DIRECT FROM BARCELONA, SPAIN - Flamenco Guitar Master PEDRO JAVIER GONZALEZ in Concert @ GALERIA WEST ART GALLERY

A very special concert experience, direct from Barcelona, Spain comes to the stage at the wonderfully intimate Galeria West Art Gallery, located at 111 Quimby Street in downtown Westfield, NJ. On Friday, March 16, 2012 at 7pm the renowned “Spanish guitar master” Pedro Javier González will perform flamenco in its purest essence in the modern day fusion style as part of his current U.S. tour.                                                                      Pedro Javier González is a Spanish guitarist, composer and musical producer who excels at his measure and temperance when playing along with his versatility when adapting to several genres. Throughout his career he has recorded eight musical albums and has produced and collaborated with artists from the very different fields of classical, flamenco, jazz and pop-rock music.                                                                                His quality skills as a guitarist began to make him well-known in the nineties as a member of the historic Spanish band El Ultimo de la Fila, playing the Spanish and acoustic guitar for most of their albums and joining the band during the Spanish and American tours. Later, after the band broke up, Pedro Javier also collaborated with Manolo Garcia, the band leader, for the recording of the album and joined him in the promotional tours where he directed the band.                                                             Throughout his long and varied musical career, Pedro Javier has received several awards in the flamenco guitar field and has collaborated with artists from very different styles such as Toti Soler, Victoria de los Ángeles, Joan Manuel Serrat, Luis Llach, Maria del Mar Bonet, Alejandro Sanz, Paco Ortega, Monica Molina, Seguridad Social, Angelo Branduardi, Roberto Alagna o Rafael Maya. He has also performed at major festivals with artists like BB King, John McLaughlin, Pat Metheny, Paco de Lucía, Keziah Jones, John Williams and Tomatito.                                                 As a producer, arranger, and musical director, the works done with Manolo Garcia, Tomatito and D’Callaos, among others, are outstanding and won him recognition and a nomination at the Spanish Music Awards for the “Best Musical Arranger” in 2004.   He has published eight albums and one DVD: three from the series Guitarra, where he adapts international pop and rock hits acoustically; Callejón del gato (1997), Árboles nuevos (2001) and Verdades ocultas y medias mentiras (2007). On his own compositions; Nuevo callejón del gato (2005), where he adapts his first solo album with Toni Terré, Javier Martín and Roger Blavia of the DVD Pedro Javier Gonzalez Trio (2007), which presents a live concert from the Vicenza Olympic Theater (Italy) and summarizes the experience of his trio formation through the years; and Live (2010), a live concert with a very personal review of the most important highlights of his artistic career.                       At the moment, after having toured around the world next to Toni Terré and Roger Blavia with the trio, his most steady and lasting performance format, he takes his musical career onto a more personal and intimate path, far from media concerts, and reawakens his professional career as a solo guitarist. This includes giving concerts with a classical-flamenco repertoire, starting a new jazz duo project with the double-bass player Horacio Fumero, founding the Transversal projects with Raúl Rodriguez, Trilok Gurtu and Guillem Aguilar, and making his debut with the Concierto de Aranjuez in Moscow accompanied by the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra and also recently with the Plainfield Symphony in New Jersey.                               Tickets for the March 16 concert are priced at $20 and are available online at www.BrownPaperTickets.com (enter Pedro Javier Gonzalez @ Galeria West for event search) or for reservations call the TEATRO Sí box office at 908-301-9496. A music concert event not to be missed!