminary Round may not be repeated in the Semifinal Round.
Four players will advance to the Final Round. Each of the four finalists will perform a thirty minute free choice program, plus the set piece by
Andrea Clearfield. Material from previous rounds may not be repeated in the Final Round.
Note: See a complete list of past ICAC winners on page 85.

*All prizes subject to mandatory 30% federal tax withholding for foreign prize-winners; US prize-winners will be issued an IRS-1099 Form.
All donated prizes are subject to the delivery by the sponsor. GFA will do everything possible to ensure delivery of all prizes, but GFA will not be held
responsible if donor does not deliver a prize as listed above.
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XXXIX INTERNATIONAL CONCERT ARTIST COMPETITION
2022
Photos/names below are followed by their biography page numbers.
PRELIMINARY
ROUND
JURORS
Luigi Attademo
Joe Hagedorn
Thomas Flippin
Chris Mallett Luigi Attademo (37) Joe Hagedorn Thomas Flippin
Yameng Wang
Chris Mallett Yameng Wang (42)
SEMIFINAL
& FINAL
ROUND
JURORS
Zach DePue
Stephen Mattingly
Eduardo Fernandez Zach DePue Stephen Mattingly Eduardo Fernandez (35)
Eliot Fisk
Pablo Garibay
Michael Partington
Maja Radovanlija
Eliot Fisk (55) Pablo Garibay (53) Michael Partington (26)
18 INDIANAPOLIS Maja Radovanlija

INTERNATIONAL
CONVENTION & COMPETITION
INDIANAPOLIS, IN JUNE 29–JULY 2, 2022 2022
Set Composer
Andrea Clearfield
Andrea Clearfield is an award-winning composer of music
for opera, orchestra, chorus, chamber ensemble, dance and
multimedia collaborations. Clearfield creates deep, emotive
musical languages that build cultural and artistic bridges. She
has been praised by the New York Times for her "graceful
tracery and lively, rhythmically vital writing", the Philadelphia
Inquirer for her "compositional wizardry" and "mastery with
large choral and instrumental forces", the L.A. Times for her
"fluid and glistening orchestration" and by Opera News for
her "vivid and galvanizing" music of "timeless beauty". Her
catalog of over 160 works includes fifteen large-scale cantatas
including one for The Philadelphia Orchestra. Recent pieces are
inspired by Tibetan music fieldwork that she conducted in the
Nepalese Himalaya, including her opera MILA, Great Sorcerer
with librettists Jean-Claude van Itallie and Lois Walden that
was presented at the 2019 NYC Prototype Festival. She was
appointed Composer-in-Residence with National Concerts at
Carnegie Hall (2020-2023) and with the Chamber Orchestra
of Philadelphia (2018-19). She was awarded a 2021 Pew
International Residency Award, two Independence Foundation
Fellowships, a 2016 Pew Fellowship in the Arts and Fellowships
at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center, American
Academy in Rome, Yaddo, Copland House and MacDowell
among others. Dr. Clearfield served on the Composition
Faculty at The University of the Arts from 1986 – 2011 and
currently serves as Visiting Composer with numerous colleges
and universities in the US and abroad. She was pianist with the
Relâche Ensemble for 25 years and had the honor of performing
with the Court of the Dalai Lama.
More at andreaclearfield.com
INDIANAPOLIS 19
XVIII INTERNATIONAL YOUTH COMPETITION
PRIZES 2022
Senior Division (Ages 15–18)
1st Prize: $2,000* 2nd Prize: $1,000* 3rd Prize: $750* 4th Prize: $500*

Junior Division (Ages 14 & Under)
1st Prize: $1,000* 2nd Prize: $750* 3rd Prize: $500* 4th Prize: $250*
Other prizes to all finalists will include:

Strings generously donated by Augustine, Savarez, and D’Addario; gift certificates from Guitar Solo Publications (GSP),
Strings By Mail, and products from Kling-On.
COMPETITION SUMMARY
The Guitar Foundation of America International Youth Competition takes place in two rounds.

The Preliminary Round is open to applicants who meet the age requirements for each division of the competition. This round is closed to the public,
and takes place on Friday, July 1. Competitors will perform their choice of any piece from the Heitor Villa-Lobos Complete Works for Solo Guitar,
Editions Max Eschig, plus up to seven minutes of free choice repertoire.

Four applicants in each division will advance to the Final Round. The Final Round for the Junior Division takes place on Saturday, July 2 at 11:00am in
Ruth Lilly Performance Hall and is open to the public. All competitors must perform two contrasting works, not to exceed twelve minutes in playing
time. The Final Round for the Senior Division takes place on Saturday, July 2 at 1:30pm in Ruth Lilly Performance Hall. All competitors must perform
two contrasting works, not to exceed fifteen minutes in playing time.

Finalists for both divisions will be announced at the intermission of the Eliot Fisk 8pm concert in Ruth Lilly Performance Hall on Friday, July 1.
The IYC Awards Ceremony for both divisions will be held at approximately 4:45pm, at the conclusion of Johan Smith’s concert on Saturday, July 2nd
in Ruth Lilly Performance Hall.
JURY
Senior Division: Bálint Varga, Isaac Bustos, Meng Su; Junior Division: Gergely Szurgyi, Louis Trépanier, Bokyung Byun
Photos/names below are followed by their biography page numbers.
IYC SENIOR DIVISION JURORS
Bálint Varga Isaac Bustos (29) Meng Su (42)
IYC JUNIOR DIVISION JURORS
Gergely Szurgyi Louis Trépanier Bokyung Byun (33)
Note: See a complete list of past IYC winners on page 73.

*All prizes subject to mandatory 30% federal tax withholding for foreign prize-winners; U.S. prize-winners will be issued an IRS-1099 Form.
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TECHNIQUE WORKSHOPS and MASTERCLASSES
Technique Workshops are “hands-on”, so please feel free to bring your guitar. Note: Biography page numbers noted after artist name.
Michael Partington (26) Eliot Fisk (55) Luigi Attademo

Wednesday, June 29, Wednesday, June 29, Thursday, June 30,
9:00am 1:30pm 9:00am
TECHNIQUE WORKSHOP MASTERCLASS TECHNIQUE WORKSHOP
(UIndy B) (Room 180) (UIndy B)
Johan Smith (44) Meng Su (42) Eduardo Fernandez (35)

Friday, July 1, 9:00am Saturday, July 2, 9:00am Saturday, July 2, 1:30pm
TECHNIQUE WORKSHOP TECHNIQUE WORKSHOP MASTERCLASS
(UIndy B) (UIndy B) (Room 180)
2022
INDIANA INDIANAPOLIS 21
MASTERCLASS PERFORMERS
Eliot Fisk | Wednesday, June 29, 1:30pm | Room 108

Owen Wang Etude No. 7 Heitor Villa-Lobos
Penelope Shvarts Sevilla Isaac Albéniz
Eric Wang Capriccio de Goya no. 18 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Marko Topchii Jondo (Etude 19) Angelo Gilardino
Eduardo Fernandez | Saturday, July 2, 1:30pm | Room 108

Tae Kim Fandango Joaquin Rodrigo
Beckett Ceron Serenata Espanola Joaquin Malats
Vivian Wang Etude No. 11 Heitor Villa-Lobos
Ian Tubbs Prelude in E Major, BWV 1006a Johann Sebastian Bach
Please note that the order of performers is subject to change.

2022
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SCHOLARLY TRACK DAY

Sunday, June 26
12:00–4:30pm | On Zoom
Zoom Happy Hour and
Keynote Speaker Milton Mermikides 2022
INDIANA
You are warmly invited to join us for a series of discussions with scholars from Brazil, the United States, Switerzland, and England.
Attendees will have the opportunity to speak informally with the presenters or simply listen. Registration is required.
For full details, including abstracts and bios, visit https://bit.ly/3aJq28S.
Schedule (all times US Eastern)

12 noon:
Zoom Happy Hour for Guitar Scholars: Presentations
• Luiz Mantovani, “The Solo Sonatas of Ferdinand Rebay: An Introduction and Commentary on My ‘Posthumous
Collaboration’ with the Composer
• Matthew Mazanek, “Fantasía en Preludiar: Bass Lessons, Solfege, and Improvisation in the Guitar Methods, 1770–1840”
• Gerhard Penn, “Leonard Schulz (1813–1860): New Concert Pieces Discovered”
• Marcia E. Taborda, “Olga Praguer Coelho, Brazilian Folksong Ambassador”
1:00 pm: In-depth discussion in breakout rooms
2:00 pm: Break
3:00 pm: Keynote Lecture by Milton Mermikides: “Diamonds, Abaci, and Hexagrams: Exploring the Pitch Surface of the Guitar”
4:30pm: Finish
Abstract: “Diamonds, Abaci, and Hexagrams: Exploring the Pitch Surface of the Guitar Fretboard”
In this presentation, I will analyze the idiosyncrasies, challenges, limits, and affordances of the guitar’s "pitch surface": its
fretboard and tuning. Whatever the context—staff notation, music theory, improvisation, performance, and other arenas of guitar
activity—the layout of the fretboard exerts a profound influence on how guitarists learn, play, and compose. Inspired by De Souza,
Goodrick, and Martino, I will also explore the benefits of creative constraints: scordatura, capo, MIDI tools, and other ways of
remapping the guitar’s pitch matrix. These constraints can be used to break the guitarist’s tight auditory-motor link, revitalizing
the fretboard as a primary musical space and insightful musical "abacus."
Biography
Milton Mermikides is a composer, guitarist, electronicist, illustrator, and academic. He collaborates with artists and scientists
as diverse as Pat Martino, Tim Minchin, Evelyn Glennie, John Williams, and Brian Eno. His lectures and exhibits take him
to institutes of music, science conventions, and museums, including the Royal Academy of Music, TedX, the Royal Musical
Association, the British Library, the Royal Society of Medicine, the British Psychological Society, the Smithsonian Institute,
Oxford University Press, and the Science Museum. His work has been featured by the BBC, New Scientist, Times Higher
Education and The Guardian. He is published by Viribus, Deutsche Grammaphon, Mute, Extreme, Routledge, Cambridge
University Press, and Oxford University Press. He gained his PhD at the University of Surrey, where he is now Reader of Music;
he is also Professor of Jazz Guitar at the Royal College of Music, Professor of Research at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama,
an Ableton Certified Trainer, and artist in residence at the Centre of Eudaimonia & Human Flourishing. His first monograph,
Hidden Music, will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2023. miltonline.com
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EDUCATION
TRACK DAY
Monday, June 27
2:00pm
On Zoom
SESSIONS 2022
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“Guitar Equity and Advocacy for All” Gwen Marie Lerch

A conversation with Guitar New Mexico's President and Education Director, Gwen Marie Lerch, on guitar education equity and
advocacy and the mission to provide access to classes, affordable lessons, and playing opportunities in support of the wider goal
of a guitar program in every public middle and high school.
Biography:
Gwen-Marie Lerch is an award-winning composer, conductor, educator, and guitarist. Currently the President and Education
Director of Guitar New Mexico, she holds degrees in guitar performance, music education and composition from St. Louis
Conservatory and the University of New Mexico. She maintains leadership roles and active memberships in Guitar New Mexico,
the Guitar Foundation of America, the NM Music Educators Association, the National Association for Music Education, the
Conductors Guild, Society for Composers, and ASCAP/BMI & SEASAC.
“How to Get a Seat at the Table” Dr. Kevin Vigil

A discussion on how Virginia guitar teachers earned a seat at the table for their state Music Educators Association and
Department of Education, and created the Virginia Guitar Directors Association.
Biography:
Dr. Kevin Vigil (Dr. V) holds degrees from Shenandoah University (DMA), Yale University, (MM) and the University
of Memphis (BM). He joined the faculty of Heritage High School in the 2005 –06 school year. He was named the 2014
Shenandoah University Teacher of the Year for LCPS and presented with a Sir Winston Churchill Commemorative Crown by
Churchill Fellow Helen Sanderson for his work in guitar education (2017). In 2020, Dr. V was chosen as the Joan C. Edwards
Distinguished Professor in The Arts at Marshall University. Dr. V has been published in several guitar magazines and journals
and has presented lectures for the Guitar Foundation of America (GFA), Yale University, Philadelphia Guitar Society, James
Madison University and Marshall University among others. Several of his instruction videos are featured on GFAtv. Dr. V lead
the VMEA Guitar Council in the formation of the newly established Virginia Guitar Directors Association (VGDA) for which
he is the first president. He also serves as the Southern Representative for the NAfME Council for Guitar Education.
“The State of Public-School Classroom Guitar in the United States” Bill Swick
A presentation addressing real data that provides information on which states are aggressively offering guitar in public
schools, who is currently teaching these classes, and the content being taught. A look at the role of universities and how they
are preparing graduates for teaching guitar in public schools, and at the many resources to support classroom guitar teachers
throughout the stages of their careers.
Biography:
Bill Swick, who recently retired after forty-two years of teaching guitar, currently writes guitar ensemble arrangements,
supplementary teaching materials, and method books for several publishers. Swick has over two-hundred and sixty titles
published with J.W. Pepper, over one-hundred and twenty titles with Sheet Music Plus, and a number of titles with Music
Prodigy and Teachers Pay Teachers. Swick’s publications have recently been added to the newly created publishing division by
Hal Leonard, Arrange Me. In addition, Swick runs and operates BillSwick.com and Guitarintheclassroom.com which publishes
guitar classroom materials and a weekly newsletter for secondary guitar teachers. Swick’s classroom guitar method books have
received the J.W. Pepper Editors’ Choice Award for the past four consecutive years. Swick was recently identified as a Top Ten
Music Educator by the GRAMMY Foundation and is the author of Teaching Beginning Guitar Class: A Practical Guide and
Building an Award-Winning Guitar Program both published by Oxford University Press.
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ICAC PRELIMINARY ROUND

Tuesday, June 28–Wednesday, June 29
ALL DAY | Streamed on YouTube & Facebook
The preliminary round of the 2022 GFA International Concert Artist Competition will take place on Tuesday from 9:00am-
5:00pm in Ruth Lilly Performance Hall and Wednesday from 9:00am-5:00pm. For audience members who do not attend the
entire sequence of performances, we ask that you enter and leave the hall only during applause breaks.
The competitors and judges appreciate the audience’s consideration of competition protocol: hold applause until each
competitor has finished his/her entire set; enter and leave the hall only during applause and breaks; and turn off all handheld
devices. All competitors will perform their program as printed in the program book and the set piece by Andrea Clearfield,
commissioned by the GFA for the 2022 International Concert Artist Competition. Results of the preliminary round will be
announced on social media Tuesday night.
ICAC SEMIFINAL ROUND

Thursday, June 30
10:00am–12:45pm and 2:30–5:15pm |
The semifinal round of the 2022 GFA International Concert Artist Competition will take place on Thursday, June 30, at
10:00am-12:45 and 2:30–5:15pm in Ruth Lilly Performance Hall. For those that do not attend the entire sequence of
semifinal performances, we ask that you enter and leave the hall only during applause breaks.
The competitors and judges appreciate the audience’s consideration of competition protocol: hold applause until each
competitor has finished his/her entire set; enter and leave the hall only during applause and breaks; and turn off all
handheld devices. All competitors will perform their program as printed in the program book, plus the required piece,
Impromptus (1,2, 5 & 4) by Richard Rodney Bennett. Results of the semifinal round will be announced at the 8:00pm
Beijing Guitar Duo concert in Ruth Lilly Performance Hall.
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TECHNIQUE WORKSHOP
Wednesday, June 29
9:00am | Room: UIndy B
Michael Partington
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Michael Partington is one of the most engaging concert players of his generation. Praised by Classical Guitar Magazine for his
“lyricism, intensity and clear technical command,” this award-winning British guitarist has performed to unanimous critical
praise. Audiences are put at ease by his charming stage manner and captivated by his interpretations. An innate rhythmic
understanding and sense for tonal colour combine to form some of the most memorable phrasing to be heard on the guitar.
He has appeared throughout North America, Europe, Russia and Scandinavia as a soloist and with ensembles, and live radio
performances include BBC Radio 3’s In Tune, BBC Wales, and St. Paul Sunday on National Public Radio. He has nine solo
CD’s for Rosewood Recordings, and can be heard on the Cadenza and Present Sounds labels. An advocate of new music he has
commissioned and premiered works by Stephen Goss, Bryan Johanson, Toshio Hosokawa, Angelo Gilardino, Tom Baker, Kevin
Callahan and others.
Partington is currently Artist in Residence and director of the guitar program at the University of Washington in Seattle. He
has given classes and workshops at festivals and institutions around the world, including the Royal College of Music in London,
the Royal Conservatory in Gothenburg, Sweden, the San Francisco Conservatory, the Guitar Foundation of America, the
Canadian National Confederation of Music Societies, and the International Guitar Research Centre at the University of Surrey
in Guildford. His students have won prizes in regional, national and international competitions, and scholarships and awards to
study all over the world.
“There is much praise that one can offer to a performer such as Partington, but he is one of those artists who possess a magic
combination of a fluid technique with a wealth of musicianship. The refined manner of his sound, and his sense of phrase,
articulation and dynamic were all conveyed with extraordinary attention to detail.”
Guy Traviss, Classical Guitar Magazine
“Nimble, mercurial, subtle, and emotionally engaging, Partington’s playing consistently beguiles the ear, whether he is probing
classics of the repertoire or brand-new pieces composed for him. He draws a spectacular array of effects and shades from his
instrument.”
Melinda Bargreen, Seattle Times

