SAIGON INTERNATIONAL GUITAR FESTIVAL 2014

Từ 12/11 đến 16/11

Saigon International Guitar Festival 2014 là liên hoan guitar cổ điển quốc tế được tổ

chức lần đầu tiên tại Nhạc Viện thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, diễn ra từ ngày 12/11 đến ngày

16/11/2014, với sự tham gia - như tên gọi của festival - đặc biệt nòng cốt từ các nghệ sĩ guitar

khách mời quốc tế.

Với mong muốn hoạt động này sẽ được diễn ra định kỳ hàng năm, đóng góp cho sự phát triển

của nghệ thuật guitar cổ điển của Sài gòn nói riêng và Việt nam nói chung trên con đường hòa

nhập với sự phát triển của các nước trong khu vực và thế giới, Saigon International Guitar

Festival 2014 mong là một khởi đầu thuận lợi cho sự giao lưu, học hỏi và trao đổi của tất cả

những ai yêu thích guitar cổ điển.

Saigon International Guitar Festival 2014 gồm các buổi biểu diễn với nhạc mục phong

phú của các nghệ sĩ guitar đến từ Mỹ, Ba Lan, Italia, Malaysia, Iceland, Philippines. Bên cạnh đó

là các lớp học trao đổi giữa các guitar trẻ trong nước với các nghệ sĩ quốc tế (master classes), các

buổi thuyết diễn chuyên đề (lecture recitals) và đặc biệt là các buổi biểu diễn giao lưu giữa các

guitar trẻ triển vọng Đông Nam Á trong khu khuôn khổ của festival dự kiến sẽ diễn ra hằng năm.

Để hỗ trợ cho các hoạt động của Saigon International Guitar Festival 2014 được diễn a

tốt đẹp và cũng là tiền đề tốt để phát triển cho những năm tiếp theo, chúng tôi rất mong

nhận được sự quan tâm và ủng hộ của quý vị, cũng như luôn trân trọng sự đồng hành

của tất cả mọi người trên con đường phát triển âm nhạc guitar cổ điển tại Sài gòn từ

trước cho đến nay.

Chân thành cảm ơn

BAN TỔ CHỨC ‐ SAIGON INTERNATIONAL GUITAR FESTIVAL 2014 Trên tinh thần cùng nhau góp sức phát triển bộ môn nghệ thuật guitar cổ điển, chúng tôi xin được trân trọng giới thiệu

chương trình thành viên của “Gia đình guitar” với mục đích gây quỹ cho công tác tổ chức hoạt động này hằng năm.

THÀNH VIÊN "GIA ĐÌNH GUITAR" SAIGON INTERNATIONAL GUITAR FESTIVAL 2014

Lưu ý: Để công tác tổ chức được chu đáo, các thành viên trong gia đình guitar có thể đăng ký từ ngày

15/7/2014 cho đến ngày 15/10/2014.

Xin lòng xác nhận qua địa chỉ email: saigonguitarfestival@gmail.com

Các thông tin sẽ được cập nhật trên www.guitarsaigon.com và www.facebook.com/guitarsaigon

SAIGON INTERNATIONAL GUITAR FESTIVAL 2014 Liên hệ:

