MONROE - The second performance in Monroe Arts Center's 2011-2012 Sunday Concert Series will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6 at the MAC, 1315 11th St., Monroe.
Latin guitarist David Burgess will present "Guitar Music of Brazil." The program will include music by some Brazilian composers, including bossa nova works by Antonio Carlos Jobin and Luiz Bonfa, along with tangos by Ernesto Nazareth, and music by the Pixinguinha.
General admission seat tickets are $10 for adults, and $5 for students 18 years of age and under. MAC members may attend at no charge.
Burgess has made international appearances as soloist and chamber musician in concert halls throughout North and South America, Europe and the Far East. He has made numerous appearances as an orchestral soloist, including featured performances with the Philharmonia Virtuosi of New York, and the American Chamber Orchestra at the Kennedy Center.
A first-prize winner in the André Segovia Fellowship Competition in New York City, Burguess has also won top honors in the Ponce International Competition in Mexico City, the Guitar '81 Competition in Toronto, and the 31st International Music Competition in Munich.
Burgess began studying guitar at the Estudio de Arte Guitarrístico in Mexico City with Argentine guitarist Manuel López Ramos and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in music at the University of Washington, and later had a full scholarship to the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy, where he studied with Oscar Ghiglia. He has also studied with Spanish maestro André Segovia. Burgess is a former guitar instructor at the University of Washington, and the Cornish Institute of the Arts.
He has one of the largest collections of Latin American guitar music in the U.S., and has recorded for Musical Heritage Society, Tritone, Athena, and Camerata Records and on the CBS Masterworks label.
Tickets may be purchased by calling the MAC at (608) 325-5700 or (888) 596-1249, or in person at the box office. For more information concerning other MAC events, visit www.monroeartscenter.com.
The event has been underwritten by Corporate Underwriter Colony Brands, Inc., and Media Underwriters Monroe Publishing, LLC, and Big Radio. Additional underwriting for this presentation has been provided by Lee & Chris Knuteson; Hans and Bobbie Bernet; Pete Guenther and Barb Woodriff; and Deb Thompson.
Latin guitarist David Burgess will present "Guitar Music of Brazil." The program will include music by some Brazilian composers, including bossa nova works by Antonio Carlos Jobin and Luiz Bonfa, along with tangos by Ernesto Nazareth, and music by the Pixinguinha.
General admission seat tickets are $10 for adults, and $5 for students 18 years of age and under. MAC members may attend at no charge.
Burgess has made international appearances as soloist and chamber musician in concert halls throughout North and South America, Europe and the Far East. He has made numerous appearances as an orchestral soloist, including featured performances with the Philharmonia Virtuosi of New York, and the American Chamber Orchestra at the Kennedy Center.
A first-prize winner in the André Segovia Fellowship Competition in New York City, Burguess has also won top honors in the Ponce International Competition in Mexico City, the Guitar '81 Competition in Toronto, and the 31st International Music Competition in Munich.
Burgess began studying guitar at the Estudio de Arte Guitarrístico in Mexico City with Argentine guitarist Manuel López Ramos and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in music at the University of Washington, and later had a full scholarship to the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy, where he studied with Oscar Ghiglia. He has also studied with Spanish maestro André Segovia. Burgess is a former guitar instructor at the University of Washington, and the Cornish Institute of the Arts.
He has one of the largest collections of Latin American guitar music in the U.S., and has recorded for Musical Heritage Society, Tritone, Athena, and Camerata Records and on the CBS Masterworks label.
Tickets may be purchased by calling the MAC at (608) 325-5700 or (888) 596-1249, or in person at the box office. For more information concerning other MAC events, visit www.monroeartscenter.com.
The event has been underwritten by Corporate Underwriter Colony Brands, Inc., and Media Underwriters Monroe Publishing, LLC, and Big Radio. Additional underwriting for this presentation has been provided by Lee & Chris Knuteson; Hans and Bobbie Bernet; Pete Guenther and Barb Woodriff; and Deb Thompson.
