| Schedule:
Thursday: Master
Class with Vladsilav Blaha, 7:30
p.m., free admission to obsverve.
Friday: Winner’s
Showcase, 8:00 p.m., free
Milen Parashkevov, David Buck, and Rade
Amanovic
Saturday: Texas
Guitar Competition
9:00 a.m. - Preliminary
rounds, NOT open to viewing
2:00 p.m. - Finals begin and ARE
open to the public, free
Winners will be announced during the 8 p.m.
concert.
8:00 p.m. Concert of John
Duarte’s music performed by Kathryn
Evans, soprano, Enric Madriguera and Vladislav
Blaha, guitar,
$10 reserved, $5 students.
Details...
The 3rd Annual Texas Classical
Guitar Competition and Festival will return
to the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD)
Mar. 18-20 with composer John Duarte, Vladislav
Blaha, UTD’s Head of Guitar Studies
Enric Madriguera and Associate Dean Kathryn
Evans. This unique Texas competition, which
is designed to showcase outstanding classical
guitar students at least 16 years of age,
will be accepting applications from
advanced guitar students wishing to compete
until Mar. 1, 2004. Monetary prizes
will be awarded for first, second and third
place, and all winners will be invited to
perform in the UTD 2004/2005 Guitar Series.
More
information about how to enter.
The guitar festival will
begin in the Jonsson Performance Hall on
Thursday, Mar. 18, at 7:30 p.m.
with a master class presented
by guitarist Vladislva Blaha.
Admission to observe the master class is
free and tickets are not necessary. Seating
however is limited and it is suggested that
observers arrive early to claim a seat.
Prospective participants should contact
Dr. Madriguera by e-mailing esm4433@dcccd.edu.
The second day of the
festival, Friday, Mar. 19,
will feature a free concert at 8
p.m. also in the UTD Jonsson Performance
Hall (JO 2.604) by the prizewinners of the
2nd Annual Guitar competition, including
First-place winner, Milen Parashkevov,
Second-place winner, David Buck,
and Third–place winner, Rade
Amanovic.
The competition
finals will take place on Mar. 20
in the Jonsson Performance Hall from
2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Observation of
the finals is free and open to the public.
The competition winners will be announced
during an 8 p.m. concert of
the music of John Duarte performed by Enric
Madriguera and Vladislav
Blaha, guitarists, and Kathryn
Evans, soprano, in the Jonsson
Performance Hall.
Biographies
Vladislav Bláha
studied at the Brno Conservatoire with Arnost
Sadlik before going to the Liszt College
of Music in Weimar, Germany, where he graduated
as a student of Roland Zimmer. He has participated
in master classes with Costas Cotsiolis,
Abel Carlevaro and, with the aid of British
Council Fellowship, studied in England with
Gordon Crosskey (Royal Northern College
of Music) and John W. Duarte in London.
Bláha achieved international recognition
as first prize winner in four international
guitar competitions in Volos, Greece (1978),
Esztergom, Hungary (1979), Kutna Hora, Czech
Republic (1980), and Markneukirchen, Germany
(1981). In 1983 he received the bronze medal
at the 25th International Guitar Competition
Radio France in Paris. Bláha has
given concerts in 36 countries in Europe,
U.S.A., Asia (Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam)
and Latin America (Mexico, Cuba). He is
a Professor at the Conservatory in Brno,
Czech Republic, the Director of International
Guitar Festival BRNO, Czech Republic and
is President of the Czech Classical Guitar
Society. He is frequently invited to give
master classes, to perform on international
festivals and to work as a member of international
competition juries.
First-place winner,
29-year-old Milen Parashkevov,
a native of Bulgaria, currently resides
in Lubbock, Texas. Parashkevov returned
to compete after taking third prize in last
year’s Texas Guitar Competition. His
formal training includes a performance diploma
from the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria,
a Masters of Music from Texas Tech University,
as well as instruction by Joaquin Clench,
Maria Isabel Siewers, Elliot Fisk, and James
Bogle. He has performed in Bulgaria, Germany,
Austria, Canada, and United States and recently
won second prize in the 2002 Appalachian
Guitar Competition.
