Finger Lakes Guitar Quartet to perform Oct. 23
Finger Lakes Guitar Quartet
The Finger Lakes Guitar Quartet—featuring senior artist-in-residence Joel Brown of the Department of Music and three former students—performs in concert at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23, in the Arthur Zankel Music Center.
Quartet members in addition to Brown are Brett Grigsby, a 1992 Skidmore graduate who is a visiting artist-in-residence in the College’s Music Department, Sten Isachsen and Paul Quigley, whom Brown taught while on the faculty of Schenectady County Community College.
The group coalesced about a decade ago and has performed throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe, with its most recent performances taking place throughout the Northeast and Ohio. It specializes in presenting guitar music spanning five centuries.
Thursday’s concert will feature selections from “the rich tradition of guitar quartet music,” said Brown, including selections by J.S. Bach, a three-movement jazz piece in the “bossa nova style” by Celso Machado, a transcription of a piece for four guitars by Fauré, and a composition by Afro-Cuban composer Leo Brouwer. “It’s not stuffy,” promised Brown, adding, “We’re mixing it up a bit."
Admission for the Thursday, Oct. 23, concert by the Finger Lakes Guitar Quartet is $8 adults, $5 seniors, retirees, faculty, and staff, and free for students. For advance reservations or more information, click here or call the Zankel Box Office at (518)-580-5321. The Zankel Music Center is wheelchair accessible and offers listening devices for the hearing impaired.
