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| Jazz At The Maverick: The Anthony Wilson Guitar Quartet Maverick Concerts announces a concert by the Anthony Wilson Guitar Quartet on Saturday, August 30, at 8 pm at the Maverick Concert Hall, 120 Maverick Road, Woodstock. The concert is the last in this season's Jazz at the Maverick series. About the Music The featured work on the program will be Mr. Wilson's "Seasons: A Song Cycle for Guitar Quartet, " a work that combines jazz, American roots music, and traditional Brazilian samba. The suite will be performed on the celebrated "Four Seasons" guitars by the renowned master luthier John Monteleone, who commissioned guitarist and composer Anthony Wilson to write a guitar quartet that would feature the instruments' individual qualities and showcase their versatility. Each of the guitars is acoustically and artistically designed to embody a particular season. Six different woods are used in each, and they are embellished with diamonds, rubies, turquoise, abalone, and paua shell, with distinctive sunburst finishes. "Seasons" premiered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2011, and a recording of the work was Stereophile Magazine's Recording of the Month. Downbeat magazine described the work as "Nothing short of gorgeous... as close to understanding the marriage of artist and instrument as we'll get in this lifetime." The concert will also feature music by Thelonious Monk, Carla Bley, and Joni Mitchell, as well as arrangements of traditional songs, all adapted for guitar quartet by Mr. Wilson. About the Players Anthony Wilson has recorded ten solo albums since his Grammy-nominated debut album was released in 1997. During the past decade he has performed and recorded with such greats as Paul McCartney, Leon Russell, Willie Nelson, Mose Allison, Barbra Streisand, and Aaron Neville. A "triple-threat" guitarist/composer/arranger, Mr. Wilson's name is regularly found at the top levels of Downbeat magazine's international critics' poll. He won the Thelonious Monk Institute International Composers' Competition in 1995, and since then he has received numerous commissions for small- and large-scale original works. The other members of the quartet are Steve Cardenas, Adam Rogers, and Guilherme Monteiro. Steve Cardenas has been an integral part of the New York City jazz community since 1995 and has toured extensively throughout Europe, North and South America, and Asia. He has performed at countless international music festivals, theaters, opera houses, and clubs. Steve appears as a sideman on more than 40 albums. Adam Rogers studied classical guitar with Robert Secrist and Frederic Hand at the Mannes College of Music, and has played on more than 200 recordings with such artists as Cassandra Wilson, Norah Jones, Joe Jackson, Paul Simon, Regina Carter, the Mingus Orchestra, the Gil Evans Orchestra, Ravi Coltrane, Bill Evans, and Larry Coryell, among others, as well as playing music for the theater with Joseph Papp's Public Theater and the Metropolitan Opera. Brazilian guitarist Guilherme Monteiro has played and recorded with the most respected musicians in the world, and is the winner of a Latin Grammy. About Maverick Concerts Maverick Concerts is the oldest continuous summer chamber music festival in America and a winner of the Chamber Music America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming. Built by Maverick Art Colony founder Hervey White, Maverick Concert Hall first opened its doors to music lovers in 1916. The rustic hall is located at 120 Maverick Road, Woodstock, N.Y. 12498. With acoustics ideally suited to the intimacy of live chamber music performance, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. For additional details, including a schedule of concerts, ticket prices, and seating information, visit www.maverickconcerts.org or call Maverick's recorded message line at 845-679-8217. Yamaha is the Official Piano of Maverick Concerts. The C7 grand piano in the Maverick Concert Hall is a generous loan from Yamaha Artists Services. Maverick Concerts, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization made possible in part with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; an award from the National Endowment for the Arts; the Maverick Endowment Fund; Friends of Maverick; the towns of Woodstock and Hurley; local businesses; individual donors; and other public and private foundations. In 2013, Maverick received a special citation as part of the inaugural Ulster County Executive's Arts Award and a Pride of Ulster award from the Ulster County Legislature. write your comments about the article :: © 2014 Jazz News :: home page |