This is a guest post by: Alexander Dunn Concert review – Janet Grohovac St. Barnabas Church Sunday Concert Series January 8, 2012, Victoria, BC Guitarist Janet Grohovac performed a beautiful solo recital organized by the Victoria Guitar Society and the St. Barnabas Church series. Ms Grohovac is a ‘daughter’ of Victoria, having studied at the [...]
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End of the Week Review (Nov.6, 2011)
Late November is another busy concert time for Canada. GFA winner Johannes Moller is making the rounds back East while on his GFA tour. A big thanks to Peter Powell who is writing two posts on Jerome Ducharme, look for the interview next week. On a personal note I’ve been super busy completing some of [...]
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End of the Week Review (October 2nd, 2011)
Some news tidbits: UBC GUITAR DEPT: Congrats to Michael Strutt for his 27 years of dedication at the UBC School of Music. Another congrats to the new UBC guitar instructor: Daniel Bolshoy. via McFadden: “UofT DMA student Tariq Harb chosen as 1 of 3 finalists in the Barrios Competition!! He’s going to Paraguay!” I went [...]
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End of the Week Review (18 September 2011)
Sounds like the Toronto Society had a great opening concert to their season stating that “Rafael Aguirre was on fire last night! What an incredible performer! Then, as a second encore, he simply had the audience shout out requests, and off the cuff he performed flawlessly! I’ve never before seen a classical guitarist do that [...]
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Jesus is Coming by Jacob TV arr for guitars by Alexander Dunn
Movie Night posts happen every Wednesday…despite this being Thursday. My web server got hacked last week and it’s been taking me forever to clean things up. Sorry to anyone who got redirected to Russian gambling sites over the past week (unless you had a blast gambling). All fixed now… Anyway, last spring Alexander Dunn, Michael [...]
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VCM Guitar Quartet at St. Barnabas Church
Music at Church of Saint Barnabas June 5, 2011 3:00pm St. Barnabas church, Victoria BC Location: 1525 Begbie Street Corner of Belmont Ave. and Begbie St., by Stadacona Park Guitarists Alexander Dunn, Bradford Werner, Michael Dias & Adrian Verdejo, and guest Emma Zabloski perform an exciting concert including Temporal Waves by Vancouver composer Jordan Nobles, [...]
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What are you planning this summer?
I’ll be practicing up a storm and taking more history classes at UVic. The Victoria Guitar Trio is also getting organized and we just got some new media up. Maybe we’ll take on some more Canadian music and have a full Canadian programme. Here’s some suggestions for summer festivals in Canada (alphabetical order): Camp Musicale [...]
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GVPAF presents Lynn McGrath
Where: Victoria, BC Event: Lynn McGrath in Concert Date: April 11th, 2011 Time: 7:30pm Venue: Victoria Conservatory of Music, Wood Hall, 907 Pandora Avenue Dr. Lynn McGrath adjudicates the Greater Victoria Performing Arts Festival and also gives a concert of Tedesco, Albeniz, and Barrios. Lynn will be playing guitar as well narrating Tedesco’s Platero y Yo. [...]
John Oliver Guitar Quartet – Prismophony
For the composition of the week I’m featuring Vancouver composer John Oliver and a recent concert I performed in (see video below). This is movement IV. John Oliver Vancouver Website: www.johnolivermusic.com Canada Music Centre: John Oliver at the CMC Guitar Solos (25); Guitar Duos (6); Guitar Quartets (1); Guitar Concerto (1); Guitar in chamber ensembles [...]
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Alexander Dunn, Bradford Werner, Adrian Verdejo, and Michael Dias perform Goss
Hey look it’s me! Guitarists Alexander Dunn, Adrian Verdejo, Michael Dias and Bradford Werner perform ‘Under Milk Wood Variations’ (1989) by composer Stephen Goss. With narration by Fran Gebhard and Conrad Alexandrovicz. Performed live in recital at the Alix Gooldin Hall in Victoria, BC Canada. This set of miniatures, for guitar quartet and narrator, evokes [...]
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