Second-place
winner, 28-year-old David
Buck, currently resides in Tucson,
Arizona. His normal training includes a
Bachelors of Music from Arizona State University
and a Masters of Music from the University
of Arizona, as well as instruction with
Frank Koonce and Tom Patterson. Previously,
Buck was a semi-finalist at the 2001 Guitar
Festival America Competition (GFA) and was
a finalist in the Stevens and Sholin competition
at the University of Arizona.
Third–place
winner, 25-year-old Rade
Amanovic, a native of Yugoslavia,
currently resides in Lubbock, Texas. Amanovic
began studying the guitar in Knjazevac,
Yugoslavia at the age of 9. He was a student
of Uros Dojcinovic at Josip Slovenski School
of Music in Belgrade, Yugoslavia from 1992
until 1996. After winning 3rd prize at the
International Guitar Competition in Voronezh,
Russia in May 1996, Rade began studying
with Dr. James Bogle at Texas Tech University.
He was invited to the Manuel Ponce Guitar
Competition in Mexico City in 1998. At the
guitar competition at Appalachian State
University in the spring of 2000 Rade was
2nd prizewinner. He is now a graduate teaching
assistant pursuing his Masters degree at
Texas Tech University.
John Duarte
has composed over 130 works for the guitar
and lute. Most of Duarte’s compositions
have been have been published and 57 have
been commercially recorded by 58 artists
and ensembles in 24 countries. Educated
in Manchester, Duarte worked as a professional
Chemist until 1969, and then abandoned chemistry
in favor of a full-time music career. He
studied music formally with Terence Usher,
but has been dominantly self-instructed.
In addition to his success
as a composer, Duarte is an accomplished
musician, playing trumpet and double-bass
as well as guitar. Duarte also writes regularly
contributing to such publications as Soundboard,
Gramophone, Music Teacher, Classical Guitar,
Music in Education, Guitar Review, Guitar
International, Music & Musicians, Records
and Recording, and Performance; as well
as writing numerous concert-program notes
and about 250 liner notes for various recording
including an annotation to the reissue of
Andres Segovia’s recordings of 1927-1939
for which Duarte received a Grammy Award.
As a teacher Duarte has
taught in 29 countries and has prepared
many international students for successful
careers. Duarte has served as Director of
the Cannington International Guitar Summer
School and Festival, Course Director of
the Bath International Guitar and now teaches
at the Oatridge International Guitar Summer
School and Festival.
His 60th and 70th
birthdays were celebrated with concerts
of his music in the Wigmore Hall in London,
played by artists from Britain, the United
States, Czechoslovakia, Venezuela, Germany
and Croatia. His 80th birthday was marked
by a similar concert in Bolivar Hall with
artists from England, Scotland, Brazil,
Greece and Italy. In 1990 he received a
Silver Medal from the Czech Ambassador in
London, for his “services to Anglo-Czech
and Slovak cultural relations,” and
in 1999 he received the Guitar Foundation
of America’s Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Kathryn Evans
joined the faculty of the University of
Texas at Dallas in 1994 where she is currently
the Associate Dean for the Arts in the School
of Arts and Humanities. She also teaches
vocal and choral music, and directs the
UTD Chamber Singers. Ms. Evans holds Master
of Arts degrees in Music and in Mathematics
from the University of California at San
Diego. Ms. Evans recently completed tours
of music for voice and guitar with fellow
faculty member Dr. Enric Madriguera in Austria,
Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Mexico.
Enric Madriguera
is Director of Guitar Studies at Eastfield
College of the DCCCD and at the University
of Texas at Dallas. He is past advisory
chair for the Dallas Guitar Society. He
performs and teaches at home and abroad
with annual tours of Europe and the Americas.
Recently, Enric was invited to participate
at the Darwin Guitar Festival in Australia
in 2002. His recordings "Old World
- New World" and "Duo Madriguera,
Music for Two Guitars" with his wife
Sabine are released on the Encore Gold Label.
The Encore Gold CD's both have works by
tonight's guest composer at UTD, Ernesto
Cordero.
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