“He presented a huge cross range of music played with a physical virtuosity that it’s a pleasure to watch as well as listen to.
Partington, for all his modesty, is a genius and I would encourage you to catch him while you can. The audience were enchanted
by this performance and by him too.”
Eric Page, G-Scene Magazine
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LECTURE
Wednesday, June 29
10:00am | Room: UIndy C
Felipe Garibaldi
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The Guitar Works of Claudio Santoro: Challenging the Performer and the Brazilian Guitar Canon
The classical guitar repertory in the 20th and 21st centuries is significantly marked by major contributions from Brazilian
composers. Names such as Heitor Villa-Lobos, Radamés Gnattali, and Sérgio Assad come easily to mind, just as the sound of
pungent rhythms and idiomatic lyricism come to the ears, thus creating an idea of Brazilian guitar music. Interestingly enough,
Brazilian composer Claudio Santoro (1919-1989) – one of the most distinguished and prolific Brazilian composers in the 20th
century – writes his guitar works rather posing a challenge to the above said notion of Brazilian guitar repertory. As a non-
guitarist composer, he strays from the nationalistic stereotype and from overused idiomatic strategies, bringing forth pieces
that explore unparalleled textures and rich harmonies emanating from concise pitch material explored with mastery. Santoro’s
body of guitar works consists of four pieces: Preludes No. 1 and No. 2 (1982), Etude N.1 (1982), and Fantasia Sul-América
(1983). Besides the high level of technique that these pieces demand from any guitar player, in them one can also find tremolos,
arpeggios, harmonics and rasgueos that pose challenges the imaginative mind of the performer. This lecture aims mainly to: 1)
Present attendees with a panorama of the Brazilian guitar repertory beyond the nationalistic stereotypes; 2) Foster knowledge
on the works of Claudio Santoro, approaching it through music analysis, historical context, and insights from guitarists that
collaborated with the composer; This lecture is a result of the research done Felipe Garibaldi de Almeida on his Master’s thesis
“Obra de Claudio Santoro para Violão Solo: contexto de criação, análise musical e sugestões técnico interpretativas” (2014) at the
University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil.
Biography
Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Felipe Garibaldi is an active performer, composer, and instructor. Awarded with the Nascente Prize
at the 20th Programa Nascente by the University of São Paulo, Mr. Garibaldi recently received both a Grant and a Graduate
Assistantship from the Johns Hopkins University for his Doctoral studies in Classical Guitar Performance at the Peabody
Conservatory, in the studio of reputed guitarist and pedagogue Julian Gray. Felipe Garibaldi actively fosters innovation in the
guitar repertory through premier performances and recordings, collaborative projects alongside composers, and his very own
compositions. He has made recordings of guitar works by Carlos Alberto Pinto Fonseca and Nelson Macedo – for Cultura
FM de São Paulo Radio Broadcast, commissioned and curated by Fábio Zanon – also the U.S. premiere performance of the
complete solo guitar works by Claudio Santoro (1919-1989), and the Brazilian premiere of Quarteto de Los Vientos by Leo
Brouwer. Mr. Garibaldi has also made recordings and arrangements on Christian music for Sony Music. During his early years
of guitar training, Mr. Garibaldi attended the Adventist Academy of Arts (ACARTE, UNASP-SP), in São Paulo, Brazil, under
the instruction of Aída Saggioro and renowned guitarist and composer Francisco Araújo. Later, he studied with guitarist and
musicologist Gilson Antunes and distinguished guitar pedagogue Henrique Pinto. Mr. Garibaldi earned both his Bachelor in
Classical Guitar Performance and Master of Music degrees from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, under renowned Brazilian
guitarist Edelton Gloeden. Mr. Garibaldi has participated in masterclasses with internationally acclaimed musicians such as
Leo Brouwer, David Russell, Manuel Barrueco, Sérgio Assad, Eliot Fisk, Edelton Gloeden, Fábio Zanon, Jason Vieaux, Bruce
Holzman, Christina Travlopoulou, Go Nagano, and José Maria Gallardo del Rey. Mr. Garibaldi has extensively worked as a
music educator and faculty member, holding teaching positions at the Adventist University Center of São Paulo (UNASP) and
a Graduate Teaching Assistant position at the Guitar Department of the Peabody Conservatory. Mr. Garibaldi's work aims
to promote the music from Latin-America, particularly from Brazil, always presenting diverse audiences with diverse music
traditions.
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CONCERT
Wednesday, June 29
11:00am | Ruth Lilly Performance Hall
Isaac Bustos
“Soulful and virtually flawless,” hails the Portland Oregonian and the Boston Globe writes, “In warm, round tones, the notes
of Bach cascaded from the guitar, every note correct and played without hesitation.” Classical guitarist, pedagogue and educator
Dr. Isaac Bustos, enjoys an extensive performing career that has taken him to Canada, Central America, Europe, China, and all
over the US. Bustos has made several Radio and Television appearances and is in demand as clinician and master class teacher
invited to perform in some of the most prestigious festivals around the globe including the Guitar Foundation of America
Annual Convention, Panama Guitar Festival, Festival Internacional de Guitarra Monterrey and Festival del Noreste in Mexico.
Isaac has appeared as soloist with the Orchestra of New Spain, The Baytown Symphony Orchestra, The Nicaraguan National
Symphony Orchestra and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Maestro JoAnn Falletta.
Dr. Bustos has acquired an impressive number of top prizes in over 12 major international competitions, 7 of which are first
prizes. Isaac has premiered new guitar works by composers Nico Muhly, Blas Atehortúa, Samuel Zyman, Frank Wallace,
Mark Cruz, Peter Lieuwen, and Joe Williams II. In the Spring of 2019, he premiered a new concerto for guitar and orchestra,
commissioned and dedicated to him, by American composer Peter Lieuwen under the baton of maestro Franz Anton Krager and
the University of Houston Symphony Orchestra. Isaac has recorded for the Delos, MSR and Vgo Recordings labels.
Chamber music collaborations have included performances with the Grammy award-winning ensembles Los Angeles Guitar
Quartet and Conspirare Choir, the Turtle Creek Chorale and legendary Mexican cellist Carlos Prieto. Bustos is also a founding
member of the award-winning Texas Guitar Quartet and has released two critically acclaimed discs with the group.
Isaac holds a Bachelor of Music degree in guitar performance from the University of New Hampshire, where he was the only
guitarist to ever hold a full scholarship, a Master of Music degree and Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of
Texas at Austin, where he worked under the guidance of renowned American guitarist Adam Holzman.
As an educator, his commitment to teaching is reflected in the success of his students whose prize-winning performances have
included victories in the Eastfield Guitar Festival and competition, Brownsville Guitar Ensemble Competition, “Classical
Minds” Guitar Competition, Houston Young Artist, East Carolina University Competition, Rosario Competition, Appalachian
State Competition, Boston Guitar Fest International Competition and Guitar Foundation of America International Youth
Competition. Dr. Bustos has been on faculty at Texas A&M University, and now serves on the faculty at the
University of Texas—San Antonio Department of Music, where he is head of guitar studies and artistic director of
the Southwest Guitar Symposium.
*Dr. Bustos is an Augustine Strings Sponsored Artist and plays on a 2020 Martin Blackwell Double-top Cedar
guitar*
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Isaac Bustos
Verano Porteño Astor Piazzolla

(1921-1992)
Guajira a mi Madre Antonio “Ñico” Rojas

(1921-2008)
Yesterday Lennon/McCartney
(Arr. T. Takemitsu)
Rumores de la Caleta Isaac Albéniz

Cadiz (1860-1909)
From 24 Caprichos de Goya Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

I. Francisco Goya y Lucientes, pintor (1895-1968)
Rondeña Regino Sainz de la Maza

Zapateado (1896-1981)
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CONCERT
Wednesday, June 29
Tritonus Guitar Trio is a Hungarian classical guitar ensemble. Their first concert was held in january 2015, in Budapest. The
current members of the ensemble are Levente Molnár, Gergely Szurgyi and Bálint Varga. They all came from the class of Ede
Roth and worked together as an ensemble with Balázs Arnóth, at the Music University of Győr.
For now Tritonus Guitar Trio has showed up in all areas of Hungary and abroad, and has competed succesfully on national and
international competitions. They have won the first prize at the chamber music competitions of Szeged, Győr and Bratislava.
They have also got the public award at the International Chamber Music Competition in Braga, Portugal.
In 2018, the trio won the second place at Guitar Foundation of America’s International Ensemble Competition. In 2019,
they won the following edition of IEC, GFA, which was held in Miami.
The first CD of the trio released in the end of 2018, it is called "DEBÜT".
The goal of Tritonus Guitar Trio is to play pieces, which can not be heard or are rarely played on three guitars. Their further and
most important purpose is to widen the guitar repertoire and to reach more and more people with classical guitar music.
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Excerpts from 15 Sinfonias Johann Sebastian Bach

(1685–1750)
Le marche des Scythes Joseph Nicolas Pancrace Royer

(1703–1755)
Scintilla Marek Pasieczny

(1980–)
Saltarello la Regina Anonymous
Tourdion Pierre Attaignant

(1494–1552)
Rókatánc Anonymus
Excerpts from 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs (11-15) Bartók Béla

(1881–1945)
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CONCERT
Wednesday, June 29
4:00pm | Ruth Lilly Performance Hall
Bokyung Byun
Praised by Classical Guitar Magazine as “confident and quite extraordinary,” Korean guitarist Bokyung Byunenjoys a
reputation as one of the most sought-after guitarists of her generation. Notably, she is the first female winner of the prestigious
JoAnn Falletta International Guitar Concerto Competition. This win is among many wherein Ms. Byun excelled in the
competitive circuit, including first-prize finishes at the Frances Walton Competition, the Montreal International Classical
Guitar Competition, and the Philadelphia Classical Guitar Competition. A bevy of orchestras, festivals, workshops, and guitar
societies look to Ms. Byun for solo performances and masterclasses. In recent seasons, Ms. Byun has performed as a soloist with
orchestras, including the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Utah Symphony, West Los Angeles Symphony, among others. Ms. Byun’s
debut recording has been praised as “a very beautiful disc. From the first notes of the “Gallarda” from Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s
Escarraman, we are treated to extraordinary musicianship, technical assurance, and beauty of sound” (Soundboard Magazine).
Ms. Byun holds Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree
from the University of Southern California.
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A Taiwan native, Ming-Jui Liu has received several awards at various guitar competitions in Taiwan. He has performed as
a soloist and a chamber musician in different venues worldwide. In 2016, Ming-Jui was invited to give a solo recital in I
Seminário Internacional de Violão do IFCE (Fortaleza, Brazil). In 2017, as a co-founder of Arvo Duo, Ming-Jui gave a duo
recital in the 25th Long Island Guitar Festival. In 2018, Ming-Jui was a festival artist and judge in the 4th Qinling Mountains
International Guitar Festival (Shaanxi, China).
In addition to his performing career, Ming-Jui is a prolific composer and arranger and has published several original works and
arrangements for solo guitar and chamber music in prestigious publications, including Canadian publishing house Doberman-
Yppan, Gendai Guitar Magazine in Japan and Taiwan Guitar Society. Several of his arrangements are also available on IMSLP.
As a sought-after teacher, Ming-Jui enjoys teaching all levels of students. He was a substitute teacher at Purchase College (NY,
USA) and Stony Brook University (NY, USA), and an undergraduate chamber music coach at Stony Brook University.
Ming-Jui holds his Doctor of Musical Arts in Classical Guitar Performance at Stony Brook University. His principal teachers
have included Chan-Juan Chiu, Zhong-Shing Shie, Kevin R. Gallagher, Frederic Hand, Adam Holzman, Jerry Willard,
and João Luiz Rezende Lopes. Ming-Jui also studied harmony, composition, and arrangement with Wen-Chuan Hu and
João Luiz Rezende Lopes.
Currently Ming-Jui serves on the faculty of Conservatory of Music at Huanggang Normal University
(Hubei, China).
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Bokyung Byun
The Rainy Ketagalan Port* Ming-Jui Liu

Vivian and Owen Wang
Prelude and Dance Celil Refik Kaya

(b. 1991)
Tre Preludi Mediterranei Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

1. Serenatella (1895–1968)
2. Nenia
3. Danza

Prelude No. 4 João Luiz
(b. 1980)
Brasiliana No. 13 Radames Gnattali

1. Samba bossa-nova (1906–1988)
2. Valsa
3. Choro
*commissioned for Vivian and Owen Wang
This concert is generously sponsored by Stringletter Publications.
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CONCERT
Wednesday, June 29
Eduardo Fernandez
Eduardo Fernández began studying classical guitar at 7, with Raúl Sánchez Arias. He went on to study with Abel Carlevaro,
Guido Santórsola (harmony and counterpoint) and Héctor Tosar (composition). He won first prize in the Andrés Segovia
International competition in Mallorca, Spain (1975) and several other competitions, among them Porto Alegre, Brazil (1972)
and was prized also in Radio France (1975). His New York debut, in 1977, and an excellent review in the New York Times,
opened the doors to an international career. His very succesful London debut (Wigmore Hall, 1983) led to an exclusive
recording contract with Decca/London. Since then he has played, besides the USA and most European countries, in Latin
America and Mexico, and also in Asia (Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, Thailand, Singapore), Australia and
South Africa. He is recognized as one of the leading guitarists of his generation. His recordings cover a substantial share of the
guitar repertoire, solos as well as concerti. He has recorded for DENON, Erato, Arte Nova, Labor Records and Oehms Classics
as well as for Decca. Active also as a teacher, he has taught masterclasses in the whole world, including prestigious institutions
such as the Curtis Institute, the San Francisco Conservatory and the Manhattan School of Music in the USA. He is also a
fellow researcher at the Uruguayan University's Music School (EUM/UDELAR) and has published many papers and articles,
as well as books about guitar technique and the music of J.S. Bach. A new work on the first generation of guitarist-composers of
the XIXth century is in preparation. He is also an active composer.
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Eduardo Fernandez
The Four Sonatas Manuel María Ponce

