Guitar in the Age of Beethoven featuring 19th century guitar duets performed by James Edwards and David Rogers. This concert is on February 8th at 3 PM. To purchase tickets, please vist the concert page Here!
James Edwards and David Rogers present a program of virtuosic 19th century guitar duets on original instruments. Music by Fernando Sor, Antoine De Lhoyer, Ferdinando Carulli and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart will be performed. David and James will play a variety of 18th and 19th century guitars, both original instruments and modern copies. Featured guitars are a 1798 Giovanni Fabricatore instrument currently on loan from the Schuman Collection at Southern Oregon University and an 1820 François Roudhloff owned by Mr. Edwards. Also featured will be a copy of a Gennaro Fabricatore guitar (Giovanni’s son) made by Eugene based instrument maker Bradley Wycoff. The program is very fun for the guitarist. Each player has many featured moments and the music bounces along with great vitality.
Recently termed, ‘a prominent guitarist,’ by the New York Times, David Rogers maintains an active solo and ensemble performance career as a classical guitarist and performer on early plucked strings. The Washington Post has praised his ‘astonishingly florid’ improvisations. He has been called a ‘modern master’ of the classical guitar’ by 20th Century Guitar. Classics today.com has praised his ‘first rate instrumental artistry,’ and the Lute Society of America Quarterly has called his technique ‘formidable.’ He is an endorsing artist for GHS Strings and his music has been featured in major guitar magazines such as Fingerstyle Guitar in the United States and Akustic Gitarre in Germany.
James Bishop-Edwards has been a performer, teacher, composer and recording artist for over 35 years. He plays not only the rich and varied traditional repertoire, but also his own compositions and contemporary genres as well. James plays historical instruments of the Renaissance and Baroque periods such as the five-course guitar and eight-course lute. He was head of the guitar dept. at Southern Oregon University in Ashland for several years, and previously on the faculty as guitar instructor at California Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo. Mr. Bishop-Edwards is also artistic director for the Bailey Guitar Foundation of the Central Coast of California. James has over twenty recordings to his credit, which feature his arrangements of American and European classics. Six books of these arrangements have been published by Mel Bay Publications.