Điện thoại: (+84) 989 500 928 Mr. Nguyễn Thanh Huy

(+84) 902 755 655 Mr. Trần Hoài Phương ‐ (+84) 918 712 123 Mr. Nguyễn Trí Đoàn

Harris Becker AMERICAN - CANADIAN Harris Becker has had a rich and varied career as a guitarist and lutenist. He has performed extensively both as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Europe, South America, Mexico and Canada. His interest in contemporary music has offered him the opportunity to premiere many new solo and ensemble pieces. Among the composers who have dedicated works to him are Carlo Domeniconi, Hayley Savage, Raoul Pleskow, Howard Rovics and the microtonal composer Johnny Reinhard. Most recently he premiered new works by Michael Frassetti, Richard Iacona and the “Harrisdale Concerto” by Alan Hirsh for violin/saw and guitar. In 2012 Mr. Becker has given concerts and master classes in New York, Alabama, Canada, Connecticut, Florida and at the Bermuda Guitar Festival. In addition to his career as a performer he has been very involved as an educator giving master classes, workshops and lectures. He recently gave two lecture/performances for Molloy College on Long Island “The Lute Music of John Dowland” and the “History of the Guitar.” In Bermuda he gave a lecture/demonstration on “The Relationship Between Interpretation and Technique.” Harris Becker is director of guitar studies at LIU Post and he is on the music faculty at Nassau Community College. Mr. Becker has been on the music faculties of the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College and Director of Music for Mixed Ensembles at the International Institute for Chamber Music at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich. The Florida State Division of Cultural Affairs selected Mr. Becker to be part of Florida's Artist Residency Program, giving lecture/performances on the lute and baroque guitar. In 2007 he received a faculty recognition award for outstanding service from the School of Visual and Performing Arts at Long Island University. Mr. Becker is Director of the Long Island Guitar Festival, which he founded in 1993. He is also artistic director of a summer music festival in rural Quebec: “Songe d’été en Musique”. His recordings include “Catgut Flambo” with guitarist Pasquale Bianculli and a solo CD “Passing Through.”

Ögmundur Þór Jóhannesson Ögmundur Þór Jóhannesson was born in Reykjavík 1980. He began to study the classical guitar at the age of 10, and finished his music studies in Iceland with honors in may 2000. He made private studies at the “Escola Luthier d'arts musical“ in Barcelona, Spain from 2000-2002 with Arnaldur Arnarsson, Ricardo Jesús Gallén, Alex Garrobé and Sadahiro Otani amongst others. He graduated in June 2008 from Mozarteum University in Salzburg, Austria. There, under the guidance of Marco Diaz-Tamayo, he finished his Bachelors and Masters Degree with honors. He took further lessons with Carlo Marchione in Maastricht Conservatory in Holland, and received a second Masters Degree. He has received various awards and recognitions and become a prizewinner in Tokyo and Bangkok international guitar competitions in November 2011. He received the sought-after Icelandic Artist Salary Grant for 9 months from the Icelandic government for 2010, a grant from the Icelandic Rotary Movement in January 2009, Jean Pierre Jaquillat Institution in 2005 and 2 other artistic awards that same year from Iceland. In 2003 he won the second price at the II International guitar competition “Agustin Barrios” in Lambesc, France (first price was not awarded). In 2001 he was a finalist at the VII International guitar competition Andres Segovia in Linares, Spain. He has been invited to perform at various music festivals and concerts in Iceland (Tíbrá 2005 and 2008, TUF2012, Nordic Music Days 2011, Dark Music Days 2010), Brazil (BRAVIO, WGC 2012), USA (Mostly Nordic Chamber Music Series, Seattle, Scandinavian Foundation NYC), Israel (Guitar Gems Festival 2011 with Israel Kibbutz Orchestra, Chile (Festival Entrecuerdas 2012 with TRM Orchestra), China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India (Blue Frog, Mumbai), England, France (Islande-Provence 2006), Austria (Fratres and Trigonale festivals 2007), Spain, Germany and Russia (St.Petersburg). In 2008 he made the premiere of the Sonata of Karólína Eiríksdóttir in Paris, France which was dedicated to him. He has also taught masterclasses in Iceland Academy of Arts, Washington University, and the Catholic University of Santiago de Chile. He received excellent critics for both of his solo recitals for the Tíbrá Concert Series in Iceland in 2005 and 2008 from mbl.is : “…Ögmundur is an astonishing guitarist”, “…technical security… emotional depth… convincing… with fire… guitarist of great expectation…” He has taken various master courses with Aniello Desiderio, Costas Cotsiolis, Joaquín Clerch, Thomas Müller Pering, Pavel Steidl, Manuel Barrueco and David Russell, amongst others. Ögmundur is currently living in Bangalore in India, where apart from international projects, he is working on promoting the classical guitar in India.