(1882-1948)
Sonata Mexicana
I. Allegro moderato
II. Andantino affettuoso
III. Allegretto in tempo di Serenata
IV. Allegretto un poco vivace
Sonata Romántica
I. Allegro moderato
II. Andante espressivo
III. Allegretto vivo
IV. Allegro non troppo e serioso
Intermission
Sonata Clásica
I. Allegro
II. Andante
III. Menuet
IV. Allegro
Sonata III
I. Allegro moderato
II. Chanson: Andante
III. Allegro non troppo
This concert is generously sponsored by D’Addario.
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TECHNIQUE WORKSHOP
Thursday, June 30
Luigi Attademo
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Award-winning in several national and international competitions, among the others the “Concours International d’Exécution
Musicale (CIEM)” in Geneva (1995), Luigi Attademo was pupil of the guitarist-composer Angelo Gilardino. He has been
invited as a guest in several festivals and he has given the first performance of many contemporary works of important
composers, like
Angelo Gilardino, Alvaro Company, Dusan Bogdanovic, Alessandro Solbiati, Giorgio Gaslini, Michele Tadini, Sofia
Gubaidulina and others. Among his teachers, Julius Kalmar (conduction), composers as Giovanni Guanti, Alessandro Solbiati,
and the harpsichord player Emilia Fadini (Baroque music). Doctorate in Philosophy with a dissertation on the musical
interpretation, hebpublished a book about this subject. He has been contributor to severalbspecialized magazines, like the
Italians “Giornale della Musica” “Seicorde” “il Fronimo”, the Spanish guitar magazine “Roseta”, “Soundboard” (USA) and
“Schweitzer Musikzeitung.” He worked in the Archive of the Andrés Segovia’s Foundation (Linares-Spain), to catalogue its
manuscripts (catalogue published on the Spanish musicological magazine “The Roseta”), and he discovered some unknown
manuscripts of important composers, such as Jaume Pahissa, Alexandre Tansman, Gaspar Cassadò and others, after published
by A. Gilardino in the Segovia Archive Collection (Berben Edition). He gave concerts in Europe, Australia, Argentina, USA,
India ecc. performing Italian music and chamber music; in 2011 he played around the world (New York, Wien, London,
Warsaw, Guitar Foundation of America, etc.) a new program on Paganini and Italian contemporary works, written specifically
for him, which have been published by the Sinfonica Editions in 2013 (a book and a CD). He recorded several CDs, from
Baroque music to Segovia Repertoire. In the 2007, the American magazine “Guitar Review” dedicated him an interview and a
CD with his recent recordings. After the cd dedicated to Scarlatti’s Sonatas (Brilliant, 2009), he recorded a double cd dedicated
to Bach music for lute, published by Brilliant Classics (2011). He recorded the complete works for guitar solo by Niccolò
Paganini, released by Brilliant Classics in 2013, on an original guitar from that period (a Gaetano Guadagnini, 1851).
In 2014 the Italian magazine Amadeus dedicated him the cover and published his CD on Fernando Sor Masterworks, another
time played on original instrument (Lacôte 1830). During these years he started to play with the violist Simone Gramaglia
(viola of the Quartetto di Cremona) and he published with him a new CD dedicated to Paganini music for guitar and viola
(Brilliant, 2015); in the same year, he dedicate a programme to Boccherini Quintets, playing with Quartetto di Cremona and
Cuarteto Casals (last concert at the prestigious Haydnsaal in Eisenstadt). In that year he realized another project—with the
support by the Ernst Von Siemens Foundation—dedicated to Hans Werner Henze music and his masterwork El Cimarrón. In
2016 he was the first performer of the Alessando Solbiati’s new work for guitar and 15 instruments, that he recorded last year.
In the same year he has released a new CD devoted to 19th century repertoire played on original instruments, using six different
historical guitars.
This year he worked to a project dedicated to Antonio Torres, and he is giving many concerts playing original guitars by Torres.
He is also the curator of the Exhibition dedicated to Torres by the Museo del Violino in Cremona (15of Sept. 2017-14th of
Jan.2018). After he published a new CD, A Spanish potrait, on an original Torres from 1888, very appreciate by the critics
and for which the Italian magazine Seicorde devoted him last issue. He teaches at State Conservatory of Castelfranco Veneto
(Italy). He is often invited as expert at the Geneva and Lausanne Conservatories, and from 2010, he is regularly invited to give
lecture/recitals at Royal Academy of Music of London. He has been also juror in many international competitions (Pittaluga
Competition, Mottola, GFA...).
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LECTURE
Thursday, June 30
Katalin Koltai
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New soundscapes on the ’Ligeti guitar’: Bartók, Chopin, Kurtág and Mulvey
This lecture-recital explores a new world of guitar sonorities through novel arrangements; Chopin: Berceuse Op. 57, Saariaho:
Nocturne and Kurtág: Ligatura Y performed on a new instrument prototype, the ‘Ligeti Guitar’.
In collaboration with the Altamira Guitar Foundation, Hanson Yao and Oren Myers, the ‘Ligeti guitar’ was developed in
2021. The new prototype integrates an adjustable magnet capo system into a transformed fretboard. Koltai designed the
magnet capo system originally as a new set of partial capos (2018-2020), also presented in an article in Soundboard Scholar.
She demonstrated how Bartokian clusters and Ligeti’s pitch sets were translated into radical open-string sets by deploying
the adjustable capos. These innovative transcriptions led to further innovation, extending the magnet capo system into a
transformed guitar fretboard. The ‘Ligeti guitar’ radically opens the instrument’s idiomatic borders, hereby demonstrated in
three arrangements: Frédéric Chopin’s Berceuse (1844) is an improvisatory flow of variations on an ostinato ground bass. In this
guitar arrangement, the ground bass is translated into an open string set. Therefore the variations are independent in the left
hand, resulting in romantic and virtuoso passages in wide registers.
The third part of this talk explores Katalin Koltai’s very recent collaboration with György Kurtág. The collaboration started in
August 2021, when Katalin had the opportunity to work on her arrangements with Kurtág. The composer originally composed
the Ligatura Y for piano and later rearranged it for string trio. Koltai’s transcription has been in a fluid transformation
throughout the collaboration with the composer, to be demonstrated here.
The last piece of this lecture-recital is written especially for the Ligeti Guitar by Gráinne Mulvey. Katalin commissioned
Mulvey in 2020 and premiered her work at the London Guitar Festival in 2021. Soft morning city is a microtonal, partly
improvisation based piece, inspired by James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. In the piece the atmospheric transformation of the early
morning rainy Dublin is reflected in the transformation of the guitar’s sonic landscape.
Biography
Katalin Koltai is an internationally acclaimed guitarist, soloist, and chamber musician, performing regularly with major
orchestras and constant champion of contemporary music, creating interdisciplinary stage works and transcriptions, she
records for North/South Recordings, Naxos, Hungaroton and Genuin. Her transcriptions from various musical eras have
been published by Doblinger Austria, and received international critical acclaim, notably from Classical Guitar Magazine and
Gendai Magazine. Katalin gained degrees from the Budapest Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, Royal Conservatory of Bruxelles,
and the Conservatorium Maastricht, taught by Jozsef Eotvos, Antigoni Goni, Raphaella Smits, Carlo Marchione, and Jose
Maria Gallardo Del Rey. She is a PhD researcher at the International Guitar Research Centre, University of Surrey since Fall
2018, focuses on guitar transcription and new music for guitar supervised by Steve Goss and Tom Armstrong. She invented a
new magnet capo system and a new guitar prototype, the ’Ligeti Guitar’. As a researcher, she published in Soundboard Scholar,
Lute Society of America Quarterly, Bloomsbury Academic and gave talks at GFA Convention, 21st Century Guitar Conference
Portugal, Dublin Guitar Symposium. Currently a FASS Scholarship Holder, Katalin is a former fellow of the Dutch Cultural
Ministry and winner of the Royal Musical Association Frank Howes Grant, the American Musical Instrument Society
Research Grant and the Hungarian Junior Prima Prize.
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LECTURE
Thursday, June 30
James Stroud
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“From Botox to Brain Surgery” my 12 year struggle to overcome Focal Dystonia and ways you can avoid it.
This lecture will walk through my 12 year journey to overcome Focal Hand Dystonia in my right hand. I will outline how
one likely gets FD and some common ways to avoid it. I will then go through an overview of the different treatments I sought
from all over the world including Spain, Switzerland, UK,Canada,India and the US. These treatments included Sensory Motor
Retuning, Differential learning, Splinting, Physical Therapy, Acupuncture, Dry Needling, Neuro Reset training, Occupational
Therapy, Focused Ultrasound,Botox Injections and finally culminating with acceptance into a clinical trial at the National
Institutes of Health(NIH) in Bethesda Maryland. The clinical trial utilizes Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery(DBS) Performed
at the National Institutes of Health. At the NIH I was the third person accepted into the program and the very first Guitarist.
I will then outline what they have discovered about FD at the NIH and show videos of before and after of my right hand. I
will give an overview of the first two musicians treated and their results and then discuss what requirements are needed to be
accepted into the clinical trial. The lecture will also provide a brief overview of the 6 hour surgery, recovery and the details of
the follow up care of the trial. The trial lasts 5 years and I am in the first year of the trial with extremely encouraging results.
When I described the process to David Collett from GSI he called it “Space age” solutions. Lastly I will discuss the retraining
curriculum and guidance provided by my teacher Jack Sanders from L.A.
Biography
James Stroud has a masters degree in Guitar Performance from the University of Akron 1984 where he was a graduate assistant
to Stephen Aron. After graduation he embarked on a business career. He returned to Classical Guitar in 2008 only to become
afflicted with Focal Dystonia after two years of recitals and lectures. James is an avid supporter of Classical guitar having
promoted and personally funded 18 classical guitar competitions. His Youth competition offers the highest prize money for
high school aged students in the world. He is currently a GFA Board Member.
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Thursday, June 30
1:30pm | Room: UIndy C
Michael L. Andriaccio
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Financial Planning and Giving

This lecture will focus on the basics of financial planning and planned giving. For the past 40+ years, Michael has led a unique
dual life as an international touring and recording artist and a highly successful financial advisor. He was trained and worked
on Wall Street and has built a large financial advisory practice managing nearly 100 million dollars of private wealth in 27
states. He is currently a semi-retired Senior Vice President with Ameriprise Financial.
Biography
Michael Andriaccio has enjoyed a celebrated international performing and recording career as a member of the Castellani
Andriaccio Guitar duo, one of the foremost guitars duos in the world. With his wife and musical partner, Joanne Castellani,
they have been hailed by critics as, “one of the greatest guitar duos of the century” (Leo Brouwer). Their numerous cds have
garnered critical acclaim with two being named “Best of the Year” by Fanfare Magazine and American Record Guide.
Early on, they were awarded scholarships to the master classes of Andres Segovia in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Ever since,
they have been featured at Carnegie Hall, the Smithsonian Instruction, the JFK Center for the Performing Arts, PBS and NPR
broadcasts, BBC Radio and Abbey Road Studios in London, the Roman Forum and the White House upon the invitation
of President Bill Clinton. The Duo has recorded with such world renowned orchestras as the Israel Chamber Orchestra, the
London Symphony Orchestra and many others. As a sought after pedagogue, Michael and Joanne have taught at over one
hundred universities and conservatories around the world.
Michael has also recorded a number of solo albums including the world premier recording of “Goyescana”, Concerto for Guitar
with the London Symphony Orchestra, by three time Grammy Award Winning composer, Michael Colina.
Michael is a founder and Director of Artists and Repertoire for Fleur de Son Classics and is Artistic Co director of the JoAnn
Falletta International Guitar Concerto Competition presented by WNED/PBS and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. He is
a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the Alice Tully Circle of the Chamber Music Society of
Lincoln Center. Currently, he is an artist faculty member of the Interharmony International School of Music.
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CONCERT
Thursday, June 30
Beijing Duo
Praised by the distinguished Classical Guitar Magazine as “having the star potential to serve as inspiration for new generations
of guitarists to come,” the Beijing Guitar Duo made their New York debut in Carnegie Hall in 2010 and launched their
international concert career.
Guitarist Meng Su and Yameng Wang, the Beijing Guitar Duo has performed around the world in halls such as the
Concertgebouw, Palau de Musica, Tchaikovsky Hall and the National Theatre in Beijing. This season will take them to a 12-
city concert tour in the United States in February (Washington D.C., Cincinnati, Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee,
Knoxville) as well as other performances in Europe and China. The duo regularly collaborates with orchestras, in ensemble with
flutist Marina Piccinini, guitarists Grigoryan Brothers and with their mentor Manuel Barrueco touring in Europe, Australia,
Asia and the U.S.
The Beijing Guitar Duo’s performances and recordings have impressed the public with “an ability and artistry that exceeds their
years.” Their debut CD Maracaípe, received a Latin-GRAMMY nomination for the titled piece, which was dedicated to them by
renowned guitarist/composer Sergio Assad. Their second CD, Bach to Tan Dun, has been widely noted for the world-premiere
recording of Tan Dun’s Eight Memories in Watercolor, specially arranged for the duo by Manuel Barrueco. A recording in trio,
China West, with Maestro Barrueco was released in May 2014.
Meng Su and Yameng Wang were born in the coastal city of Qingdao, China. They came to the partnership with exceptional
credentials, including a string of competition awards. Ms. Su’s honors include victories at the Vienna Youth Guitar
Competition and the Christopher Parkening Guitarist Competition, while Ms. Wang was the youngest guitarist to win the
Tokyo International Guitar Competition at the age of 12, and was invited by Radio France to perform at the prestigious
Paris International Guitar Art Week at age 14. Both young artists had given solo recitals in China and abroad, and had made
recordings before they formed the duo.
In addition to concertizing, the duo shares a love for teaching which brings them to major conservatories in the world for master
classes and to judge competitions. The duo served as Artists-in-residence from 2011-15 for the San Francisco Performances which
brought them to the Bay Area two weeks a year for community outreach, performances, and masterclasses in public schools as
well as for the SF Conservatory.
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Beijing Duo
Two Sonatas Domenico Scarlatti
K.173, L.447 (arr. Alexandre Lagoya) (1685-1757)
K.141, L.422 (arr. Beijing Guitar Duo)
Valses Poéticos Enrique Granados

Vivace molto e melodico (1867-1916)
Tempo de vals noble (arr. Gruber-Maklar Duo)
Tempo de vals lento
Allegro humoristico
Allegretto (elegante)
Quasi ad libitum (sentimental)
Vivo
Presto
(Meng Su & Yameng Wang, guitars)
Five Bagatelles William Walton

Allegro (1902-1983)
Lento
Alla cubana
Sempre espressivo
Con slancio
(Meng Su, solo guitar)
Intermission
Mazurka apasionada Agustín Barrios Mangoré

Contemplacion (1885-1944)
(Yameng Wang, solo guitar)
Nian Hua (Chinese New Year’s Paintings)* Chen Yi

Spring ox and cowherd (b. 1953)
Five boys snatch lotus seed pods
Prosperity in the New Year
Tango Suite Astor Piazzolla

Allegro (1921-1992)
Andante
Allegro vivace
(Meng Su & Yameng Wang, guitars)
* The commission of Nian Hua has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program,
with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund.
Discography: TONARMUSIC (www.TonarMusic.com)

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This concert is generously sponsored by Savarez.
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TECHNIQUE WORKSHOP
Friday, July 1
Johan Smith
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Swiss classical guitarist, Johan Smith, is a highly acclaimed, illustrious musician, bringing virtuosic interpretations to his
instrument. Winner of the prestigious Guitar Foundation of America (GFA) competition in 2019 and defined as the “Classical
Guitar Revelation 2017” by the notable French magazine “Guitar Classical Magazine”, Johan Smith has become one of the most
prominent names in the world of classical guitar. He has been invited to perform in renowned festivals, is a highly in-demand
concert soloist, and has performed with orchestras such as the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra
and the Versoix Chamber Orchestra. He is currently preparing the recording of his second album with Naxos, as well as tours
that will bring him to perform in China, the United States, Canada, and at the famous Carnegie Hall in New York.
Playing at the highest level, Johan Smith has won some of the most competitive and distinguished guitar competitions in
the world. As a result of his 2019 win of classical guitar’s most venerable competition, Guitar Foundation of America (GFA),
Johan has recorded his first solo album with the Naxos Label (2020); He was a featured soloist in the virtual June 2020 GFA
conference, and will begin a nine- month tour from September 2021 throughout June 2022, presenting solo concerts, conducting
masterclasses and outreach activities in over 50 cities across the United States and Canada. Johan is recording his second album
with the Naxos Label as part of winning 1st place in the Changsha International Guitar Competition in 2019, and, will also be
embarking on a 6-city tour throughout China (Hangzhou, Chengdu, Kunming, Yueyang, Xi’an, Changsha).
In addition to winning 1st prize the Guitar Foundation of America (US) and the Changsha International Guitar Competition
(China) in 2019, Johan Smith has also won prizes in the following competitions: Special Prize from the Victoria & Joaquin
Rodrigo Foundation, 1st prize at the VI° International Guitar Competition of Thessaloniki, 1st prize at the International
Competition of Fontenay-Sous-Bois, 1st prize at V° International Festival Guitare au Beffroi, 1st prize at the 89° Leopold Bellan
International Competition, 1st prize at the XIII° National Competition of Ceyzeriat (also winning the public prize), 3rd prize at
the III° Pleven International Guitar Competition, 3rd prize at I° Aalborg International Guitar Competition.
Johan’s particular interest in contemporary music has led him to collaborate with several composers, including Josquin
Schwizgebel and Arnaud Fillion, who dedicated his “Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra” to Johan. His affiliation with Arnaud
Fillion bestowed an opportunity to record the Fillion’s three-movement concerto with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra in
October 2019, released in February 2020.
Notable career highlights include Johan’s collaboration with the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra at the BCV Concert Hall in
Switzerland in May 2019, performing the one of the most prestigious classical guitar concertos, Joaquín Rodrigo’s “Concerto de
Aranjuez”. Johan also was a featured soloist at the 9th (2017) and 11th (2019) annual International Guitar Festival of Versoix,
Switzerland, playing with the Chamber Orchestra of Versoix at the festival October 2017, and was invited back to perform a solo
recital in November 2019.
Born in 1990 in Geneva, Johan obtained a Bachelor in 2015 and a “Master of Arts in Instrumental Pedagogy” in 2017 at the
University of Music of Lausanne, in the class of Dagoberto Linhares. In addition to teaching guitar at the Conservatory of
Morges, he also obtained the most important academic title in the field of musical performance in Switzerland: the “Master of
Arts specializing in Music Performance Soloist”(2019), awarded by the highest grade.
In a completely different approach, he is the founder, composer, performer and graphic designer in the extreme metal band
“Stortregn”, with whom he has already recorded four albums and played in three continents since 2005.
Johan is an endorsee of Savarez guitar strings, one of the world’s leading string manufacturers (founded in 1770).
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LECTURE
Friday, July 1
Alvaro Henrique Siqueira
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The guitar of Cesar Guerra-Peixe

Cesar Guerra-Peixe (1914-1993) was a unique Brazilian composer. He was a main figure of two antogonic movements
throughout his life: the Musica Viva, which intended to update Brazilian composers with modern composition techniques
(specially those presented on the famous 1950s-1960s Darmstad festivals), and the Armorial, which focused on creating
a sophisticated Brazilian art form undressed of any European element. His guitar works feature this duality, and we can
appreciate in his music the avant-gard and the rural music from the "sertao" (a slang for desertao, big desert). In addition, he
composed pieces that can be playied by begginers - some are as difficult as Brouwer's Estudios Sencillos - and also that demand
virtuosity. In all works, however, his intense use of combining open strings with chords in high positions to colour his chords
are a rare feature of idiomatism by a non-guitarist composer. This lecture intends to present some of his music for teachers
looking for material for his students and for guitarists seeking different repertoire. Brazil has 27 states, and "Brazilian Music"
featured in guitar concerts is, in fact, the music of one state only - Jobim, Villa-Lobos, Baden-Powell, are all from Rio de
Janeiro. Guerra-Peixe is one the masters who brilliantly wrote for the guitar who writes music inspired by a different region.
Along with slides, the lecture will feature some works playied live by the presenter.
Biography
Guitarist Alvaro Henrique considers music the language of emotion, and aims to help audiences to speak and understand better
this language. Henrique’s programs include a host of plucked instruments covering a fascinating range of history and cultures,
from Villa-Lobos, Scarlatti, Giuliani to transcriptions of Tchaikovsky and new works. As a soloist, Henrique has performed in
15 countries. Among the conductors he’s worked with are Julio Medaglia, Ville Mankkinen, and Angelo Cavallaro. With an
interest in social activism, Alvaro’s projects have included commissioning works centered on social issues, like Jorge Antunes’
Brasilia 50. Currently teaches at the Escola de Musica de Brasilia (Brazil), and works on his new album.
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CONCERT
Friday, July 1
Luigi Attademo
Musicale (CIEM)” in Geneva (1995), Luigi Attademo was pupil of the guitarist-composer Angelo Gilardino. He has been invited
as a guest in several festivals and he has given the first performance of many contemporary works of important composers, like
Angelo Gilardino, Alvaro Company, Dusan Bogdanovic, Alessandro Solbiati, Giorgio Gaslini, Michele Tadini, Sofia
Gubaidulina and others. Among his teachers, Julius Kalmar (conduction), composers as Giovanni Guanti, Alessandro Solbiati,
and the harpsichord player Emilia Fadini (Baroque music). Doctorate in Philosophy with a dissertation on the musical
interpretation, hebpublished a book about this subject. He has been contributor to severalbspecialized magazines, like the
Italians “Giornale della Musica” “Seicorde” “il Fronimo”, the Spanish guitar magazine "Roseta", “Soundboard” (USA) and
“Schweitzer Musikzeitung.” He worked in the Archive of the Andrés Segovia’s Foundation (Linares-Spain), to catalogue its
manuscripts (catalogue published on the Spanish musicological magazine "The Roseta"), and he discovered some unknown
manuscripts of important composers, such as Jaume Pahissa, Alexandre Tansman, Gaspar Cassadò and others, after published
by A. Gilardino in the Segovia Archive Collection (Berben Edition). He gave concerts in Europe, Australia, Argentina, USA,
India ecc. performing Italian music and chamber music; in 2011 he played around the world (New York, Wien, London,
Warsaw, Guitar Foundation of America, etc.) a new program on Paganini and Italian contemporary works, written specifically
for him, which have been published by the Sinfonica Editions in 2013 (a book and a CD). He recorded several CDs, from
Baroque music to Segovia Repertoire. In the 2007, the American magazine “Guitar Review” dedicated him an interview and a
CD with his recent recordings. After the cd dedicated to Scarlatti's Sonatas (Brilliant, 2009), he recorded a double cd dedicated
to Bach music for lute, published by Brilliant Classics (2011). He recorded the complete works for guitar solo by Niccolò
Paganini, released by Brilliant Classics in 2013, on an original guitar from that period (a Gaetano Guadagnini, 1851).
In 2014 the Italian magazine Amadeus dedicated him the cover and published his CD on Fernando Sor Masterworks, another
time played on original instrument (Lacôte 1830). During these years he started to play with the violist Simone Gramaglia (viola
of the Quartetto di Cremona) and he published with him a new CD dedicated to Paganini music for guitar and viola (Brilliant,
2015); in the same year, he dedicate a programme to Boccherini Quintets, playing with Quartetto di Cremona and Cuarteto
Casals (last concert at the prestigious Haydnsaal in Eisenstadt). In that year he realized another project—with the support by the
Ernst Von Siemens Foundation—dedicated to Hans Werner Henze music and his masterwork El Cimarrón. In 2016 he was the
first performer of the Alessando Solbiati’s new work for guitar and 15 instruments, that he recorded last year. In the same year he
has released a new CD devoted to 19th century repertoire played on original instruments, using six different historical guitars.
This year he worked to a project dedicated to Antonio Torres, and he is giving many concerts playing original guitars by Torres.
He is also the curator of the Exhibition dedicated to Torres by the Museo del Violino in Cremona (15of Sept. 2017-14th of
Jan.2018). After he published a new CD, A Spanish potrait, on an original Torres from 1888, very appreciate by the critics
and for which the Italian magazine Seicorde devoted him last issue. He teaches at State Conservatory of Castelfranco Veneto
(Italy). He is often invited as expert at the Geneva and Lausanne Conservatories, and from 2010, he is regularly invited to give
lecture/recitals at Royal Academy of Music of London. He has been also juror in many international competitions (Pittaluga
Competition, Mottola, GFA...).
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Luigi Attademo, “Italian Virtuosity”
Preludio from Cello Suite n. 1 BWV 1007* Johann Sebastian Bach

