"500 Years Of Music For Guitar"
Music from the Renaissance to the Contemporary
Peter Griggs, Guitarist (New York)
Admission: Pay as you wish
In "500 Years of Music for Guitar," guitarist/composer Peter Griggs explores the music of the classical guitar, from the Renaissance to the Contemporary. The program will include music by Gaspar Sanz, Johann Sebastian Bach, Bartolome Calatuyud, Django Rheinhardt and Thelonious Monk, as well as Flamenco, Brazilian music and several of Griggs' own compositions.
To view a 10-minute video of "500 Years of Music for Guitar," go to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2lFywZSjhI
About the Artist:
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Peter Griggs is a guitarist and composer from New York City. Over the last several years, he has presented more than 350 solo guitar concerts in the USA, United Kingdom, Germany, and elsewhere in Europe at art centres, museums, festivals, churches, jazz clubs and other venues. He performs classical music of all periods, as well as jazz, Brazilian music, flamenco and his own compositions.
He has worked with or been commissioned by many multi-media organizations including Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, the New York State Theatre Institute, Compania Nacional de Danza de Espana (modern dance), National Public Radio (radio drama), the National Endowment for the Arts (composition commission), W-NET TV (documentary film soundtrack) and the World-wide Video Festival (The Hague, Netherlands). Mr. Griggs has recorded on Music Of The World, Folkways Records, Treecastle Music and Locust Records.