Author: Jon Sharp

Bringing Local Guitarists Out of the Woodwork

Summary

• Our next Guitar Society Meeting  is on Monday February 6^th 2023 (first Monday of the month) at Odd Fellows Hall and will begin at 7:15 pm
• Brandon Azbill is our Featured Artist for the February meeting and is an award-winning classical guitarist, teacher & composer here in Oregon!
• Isaac Engel will be running the Ensemble Session, the music scores are available (see below) and anyone of you are delighted to join in and play.
• The Open Stage is an opportunity for anyone to play classical guitar music – beginners, intermediate, and advanced!
• The After School Guitar Program is continuing group lessons, private lessons, and ensemble at Odd Fellows on Monday February 6^th at 6:00pm run by Isaac Engel.
• The second After School Guitar Program is on Monday February 20^th at 6:00pm run by Zoe Moulton, and she is now also providing The Community Beginning Lesson for people of all ages from 7:00pm to 7:30pm at Odd Fellows.

Corvallis Guitar Society Monthly Meeting

Our next monthly meeting is on Monday, February 6^th, 7:15pm – 9:15pm
Venue: Odd Fellows Hall, 223 SW 2nd St, Corvallis
Free & Open to the Public

The Agenda
7:15 – 7:20 pm Welcome
7:20 – 7:50 pm Open Guitar Ensemble: See below for the Guitar Ensemble music – everyone is welcome to play in the group!
7:50 – 8:20 pm Open Stage: beginners, intermediates, and advanced guitarists are all welcome to come and share their music with us.
8:20 – 8:30 pm BREAK and Refreshments
8:30 – 9:15 pm Brandon Azbill Featured Artist

Featured Artist Brandon Azbill
Brandon Azbill is an award-winning classical guitarist, teacher & composer.

In Spring of 2021, Brandon completed a Master of Science in Music with an emphasis on somatic education for guitarists (Body Mapping) at Portland State University and in 2019 he completed a Bachelor of Music in Classical Guitar Performance at PSU. Some of his most influential teachers include Jesse McCann, Cameron O’Connor, Rich Hurdle, and Bryan Johanson. Brandon actively shares his passion for music with others through education and performance of many musical styles.

Open Guitar Ensemble
Isaac Engle is running the Open Guitar Ensemble in which anyone is welcome to participate. When you look at the pieces, decide which part you wish to play, let Isaac Engel know as soon as you can – his email is [email protected], and bring the music with you to the Guitar Society meeting.

Here are the three pieces of music for the ensemble session:
All three of the pieces for guitar ensemble are free, and open to the public. You can click on them here to download the individual parts and full scores:

1. A Little Sadness by Michio Aramaki
   https://corvallisguitarsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/A-Little-Sadness-by-Alamaqi-Four-Parts.pdf
   https://corvallisguitarsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/A-Little-Sadness-by-Alamaqi-Score.pdf
2. Agnus Dei by Palestrina
   https://corvallisguitarsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Agnus-Dei-by-Palastrina-Arr-S-J-Nixon-Score-and-Parts.pdf
3. Quebra-cabeças by Ernesto Nazareth
   https://corvallisguitarsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Quebra-Cabecas-E-NAZARETH.pdf

Online Recordings of Each Ensemble Piece
You can practice all three of the pieces ahead of time with an online recording:

1. A Little Sadness by Michio Aramaki
   https://vmirror.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/e/e6/IMSLP525442-PMLP848755-A_Abens09-1.mp3
   Note: You can reduce the tempo of this piece also by clicking on the three dots in the center of the screen, then click Play Back Speed, then reduce to 0.75 or 0.5 etc.
2. Agnus Dei by Palestrina
   Download the Midi File from the same website for “scores and parts” shown above (and shown here) by clicking on the “AgnusDei.mid”
   https://sites.google.com/site/accidentalsedinburgh/home/agnus-dei
3. Quebra-cabeças by Ernesto Nazareth
   https://vmirror.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/7/75/IMSLP84686-PMLP172768-3.mp3
   Note: You can reduce the tempo of this piece also by clicking on the three dots in the center of the screen, then click Play Back Speed, then reduce to 0.75 or 0.5 etc.
   Also available on YouTube:
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7uExWLknEQ

Open Stage
The Open Stage is available for anyone to play their own music featuring beginner, intermediate, and advanced 😊