Aria, from Goldberg Variations BWV988* (1685-1750)
Aria, from Suite n. 3 BWV 1068 *
Gavotte from Cello Suite n. 6 BWV 1012 *
Chorale Prelude Jesu bleibet meine Freude BWV 147 **
Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565 *
* Arranged by L. Attademo
**Arranged by D. Russell
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CONCERT
Friday, July 1
Duo Noire
Duo Noire is a "virtuosic pair” (I Care if You Listen) of the pioneering American classical guitarists, Thomas Flippin and
Christopher Mallett. Offering “profoundly enjoyable” premieres of cross-genre contemporary music with “spectacular
precision” (St. Louis Post- Dispatch), Duo Noire is breaking new ground in the world of classical guitar.
In 2015 they launched a project with the Diller Quaile School of Music to make guitar programming more gender inclusive.
Their 2018 debut album on New Focus Recordings, Night Triptych, was the culmination of that effort and featured works
written for them by accomplished women composers. Night Triptych received universal praise from major critics, who
hailed it as an "astounding...goldmine of ideas and feelings" (Stereophile), a “marvelous recital” (Limelight Magazine),
“truly pathbreaking” (All Music), and “an important disc” (The Arts Fuse). The album has been featured in Chamber Music
Magazine and Classical Guitar Magazine, as well as on radio stations nationwide, including WQXR's New Sounds in NYC.
Collectively, Duo Noire has performed with MacArthur genius Jason Moran, GRAMMY- winning guitarist William
Coulter, and Porgy and Bess Broadway star Alicia Hall Moran. Performance highlights include Carnegie Hall, China’s Peking
University, the Guitar Foundation of America Festival, Georgetown University, the NYC Classical Guitar Society, and the
April in Santa Cruz new-music festival. Duo Noire has received fellowships at the Avaloch Farm Music Institute and the
Norfolk Music Festival. They are the first African-American guitarists to graduate from the Yale School of Music and their
next project will feature new commissions of Millennial composers from the African diaspora.
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Duo Noire
Four Haikus Gity Razaz

II. Andante
III. Largo
IV. Energetic
Soli Deo Gloria Courtney Bryan
Held Together (world Premiere) Nathalie Joachim
Hocus Pocus Clarice Assad

I. Abracadabra
II. Shamans (excerpt)
III. Klutzy Witches
All works written for Duo Noire
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LUTHIER SHOWCASE
Friday, July 1
1:30–3:30pm | Ruth Lilly Performance Hall
This is a forum for exhibitors at the 2022 GFA Vendor Expo to represent one of their guitars in a comparative
performance setting. The Showcase includes Vendor Expo luthier and guitar dealer entries. Each entrant will 2022
submit one guitar to be played in succession by two talented guitarists (this year Johan Smith and Thomas INDIANA
Flippin—see below), who will each play a passage of approximately sixty seconds. During the Showcase,
the instruments will be presented by number. The guitar played and its luthier/dealer will remain anonymous until all the
instruments have been heard. The corresponding luthier/dealer number list will be revealed at the Vendor Expo approximately
one hour after the conclusion of the entire Showcase.
Swiss classical guitarist, Johan Smith, is a highly acclaimed, illustrious musician, bringing
virtuosic interpretations to his instrument. Winner of the prestigious Guitar Foundation of
America (GFA) competition in 2019 and defined as the “Classical Guitar Revelation 2017”
by the notable French magazine “Guitar Classical Magazine”, Johan Smith has become one of
the most prominent names in the world of classical guitar. He has been invited to perform in
renowned festivals, is a highly in-demand concert soloist, and has performed with orchestras
such as the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra and the Versoix
Chamber Orchestra. He is currently preparing the recording of his second album with Naxos,
as well as tours that will bring him to perform in China, the United States, Canada, and at the
famous Carnegie Hall in New York.
Thomas Flippin is an advocate for new-music and equality in classical music. In 2018, his
guitar ensemble, Duo Noire, released their internationally-acclaimed album, Night Triptych,
featuring “truly pathbreaking” and “greatly satisfying” premiere recordings of works by diverse
women composers they commissioned in 2015. It was named one of the Best Classical Music
albums of 2018 by both All Music and I Care if You Listen.
Flippin is also a frequent collaborator with Porgy and Bess national tour star Alicia Hall
Moran, MacArthur Fellow Jason Moran, and the tour de force American Repertory Theater
production The Black Clown. He is a graduate of the Yale School of Music and is an experienced
mountaineer.
*The Guitar Foundation of America (GFA) presents the Luthier Showcase as a service to the guitar-building community.
During the Showcase, instruments must be handled by personnel and performing artists. All reasonable precautions are
taken to prevent damage to any instrument handled during the Showcase; however, GFA is not responsible for any damage
to any instrument placed in the care of GFA personnel before,during, and after the Luthier Showcase.
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CONCERT
Friday, July 1
Michael Partington
Michael Partington is one of the most engaging concert players of his generation. Praised by Classical Guitar Magazine for his
“lyricism, intensity and clear technical command,” this award-winning British guitarist has performed to unanimous critical
praise. Audiences are put at ease by his charming stage manner and captivated by his interpretations. An innate rhythmic
understanding and sense for tonal colour combine to form some of the most memorable phrasing to be heard on the guitar.
He has appeared throughout North America, Europe, Russia and Scandinavia as a soloist and with ensembles, and live radio
performances include BBC Radio 3’s In Tune, BBC Wales, and St. Paul Sunday on National Public Radio. He has nine solo
CD’s for Rosewood Recordings, and can be heard on the Cadenza and Present Sounds labels. An advocate of new music he has
commissioned and premiered works by Stephen Goss, Bryan Johanson, Toshio Hosokawa, Angelo Gilardino, Tom Baker, Kevin
Callahan and others.
Partington is currently Artist in Residence and director of the guitar program at the University of Washington in Seattle. He
has given classes and workshops at festivals and institutions around the world, including the Royal College of Music in London,
the Royal Conservatory in Gothenburg, Sweden, the San Francisco Conservatory, the Guitar Foundation of America, the
Canadian National Confederation of Music Societies, and the International Guitar Research Centre at the University of Surrey
in Guildford. His students have won prizes in regional, national and international competitions, and scholarships and awards to
study all over the world.
"There is much praise that one can offer to a performer such as Partington, but he is one of those artists who possess a magic
combination of a fluid technique with a wealth of musicianship. The refined manner of his sound, and his sense of phrase,
articulation and dynamic were all conveyed with extraordinary attention to detail."
Guy Traviss, Classical Guitar Magazine
"Nimble, mercurial, subtle, and emotionally engaging, Partington’s playing consistently beguiles the ear, whether he is probing
classics of the repertoire or brand-new pieces composed for him. He draws a spectacular array of effects and shades from his
instrument."
Melinda Bargreen, Seattle Times

"He presented a huge cross range of music played with a physical virtuosity that it’s a pleasure to watch as well
as listen to. Partington, for all his modesty, is a genius and I would encourage you to catch him while you can.
The audience were enchanted by this performance and by him too."
Eric Page, G-Scene Magazine
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Michael Partington
Hearing the Thing Itself (2021) Bryan Johanson

(b. 1951)
Watts Chapel (2015) * Stephen Goss

(b. 1964)
* Written for Michael Partington
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CONCERT
Friday, July 1
Pablo Garibay
An eminent performer of the great Guitar concertos – notably those by Rodrigo, Vázquez, Angulo, Castelnuovo-Tedesco,
Manuel Ponce, and Villa-Lobos, Pablo Garibay is particularly known for his interpretations of Latin American music having
performed premieres by contemporary composers Hebert Vázquez, Tomás Barreiro, Ernesto Garcia de León, Diógenes Rivas,
Mateo Barreiro, and Ernesto Cordero. As a concerto soloist, Pablo Garibay made his professional debut with the Orquesta
Filarmónica de la Ciudad de Mexico and has since appeared as soloist with orchestras throughout Europe and the Americas. He
made his US debut with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra working with JoAnn Falletta from whom he was described as being
‘a guitarist of rare sensitivity, nuance and musicality’. Recent performances have included appearances with the Evgeny Svetlanov
State Acadeic Symphony Orchestra in the Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, Dortmunder Philharmoniker, OFUNAM, Mexico
City Philharmonic Orchestra, Virginia Symphony Orchestra and New Britain Symphony (USA), with the Salzburg Chamber
Soloists, the Orquesta Cuidad de Almeria (Spain) the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie (Belgium) the Niedersächsisches
Sinfonieorchester (Germany) and the South African Chamber Orchestra with whom he performed the South African premiere
of Manuel Ponce’s Concierto del Sur in Pretoria, South Africa. In addition, Pablo Garibay has appeared at major international
festivals throughout France, Germany, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, South Africa, Costa Rica,
Mexico and the United States.
A winner numerous international prizes, including 1st prize at the prestigious International Francisco Tárrega Guitar
Competition (Spain), Manuel Ponce Guitar Competition (Mexico City), the René Bartoli Competition (Aix en Provence,
France) the JoAnn Falletta International Guitar Concerto Competition (Buffalo, USA) and the International Guitar
Competition Aachen (Germany), Pablo Garibay studied with Juan Carlos Laguna and Iván Rísquez at the Universidad Nacional
Autonóma de México (Mexico City), with Thomas Müller-Pering at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar (Germany)
and with Paolo Pegoraro and Giampaolo Bandini at the Festival Internazionale Parma (Italy).
Described as ‘exceptional in every regard’ by Norbert Kraft, A&R Executive – Naxos records, Pablo Garibay is no stranger
to the recording studio, having recently released world premiere recordings with NAXOS (El Arbol de la Vida - By Hebert
Vázquez) and of music ranging from Dowland, to Ravel and Ponce on the Urtext and Fleur de son classics labels. He has
recorded for RTVE in Spain and has featured internationally on live television, radio and web broadcasts.
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Pablo Garibay
Sonatina Meridional Manuel M. Ponce

I. Campo (1882-1948)
II. Copla
III. Fiesta
Sonata Op 47 Alberto Ginastera

I. Esordio (1916-1983)
II. Scherzo
III. Canto
IV. Finale
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CONCERT
Friday, July 1
Eliot Fisk
Eliot Fisk began to study the guitar motivated by his brother Matthew, born with Down’s Syndrome. While the imagined family
singing sessions to a guitar accompaniment never turned into anything, the instrument slowly became the focus of his life.
Ten months spent in Sweden attending elementary school in1965-6 produced the necessary catalyst to learn Swedish fluently
and to begin to practice the guitar seriously. This passion burst into full flame when on his return to his native Philadelphia Eliot
began to study with the remarkable (and mostly self-taught) William Viola, whose love of the guitar was life long although his
musical activities were mostly limited to teaching on Saturdays in a guitar store in Philadelphia.
In 1974 Eliot met and began to study with his idol Segovia and at Yale University (1972-77) supplemented those encounters with
guidance from the great harpsichordist and scholar Ralph Kirkpatrick. Following his graduation from Yale summa cum laude
and a successful debut at Alice Tully Hall in New York in 1976, Eliot Fisk began a professional career that has taken him around
the world as soloist and chamber musician performing in leading concert halls on 5 continents.
Eliot has created an enormous amount of new music for the guitar through innumerable transcriptions and many new works in
all genres by eminent composers, written for and dedicated to him. His numerous recordings have achieved critical and public
acclaim.
He has enjoyed a long career as an educator particularly at the Universitaet “Mozarteum” in Salzburg, where he teaches in 5
languages, and at the New England Conservatory in Boston, where in 2006 he founded the highly successful Boston Guitar
Fest. Many of his students have become great leaders in the musical world and continue his efforts to combine the great romantic
tradition with the best of modernity.
Together with his wife, virtuoso guitarist Zaira Meneses, he recently founded the Eliot Fisk Guitar Academy (EFGA) which
aims to project his legacy of interdisciplinary musicianship and humanitarian aspiration around the world. More specifics at
www.eliotfisk.com.
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Eliot Fisk
All works, except Beaser, transcribed for guitar by Eliot Fisk.
6 Sonatas Domenico Scarlatti

K. 380 in E major: Andante Commodo
K. 11 in E minor (orig. C minor): Allegro
K. 322 in A major: Allegro
K. 323 in A major: Allegro
K. 177 in D major: Andante
K. 178 in D major: Allegro
Suite BWV 1009 (orig. for solo violoncello) J. S. Bach

Prelude
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Bourre I
Bouree II
Gigue
Intermission
2 Danzas Españolas Enrique Granados

Danza Española # 5: “Andaluza”
Danza Española # 10: “Danza Triste”
Shenandoah Robert Beaser

(b. 1954)
Torre Bermeja Isaac Albeniz
Habanera Ernesto Halffter
Sevilla Isaac Albeniz
Guitar: Stephen Connor 2010: “Palladin”
This concert is generously sponsored by Augustine Foundation.
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TECHNIQUE WORKSHOP
Saturday, July 2
Meng Su 2022
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Biography
Multifaceted guitarist Meng Su is captivating audiences around the world with her stunning virtuosity and refined artistry. New
York Concert Review called her performance “seemingly effortless and stunningly polished…. Add to that a beautiful – and
fashionable! – stage presence, and she is poised to be in high demand” while Classical Guitar Magazine wrote that “she has
already reached the status of a seasoned artist.”

In addition to her busy solo career, Meng Su is an avid chamber musician who tours regularly in the Beijing Guitar Duo and as a
soloist with orchestras. Ms. Su has performed in over 30 different countries around the world in halls such as the Concertgebouw,
Palau de Musica, Tchaikovsky Hall and the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing. This past summer, Ms. Su
collaborated with ballerina YuanYuan Tan in a dance musical and toured China together to critical acclaim.

