Corvallis Guitar Society

Category: Concerts

  • Corvallis Guitar Society Monthly Meeting Monday February 7th, 2022

    1. Our next monthly meeting will be on Monday, February 7th, 7:30pm to 9:30pm, Odd Fellows Hall.
    2. We are excited to have a Featured Artist – Yuri Liberzon!
    3. The agenda also features Open Guitar Ensemble.

    At this point, given Covid 19, we do need to wear masks at the monthly meetings.

    Time: 7:30 – 9:30pm
    Venue: Odd Fellows Hall, Corvallis
    Free & Open to the Public
    7:30 – 7:35 pm Welcome
    7:35 – 8:05 pm Open Guitar Ensemble: See below for the Guitar Ensemble music – everyone is welcome to join in!
    8:05 – 8:15 pm BREAK and Refreshments
    8:15 – 9:30 pm Featured Artist Yuri Liberzon

    We are delighted to welcome Yuri Liberzon as our Featured Artist. Yuri is coming to Oregon from California and will be performing in Portland and Corvallis. His performance is free and open to the public here in Corvallis, donations are welcome, and he will be bringing his CD’s for people that want to continue listening to his wonderful guitar music.

    Yuri Liberzon Performance Program:

    Violin Partita No. 2 BWV 1004 – J. S. Bach (1685 – 1750)
    Allemande
    Courante
    Sarabande
    Gigue

    Konstantin Vassiliev (b. 1970)
    Hommage a Tom Jobim
    Wanderer in Time
    The Jazz Story
    El Faro Magico
    Synestha
    Cinderella

    Ernesto Nazareth (1863 – 1934)
    Odeon

    Astor Piazzolla (1921 – 1992)
    Oblivion
    La Muerte del Angel

    We will also have the Open Guitar Ensemble in which anyone is welcome to participate, before Yuri takes the stage.

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

    La Shye Myze, from the Mulliner Book Arr. by Andrew Forrest

    The Coulin, an Irish traditional Arr. by Andrew Forrest

    Fiddlers Playing, A Ukrainian Dance Song Arr. by Andrew Forest

    The three pieces for guitar ensemble arranged by Andrew Forrest are free, and open to the public, so click on them above and you can view and download them. When you look at the pieces, decide which part you wish to play, let me know, and bring the music with you to the Guitar Society meeting.

    Entrance is FREE and 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

  • Second Winter Guitar Series Concert – Cameron O’Connor

    Saturday January 18th 2020 3 – 4 pm
    Venue: Corvallis-Benton County Library
    Free & Open to the Public

    Dr. Cameron O’Connor runs the guitar program at OSU and we are very lucky to have Cameron, a truly great classical guitarist and composer, to perform concerts for us in this neck of the woods. He is a prizewinner in many international competitions, including the Frances Walton and Tokyo International Guitar Competition and continues to receive awards for performances and compositions in an ongoing basis. His playing has been featured in films, including James Franco’s Don Quixote and Scott Tennant’s instructional classic Pumping Nylon, and his performances have been featured on Seattle’s Classical 98.1 KingFM, Portland All-Classical, American Public Media’s Performance Today, and KPFK’s Global Village.

    For this Winter Concert he has a wonderful program lined up for us to enjoy as follows:
    Prelude from Lute Suite no. 4                   (J.S. Bach)
    So Long                                                     (Cameron O’Connor)
    Elsa and Ortrud’s Duet from Lohengrin     (Richard Wagner)
    Fantasia in D                                             (Fernando Sor)
    Rain in the Old Growth Forest
    Perturbation Variations                           (Cameron O’Connor)
    Capricho Arabe                                    (Francisco Tarrega)
    Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence             (Ryuichi Sakamoto)
    Sevilla                                                   (Isaac Albeniz)

  • Winter Guitar Series Opening Concert: Saturday December 14th 2019 3 – 4pm

    Venue: Corvallis-Benton County Library
    Free & Open to the Public

    This concert will feature the Guitar Society Ensemble performing a range of music from around the world, as well as duets and solo’s by guitar society members.

    Ensemble Program (Arr. Andrew Forrest)

    My Loves an Arbutus
    An old Irish air, arr. by Charles Villiers Stanford

    Hong du Ci
    The Red Bean Song – a Chinese folk song

    Stare Ljubavi
    A traditional Bosnian melody

    An Tailliuir
    Irish Air

    Greek Dance
    Traditional Greek Dance Music

    Les Barricades Mystérieuses
    Arranged from Harpsichord by François Couperin

    Fiddlers Playing
    A song and dance from the Ukraine

    Solo & Duets

    The First Noel (English Carol) Matt Campbell & Martin Erwig

    Cavatina (The Deer Hunter) Anne Loewen & Jon Sharp

    Rondo from Duo in G, Op. 34, Berto Boyd & Jon Sharp

    Guárdame la Vacas, Berto Boyd

    August Moon, Raven Dow-Hygelund

    Songe Capricorne, Raven Dow-Hygelund

    Sueño del Minero, Raven Dow-Hygelund & Berto Boyd

    Choco, Raven Dow-Hygelund & Berto Boyd

  • Classical Guitar Maestro, Yuri Liberzon Concert

    This Sunday November 17th 2019 3 – 5pm
    Odd Fellows Hall, Downtown Corvallis

    Tickets $20.00 available online on Brown Paper Tickets, and at the Door

    Click on Brown Paper Tickets above to buy your ticket now

    Yuri will be coming to Corvallis as part of his Oregon tour in November, and those of you who may have heard him play before will all know how good a classical guitarist he is. If you haven’t, here’s what other people have to say:

    “…If there were anyone in the classical guitar world that could manage to combine musical elegance with architectural logic, it would be Yuri Liberzon.”

    Classical Guitar Magazine

    “‘Hearing Yuri play is like opening a bottle of wine and realizing that you have just tasted one of the best wines you will ever experience. Ever.”

    Stephen Roberts, President, Sacramento Guitar Society

    Born in Novosibirsk, Russia and raised in Israel, Yuri has been recognized for his impressive technical ability and musicality.  Based on his achievements in the field of music, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) granted him Permanent Residency as an ‘Alien of Extraordinary Ability’. Yuri has given a countless number of concerts across the United State, multiple media appearances and has released two albums in collaboration with Grammy winning sound engineer and producer Nahuel Bronzini: Solo album “Ascension” released in 2015 – music from Bach to Beatles and Keith Jarrett, and “¡Acentuado!” released in 2017 – music of composer Astor Piazzolla featuring a collaboration with flutist Josué Casillas. Yuri has transcribed music of Domenico Scarlatti and Johann Sebastian Bach for guitar, and is also a great teacher!

    If you want to know even more about Yuri, check out his website: https://www.yuriguitar.com/

    We look forward to seeing you at his concert in November.
    Best Regards
    Jon Sharp
    President, Corvallis Guitar Society

  • Jon Sharp Classical Guitar Concert

    Saturday September 28th 2019 2 – 3 pm
    Venue: Truckenbrod Pop-Up Gallery, 517 SW 2nd St. Corvallis
    Free Admission

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    Jon will be performing at Joan Truckenbrod’s gallery in the setting of Julia Bradshaw’s SURVEY artwork exhibition featuring a mixture of classical guitar music from around the world that reaches out to the moon and beyond. Come along and enjoy both forms of artwork!