After School Guitar Program & Community Beginning Lesson
Zoe Moulton and Isaac Engel are continuing the After School Guitar Program free and open to the public. Focusing on mid and high school students, the goal is to raise their awareness and understanding of the guitar instrument by featuring group lessons, private lessons and ensemble music.
Zoe has also introduced Community Beginning Lesson for people of all ages, so anyone can come for this lesson.
Feel free to come along and meet up with Zoe and Isaac at their sessions if you are interested, and if you don’t have a guitar, we can lend you one!
For more information contact Zoe on [email protected] or phone 541 602 3928, or contact Isaac Engel [email protected] or phone 971 718 4535 and you can view his website: https://isaacengelmusic.com/
Times are as follows:
First Monday of the month at Odd Fellows Hall
6:00pm to 7:00pm is the After School Guitar Program (group lesson and ensemble)
Third Monday of the Month at Odd Fellows Hall
6:00pm to 6:50pm is the After School Guitar Program group lesson
7:00pm to 7:30pm is the Community Beginning group lesson

Entrance to all the events is open to the public (donations gratefully received). Location: Odd Fellows Hall, 223 SW 2nd St, Corvallis, OR 97333. The entrance door is between New Morning Bakery and Sedlaks Boots and Shoes.

Enjoy!

Best Regards
Jon Sharp, President Corvallis Guitar Society

Bringing Local Guitarists Out of the Woodwork

Summary

• Our next Guitar Society Meeting  is on Monday January 9^th 2023 (second Monday of the month) at Odd Fellows Hall and will begin at 7:15 pm
• Jesse McCann is our Featured Artist for the January meeting; he is an award-winning classical guitarist based in Portland, Oregon.
• Isaac Engel will be running the Ensemble Session, the music scores are available (see below) and anyone of you are delighted to join in and play.
• The Open Stage is an opportunity for anyone to play classical guitar music – beginners, intermediate, and advanced!
• The After School Guitar Program is continuing group lessons, private lessons, and ensemble at Odd Fellows on Monday January 9^th at 6:00pm run by Isaac Engel.
• The second After School Guitar Program is on Monday January 16^th at 6:00pm run by Zoe Moulton, and she is now also providing The Community Beginning Lesson for people of all ages from 7:00pm to 7:30pm at Odd Fellows.

Corvallis Guitar Society Monthly Meeting

Our next monthly meeting is on Monday, January 9th, 7:15pm – 9:15pm
Venue: Odd Fellows Hall, 223 SW 2nd St, Corvallis
Free & Open to the Public

The Agenda
7:15 – 7:20 pm Welcome
7:20 – 7:50 pm Open Guitar Ensemble: See below for the Guitar Ensemble music – everyone is welcome to play in the group!
7:50 – 8:20 pm Open Stage: beginners, intermediates, and advanced guitarists are all welcome to come and share their music with us.
8:20 – 8:30 pm BREAK and Refreshments
8:30 – 9:15 pm Jesse McCann Featured Artist

Featured Artist Jesse McCann
Jesse McCann is an award-winning classical guitarist based in Portland, Oregon. After receiving his Bachelor of Music, he enrolled at Portland State University where he received a Master of Music under the direction of Bryan Johanson. In addition to being a top prize solo winner, he has led two award-winning guitar trios and is currently a member of the Oregon Guitar Quartet. He has also had the privilege of studying with some of the world’s leading guitarists and composers including Dusan Bogdanovic, Denis Azabagic, Jason Vieux, and David Tanenbaum.

Open Guitar Ensemble
Isaac Engle is running the Open Guitar Ensemble in which anyone is welcome to participate.
When you look at the pieces, decide which part you wish to play, let Isaac Engel know as soon as you can – his email is [email protected], and bring the music with you to the Guitar Society meeting.

