Celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month
GUEST ARTIST RECITAL
José Lezcano, guitar
Friday, September 22, 2023
7:30 pm
Recital Hall
Guy Powell, guitar
4TH PERFORMANCE OF 2023–24 ACADEMIC YEAR
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023, 7:30 PM
Overjoyed (1985) Stevie Wonder (b. 1950)
arr. José Lezcano
Prelude from Cello Suite in No. 1, BWV 1007 (1717)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
arr. Manuel Ponce
Sonata, K. 178 (1752)
Sonata, K. 11 (1738)
Etudes in Time of Covid (2020)
Homage to Barrios
Homage to Bill Evans
Homage to Ravel
Homage to Tárrega
Key West Suite (2014)
Seven-Mile Bridge
Bolero del Atardecer
Duval Street Stomp
Guy Powell, guitar
Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757)
transcr. Leo Brouwer
transcr. Andrés Segovia
José Lezcano (b. 1960)
Madroños (1954) Federico Moreno Torroba (1891–1982)
Intermission
Ausencias (1984)
Three Cuban Contradanzas (1890)
El velorio (The wake)
Adios a Cuba (Farewell to Cuba)
Los tres golpes (The three knocks)
Buena Vista Social Club Suite
Chan Chan (1987)
Dos gardenias (Two gardenias) (1945)
Veinte años (Twenty years) (1938)
Un habano y un mojito (A cigar and a mojito) (2011)
Astor Piazzolla (1921–1992)
arr. Pablo Marfil Ignacio Cervantes (1847–1905)
arr. Manuel Barrueco
O choros de Juliana (Juliana's cry) (1990)
Plainte (Lament) (2001)
El ultimo beso (Last kiss) (1936)
Tango en skaï (Tango in imitation leather) (1985)
arr. José Lezcano Compay Segundo (1907–2003)
Isolina Carillo (1907–1996)
Maria Teresa Vera (1895–1965) José Lezcano (b. 1960) Marco Pereira (b. 1950)
Carlos Silva Pareja (1909–1968)
Roland Dyens (1955–2016)
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023, 7:30 PM View a digital version of this program at issuu.com/MusicatPacific.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
Acclaimed as both a virtuoso guitar soloist and a prolific composer, José Lezcano has thrilled audiences across the globe. His performances span a diverse repertoire, encompassing the classics, rich Hispanoamerican and Cuban traditions, and his own original compositions. He has played Carnegie Recital Hall, New York City’s North/South Consonance series, and festivals in Cuba, Trinidad and Tobago, Spain, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, China, Germany, and the Czech Republic.
Lezcano teaches as an artist lecturer in guitar at the University of Southern Maine (Gorham) and as professor emeritus at Keene State College (KSC). His guitar concerto recording with North-South Consonance has garnered acclaim from Fanfare magazine, which praised him as “an excellent guitarist and imaginative composer.” He has earned such accolades as, such as two Grammy nominations; first prize in the Music Teachers National Association National Guitar Competition; the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship; the New Hampshire Music Teachers Association Composer of the Year award on two occasions; the KSC Distinguished Research Award; and a Fulbright Award for research, teaching, and performance in Ecuador.
A sought-after guest artist, Lezcano has appeared at numerous chamber music series throughout New England. He earned degrees from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University (Bachelor of Music), the University of South Carolina (Master of Music), and Florida State University (Doctor of Philosophy in music theory).
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
Guy Powell received his Bachelor of Music degree from California State University–Sacramento and his Master of Music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. His principal teachers included Richard Savino, David Tannenbaum, and Marc Teicholz. Powell has performed all over the United States as soloist, ensemble, and musical theater performer and participated in such events as the Guitarraganza Festival, Portland Guitar Festival, Cal Arts Festival, La Guitarra Festival, and the California Bach Festival. Powell has also served as a co-director for the 2015, 2016, and 2017 Guitarraganza festival, as well as serving as the festival’s director for the solo competition.
In addition to performing regularly as a soloist, Powell is a member of the chamber ensemble Tritarra, a guitar trio specializing in adapting more eclectic genres of music for the concert stage. He has also recently formed a new ensemble, Duo Sonik, with fellow guitarist Travis Silvers.
With a great passion for teaching and public outreach, Powell has become a director for the San Joaquin County chapter of Guitars Not Guns, a nonprofit organization with chapters across the country in thirteen states that provides guitars and lessons with qualified teachers to foster children and at-risk youth as an alternative to violence. In the spring of 2022, Powell was elected as a faculty member to the Delta chapter of the society of Pi Kappa Lambda. Powell has taught at Columbia Community College and is currently an adjunct professor of music at University of the Pacific, San Joaquin Delta College, and Modesto Junior College.
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Coming soon . . .
Sep. 24, 2:30 pm, Faye Spanos Concert Hall
“Atmospheric Rivers”
Pacific Singers and University Chorus
Darita Seth, conductor
Sep. 29, 12:30 pm, Recital Hall
Conservatory Concert Hour
Sep. 29, 7:30 pm, Recital Hall
Faculty Recital
Ann Miller, violin, and Sonia Leong, piano
Sep. 30, 7:30 pm, Faye Spanos Concert Hall
University Symphony Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble
Nicholas Waldvogel, conductor
Patrick Langham, director
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