Robert Guthrie, Enric Madriguera, and
Christopher McGuire, former students of
Andrés Segovia (1893-1987), perform
a repertoire of songs from the great guitar
maestro.
Adjunct Professor of Guitar Originally
self-taught, Texas-born guitarist Robert
Guthrie won scholarships for worldwide
study with masters such as Andres Segovia,
Alirio Diaz, Jose Tomas, and Jesus Silva.
His concert appearances have taken him to
every state in the U.S. and throughout Mexico,
Italy, Spain, and Venezuela. He has made
recordings for NPR and PBS, which produced
a documentary on his performing and teaching.
He has given over 100 guest master classes
in the U.S. and Mexico and has been faculty
artist of the Aspen Music Festival, the
Boston Conservatory, Queens College, and
Yale University. He currently heads the
guitar program at Southern Methodist University
in Dallas where his students are frequently
competition winners. Mr. Guthrie, the recipient
of the 1995 Teacher of the Year award from
the Dallas Classical Guitar Society, also
pursues a busy concert schedule. His repertoire
covers the history of his instrument from
the sixteenth century to present day, with
a special emphasis on the music of Spain
and South America.
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. In
2001 he visited Vietnam and he was the first
US Guitarist to perform and offer a class
at Hanoi Conservatory of Music. Enric has
recorded "Frida" by UTD's Robert
X. Rodriguez and a tribute to Eduardo Mata
entitled "Voces Americanas" as
a member of the new music ensemble "Voices
of Change" on the CRI Label. His recordings
"Old World - New World" and "Duo
Madriguera, Music for Two Guitars"
with his wife Sabine are released on the
Encore Gold Label.
Christopher McGuire has
performed hundreds of acclaimed solo concerts
in the United States, Mexico, Japan and
Spain. He has been invited as a guest artist
with orchestras and prestigious chamber
ensembles and also composes for his music
group, D'Accord. He commands the many expressive
qualities of the guitar with what one critic
called "unselfconscious intensity."
His engaging performance style invites people
of all ages to feel they are taking part,
not just taking a seat. Audiences and critics
on four continents fulfil the prediction
by Andrés Segovia that "he will
be appreciated and applauded everywhere."
In addition to numerous television and radio
appearances he was the subject of a half-hour
program on Radio Shanghai of China (estimated
audience in thirteen Asian countries: one
billion).
"Andres Segovia was, together with
Fernando Sor, Antonio Torres, Francisco
Tarrega and Albert Augustine, one of the
most important figures in the history of
the classic guitar. Whether he was the greatest
guitarist at any time in his career is open
to debate, but he was the only one whose
evangelistic ambitions, combined with his
artistry, carried the guitar around the
world. For many decades, if one had asked
1000 music-lovers who was the greatest guitarist
in the world they would have named Segovia;
asked who was the second greatest they would
simply have looked blank. For the guitar
and its wellbeing he was the right man at
the right time. It is no exaggeration to
say that if he had not done what he did,
we in this place would not now be sitting
where we are. His contribution and influence
were immeasurable"
- John W. Duarte.
"He does indeed succeed
in doing it all alone, he and his guitar...where
one stops the other takes over in a
continuous flow of melodious sounds."
– Fort Worth Star Telegram
“…an artist,
sensitive, with perfect technique.”
– Andrés Segovia |
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