Welcome 2020! Happy New Year! Bonne Année !
Dear Music Lovers,
I am looking forward to an exciting year of music making. The next few months will hear 35+ different solo and chamber pieces including multiple premieres, new arrangements, and a few commissions. ¡Guitar + Electronics!
For the first time in my career I will be Musician in Residence for 3-weeks at the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity in Canada beginning this Monday! I will continue my exploration of John Cage on Guitar and..living. February brings recording contemporary music and touring ¡Con Fuego!. In March & April I join violist Michael Hall for concerts in NYC & Boston, before doing a solo tour in California. Balancing the many programs and projects is a challenge, but I’m a professional. It’s what I do.
Read below about a new Cage edition from Edition Peters, as well as new videos, AND you can follow my Banff experience on social media. Click on the symbols on the top right to join in the fun.
May 2020 bring peace, great adventures, a bit of bubbly, and great music to all!
Musically,
Aaron
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Jan. 5-25, Banff, Canada, Musician in Residence, Cage Exploration Continues
Feb. 2-3, Berklee, Recording & Concert of Sonata for alto-flute & guitar by Donald McDonnell
Feb. 7-9, ¡CON FUEGO! in New England
2/7 – The Regent Theatre, Arlington • 2/8 – Studio 4, Northampton
2/9 – Providence College, Providence, RI
March 19-24, NORTHEAST TOUR • Music by American Composers with violist Michael Hall
3/19 – Upham’s Corner, Boston • 3/21 – National Opera Center, New York City
3/22 – Arlington Street Church, Boston • 3/24 – King’s Chapel, Boston
March 26-April 6, CALIFORNIA TOUR – Solo
3/26 – UCLA, Masterclass • 3/29 – Pomona College, Concert
4/2 – CSU Bakersfield, Masterclass • 4/3 – MONCA Chico, Concert
4/4-5 – South Bay Guitar Society, San Jose, Concert & Masterclass
4/5 – Presidio, San Francisco, Concert • 4/6 – Center for New Music, SF, Concert
April-May, Solo in Massachusetts
4/17 – Wellesley • 4/23 – Southbridge • 4/26 – Arlington • 5/09 – Wellfleet
June, Oregon, New Music Gathering
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Collaborators: Allison Paramore, La Conja, Stephen Marotto, Michael Hall
Living Composers: Donald McDonnell, Francine Trester, John Anthony Lennon, Darleen Mitchell, Thomas L. Read, David Liptak, Tom Flaherty, Alice Shields, David Froom, Matthew Davidson, Lou Bunk, Jacob Mashak, Keigo Fujii, and Vineet Shende
Dead Composers: Albéniz, Bach, Barrios, Cage, Dyens, Granados, Mussorgsky, Piazzolla, Rodrigo, Sanlucar, and Tarrega
*Click HERE for the complete Fall calendar.
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LATEST NEWS
• NEW EDITION: Edition Peters has published a 2nd edition of CAGE: PIANO MUSIC ARRANGED FOR GUITAR, which includes two new pages of notes written by yours truly. CLICK HERE
• REVIEWS: SOUNDBOARD, the publication of the Guitar Foundation of America, recently reviewed 'John. Cage. Guitar.' and above publication. Great reviews! CLICK HERE
• NEW VIDEOS:
1 - Preseids by Agustín Castilla-Ávila (New Lullaby #56)
2 - Esperanza by Stephanie Ann Boyd (New Lullaby #52)
3 - Bacchanale by John Cage with Adam Levin
4 - Tango en Skaï by Roland Dyens – Practice Bite #1
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