Meng Su’s performances and recordings have impressed the public with “an ability and artistry that exceeds her years.”
(Baltimore Sun) Her debut duo CD “Maracaípe” received a Latin Grammy nomination for the titled piece, which was dedicated
to the Duo by renowned guitarist/composer Sergio Assad. Their second CD, “Bach to Tan Dun,” a “must-listen” according to
composer Tan Dun, has been widely noted for the world-premiere recording of his “Eight Memories in Watercolor.” A recording
in trio, “China West,” with Maestro Barrueco and the Beijing Guitar Duo was released in May 2014 to critical acclaim. Meng
Su’s debut solo recording “Meng,” released in 2016 was called “awe-inspiring” and “this year’s finest debut by far” by Classical
Guitar Magazine.
Born in Qingdao, China, Meng Su began studying the guitar at the age of 5 and showed her talents from an early age under
the guidance of Prof. Chen Zhi at the Central Conservatory in Beijing. Meng Su has won first-prize in numerous international
competitions around the world, the last one being in the prestigious Parkening International Guitar competition in 2015. She
graduated with an Artist Diploma, a Master’s Degree and Graduate Diploma in Chamber Music with Maestro Manuel Barrueco
at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University.
Meng Su teaches at The San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and she is the Artist-in-residence for the Baltimore Classical
Guitar Society.
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LECTURE
Saturday, July 2
Luigi Attademo
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Regondi a Romantic Virtuoso. Some remarks on Ten Studies for Guitar

The Ten Studies by Giulio Regondi (born two centuries ago) are probably the more advanced studies in the guitar repertoire of
19th century. In this lecture, it is proposed a reinterpretation of this work, to discover the features of Regondi’s technique and
the elaborated language of his writings. Starting from some biographical aspects, the lecture develops an analysis of the form
and the harmony, in comparison with the other works of most important guitarists-composers of 19th century, as well as with
the great models of the Romantic repertoire. The technical features will be examined to show the variety of the writings and to
better understand the virtuoso technique of that period. Each aspect of this technique (slurs, legato, left-hand changes etc.) will
be analyzed and taken as a model to develop their own technique. The lecture will be presented with practical examples on a 19th
century guitar.
Biography
Musicale (CIEM)” in Geneva (1995), Luigi Attademo began his studies in his village in South of Italy with Giuseppe Racioppi, and
continued under the guide of the guitarist-composer Angelo Gilardino. Among his teachers, Julius Kalmar (conduction), composers
as Giovanni Guanti, Alessandro Solbiati, and the harpsichord player Emilia Fadini (Baroque music). Doctorate in Philosophy with
a dissertation on musical interpretation, he published a book about this subject. He has been a contributor to several specialized
magazines. He worked in the Archive of the Andrés Segovia’s Foundation (Linares-Spain), to catalog its manuscripts (catalogue
published on the Spanish musicological magazine "The Roseta"), and he discovered there some unknown manuscripts of important
composers, such as Jaume Pahissa, Alexandre Tansman, Gaspar Cassadò and others, after published in the Segovia Archive
Collection by Berben Edition. He gave concerts in Europe, Australia, Argentina, USA, India and Korea as a soloist as well as in
chamber music. He recorded several CDs, from Baroque music to contemporary music, among the others, a double cd dedicated
to Bach music for lute (2011) and the complete works for guitar solo by Niccolò Paganini (2013), on an historical guitar by
Guadagnini (1851). In the 2007, the American magazine “Guitar Review” dedicated him to an interview and a CD with his recent
recordings. In 2014 the Italian magazine Amadeus dedicated him the cover and published his CD on Fernando Sor Masterworks,
played on an original French instrument (Lacôte, 1830). During these years he started to play with the violist Simone Gramaglia
(viola of the Quartetto di Cremona) and he published with him a new CD dedicated to Paganini music for guitar and viola
(Brilliant, 2015). In that year he completed another project - with the support of the Ernst Von Siemens Foundation - dedicated
to Hans Werner Henze music and his masterwork El Cimarrón. In 2016 he was the first performer of the Alessando Solbiati’s new
work for guitar and 15 instruments, that he recorded in 2018 . In the same year he released a new Cd devoted to 19th century
repertoire played on original instruments, using six different historical guitars. In 2017 he worked to a project dedicated to Antonio
Torres, and he is giving many concerts playing original guitars by Torres. He is also the curator of the Exhibition dedicated to
Torres by the Museo del Violino in Cremona. After he published a new CD, A Spanish portrait, performed on an original Torres
from 1888, very appreciated by the critics and for which the Italian magazine Seicorde devoted him the issue of October 2018. Last
two CDs, both published by Da Vinci classics, are dedicated to Scarlatti’s Sonatas and Astor Piazzolla centenary celebration. He
teaches at State Conservatory of Cesena (Italy). He was invited as an expert at the Geneva and Lausanne Conservatories, and from
2010, he was regularly invited to give lectures/recitals at Royal Academy of Music of London. He has also been a juror in many
international competitions (Pittaluga Competition, Mottola, GFA…).
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CONCERT
Saturday, July 2
Johan Smith,
2019 Rose Augustine
Grand Prize Winner
Swiss classical guitarist, Johan Smith, is a highly acclaimed, illustrious musician, bringing virtuosic interpretations to his instrument.
Winner of the prestigious Guitar Foundation of America (GFA) competition in 2019 and defined as the "Classical Guitar Revelation
2017" by the notable French magazine "Guitar Classical Magazine", Johan Smith has become one of the most prominent names in
the world of classical guitar. He has been invited to perform in renowned festivals, is a highly in-demand concert soloist, and has
performed with orchestras such as the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra and the Versoix Chamber
Orchestra. He is currently preparing the recording of his second album with Naxos, as well as tours that will bring him to perform in
China, the United States, Canada, and at the famous Carnegie Hall in New York.
Playing at the highest level, Johan Smith has won some of the most competitive and distinguished guitar competitions in the world.
As a result of his 2019 win of classical guitar’s most venerable competition, Guitar Foundation of America (GFA), Johan has recorded
his first solo album with the Naxos Label (2020); He was a featured soloist in the virtual June 2020 GFA conference, and will begin
a nine- month tour from September 2021 throughout June 2022, presenting solo concerts, conducting masterclasses and outreach
activities in over 50 cities across the United States and Canada. Johan is recording his second album with the Naxos Label as part of
winning 1st place in the Changsha International Guitar Competition in 2019, and, will also be embarking on a 6-city tour throughout
China (Hangzhou, Chengdu, Kunming, Yueyang, Xi’an, Changsha).
In addition to winning 1st prize the Guitar Foundation of America (US) and the Changsha International Guitar Competition
(China) in 2019, Johan Smith has also won prizes in the following competitions: Special Prize from the Victoria & Joaquin Rodrigo
Foundation, 1st prize at the VI° International Guitar Competition of Thessaloniki, 1st prize at the International Competition of
Fontenay-Sous-Bois, 1st prize at V° International Festival Guitare au Beffroi, 1st prize at the 89° Leopold Bellan International
Competition, 1st prize at the XIII° National Competition of Ceyzeriat (also winning the public prize), 3rd prize at the III° Pleven
International Guitar Competition, 3rd prize at I° Aalborg International Guitar Competition.
Johan’s particular interest in contemporary music has led him to collaborate with several composers, including Josquin Schwizgebel
and Arnaud Fillion, who dedicated his "Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra" to Johan. His affiliation with Arnaud Fillion bestowed
an opportunity to record the Fillion’s three-movement concerto with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra in October 2019, released in
February 2020.
Notable career highlights include Johan’s collaboration with the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra at the BCV Concert Hall in
Switzerland in May 2019, performing the one of the most prestigious classical guitar concertos, Joaquín Rodrigo’s “Concerto de
Aranjuez”. Johan also was a featured soloist at the 9th (2017) and 11th (2019) annual International Guitar Festival of Versoix,
Switzerland, playing with the Chamber Orchestra of Versoix at the festival October 2017, and was invited back to perform a solo recital
in November 2019.
Born in 1990 in Geneva, Johan obtained a Bachelor in 2015 and a "Master of Arts in Instrumental Pedagogy" in 2017 at the University
of Music of Lausanne, in the class of Dagoberto Linhares. In addition to teaching guitar at the Conservatory of Morges, he also
obtained the most important academic title in the field of musical performance in Switzerland: the "Master of Arts specializing in
Music Performance Soloist"(2019), awarded by the highest grade.
In a completely different approach, he is the founder, composer, performer and graphic designer in the extreme metal band "Stortregn",
with whom he has already recorded four albums and played in three continents since 2005. Johan is an endorsee of Savarez guitar
strings, one of the world’s leading string manufacturers (founded in 1770).
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Johan Smith, 2019 Rose Augustine Grand Prize Winner
Aufenthalt* Franz Schubert

Ständchen* (1797–1828)
Erlkönig**
Nocturnal, after John Dowland, Op.70 Benjamin Britten

I. Musingly (1913 – 1976)
II. Very Agitated
III. Restless
IV. Uneasy
V. March-like
VI. Dreaming
VII. Gently Rocking
VIII. Passacaglia
IX. Slow and Quiet
Cuentos de la Juventud**, Op. 1 Enrique Granados

I. Dedicatoria (1867–1916)
II.La mendiga
III. Cancion de mayo
IV. Cuento viejo
V. Viniendo de la fuente
VI. Lento con ternura
VII. Recuerdos de la infancia
VIII. El fantasma
IX. La huérfana
X. Marcha
*transcription by J.K. Mertz

**transcription by Johan Smith
Guitar: Ignacio Fleta e Hijos 1991
This concert is generously sponsored by Stringletter Publications.
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TO BE ANNOUNCED…
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XVIII International Youth Competition
IYC FINALS
Junior Division
Saturday, July 2 | 11:00am |
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Senior Division
Saturday, July 2 | 1:30pm |
The final rounds in both divisions of the XVIII Guitar Foundation of America International Youth Competition will take place
on Saturday, July 2, in Ruth Lilly Performance Hall. The Junior Division final round will be held at 11:00 am and the Senior
Division final round will be held at 1:30 pm. Four finalists from each division will perform their programs for the judges and
audience. The contestants and the judges appreciate the audience’s consideration of competition protocol; entering and leaving
the hall only during applause and breaks, and turning off all handheld devices.
The IYC Awards Ceremony for both divisions will be held at approximately 4:45pm, at the conclusion of Johan Smith’s concert
on Saturday, July 2nd in Ruth Lilly Performance Hall.
XL International Concert Artist Competition

ICAC FINALS
Saturday, July 2
The final round of the XL GFA International Concert Artist Competition will take place Saturday, July 2 at 6:00 pm in Ruth
Lilly Performance Hall. Four finalists will perform their twenty-five-minute programs, along with the set piece by Andrea
Clearfield. The contestants and judges appreciate the audience’s consideration of competition protocol: hold applause until
each competitor has finished his/her entire set; enter and leave the hall only during applause and breaks; and turn off all
handheld devices. Following the competition finals, there will be a ten-minute intermission, and then the awards ceremony
will commence. The ceremony will begin with the induction of this year’s honorees to the GFA Hall of Fame, and will
conclude with the results of the International Concert Artist Competition.
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INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION & COMPETITION
Hall of Fame Awards

Saturday, July 2 | 9pm | Ruth Lilly Performance Hall
2022 Award Recipients
Eduardo Fernandez Eliot Fisk

(see bio page 35) (see bio page 55)
Artistic Achievement Award Artistic Achievement Award
Each year the Board of Trustees considers new candidates for the Guitar Foundation of America Hall of Fame.
Nominees are voted into the following categories:
• The Artistic Achievement Award—reserved for performers, composers, pedagogues, and scholars who have
made monumental contributions to the development of the art and life of the classical guitar.
• The Distinguished Service Award—honoring past GFA board members, officers, staff, and others who have
served the GFA in outstanding, critical, and long-standing fashion.
• The Industry Leadership Award—honoring entrepreneurs, artisans, and businesses who have made significant
or visionary contributions to the advancement of the classical guitar and its community.
Artistic Achievement Award: Industry Leadership Award:

Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (2021) Robert Ruck (2016)
Manuel Barrueco (2019) Kenny Hill (2015)
Leo Brouwer (2018) Dean Kamei (2014)
David Russell (2018) Maurice J. Summerfield (2013)
Alirio Díaz (2017) Daniel Friederich (2012)
Roland Dyens (2017) Manuel Velázquez (2011)
Ricardo Iznaola (2016) Matanya Ophee (2011)
Assad Brothers (Sérgio and Odair) (2015) John Gilbert (2010)
Carlos Barbosa-Lima (2015) Bernard Maillot (2010)
Konrad Ragossnig (2014) Jim D’Addario (2009)
Jorge Morel (2014) John D’Addario, Jr. (2009)
Michael Lorimer (2014) Thomas Humphrey (2009)
John Williams (2013) Paul Gerrits (2008)
Rico Stover (2013) Mel Bay Publications, Inc. (1996)
Bruce Holzman (2013)
Christopher Parkening (2012) Distinguished Service Award:
Andrés Segovia (post.) (2012) Ábel Nagytóthy-Tóth (2014)
Brian Jeffrey (2012) Clare Callahan (2013)
David Starobin (2011) Carol Sanders (2012)
Eli Kassner (2011) Richard Long (2010)
Pepe Romero (2010) Jeff Cogan (2009)
Oscar Ghiglia (2009) Ronald Purcell (2008)
Angelo Gilardino (2009) Peter Danner (2007)
Julian Bream (2008) Gunnar Eisel (2007)
John Duarte (1999) Jim Forrest (2007)
Richard Pick (1999) David Grimes (2007)
Chet Atkins (1996) Thomas Heck (2007)
Aaron Shearer (1996)
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Personnel | Executive Committee
President: Martha Masters first achieved international recognition in 2000 when she won first prize in
the Guitar Foundation of America International Concert Artist Competition. That same year she also
won the Andres Segovia International Competition in Linares, Spain, and was named a finalist in the
Alexandre Tansman International Competition of Musical Personalities in Lodz, Poland.
Since then, Ms. Masters has been active as a solo recitalist, chamber musician and concerto soloist
around the world. Recent seasons included appearances at festivals and on concert series through the
United States, Germany, Poland, Russia, and China.
Masters received both the Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Peabody Conservatory,
where she studied with Manuel Barrueco, and completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the
University of Southern California as a student of Scott Tennant.
Ms. Masters is currently on the guitar faculty of Loyola Marymount University and California State
University Fullerton, and is president of the Guitar Foundation of America. She has five recordings
on the Naxos and GSP labels, and has published three books with Mel Bay Publications and Alfred
Music. For more information, visit www.marthamasters.com.
Artistic Director: Brian Head enjoys a vibrant, frenetic career as a guitarist, composer and teacher, frequently
performing and recording with chamber and symphonic groups including the LA Phil, the San Francisco
Symphony, the Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Long Beach Operas, and new music series such as Green
Umbrella, Jacaranda, MicroFest, and Hear Now. His compositions have been performed on six continents
and throughout the U.S. in venues including Carnegie Hall in New York, the Ambassador Auditorium in Los
Angeles and the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC. His homage to John McLaughlin called We Know
You Know, was part of the Grammy Award-winning Guitar Heroes album by the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet.
Brian is currently Professor of Classical Guitar and Composition at the USC Thornton School of Music
where he also serves as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. From 2004 until 2010 Brian led the Guitar
Foundation of America as its president. In June of 2010, he was elected as the first Artistic Director of the
GFA. Brian can be reached at: brianhead@guitarfoundation.org.
Vice President: Jeff Cogan studied guitar at California State University, Northridge with Ronald C.
Purcell. He has performed in concerts in many American cities and in European cities such as Rust,
Austria, Perigueux, France, Lanuvio, Italy, Aranda De Duero, Spain, and Belgrade, Serbia. Jeff’s teach-
ing career began in 1982 at Chapman University where he remains director of guitar studies and music
technology. He is a board member and program chairman of the Orange County Guitar Circle.
Vice President-Treasurer: Nathania Isnandar-Mallett is a lover of guitar music and has a Bachelor of Music
degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, studying guitar performance with Marc Teicholz. In
May 2020, she received an MS in Accountancy from San Jose State University and began her accounting
career with Deloitte US as an audit and assurance professional. Nathania also has a gift and passion for
teaching. She has taught guitar at the California Conservatory of Music for several years.
Vice President-Secretary: Robert Lane holds a Bachelor of Science degree with an