Here are the three pieces of music for the ensemble session:
All three of the pieces for guitar ensemble are free, and open to the public, and click on them here to download the scores:

1) Sleepers Awake (Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme) by J.S. Bach, Arr. by A. Forrest
https://corvallisguitarsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Sleepers-Wake-JS-Bach-Wachet-Auf-ruft-uns-die-Stimme.pdf

2) Evening in Transylvania by Bartok, Arr. by A. Forrest
https://corvallisguitarsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Evening-In-Transylvania-by-Bela-Bartok.pdf

3) Le Phenix (Play 3^rd Movement only, Allegro) by Michelle Corrette, Arr. by A. Forrest
https://corvallisguitarsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Le-Phenix.pdf

NOTE: All three pieces of music are on Andrew Forrest’s Guitar Ensemble Website: http://www.forrestguitarensembles.co.uk/quartets/

You can practice one of the pieces (Le Phenix 3^rd Movement) ahead of time with an online recording on YouTube:

Le Phenix (3^rd Movement)

Note: You can reduce the tempo of this piece also by clicking on the three dots in the center of the screen, then click Play Back Speed, then reduce to 0.75 or 0.5 etc.

The other two are not recorded online in the same key that we will be playing in.

Open Stage
The Open Stage is available for anyone to play their own music featuring beginner, intermediate, and advanced 😊

After School Guitar Program & Community Beginning Lesson
Zoe Moulton and Isaac Engel are continuing the After School Guitar Program. Focusing on mid and high school students, the goal is to raise their awareness and understanding of the guitar instrument by featuring group lessons, private lessons and ensemble music.

Zoe has also introduced Community Beginning Lesson for people of all ages, so anyone can come for this lesson.

Both the After School Guitar Program and the Community Beginning Lesson are FREE and open to the public.

Feel free to come along and meet up with Zoe and Isaac at their sessions if you are interested, and if you don’t have a guitar, we can lend you one!
For more information contact Zoe on [email protected] or phone 541 602 3928, or contact Isaac Engel [email protected] or phone 971 718 4535 and you can view his website: https://isaacengelmusic.com/

Times are as follows:

First Monday of the month at Odd Fellows Hall
6:00pm to 7:00pm is the After School Guitar Program (group lesson and ensemble)
Third Monday of the Month at Odd Fellows Hall
6:00pm to 6:50pm is the After School Guitar Program group lesson
7:00pm to 7:30pm is the Community Beginning group lesson

Entrance to all the events is open to the public (donations gratefully received). Location:Odd Fellows Hall, 223 SW 2nd St, Corvallis, OR 97333. The entrance is between New Morning Bakery and Sedlaks Boots and Shoes.

Enjoy!

Best Regards
Jon Sharp, President Corvallis Guitar Society

Bringing Local Guitarists Out of the Woodwork

Summary

• Our next Guitar Society Meeting is on Monday November 7^th at Odd Fellows Hall and will begin at 7:15 pm
• João Kouyoumdjian, is our Featured Artist on November 7^th and you can see and hear his great albums, music, and interview online: http://linktr.ee/joao.kouyoumdjian
• Isaac Engel will be running the Ensemble Session, and the music scores are available online for any of you who wish to join in and play (see below)
• The Open Stage is an opportunity for anyone to play classical guitar music – beginners, intermediate, and advanced!
• The After School Guitar Program is continuing group lessons, private lessons, and ensemble at Odd Fellows on Monday November 7^th at 6:00pm run by Isaac Engel, and Monday November 21^st at 6:00pm run by Zoe Moulton
• Zoe is also introducing a Community Beginning Lesson for people of all ages on the third Monday Nov 21^st from 7:00pm to 7:30pm

Times are as follows:
First Monday of the month at Odd Fellows Hall
6:00pm to 7:00pm is the After School Guitar Program (group lesson and ensemble)
7:15pm to 9:15pm is the Corvallis Guitar Society Ensemble, Open Stage, Featured Artist

Third Monday of the Month at Odd Fellows Hall
6:00pm to 6:50pm is the After School Guitar Program group lesson
7:00pm to 7:30pm is the Community Beginning group lesson

After School Guitar Program & Community Beginning Lesson

Zoe Moulton and Isaac Engel are continuing the After School Guitar Program in the Corvallis school district. Focusing on middle and high school students, the goal is to raise their awareness and understanding of the guitar instrument by featuring group lessons, private lessons, and ensemble music.

Zoe has introduced Community Beginning Lesson for people of all ages, so anyone can come for this lesson.

Both the After School Guitar Program and the Community Beginning Lesson are FREE and open to the public.

Feel free to come along and meet up with Zoe and Isaac at their sessions if you are interested, and if you don’t have a guitar, we can lend you one!