Paul Cesarczyk AMERICAN – POLISH Described by Guitar Review Magazine as an “artist of uncommon command and maturity, with a broad and singing tone”, Polish born American guitarist Paul Cesarczyk is an active exponent of contemporary as well as traditional repertoire. He made his New York City debut at the age of seventeen at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall and has concertized widely throughout Europe, the US and Asia. He has appeared in concert with Speculum Musicae, The Claremont Ensemble, the New York City Opera Orchestra, the Manhattan Virtuosi, Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, Cremona Festival Orchestra and as a founding member of the Manhattan Guitar Quartet. Mr. Cesarczyk has performed on many festivals including the Long Island Guitar Festival, where he performed Reich’s minimalist masterpiece Electric Counterpoint and the Danish GuitarWave festival playing the works of Per Norgard. Mr. Cesarczyk is the recipient of several prestigious awards including the Andres Segovia Award, the Aaron Copland prize from ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), the Artists International Award, a Kosciuszko Foundation Prize and an award for artistic excellence from the NY State Senate. An active proponent of new music, Mr. Cesarczyk has worked with contemporary greats such as George Crumb at the George Crumb Festival in New York as well as in collaboration for his 70th Birthday Album released by Bridge Records. A composer in his own right, Mr. Cesarczyk’s 2009 debut CD Polish Folk Melodies featured his arrangements of Polish music. His arrangement of music by His Majesty Bhumibol Adulyadej, the King of Thailand can be heard on Ekachai Jaerakul’s recent guitar recording. Mr. Cesarczyk was educated in New York City public schools including the prestigious La Guardia High School for the Performing Arts. He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees from Manhattan School of Music under David Starobin and completed a Doctor of Musical Arts degree with Jerry Willard at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Since 2009, Mr. Cesarczyk serves as the department chair at Mahidol University, College of Music in Thailand. A dedicated and active educator his students have received prizes in many international competitions.

Simon Cheong was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and started learning the classical guitar at 13 with his uncle Andrew Chye, a violinist. In 1983, with a British Council Grant, he studied with John Duarte in London. He has given numerous performances and has appeared on Malaysian Radio and TV as well as on ORTV, Turkey. He founded the Classical Guitar Society (WP/Sel) Malaysia in 1993 and has been the President ever since. He is the festival director of ‘CGS Malaysia International Guitar Festival & Camp’. In 2004, with his students, he formed the Kuala Lumpur Guitar

Ensemble II (2004‐2014). He has performed at guitar festivals in Turkey, Thailand and Germany. Simon has been teaching the classical guitar professionally for over 30 years and taught degree and diploma programmes at University Technology MARA Malaysia.

He has also published his arrangements for the classical guitar ‐ Tanah Pusaka, Mak Inang and Putra Putri (as quartets as well as solo arrangements). His debut recording entitled ‘Gubahanku’ is dedicated to his mother, Ursula Chye, on the occasion of her 80th birthday celebration.

Filipino guitarist Gonzalo Noel Misa has given recitals in the USA, Singapore, Malaysia, and around the Philippines. He has also recently won 2nd Prize at the 2013 Singapore International Guitar Competition. His performances consist mostly of Western and Philippine solo guitar pieces but he is slowly expanding his repertoire to include works from Southeast Asian composers as well. He also often plays guitar-piano duets with his wife, which include works from the Baroque period to the present. He has also played in masterclasses of Pavel Steidl, Carlos Bonell, Johannes Moller, and Gaelle Solal among others. Gonzalo holds a Bachelor of Music Degree in Guitar from the University of the Philippines, and a Master of Music degree in Guitar from the Philippine Women's University, where he is currently pursuing his Doctoral Studies in Guitar with a scholarship under the Graduate Assistantship Program.