emphasis in Finance from the Marshall School of Business and a Juris Doctor from the
Gould School of Law at the University of Southern California. Having practiced law
for over twenty-three years, Bob has represented and advised corporations in litigation,
transactional, and compliance matters as both outside and in-house counsel. A student
of the guitar and its history for many years, Bob has become an avid advocate and
collector. He has been a member of the GFA Board since 2000.
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Matthew Cochran Guitarist/Composer Matthew Cochran performs new music, old music, popular music
and unpopular music. He has been praised for his “commanding stage presence” by Soundboard magazine and
“strong, nuanced, textured performance and beautiful sound” by Classical Guitar Magazine. In addition to his
many recordings on traditional nylon string instruments, Cochran frequently writes and performs music for
electric guitars and electronics. He has premiered electric guitar works by Steve Reich, Max Richter and Jacob
TV. Cochran has performed at major festivals and series throughout the U.S., Europe and Canada. Dr. Cochran
2022 is Guitar Instructor at Interlochen Arts Academy, and he directs the Interlochen Classical Guitar Summer
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Brad DeRoche Is an active concert artist, appearing as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral soloist. He holds
a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Classical Guitar Performance from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester,
NY. In addition, he participated in many masterclasses with prominent concert guitarists including David Russell,
Raphaëlla Smits, Paul Galbraith, Fabio Zanon, Denis Azabagic, and many others. Dr. DeRoche is a Professor of
music and chair of the music department at Delta College. He also directs the guitar programs at Central Michigan
University and Saginaw Valley State University, and taught at the Interlochen Arts Academy, Arts Camp, and
Adults Arts Camps. In 2017 he won the Bergstein Award for Teaching Excellence, the highest award given to a
faculty member at Delta College. He is the former owner of the retail business “Strings By Mail,” is a founding
member of the Mid-Michigan Classical Guitar Society, and gives many presentations on scholarly topics related to
guitar performance, history, and technique. www.bradderoche.com
Alexander Dunn holds a Bachelor and Masters Degree in Performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and
a Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of California, San Diego, where he was a protégé of Pepe Romero. His ground-
breaking dissertation, “Robert de Visée’s Theorbo Works: An I introductory Study” is highly regarded, as is his research
into nineteenth century performance practice. Dr. Dunn’s extensive summer studies included nine years at the Aspen Music
Festival under Oscar Ghiglia and four summers at the Salzburg Mozarteum. He is a popular adjudicator and competition
judge. Dr. Dunn is on the Board of Examiners for the Royal Conservatory of Music Toronto, and currently heads what is
considered one of Canada’s top guitar programs at the University of Victoria and the Victoria Conservatory of Music.
Eric Dussault holds a Bachelor Degree in Performance from Laval University, and a Master Degree from the Quebec
Conservatory, both institutions being located in Quebec city, Canada. After publishing many books with Les Productions
d’OZ at the dawn of the new millennium, he started to work part-time as a music engraver, before turning full-time for the
company in 2004. The scope of his work at Les Productions d’OZ ranges from music typesetting, graphic design, webmaster,
production, and also representing the company in various conventions and festivals. Now a share holder in the company, he
is getting more closely involved in the different aspects of the management of Les Productions d’OZ and Doberman editions.
Rene Izquierdo Rene Izquierdo, is currently a professor of classical guitar at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. As
a concert artist, Rene has performed throughout North and South America, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Europe and Asia as solo
recitalist, chamber musician, and soloist with orchestra. He has received wide critical acclaim for his performances and is
recognized as one of America’s classical guitar virtuosos. A native from Cuba, Rene graduated from the Guillermo Tomas,
Amadeo Roldan Conservatory and Superior Institute of Art in Havana. In the United States, he earned a Master of Music
and Artist Diploma degrees from Yale University School of Music as well as a Master of Music Education from Lehmann
College. He founded the guitar program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is currently the guitar professor and
director of guitar studies at this institution. As one of the leading classical guitarists Mr. Izquierdo is a recipient of numerous
awards. He is a winner of JoAnn Falletta International Guitar Competition, Extremadura International Guitar Competition,
Schadt String competition, Stotsenberg International Guitar Competition among others.
Zoë Johnstone Stewart is an active performer and educator based in Baltimore, Maryland. Currently serving as Guitar
Department Chair of the Preparatory Division of the Peabody Institute, she also directs Peabody’s daylong Fret Fest event
as well as co-directs its Summer Guitar Intensive. She is a founding member of the Atlantic Guitar Quartet, an ensemble
dedicated to the music of living composers. AGQ’s recent projects include collaborations with dancers, filmmakers, and
visual artists as well as a self-titled recording featuring the music of Olivier Bensa, Ronald Pearl, David Smooke, Christopher
Gainey and Arvo Pärt. She received her Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music and Master of Music
from the Peabody Conservatory.
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Dr Kenneth Kwan is Professor at Xinghai Conservatory of Music (Guangzhou, China) where he established the classical
guitar program in 2006. A graduate of SUNY Buffalo, he was a student of the Castellani-Andriaccio Guitar Duo. He has
extensive experience in the guitar in China, being member of the Organizing Committee of the Changsha International
Guitar Festival (Artistic Director: Xuefei Yang) and the Hong Kong Altamira International Guitar Symposium. He has
served on judging panels in competitions all over China and abroad. Kwan is also an internationally known specialist on
the music of Chinese American composer Chou Wen-chung, whose collection of books was donated to the Chou Wen-
chung Music Research Center which was launched at Xinghai Conservatory in November 2018 and whose Academic
Advisory Committee Kwan is an Executive Member of.
Christopher Mallett, Chair is the co-founder and co-owner of the California Conservatory of Music located in the
San Francisco Bay Area where he also teaches students of all ages. As a soloist and a chamber musician, Christopher
has performed extensively across America and Asia. Christopher’s newest album with Duo Noire on New Focus
Recordings, Night Triptych, features world premiere recordings of newly commissioned works by women composers.
It was chosen as 2018’s editor’s pick on the new music blog I Care if You Listen. Christopher’s involvement in
community outreach has led to four residencies with the St. Louis Guitar Society where he has performed in dozens
of public schools for thousands of students. Christopher is also the co-artistic director of the Peninsula Guitar Series
and is on the faculty of the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received a Master of Music degree from the Yale
School of Music and a Bachelor of Music degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
Michael Partington Praised by Classical Guitar Magazine for his “lyricism, intensity and clear technical
command,” Michael Partington is currently Artist in Residence and Director of Guitar at the University of
Washington in Seattle. He performs frequently as soloist, chamber musician and recently as a member of
the Oregon Guitar Quartet. He’s played live on national radio in the US and UK, released 10 solo CDs,
and premiered and commissioned numerous works. His students have won prizes in regional, national and
international competitions, and scholarships and awards to study all over the world.
Kim Perlak is the chair of the guitar department at Berklee College of Music, in Boston, MA. Kim’s versatile
approach to the instrument embraces new music, education, and public service. Her performances of new classical
works, original and improvised pieces, and collaborations with jazz and traditional players have been featured
on National Public Radio, at the Yale Guitar Extravaganza, at Boston GuitarFest, and on five recordings. Kim’s
curriculum development for Berklee includes the book Classical Technique for the Modern Guitarist (Berklee
Press/ Hal Leonard 2016). Her guitar work in education and with American veterans has been honored by the
PBS program “From the Top” as part of their Arts Leadership series, and was recognized by the U.S. House of
Representatives. Kim holds degrees from the University of Texas at Austin (’08 DMA), Yale School of Music (’01
MM), and Stetson University (’98 BM). She currently serves on the board of the Boston Classical Guitar Society, and
served as the Editor-in-Chief of Soundboard for GFA from 2010-2013.
Judicaël Perroy Now highly sought after as a concert artist and pedagogue worldwide, Judicaël Perroy began his
international career after winning the First Prize of the prestigious Guitar Foundation of America International
Competition and Convention in 1997. The resulting tour of the United States and Canada, was only the beginning
of what is now an extensive career. With numerous appearances in Europe and Asia, he is a highly regarded audience
favourite and regular returning artist. In great demand as a teacher, he is regularly invited to give master classes at the
top conservatories and universities around the world. His students continue to win numerous top prizes in national
and international competitions around the globe, while emerging as mature and rising stars of classical guitar in
the international music scene. Judicaël Perroy currently resides in Paris while he enjoys teaching at Lille’s ESMD
(École Supérieure Musique et Danse Hauts-de-France- Lille) Nord-Pas-de-Calais a position he has held since 2010.
He taught at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for 3 years where he took over the position held by Sergio
Assad. In 2020 he was invited to replace Dusan Bogdanovic at the Haute École de Musique Genéve where he is now
principally active as a teacher.
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MaryLou Roberts is from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Her work involves teaching children and their parents using the
Suzuki Method of Talent Education at the Ann Arbor Suzuki Institute of Music, and is a teacher trainer in the Suzuki
Method for the Suzuki Association of the Americas and the European Suzuki Association. She travels regularly to
provide training in numerous places, most recently Brazil, Mexico, Belgium, as well as Ann Arbor and Chicago. Her
students were selected to perform for the International Ensembles Concert at the SAA Conference in Minneapolis
2018. She has served on the SAA Board of Directors, the Teacher Development Advisory Committee and is chair of
the Guitar Committee of the International Suzuki Association. Studying with John Holmquist and Gilbert Biberian,
she holds a Bachelor of Music in guitar performance from the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music and a Masters degree
in guitar performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she was Valedictorian and elected to the Society of
Pi Kappa Lambda in 1986. She is currently coordinator of the Ann Arbor Suzuki Institute, which celebrated 50 years
of teaching using the Suzuki Method in Ann Arbor in 2019.
Kami Rowan is Full Professor of Music at Guilford College. She received her DMA and MM from Shenandoah
Conservatory. She received her BM under tutelage of Aaron Shearer at NC School of the Arts. Kami is a respected
clinician & performer & current president of the Piedmont Classic Guitar Society. Dr. Rowan sits on the board
of the Aaron Shearer Foundation, which hosts an annual summer institute in Zion National Park. Kami is also
Director of the Guitar Program at Eastern Music Festival. Dr. Rowan worked collaboratively to create an arts
magnet high school & curriculum. She received her teaching license from the University of NC at Greensboro.
Kami will direct the US Guitar Orchestra in Carnegie Hall followed by a tour of France in summer, 2019.
Eric Sakurai had a long, successful career at General Electric Company and Zimmer Holdings, Inc. He held a
variety of executive positions in sourcing, quality, real estate, finance, auditing, and e-commerce to drive customer-
focused results with his collaborative approach. After his retirement, Eric has been the treasurer / board member,
and most recently he is the executive director of the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival, an internationally
renowned festival based in Florida. In addition, he is a former executive board member and mentor of Take Stock
in Children of Nassau. A native of Japan, Eric studied economics and finance in Japan and the U.S. where he
received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees. He is a life-long, classical music enthusiast, and developed his strong
passion for classical guitar music and started to study under Stephen Robinson in late 2017.
James Stroud completed his bachelor’s degree in guitar performance in 1982 and completed his Master’s
degree in 1984. Jim entered the business world in 1984 and continues to run his business today full time with
UBS in Hudson, Ohio as president of Stroud Wealth Partners. Jim continues to sponsor the James Stroud classical
guitar competition at Oberlin conservatory for the past 15 years and offers one of the largest prize awards of any
competition held in the US for guitarists enrolled at the university level exclusively. Past prize winners have received
full scholarships at some of the finest guitar programs in the US including Peabody, Curtis, Eastman, Florida State,
Oberlin, and CIM.
Jim and his wife have 3 children and live in Hudson, Ohio and Whitefish, Montana.
Ciyadh Wells is a multifaceted musician who prides herself in not only being an artist but also an activist, and a
scholar. As a scholar and educator, Wells believes everyone deserves access to diverse and inclusive art, which she
advocates as being essential to society. Ciyadh’s mission is to utilize the impact of music old and new, to manifest
moments of meaningful change and to inspire community therein. She is the Artistic & Executive Director of
Margins Guitar Collective and she is a former member of the Sphinx LEAD program. Ciyadh is one half of guitar
duo, Duo Charango, and lives in Austin, Texas where she works at Austin Classical Guitar.
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Sonia Wilczewski, Esq. is an immigration attorney focusing on employment-based cases with particular
enthusiasm in representing artists and musicians for the past 20 years. As part of the integrative law movement,
she is a contributing author of “Lawyers as Changemakers” published by the American Bar Association. In
addition to law, she has an extensive background in dance and therapy, and has taught numerous workshops in
alignment, breathwork, rehabilitative movement and served as an Adjunct Professor of Dance Injury Prevention
at New World School of the Arts for five years. Her grandfather was a guitarist who instilled in her a love of the
instrument at a young age. While living in Florida, she was a member of the Florida Guitar Foundation. She
currently lives in Los Angeles and when not practicing law, is a part-time student seeking a music degree.
Loong Yong is an American businessman and the founder of Spectra Tech, Inc., an engineering and environmental
company. He holds a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering. Loong initiated classical guitar lessons at 13 and plays classical
guitar as a hobby. Aside from the GFA, Loong serves on the Board of Directors for the Waste Management
Symposia, the East Tennessee Economic Council, and the Oak Ridge Civic Music Association (a community-based
music organization that supports Tennessee’s longest operating symphony orchestra).
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Personnel | Staff
Marketing and Development Assistant: A passionate ambassador of the classical guitar, Liel Amdour is committed to sharing
the music of the guitar with audiences everywhere. Dedicated to performing in diverse settings, Ms. Amdour is an advocate for
classical music. She is also the Founder and Artistic Director of the Tunes at Noon concert series in Vancouver and Chicago, whose
mission is to empower human connection and build community. Ms. Amdour completed her Master’s of Music degree at Roosevelt
University's Chicago College for the Performing Arts. As the GFA's Marketing Assistant, she is excited to create and implement
innovative ideas to expand and inspire the GFA community. Liel can be reached at lamdour@guitarfoundation.org.
Vendor Expo Manager, Executive Producer of GFA Virtual Content: Ryan Ayers is a solo guitarist mixing together
classical and fingerstyle techniques with accessible songs forms and structures. His stage show is a well crafted blend of
engaging music and interesting stories which have captivated audiences on both coasts. Ryan began playing guitar at the
age of thirteen. He attended Loyola Marymount University and graduated with degrees in classical guitar performance and
recording arts. He worked for nine years selling classical, flamenco, and steel string guitars at Trilogy Guitars in Playa Del
Rey, CA. An active composer for over ten years, Ryan released his first record of original pieces for guitar entitled ermita
in 2011 and he has continued writing and touring to share his music with audiences ever since. Ryan can be reached at:
rayers@guitarfoundation.org.
Mentorship Program Coordinator: Jean Pierre (JP) Castillo was born in Queens, New York. JP studied guitar performance under
Dr. Elliot Frank and was awarded the Friends of the School of Music Scholarship and was a member of the Honors College at East
Carolina University. JP continued his studies at ECU for his Master of Music in Performance and served as a graduate teaching
assistant. He is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Florida under Dr. Silviu Ciulei as the
first candidate accepted into the program and received a graduate assistantship. JP is active within the guitar competition circuit
and enjoys performing, producing, arranging, and teaching. Outside of the classical guitar, JP enjoys playing jazz, rock, blues, and
flamenco. JP was a member of the inaugural class of the 2020-2021 GFA Mentorship Program and is excited to join the GFA as the
Mentorship Program Coordinator. He can be reached at jpcastillo@guitarfoundation.org.
Marketing Director: Leesa Ceron is a marketing and analytics professional with over 25 years of experience spanning a variety
of products, services and companies. Her career hit its stride in the pharmaceutical industry where she worked on one of the
largest pharmaceutical brands in the world, followed by years of new product development and launches. Along the way she
volunteered for universities, schools and Junior Achievement; teaching marketing, new product development and branding to
audiences of all ages. Leesa holds an MBA from The University of Chicago and an AB from The University of Michigan. She
has a deep appreciation for music and is a lifelong learner. Leesa can be reached at lceron@guitarfoundation.org.
Soundboard Editor: Robert Ferguson has been active in the classical guitar community for four decades, teaching, performing,
composing, arranging, writing, and broadcasting. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Indiana University,
the latter from the Jacobs School of Music, where he studied performance with Ernesto Bitetti and Thomas Binkley. Other
mentors include Javier Calderon and Jeffrey Noonan. In addition to applied guitar, Bob teaches guitar history and literature at
IU’s regional campus in Fort Wayne. His radio program, Guitar Showcase, has aired weekly on NPR affiliates WBNI and WBOI
since 1985. He has contributed to Soundboard since the early 2000s. Bob can be reached at: rferguson@guitarfoundation.org.
Publications Art Director: Colleen Gates has worked as a graphic designer, creative services manager, and art director
for various corporations and design studios, including Aaron Brothers Art & Framing, United Artists Theatres, and
Frederick’s of Hollywood. She is owner and creative director of GATES by design, a graphic design and creative
services studio focused in the areas of the arts, education, and non-profit organizations. Colleen has enjoyed designing
several guitar-related projects connected to the Thornton School of Music and Doberman-Yppan Editions. She holds a
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Denver. Colleen joined GFA in 2015 and lives in the Los Angeles
area with her husband, a composer, and two children. Colleen can be reached at: cgates@guitarfoundation.org.
Convention Manager: Brian Geary is a performer and educator in Southern California. He has received a bachelor in
music, graduating summa cum laude, from SUNY Buffalo State and a Masters of Music in performance from California
State University Fullerton. As a soloist, Brian focuses his musical efforts on performing repertoire that is infrequently
performed, as well as promoting the guitar to composers, to help grow the instrument’s repertoire. He has also performed in
various contemporary chamber groups like the Post Sonus Orchestra and CSUF New Music Ensemble. Brian helped found
the annual Women of the Guitar Series at Buffalo State, where he received an award from the President’s Council on Equity
and Campus Diversity for his efforts. He teaches privately, directs a guitar ensemble, leads an after-school ukulele program,
and has taught for the Guitar Foundation of America’s Youth Guitar Summit. Brian joined the GFA Staff in 2018 and can
be reached at bgeary@guitarfoundation.org.
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Personnel | Staff
International Ensemble Competition Director: Kagan's performances have been noted for their “remarkable poise and
artistry coupled with a sharp intellectual acumen.” The young classical guitarist has found a deep passion for teaching and
performing, which, for Michael, both stem from the need to share music. Michael graduated Magnum Cum Laude from
Westfield State University where he received a B.A in Music Education and Classical Guitar Performance under the tutelage
of Phillip de Fremery, a curator of the Segovia legacy. There, he received a departmental award for Excellence in Musical
Performance among his graduating class. Most recently, Michael completed a Master of Music in Classical Guitar Performance
with Dr. Stephen Mattingly, noted soloist and member of the Tantalus Quartet at the University of Louisville. A passionate
educator, Michael currently holds a full-time position teaching class guitar, music theory, and music history at the Youth
Performing Arts Magnet High School in Louisville, Kentucky in addition to maintaining a private and Suzuki studio. Michael
can be reached at mkagan@guitarfoundation.org or ensemblecompetition@guitarfoundation.org.
Operations Administrator, Advertising Manager: Ebaa Khamas is a performer, and teacher. He has performed
as a soloist and in various chamber settings. Currently, he’s focused on teaching, performing, and working as an
Operations administrator for the GFA. He holds a Bachelor, and Master of Music degrees from Cal State University
Fullerton School of Music, where he studied with Dr. Martha Masters and Andrew York. Ebaa can be reached at:
ekhamas@guitarfoundation.org.
Tour Director: Teresa Hayward is a singer, songwriter, performer and voice teacher from Chicopee, MA, currently living in
Louisville, KY. In May of 2017, Teresa graduated from The Hartt School of the University of Hartford with a Bachelor’s of Music
in Music Management and Jazz Voice. At the Hartt School, she studied with the distinguished jazz vocalist, Professor Shawnn
Monteiro, and performed with esteemed faculty including internationally-renowned and highly revered jazz bassist, Professor Nat
Reeves, as well as luminary jazz pianist Matt Dechamplain. During college, she had the opportunity to work as Administrative
Assistant for the arts non-profit Blues to Green Inc., helping to organize the annual Springfield Jazz and Roots Festival in
Springfield, Massachusetts. For over 10 years, Teresa has been singing and performing many different genres and styles of music,
and has performed as a soloist in various jazz ensembles, quartets, trios, and big bands, and was also a singer in the Hartford-based
indie-pop/rock band, Art School Girls, as well as the lead vocalist in her duo band, Quietside. Teresa currently teaches private
voice and piano lessons, and is thrilled to be working as Tour Director for the Guitar Foundation of America. Teresa can be
contacted at: thayward@guitarfoundation.org.
Education Director and Director of Guitar Summit: Chuck Hulihan, has enjoyed a career over the past two plus decades as
a guitarist, educator, conductor, narrator, arts administrator, and as a classical music radio host. Chuck has directed the guitar
program at Glendale Community College since 1999, where he is the Assistant Department Chair for Performing Arts, and in
2015 he was chosen by his peers to receive the GCC Gaucho Globe Award for Supporting Student Success. His work at GCC
is highlighted by collaborations with composers whom have written new works for the GCC Guitar Ensembles, including Mark
Houghton, Rex Willis, Jan Bartlema, Adrian Andrei, Frank Wallace, Andrew York, Vito Nicola Paradiso, Francisco Munoz,
Aramis Silvereke, and Phil Moloso. Since 2000, his students have consistently won the Artists of Promise competition in both
solo guitar and instrumental ensemble categories, and in 2014 the GCC Guitar Octet won the Guitar Foundation of America’s
Ensemble Showcase Competition and went on to perform two world premieres at the 2014 convention.
Chuck’s work as a conductor has included over 50 concerts directing the GCC Guitar Ensembles and includes leading large
orchestras comprising students from high school, college, and guitar society ensembles. He has led the Arizona Guitar Orchestra
(AZGO), a collaboration of musicians from across Arizona, in three statewide tours that featured Shingo Fujii’s Concierto de
Los Angeles with soloist William Kanengiser, Brad Richter’s Once We Moved Like the Wind, and Andrew York’s By Chants
with the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. He has been a featured guest conductor with the Clark County School District Honor
Ensemble, the Vanguard University Guitar Festival Orchestra, the State College of Florida Guitar Ensemble, The Maryvale
Festival Ensemble, Austin Classical Guitar’s Guitar Curriculum National Teacher Training Summit, and the 2019 Florida
All-State Guitar Ensemble. Future conducting adventures include 2019 Virginia All-State and 2020 New Mexico All-State
Guitar Ensembles and the 2019 Austin Classical Guitar Ensemble Festival. He serves as the Director of the Guitar Foundation
of America’s Youth Guitar Orchestra, Community Guitar Orchestra, and Guitar Summit. Chuck actively contributes to the
field of music education as a conference clinician and presenter and serves as Western Division Representative for the National
Association for Music Education’s Innovations Council, as Innovations Chair for Arizona Music Educators Association, and is
an active board member of the Grand Canyon and Phoenix Guitar Societies.
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Soundboard Scholar Editor: Jonathan Leathwood teaches guitar, music analysis and the Alexander Technique at the
University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music, where he is Associate Teaching Professor and chair of the guitar program.
As a recitalist, Jonathan has recently appeared at the Leo Brouwer Festival in Brazil, the Wigmore Hall, the Cheltenham
Festival, the D-Marin Festival in Turkey, and many other venues in Europe and both American continents. The Musical
Times of London has written of his “remarkable talent and singular artistry”; Fabio Zanon wrote in Violão Intercambio that
“he has to be seen to be believed,” while Classical Guitar has called him “a genius.” Equally known as a collaborator with both
performers and composers, Jonathan Leathwood has recorded two albums with the legendary flutist William Bennett, and
recorded and broadcast with cellists Rohan de Saram and Steven Isserlis. His commissions from composers such as Param Vir,
Stephen Goss, Robert Keeley and Chris Malloy have pushed the boundaries of both six- and ten-string guitars. His recordings
of Goss, Dodgson, Malloy and Keeley are available on the Cadenza and NMC labels. Jonathan can be reached at
sbs@guitarfoundation.org.
Artistic Director, International Youth Competition: Lynn McGrath has performed, adjudicated, and lectured on
four continents and is a member of the acclaimed Tantalus Guitar Quartet. She earned multiple Bachelor’s Degrees
from SUNY Potsdam and received a M.M. and D.M.A. from the University of Southern California. Her students have
performed on NPR’s “From the Top,” placed in multiple international competitions at the youth and collegiate levels,
and have received scholarship to attend some of the most competitive guitar programs in the United States. Lynn is
the guitar instructor for a thriving program at the Eastman Community Music School, Eastman School of Music in
Rochester, NY. On staff with the GFA for more than a decade, she was Tour Director for seven years, Regional Symposia
Director for several years, and is entering her seventh year as the Director of the International Youth Competition.
Lynn can be reached at iyc@guitarfoundation.org.
Education Coordinator: Laura is an Arts Professional trained in the Kennedy Center Arts Integration method. She
holds a Masters in Music Education and a Masters in Guitar Performance Pedagogy from the Herberger Institute for
Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. Laura can be reached at lmeador@guitarfoundation.org.
Social Media Coordinator: Daniel Monaghan is an active classical guitar performer, composer, and teacher from
Southern California. He began playing guitar at the age of 10, and has dedicated his life to the advancement of the
guitar. Daniel earned a Bachelor of Music in classical guitar performance at California State University Fullerton where
he studied both performance and composition from Martha Masters and Andrew York. He is currently in his final year of
graduate studies earning his masters degree in String Pedagogy under the guidance of Stephan Mattingly at the University
of Louisville Kentucky. As a soloist, Daniel actively competes in local, state, and national competitions and works heavily
with composers to write and commission new works for the guitar. Daniel joined the GFA staff in 2020 and can be
reached at dmonaghan@guitarfoundation.org.
Production Editor of Soundboard Scholar: Trained as a classical guitarist, vocalist, and composer,
Sarah Perske is active in the Denver area as a freelance composer and founding member of the
experimental music group Nebula Ensemble. When not composing or performing, Sarah enjoys
transcribing Renaissance lute tablature for the fun of it, assisting music scholars in her role as supervisor
of the Bonfils-Stanton Music Library at the University of Denver, and plying her craft as an enthusiastic
creator and polisher of scholarly prose. She can be reached at sperske@guitarfoundation.org.
General Manager: Dr. Connie Sheu is a performer, teacher, and advocate of classical guitar. Past performances have
brought her to Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, 92nd StY, Merkin Hall, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, and
venues in Moldova, Italy, and Hungary. She performs frequently as a soloist for guitar societies and music festivals
across the United States. Connie studied US History and Music at Columbia University, and earned a Master of Music
from the Juilliard School. She completed her Doctorate of Musical Arts at the University of Southern California. She
teaches at the Colburn School and Pomona College. Connie joined GFA staff in 2009 and previously served as Tour
and Communications Director. Connie can be reached at: csheu@guitarfoundation.org.
Director of National School Summit: Federico Musgrove Stetson was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina,
and holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Miami, where he attended under a full
scholarship and served as a Teacher Assistant and Henry Mancini Fellow. Federico has received over 25
grants to bring classical guitar programming to South Florida and was selected as a 2017-2018 Miami
Leader by the Miami Foundation for his contribution to the community. He is currently a faculty member
at the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music, and founding President and Executive Director of the
Florida Guitar Foundation. He can be reached at symposia@guitarfoundation.org.
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gratefully acknowledges our donors who have so generously supported us.*
PLANNED GIVING
THE JOANNE CASTELLANI AND MICHAEL ANDRIACCIO CHARITABLE TRUST
Peter Cahill
PHILANTHROPIST Brian Head
Chris Miller
Robert Nathanson
Mac Nelson Oliver Chandler
The Augustine Foundation Kim Perlak William M. Nelson Kevin Collins
Gregory Newton Kevin Cooper
Jack Sanders
VIRTUOSO Connie Sheu Nancy Niederman Gerald S. Davis, MD
Rodney Drabkin
John French & Craig Norton
David C. & Cathy Grimes Roger Stoll
Jon Olson Zoran Dukic
Sheldon Urlik Philip De Fremery
ASSOCIATE Erol Oz
Sam Park Nick Fuentes
MAESTRO Sondra Aggeler
Dr. Kerry Alt
Julia Pernet Colleen Gates
Brian Geary
George Pleat
Anonymous Denis Azabagic
Leesa Pruett Ceron Pam Gerken
Jim Stroud Pamela Kimmel & Robert Becker
Dale E. Reagan Jonathan Godfrey
Maria Bitran Steven Porter Guitars
MaryLou Roberts
PRODIGY Keenan Bora
Steven Bornfeld
Ben Rosenblum Michael J. Hackman
Vicki Houser
Claudia Roth
Golden Family Fund Bert Bradford
Helene Rottenberg Zoe Johnstone-Stewart
Clare Callahan Kenneth Kam
BENEFACTOR Diana Castelnuovo-Tedesco
John Saucier
Bill Scott Alex Komodore
Rochelle Chartier
Stringletter Publishing Nikola Chekardzhikov
Steve Shabazian Frank Koonce
Sungmin Shin Stephen Krishnan
Spectra Tech Adolfo Correa Kenneth Kwan
Sheri L. Stanley
Chia & Theresa Teng Garrett Curtis
Robert Stebbins Aaron Larget-Caplan
Brad Deroche Adam Levin
John Steiner
PATRON Bruce Donehower
Eric Dussault
Federico Musgrove Stetson Manley Mallard
Kevin Manderville
Strings by Mail Reinaldo Elugardo
Zoe Johnstone Stewart
Erik & Ellen Mann
David Tanenbaum
Oliver Fartach-Naini Charles Masters
ANGEL Byron Fogo
Paola Teegarden
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Javier Mengual & Guitarras Alhambra Fingers Freddy
Scott Turner Jim McCutcheon
Jeff Cogan Christopher Freitag
Anita Varner Michael Miranda
D'Addario Russell Gaj
Ben Verdery Giuseppe Molino
Thomas Heck Chris Garwood Daniel Monaghan
Kevin Vigil
Guitar Salon International Edward B. Goldman Steven Morgan
Michael Walsh
Bryan Johanson Greg Gordon Morris N. Nilsen
Rene Walterbos
William Kanengiser Steve Goss Janice Notland
Roger Ward
Daniel Green Teddy O'Farrell
Robert Lane Vish S. Watkins
Bob Gunter Terry Perkins
Richard Long William Wells
Joseph Hagedorn Rich Romano
Christopher Mallett Jeffrey R. Wilt
Joe A. Haus Luis Sanchez
Gid & Cindy Morrison Chuck Hulihan
Stanley Yates
Greg Yorba Guitar Sarasota, Inc
Kami Rowan Ross Jones Richard Savino
Eric Sakurai
Rick Sara
Dale Kavanagh
Michael & Shirley Kendrick FAN Douglas Scott
David Skantar
Richard Schriber John Kizzie Mary Akerman
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Mark Boroush
Jan Wouters
Murray Case Robert McCarroll Rob Ziffer
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Jeffrey Corrigan Michael Brown
Peter Danner Daniel Meron
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Alex Fardon
Kim Nakae
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VIRTUOSO—$25,000–$74,999 | MAESTRO—$10,000–$24,999 | PRODIGY—$7,500–$9,999 | BENEFACTOR—$5,000–$7,499
PATRON—$3,000–$4,999 | ANGEL—$1,000–$2,999 | DONOR—$500–$999 | ASSOCIATE—$100-$499 | FAN—$1–$99
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INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION & COMPETITION
INTERNATIONAL CONCERT ARTIST COMPETITION
PAST WINNERS
2021: Bokyung Byun (South Korea)
2019: Johan Smith (Switzerland) INTERNATIONAL
2018: Raphaël Feuillâtre (France)
2017: Tengyue Zhang (China) ENSEMBLE COMPETITION
2016: Xavier Jara (U.S.A.) PAST WINNERS
2015: Thibaut Garcia (France) 2021: 1st Place: Salzburg Guitar Trio
2014: Ekachai Jerakul (Thailand 2nd Place: Siberia Nueva
2013: Anton Baranov (Russia) 3rd Place: Cicchillitti-Cowan Duo
2012: Rovshan Mamedkuliev (Russia)
2011: Vladimir Gorbach (Russia)
2020: Competition not held
2010: Johannes Möller (Sweden)
2009: Florian Larousse (France)
2008: Gabriel Bianco (France) 2019: (Miami, FL)
2007: Marcin Dylla (Poland) 1st Place: Tritonus Guitar Trio
2006: Thomas Viloteau (France) 2nd Place: Venti Chiavi Guitar Trio
2005: Jérôme Ducharme (Canada) 3rd Place: Cuarteto Eunoia
2004: Goran Krivokapić (Montenegro)
2003: Jérémy Jouve (France) 2018: Artist Small Division: not awarded
2002: Dimitri Illarionov (Russia) Youth Small Division:
2001: Johan Fostier (Belgium) Felice Guitar Quartet
2000: Martha Masters (U.S.A.) Youth Large Division:
1999: Lorenzo Micheli (Italy) California Conservatory of Music
1998: Denis Azabagić (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
1997: Judicaël Perroy (France) 2017: Artist Small Division: Erlendis Quartet
1996: Fabio Zanon (Brazil)
Artist Large Division: Octeto Sicarú
1995: Antigoni Goni (Greece)
Youth Small Division: Felice Guitar Quartet
1994: Margarita Garcia Escarpa (Spain)
1993: Kevin R. Gallagher (U.S.A.) Youth Large Division: Austin Bella Corda
1992: Jason Vieaux (U.S.A.)
1991: Alexey Zimakov (Russia) INTERNATIONAL
1990: Joseph Hagedorn (U.S.A.)
1989: Marc Teicholz (U.S.A.) DUO COMPETITION
1988: Olivier Chassain (France) PAST WINNERS
1987: Ricardo Cobo (Colombia) 1985: Douglas Rubio and Paul Rosandich (U.S.A.)
1986: Peter Clemente (U.S.A.)
1985: Mary Akerman (U.S.A.)
1983: Adam Holzman (U.S.A.)
1982: Michael Chapdelaine (U.S.A.)
INTERNATIONAL YOUTH COMPETITION

