Join u
s for a very special benefit concert with award winning guitarist
José Lezcano. Works of Scarlatti\, Bach\, Stevie
Wonder\, and much more. Presented by the West Claremont C
enter for Music and the Arts\, to benefit the Claremont Creative Center and community programs.<
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Tickets: $25
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\nDescribed by Fanfare Magazine as “an exce llent guitarist as well as an imaginative composer\,” José Manuel Lezcano is Professor Emeritus of Music at Keene State College where he directs the guitar orchestra and Latin ensemble\, a nd teaches guitar and courses in Latin American and Spanish music. He has also served recently as Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota at Morris. He has lectured throughout the state for New Hamp shire Humanities on Ecuadorean indigenous guitar traditions\, rituals\, an d mythology\, and on the guitar in Latin America.
\nHe is a twice Gr ammy-nominated composer and performer who has performed for audiences on f our continents. His programs featuring traditional and Latin American repe rtoire\, and his own original compositions have taken him as recitalist\, collaborative musician\, and concerto soloist from Carnegie Recital Hall a nd the North-South Consonance Series in New York City to major venues and festivals in Cuba\, Spain\, Ecuador\, Colombia\, Peru\, Brazil\, China\, C rete\, Trinidad and Tobago\, the Czech Republic and Germany. Born in Havan a\, Cuba in 1960\, he earned degrees from Peabody Conservatory (B.M.)\, Un iversity of South Carolina (M.M.)\, and Florida State University (Ph.D. mu sic theory). José has earned numerous awards\, including first prize in th e MTNA National Guitar Competition\, the NH State Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship\, NHMTA Composer of the Year (2002 & 07)\, KSC Distingui shed Research Award\, and a Fulbright Award to Ecuador\, where he performe d as orchestral soloist and pursued research on indigenous guitar traditio ns. Jose’s scholarly publications include Latin American Music Rev iew\, Soundboard\, and the Latino Encyclopedia . In addition to flute and guitar works published by Alry\, his catalog in cludes two double concertos for flute\, guitar\, and strings (Poem as Concertantes\, and Sojourners\, published b y Cayambis)\; a viola concerto premiered by Brett Deubner and the Astoria Symphony\; four song cycles for the Barcelona Festival of Song\, Sonata fo r cello and guitar (recorded by José and cellist Rebecca Hartka on the CD Coleurs)\; and two guitar concertos (Guitar Concerto no. 1\, “Ecuadorean Landscapes\,” and “Concierto Cubanero” for guitar and cha mber orchestra\, a work inspired by Cuban dance genres of the golden age). In October 2021\, José performed as soloist with the Sinfonica Na cional de Colombia in “Concierto Cubanero.” www.joselezcano. com
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