February 9th 2020 MST
Next Saturday is the Orange County Guitar Circle's monthly meeting, this one presenting Raphael Feuillatre in a Featured Artist Recital. This young French phenom was the winner of the GFA's competition in 2018 and his appearance here is part of the prizewinner's year-long North American tour. Update your OCGC membership if you need to and don't miss this recital! There are four other events on this week's schedule, beginning Monday evening when Azusa Pacific University's classical guitar program offers a free departmen ...Continue Reading
February 5th 2020 MST
Running a bit late, but there's just one event on this week's schedule, on Friday evening Jaxon Williams performs for the meeting of the Vietnamese-American Classical Guitar Society in Westminster. And for those of you given to wanderlust, a heads-up for the GFA Regional Symposium a week from this Saturday in Henderson, Nevada, it looks like a wonderful program of solo and ensemble recitals and workshops. Things change fast, always check the SoCal Classical Guitar Events list at: http://www.ocgc.org/pages/SoCalEve ...Continue Reading
January 28th 2020 MST
Just one free event on this week's schedule, the monthly meeting in Camarillo of the Ventura County Classical Guitar Society is on Wednesday evening, this one featuring Bokyung Byun. And two announcements: First, I've just added to our schedule the Pacific Guitar Festival on February 22, it offers a guitar competition with six categories from age 9 to adult, for more information contact Vasil Chekardzhikov at the number or email shown in the listing. Second, David Adele is looking for players in his Santa Ana College ...Continue Reading
January 19th 2020 MST
Just two events on this week's schedule, both at USC and both free...on Tuesday afternoon Vicente Coves offers a Master Class, and on Saturday evening USC presents a Classical Guitar Alumni Concert featuring Cameron O'Connor. And I've been asked to pass on the news that OCGC member Olivia Chang, currently a student of Scott Tennant, has just released a recording of the complete J. S. Bach "Suites for Lute", you can find a link to download this new release on this page: https://www.guitarsalon.com/blog/?p=3053 ...Continue Reading
January 15th 2020 MST
This Saturday is the Orange County Guitar Circle's first meeting of the New Year, this one a Members' Showcase Recital - start off the year right, make sure your membership is current (remember that you can renew online) and come enjoy the wonderful performances of your fellow members. Four other events on this week's schedule, all on the weekend, beginning with Virginia Luque who offers a recital on Saturday evening at the First Congregational Church in LA followed by a Master class on Sunday at mid-day in Santa Monic ...Continue Reading
January 8th 2020 MST
Just two events on this week's schedule, unfortunately both at the same time on Sunday afternoon...the Artisan Guitar Ensemble perform in San Marino, and Matthew Elgart and Nicholas Barrett offer a recital at Caltech in Pasadena. Things change fast, always check the SoCal Classical Guitar Events list at: http://www.ocgc.org/pages/SoCalEvents.htm Cheers, George Gutman gagutman@uci.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can cancel your subscription, here: You can ...Continue Reading
December 16th 2019 MST
Just one event on this week's schedule, at noon on Wednesday the Almanova flute/guitar duo offer a free recital of holiday music in Pasadena. And on behalf of the Board of Directors of the Orange County Guitar Circle I wish you all a wonderful holiday season. Things change fast, always check the SoCal Classical Guitar Events list at: http://www.ocgc.org/pages/SoCalEvents.htm Cheers, George Gutman gagutman@uci.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can cancel your su ...Continue Reading
December 10th 2019 MST
We have three free events coming up this weekend, on Saturday afternoon Andre Giraldo offers a recital at the Laguna Beach Library, then we have two opportunities to hear the lovely Almanova guitar/flute duo, on Saturday evening in Sierra Madre and on Sunday afternoon in Newport Beach. And a heads-up for a video/podcast of an interview with Gregg Goodhart illustrating his approach on "How to Learn like a Genius", it's worthwhile listening for classical guitar students at any level: http://musicalitypodcast.c ...Continue Reading
December 3rd 2019 MST
Just a couple of events on this week's schedule, on Thursday evening the USC Classical Guitar Department offers its free end-of-year recital, and on Friday Wesley Park performs at the meeting of the Vietnamese-American Classical Guitar Society in Westminster. Things change fast, always check the SoCal Classical Guitar Events list at: http://www.ocgc.org/pages/SoCalEvents.htm Cheers, George Gutman gagutman@uci.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can cancel your sub ...Continue Reading
November 18th 2019 MST
This busy week began with a number of free events, we have two opportunities left tomorrow (Tuesday) to observe Pepe Romero give his Master Classes at USC (always an enlightening experience), then on Wednesday the Ventura County Classical Guitar Society holds its monthly meeting in Camarillo featuring Andre Giraldo, and on Friday evening the City of Artesia offers its open air Mariachi Festival from 5 to 10PM. Then on Sunday evening Thomas Dunford offers a lute recital in Brentwood. And this would ordinarily be too dis ...Continue Reading
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