PAST WINNERS
2021: Senior Division: Jack Davisson (USA), Virtual | Junior Division: Yaroslav Romashev (Russia)
2020: Senior Division: Eric Wang (USA), Virtual | Junior Division: Buliao Que (U.S.A.)
2019: Senior Division: Sebastian Robles (Canada) | Junior Division: Zehao Li (China)
2018: Senior Division: Julio César Robles López (Mexico) | Junior Division: Eric Wang (U.S.A.)
2017: Senior Division: Shilong Fan (China) | Junior Division: Leonora Spangenberger (Germany)
2016: Senior Division: Kevin Loh (Singapore) | Junior Division: Tiange Wang (China)
2015: Senior Division: Hao Yang (China) | Junior Division: Sedona Farber (USA)
2014: Senior Division: John Bogan (USA) | Junior Division: Xu Kun Liu (Canada)
2013: Senior Division: XiaoBo Pu (China) | Junior Division: Grace Sheppard (USA)
2012: Senior Division: Huaicong Mu (China) | Junior Division: Kevin Loh (Singapore)
2011: Senior Division: Xavier Jara (USA) | Junior Division: Thomas Pfefer (USA)
2010: Senior Division: Tengyue Zhang (China) | Junior Division: Huaicong Mu (China)
2009: Senior Division: Yunxiang Fan (China) | Junior Division: Yossi Kohrman-Glaser (USA)
2008: Senior Division: Molly Manarchy (USA) | Junior Division: Saki Kato (Japan)
2007: Senior Division: Mircea Gogoncea (Romania) | Junior Division: Byun Bok Yung (South Korea)
2006: Thales Smith (USA)
2005: Travis Johnson (USA)
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Large seLection
of the finest THE GFA
concert and
& student UNIVERSITY OF INDIANAPOLIS
guitars would like to extend
Baarslag, Bernabe, our heartfelt gratitude to
Castelluccia, Daily,
Delarue, Espinosa,
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INDIANAPOLIS 75
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITORS 2022
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2022
Junior Division INDIANA
Senior Division
XXXIX INTERNATIONAL CONCERT ARTIST COMPETITION 2022
COMPETITORS
PRELIMINARY ROUND SEMIFINAL ROUND FINAL ROUND
J. S. Bach Mauro Giuliani Paulo Bellinati
IV. Allegro, from Violin Sonata Rondoletto, op. 4 Jongo and Valsa brilhante
No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Agustín Barrios Mangoré I. Allegro con spirito and IV. Vivo
Preludio, op. 5, no. 1 ed energico, from Sonata, op. 77,
“Omaggio a Boccherini”

Cesar Anchante
U.S.A.
Age: 36

John Dowland Tilman Hoppstock/ Miguel Llobet
Prelude, P. 98 Allan Willcocks Variations on a Theme by Sor,
Variations on a Theme op. 15
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco by Debussy
Robert de Visée
XII. No hubo remedio, from Prélude and Chaconne, from
24 Caprichos de Goya Fernando Sor Suite pour Théorbe in A Minor
Grand Solo, op. 14 (arr. E. Brzustowski)
Alberto Ginastera
Sotiris Athanasiou
Sonata, op. 47
Greece
Age: 25 J.S. Bach
II. Adagio, from Organ Sonata
No. 4 in E Minor, BWV 528

J.S. Bach Manuel Maria Ponce David Grimes
IV. Allegro, from Violin Sonata Sonata III 24 Preludes
No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003
George Rochberg
V. Poco agitato ma con molto
rubato, from Caprice Variations
J.K. Mertz
Vasil Chekardzhikov Tarantella
Bulgaria/U.S.A.
Age: 42
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Eduardo Sainz de la Maza J.S. Bach J.S. Bach
Campanas del alba I. Prelude, III. Gavotte en Prelude, BWV 999 and Fugue,
rondeau, and VII. Gigue, from BWV 1000
Niccolò Paganini Lute Suite in E Major, BWV
Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco
Sonata in E Minor, op. 3, 1006a
Capricho Diabólico
no. 6
Daniel Batchelar Joaquín Rodrigo
Julio Sagreras Monsieurs Almaine I. Fandango, from Tres piezas
El colibrí españolas
Héctor Díaz González
Agustín Barrios Mangoré
U.S.A. Maxixe Niccolo Paganini
Age: 54 Sonata in A Major, op. 3, no.1

Leo Brouwer Domenico Scarlatti Andrew York
II. Danza de las diosas negras, Keyboard Sonata in D Major, Just How Funky Are You
from Rito de los Orishas K. 491
Domenico Scarlatti
Keyboard Sonata in A Major, K.
Roberto Sierra
208 and Keyboard Sonata in D
I. Con pasion, II. Expresivo, casi Major, K. 53
religioso, and IV. Salseado, from
Sonata para guitarra Mauro Giuliani
Ami Inoi Rossiniana No. 5, op. 123
Japan
Age: 28

Franz Schubert Fryderyk Chopin Agustín Barrios Mangoré
Moments musicaux, D. 780, Mazurka in C-sharp Minor, op. Contemplación
no. 3 6, no. 2
Stanisław Szczepanowski
Une Larme, morceau expresif
Heitor Villa-Lobos Astor Piazzolla
Étude No. 2, from Douze Invierno porteño (arr. S. Assad) Fryderyk Chopin
études I. Vivace, III. Mazurka in F Minor,
Jan Nepomucen Bobrowicz and IV. Presto, from Mazurkas,
J.S. Bach Variations on “La ci darem la op.7
Mateusz Kowalski
I. Prelude, from Lute Suite in mano” from Mozart’s
Poland Mauro Giuliani
E Major, BWV 1006a Don Giovanni, op. 6 Rossiniana No. 2, op. 120
Age: 26

Frank Martin Richard Rodney Bennett Simone Molinaro
Quatre pièces brèves III. Elegiaco, from “Ballo detto il Conte Orlando”,
I. Prelude, II. Air, III. Plainte, Five Impromptus from Intavolatura di liuto (arr. E.
IV. Comme une Gigue Tagliavini)
Mauro Giuliani
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Rossiniana No. 5, op. 123
Variazioni attraverso i secoli

Regino Sainz de la Maza
Rondeña
Jisu Lee
South Korea Sergio Assad
Age: 24 Fantasia carioca
2022

Napoléon Coste Agustín Barrios Mangoré J.S. Bach
Le Départ, fantaisie dramatique, Un suñeo en la floresta I. Prelude, from Lute Suite in G
op. 31 Minor, BWV 995
Mathias Duplessy
Oulan Dušan Bogdanović
Bryan Johanson
Prélude et Toccata
Open Up Your Ears
Wenzel Thomas Matiegka
Variations on “Gott erhalte
XuKun (Alan) Liu Franz den Kaiser”, op. 7
Canada Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Age: 20 Capriccio diabolico

J. H. Roman Domenico Scarlatti François de Fossa
Andante and Allegro, from Assaggio Keyboard Sonata in B Minor, K. Première Fantasie, op. 5
in A Minor 408 and Keyboard Sonata in B
J. K. Mertz
Minor, K. 377
Harmonie du soir
Mario Gangi
F. J. Haydn
Study No. 7 J. H. Roman
II. Allegro and III. Finale: Tempo di
Vif, from Assaggio in A Minor
menuet, from Sonata No. 19 in
E Minor, Hob.XVI:47bis

David Margolis

U.S.A.