For more information contact Zoe on [email protected] or phone 541 602 3928, or contact Isaac Engel [email protected] or phone 971 718 4535 and you can view his website: https://isaacengelmusic.com/

Corvallis Guitar Society Monthly Meeting

Our next monthly meeting is on Monday, November 7^th, 7:15pm – 9:15pm
Venue: Odd Fellows Hall, 223 SW 2nd St, Corvallis
Free & Open to the Public

The Agenda
7:15 – 7:20 pm Welcome
7:20 – 7:50 pm Open Guitar Ensemble: See below for the Guitar Ensemble music – everyone is welcome!
7:50 – 8:20 pm Open Stage: beginners, intermediates, and advanced guitarists are all welcome to come and share their music with us.
8:20 – 8:30 pm BREAK and Refreshments
8:30 – 9:15 pm João Kouyoumdjian Featured Artist

Featured Artist João Kouyoumdjian

João Kouyoumdjian is a Brazilian born classical guitarist of mixed Brazilian and Armenian ethnic heritage. He is a graduate of The Juilliard School and the University of São Paulo, where he studied under Sharon Isbin and Edelton Gloeden.

An award-winning artist in his homeland, João has appeared on stages in the United States, Brazil, Europe and Africa.

João Kouyoumdjian has been featured on numerous nationally televised concert series in Brazil, and he premiered new works by Brazilian composers Ricardo Calderoni and Raimundo Penaforte at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall at the behest of the Consulate General of Brazil in New York. This inspired his debut album Surfboard: Solo Guitar Works from Brazil (Pomegranate Music, 2013). His subsequent album – Kouyoumdjian Plays Bach: New Transcriptions for Guitar (Pomegranate Music, 2015) – was described as a “masterful presentation of premium-grade Bach” by Classical Guitar Magazine (US) and was recommended by Brazil’s most popular weekly magazine VEJA

You can learn a lot about João Kouyoumdjian online including his latest Album, Gakavik Fantasy, which is all on Armenian music, and you can also see a number of his performances and his interview on You Tube. To be able to see all of these, click on here: http://linktr.ee/joao.kouyoumdjian

Open Guitar Ensemble

Isaac Engle is running the Open Guitar Ensemble in which anyone is welcome to participate.
When you look at the pieces, decide which part you wish to play, let Isaac Engel know as soon as you can – his email is [email protected], and bring the music with you to the Guitar Society meeting.

Here are the three pieces of music for the ensemble session:

All three of the pieces for guitar ensemble are free, and open to the public, and click on them here to download the scores:

1. In the Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg, Arr. by Lou Warde
   http://www.theguitarclassroom.com/uploads/6/6/7/2/66720013/in_the_hall.pdf
2. Suite Francaise by Francis Poulenc, Arr. by A. Forrest. Note: of the seven parts of this score, we are only doing No. 7 Carillon
   https://www.forrestguitarensembles.co.uk/resources/Scores/Quartets/Q0090SuiteFrancaise.pdf
3. Noches de Luna Arr. by Andrew Forest
   https://www.forrestguitarensembles.co.uk/resources/Scores/Quartets/Q0120NochesdeLuna.pdf

You can practice your parts ahead of time with online recordings:

1. In the Hall of the Mountain King
   On the TheGuitarClassroom website, scroll down and click on The Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg), and that provides an online recording, and a group video on YouTube.
   http://www.theguitarclassroom.com/guitar-ensemble.html
2. Suite Francaise No. 7 Carillon
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwZ7MToKZ_E
   Note: On YouTube, you can reduce the speed of this piece by clicking on the settings button, then click Play Back Speed, then reduce to 0.75 or 0.5 etc. This helps you learn to play with them!
3. Noches de Luna
   https://www.forrestguitarensembles.co.uk/resources/Sounds/Quartets/Nochesdeluna.mp3
   Note: You can reduce the tempo of this piece also by clicking on the three dots in the center of the screen, then click Play Back Speed, then reduce to 0.75 or 0.5 etc.

Open Stage

The Open Stage is available for anyone to play their own music featuring beginner, intermediate, and advanced.

Entrance to all the events is open to the public (donations gratefully received). Location: Odd Fellows Hall, 223 SW 2nd St, Corvallis, OR 97333. The entrance is between New Morning Bakery and Sedlaks Boots and Shoes.

Enjoy!
Best Regards
Jon Sharp, President Corvallis Guitar Society