David is a graduate of Berklee College of Music in Boston where he works as an assistant professor of guitar. He also directs the Guitar Program at the University of New Hampshire. David performs solo and group engagements throughout New England and is a former director of the Boston Classical Guitar Society. Margaret is an active ... Read more
The BCGS is proud to welcome Manuel Barrueco back to start off the 2019-20 Artist Series. Internationally recognized as one of the most important guitarists of our time, Barrueco has been continually described as a superb instrumentalist and a superior and elegant musician, possessing a seductive sound and uncommon lyrical gift. Get your tickets early!
Carl Straussner is a Classical Guitarist, Composer, and Audio Engineer originally from Johannesburg, South Africa. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Performance and Composition from the University of the Witwatersrand, and a Master's Degree in Classical Guitar Performance under Eliot Fisk at The New England Conservatory. He is both a soloist and an avid chamber musician ... Read more
Jose Lezcano will present a clinic on Cuban and Brazilian rhythms from 2:30-3:30pm and a solo guitar performance from 4:00pm – 5:30pm Twice Grammy-nominated composer and guitarist José Manuel Lezcano has composed many works for solo guitar, guitar in chamber music, and concertos for solo guitar and guitar with wind instruments. He has been described ... Read more
This very special concert will weave the magical spells of the eclectic music of composer, guitarist, vihuelist, lutenist, baritone, director, and teacher, Frank Wallace. Join us for this evening as we create positive energy from a half-century of creativity by our friend and former BCGS Director, who has stage four cancer. Proceeds from this concert will go toward Frank's Dance with Cancer GoFundMe campaign.
Music from South America for oboe and guitar. Margaret Herlehy is an active chamber musician and performer. She is a resident artist in music at UNH and performs with the UNH faculty trio Sospiri. David Newsam, guitar, is a graduate of Berklee College of Music in Boston but also completed his studies in the Modern ... Read more
Brasil Guitar Duo, a 2006 winner of the Concert Artists Guild International Competition, and hailed by Classical Guitar magazine for its “maturity of musicianship and technical virtuosity,” is equally at home on a classical or a world-music series or performing a concerto with orchestra. João Luiz and Douglas Lora met in São Paulo as teenage ... Read more