Age: 37

Max Reger J.S. Bach Robert de Visée
Prelude and Fugue, op. 117, I. Prelude and VII. Gigue, from Suite pour Théorbe in G Minor
no. 2 Cello Suite No. 4, BWV 1010 (arr. Meier)
(arr. Peret)
Joaquín Turina
Sevillana
Vals de primavera Eduardo López-Chavarri
Sonata No. 2 Dušan Bogdanović
Sonata No. 2
Eric Meier
Canada
Age: 28

John Dowland Georg Philipp Telemann Carlos Seixas
Chromatic Fantasy I. Adagio and II. Presto, from Sonata No. 23 and Sonata No.
Fantasia III (arr. C. Marchione) 24 (arr. R. Oliveira)
Jacques Hétu
V. Final, from Suite, op. 41 Maurice Ravel Vicente Asencio
Prelude in A Minor (arr. Bogdan II. La Joia, III. La Calma,
Mihailescu) IV. La Gaubanca, and V. La
Frisanca, from Collectici intim
Dušan Bogdanović
Sonata No. 2 Nuccio d'Angelo
Bogdan Mihailescu
Due canzoni lidie
Romania
Age: 30
2022
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COMPETITORS
John Dowland Nuccio D'Angelo Hans Werner Henze
A Fancy, P. 73 Due canzoni lidie Drei Tentos
HeitorVilla-Lobos Egberto Gismonti Dionisio Aguado

Étude No. 3 and No. 10, Central guitar I. Adagio and II. Polonaise, from
4 Rondos brillants, op. 2
from Douze études
Arthur Kampela Alberto Ginastera
Percussion Study I Sonata, op. 47
Agustin Nazzetta

Argentina
Age: 32

J.S. Bach Fernando Sor Manuel Maria Ponce
I. Prelude, from Lute Suite Variations on a Theme by Thème varié et Finale
BWV 997 Mozart, op. 9
J.S. Bach
Roland Dyens Agustín Barrios Mangoré II. Fugue, IV. Gigue and
I. India, from Libra Sonatine Una limosna por el amor de Dios V. Double, from Lute Suite
BWV 997
Roland Dyens
II. Largo and III. Fuoco, Carlos Jobim
Long Ngo
Vietnam from Libra Sonatine Felicidades (arr. R. Dyens)
Age: 22

Miguel Llobet Napoléon Coste J.S. Bach
Variations on a Theme by Sor, Introduction et variations sur un V. Chaconne, from Violin Partita
op. 15 motif de Rossini No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004
William Walton Jacques Hétu

I. Allegro, from Five Bagatelles Suite, op. 41

Rémy Patel
France
Age: 25

J.S. Bach Karel Arnoldus Craeyvanger Domenico Scarlatti
Prelude from Cello Suite, Introduction and Variations on Keyboard Sonata in E Major,
BWV 1012 a Theme from “Der Freischütz”, K. 380
op. 3
Maurice Ohana
Claude Debussy
Hans Werner Henze I. Saturnal, from Cadran lunaire
Danse bohémienne
I. Sir Andrew Aguecheek,
from Royal Winter Music:
Guitar Sonata No. 2
Mazurka apasionata
Lovro Peretic Hans Werner Henze
Croatia III. Mad Lady Macbeth, from Royal
Age: 27 Winter Music: Guitar Sonata No. 2

2022

Isaac Albéniz César Guerra-Peixe Heitor Villa-Lobos
IV. Córdoba, from Chants d’Es- III. Vivacíssimo, from Sonata para Douze études
pagne, op. 232 violão I. Allegro, II. Larghetto,
III. Vivacissimo
Baden Powell de Aquino Alvaro Henrique
O astronauta Estudo de tremolo No. 2

Alvaro Henrique Santos
Brazil
Age: 41

Alexandre Tansman Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Miklós Rózsa
Pièce en forme de Passacaille I. Francisco Goya y Lucientes, I. Moderato, from Sonata
Pintor, from 24 Caprichos for Guitar, op. 42
Heitor Villa-Lobos de Goya
Étude No. 3, from Douze études Tōru Takemitsu
Domenico Scarlatti II. Rosedale and III. Muir Woods,
Keyboard Sonata in G Major, from In The Woods
K. 390, (arr. D. Russell)

J.S. Bach
Madhavan Miklós Rózsa Prelude, Fugue and Allegro,
Somanathan II. Molto moderato quasi canzone, BWV 998
U.S.A. and III. Allegro frenetico, from
Age: 30 Sonata for Guitar, op. 42

Manuel Maria Ponce Napoléon Coste Emilio Pujol
Sonatina meridional Le Départ, fantaisie dramatique, II. Tango, from Trois morceaux
op. 31 espagnols

Chen Yi Regino Sainz de la Maza
Shuo Chang Rondeña
Leo Brouwer
La gran sarabanda
Chinnawat
(Extended Version)
Themkumkwun
Thailand Mauro Giuliani
Age: 27 Gran sonata eroica in A Major,
op. 150
2022
COMPETITORS
J.S. Bach Alexandre Tansman Leo Brouwer
Prelude In D Minor, BWV 999 Pièce en forme de Passacaille La gran sarabanda
Vicente Asencio
Joaquín Rodrigo Angelo Gilardino Tango de la casada infiel
Invocación y danza XIX. Jondo, from Studi di Valentyn Silvestrov
virtuosità e di trascendenza Kitsch Music No. 1 (arr. M. Topchii)
J.S. Bach
Sergio Assad
I. Sinfonia, from Piano Partita No. 2,
Marko Topchii
Imbricatta BWV 826
Ukraine Joaquín Rodrigo
Age: 31 Toccata

Silvius Leopold Weiss Astor Piazzolla Malcolm Arnold
I. Entree, from Suite L'Infidèle III. Acentuado, from Prelude, Arietta, March, and Post-
Cinco piezas lude, from Fantasy, op. 107
Elliott Carter
Shard Robert de Visée Astor Piazzolla
I. Prélude, IV. Sarabande, VIII. V. Compadre, from Cinco piezas
Manuel de Falla Bourrée and IX. Gigue, from
X. Canción del fuego fatuo, from Suite in D Minor Benjamin Britten
El amor brujo Nocturnal after John Dowland:
Eugen Treichel Reflections on Come, Heavy
Leo Brouwer
Germany Sleep, op. 70
La gran sarabanda
Age: 26

Domenico Scarlatti Heitor Villa-Lobos Nikita Koshkin
Keyboard Sonata in D Major, Étude No. 7 and No. 12, from III. Allegro, from Guitar Sonata
K. 53 Douze études No. 2
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Sergio Assad Joaquín Rodrigo

XVIII. El sueño de la razón Aquarelle Invocación y danza
produce monstruos, from
24 Caprichos de Goya William Walton
Five Bagatelles
Eric Wang
U.S.A.
Age: 18
2022
XVIII INTERNATIONAL YOUTH COMPETITION 2022
Junior Division COMPETITORS
Beckett Ceron Hilbert Chen Elle Davisson

U.S.A. U.S.A. U.S.A.
Age: 13 Age: 13 Age: 14
PRELIMINARY ROUND PRELIMINARY ROUND PRELIMINARY ROUND
Villa-Lobos, Prelude No. 1 Villa-Lobos, Etude No. 7 Villa-Lobos, Etude No. 7
Joaquín Malats Manuel Ponce Sergio Assad

Allegro non troppo e serioso from Tarde, Cantiga, and Saltitante
Serenata Española
Sonata Romántica from Seis brevidades

FINAL ROUND
FINAL ROUND FINAL ROUND
Joaquín Rodrigo Sergio Assad
Tiento antiguo Sergio Assad
Toccata
Tarde, Cantiga, and Saltitante
Isaac Albéniz Luigi Legnani from Seis brevidades
Asturias (Leyenda) Caprices No. 2, 7, 15
Mauro Giuliani
Joaquín Malats Léo Brouwer Grand Overture, op. 61
Serenata Española La toccata de Pasquini
from Sonata No. 1
Emilia Diaz Delgado Preston Hong Joseph Jewett

Mexico U.S.A. U.S.A.
Age: 13 Age: 13 Age: 13

Villa-Lobos, Etude No. 12 Villa-Lobos, Etude No. 12 Villa-Lobos, Prelude No. 4
Roland Dyens
Johann Sebastian Bach Andrew York
Largo and Fuoco from
Prelude from Suite in D Major, Sunburst
Libra Sonatine
BWV 1012

FINAL ROUND
FINAL ROUND FINAL ROUND Mauro Giuliani
Roland Dyens
Léo Brouwer Variations sur les Folies
Largo and Fuoco from
El harpa del guerrero from d'Espagne, op. 45
Libra Sonatine
El Decameron negro
Franz Shubert (arr. J.K. Mertz) Andrew York
Johann Kaspar Mertz Ständchen Sunburst
Fantasie Hongroise, op. 65
2022
Tae Kim Chayce Marshall Micah Montgomery

Age: 11 Age: 14 Age: 12

Villa-Lobos, Etude No. 7 Villa-Lobos, Etude No. 7 Villa-Lobos, Etude No. 12
Joaquín Rodrigo Astor Piazzolla Miguel Llobet
Fandango from Tres piezas (arr. Sergio Assad) Scherzo-Vals
españolas Invierno porteño

FINAL ROUND
FINAL ROUND
Joaquín Rodrigo FINAL ROUND Miguel Llobet
Fandango from Tres piezas Léo Brouwer Scherzo-Vals
españolas Hika
Jorge Morel
Manuel Ponce Johann Sebastian Bach Danza in E minor
Allegro moderato Prelude from Suite in E Major,
from Sonata No. 3 BWV 1006a Astor Piazzolla
Primavera porteña
Astor Piazzolla
(arr. Sergio Assad)
Invierno porteño
Jahnavi Naren Andrei Orasanu Shreyas Venkatesan

U.S.A. U.S.A./Romania U.S.A.
Age: 10 Age: 13 Age: 14

Villa-Lobos, Schottish-Chôro Villa-Lobos, Etude No. 12 Villa-Lobos, Etude No. 2
from Suite Populare Brasiliera
Roland Dyens Johann Sebastian Bach
Yuquijiro Yocoh Largo and Fuoco from Prelude from Suite in A minor,
Sakura Variations Libra Sonatine BWV 997

FINAL ROUND FINAL ROUND FINAL ROUND
Léo Brouwer, Etude No. 17 Luiz Bonfa Johann Sebastian Bach
Paseo no Rio Prelude from Suite in A minor,
John Dowland BWV 997
My Lady Hunsdon’s Puffe Agustín Barrios
La Catedral Regino Sainz de la Maza
Léo Brouwer Rodeña
Un día de noviembre Roland Dyens
Tango en Skäi
2022
Katelyn Wang Vivian Wang Sonya Wert

Age: 13 Age: 14 Age: 13

Villa-Lobos, Prelude No. 1 Villa-Lobos, Etude No. 11 Villa-Lobos, Etude No. 12
José Luis Merlín Francisco Tárrega Manuel Ponce
Carnavalito, Evocación, and Capricio Árabe Allegro non troppo from
Joropo from Suite del recuerdo Sonata No. III

FINAL ROUND
FINAL ROUND Federico Moreno Torroba FINAL ROUND
José Luis Merlín Fandanguillo from Suite Castellana Alonso Mudarra
Carnavalito, Evocación, and Fantasia No. 10
Joropo from Suite del recuerdo Jorge Morel
Danza in E minor Sergio Assad
Johann Kasper Mertz Valseana from Aquarelle
Tarantella Francisco Tárrega
Manuel Ponce
Jorge Morel Capricio Árabe
Allegro non troppo from
Danza in E minor Sonata No. III
2022
Senior Division COMPETITORS
Ethan Boyers Constantin Chekardzhikov Reade Park Trent Park

U.S.A. U.S.A./Bulgaria U.S.A. U.S.A.
Age: 17 Age: 16 Age: 17 Age: 15
PRELIMINARY ROUND PRELIMINARY ROUND PRELIMINARY ROUND PRELIMINARY ROUND
Villa-Lobos, Prelude No. 5 Villa-Lobos, Etude No. 12 Villa-Lobos, Etude No. 7 Villa-Lobos, Prelude No. 2
Johann Sebastian Bach Sergei Rachmaninoff

Andrea Clearfield Franz Shubert
Fuga from Suite in C minor, (arr. Antoine Fougeray)
Reflections on the Dranyen (arr. J.K. Mertz)
BWV 997 Prelude in G Minor, op. 23, No. 5 Ständchen
FINAL ROUND
FINAL ROUND Andrea Clearfield FINAL ROUND FINAL ROUND
Johann Sebastian Bach Reflections on the Dranyen Johann Sebastian Bach Agustín Barrios
Fuga from Suite in C minor, Gigue and Double from Julia Florida
Atanas Ourkouzounov Suite in A Minor, BWV 997
BWV 997 Sonata No. 1 Franz Shubert (arr. J.K. Mertz)
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Konstantin Vassiliev Fischermädchen and Ständchen
(arr. Antoine Fougeray)
Fatum Prelude in G Minor, op. 23, No. 5 Johann Sebastian Bach
Thelonius Monk (arr. Roland Dyens) Prelude from Suite in C Major,
Round Midnight BWV 1009
Penelope Shvarts Ian Tubbs Owen Wang

Age: 17 Age: 17 Age: 16
Villa-Lobos, Etude No. 7 Villa-Lobos, Etude No. 12 Villa-Lobos, Etude No. 7
Isaac Albéniz Johann Sebastian Bach Luigi Legnani
Sevilla Prelude from Suite in E Major, Fantasia
BWV 1006a
FINAL ROUND
FINAL ROUND
Isaac Albéniz FINAL ROUND Luigi Legnani
Sevilla Johann Sebastian Bach Fantasia
Prelude from Suite in E Major, Roland Dyens
Dionisio Aguado BWV 1006a Tango en Skäi
Introduction and Rondo Brillante,
Léo Brouwer
op. 2, No. 2
Sarabande de Scriabin
and Toccata de Pasquini
from Sonata No. 1
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WEDNESDAY June 29 9:00am TW: Michael Partington 26

KEY: C–Concert; L–Lecture; M–Masterclass; TW–Technique Workshop;

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Wednesday, June 29 Thursday, June 30 Friday, July 1 Saturday, July 2

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18 INDIANAPOLIS Maja Radovanlija

Other prizes to all finalists will include:

IYC SENIOR DIVISION JURORS

Bálint Varga Isaac Bustos (29) Meng Su (42)

IYC JUNIOR DIVISION JURORS

Gergely Szurgyi Louis Trépanier Bokyung Byun (33)

Note: See a complete list of past IYC winners on page 73.

Michael Partington (26) Eliot Fisk (55) Luigi Attademo

Johan Smith (44) Meng Su (42) Eduardo Fernandez (35)

Eliot Fisk | Wednesday, June 29, 1:30pm | Room 108

Eduardo Fernandez | Saturday, July 2, 1:30pm | Room 108

Please note that the order of performers is subject to change.

SCHOLARLY TRACK DAY

Schedule (all times US Eastern)

“Guitar Equity and Advocacy for All” Gwen Marie Lerch

“How to Get a Seat at the Table” Dr. Kevin Vigil

ICAC PRELIMINARY ROUND

ICAC SEMIFINAL ROUND

Guitar Foundation of America

Verano Porteño Astor Piazzolla

Guajira a mi Madre Antonio “Ñico” Rojas

Rumores de la Caleta Isaac Albéniz

From 24 Caprichos de Goya Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

Rondeña Regino Sainz de la Maza

Excerpts from 15 Sinfonias Johann Sebastian Bach

Le marche des Scythes Joseph Nicolas Pancrace Royer

Scintilla Marek Pasieczny

Saltarello la Regina Anonymous

Tourdion Pierre Attaignant