LCC
to feature guitarist Douglas Rubio in concert
Laredo Community College will offer aficionados of the classical guitar a special treat when it presents award-winning classical guitarist Douglas Rubio of New York in concert on Wednesday, October 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the Laredo Center for the Arts.
In addition to the concert, Rubio will host a master class on Thursday, October 9, from 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon for LCC and VMT Magnet School guitar students at the new Guadalupe and Lilia Martinez Fine Arts Center on the LCC campus. Both events are sponsored by the LCC Music and Dance Department and the LCC Guitar Club.
Rubio’s repertoire will include various selections by famed Cuban composer Léo Brouwer, Homenaje a Andrés Segovia by Annette Kruisbrink, Lento by Dusan Bogdanovic and composition by Joaquín Turina.
LCC Guitar Instructor Cain Budds, who organized the event, says that the college is fortunate to bring an outstanding classical guitarist for students and local music lovers to enjoy.
The “gold medal” chamber musician has been praised by critics for demonstrating “considerable sensitivity and bravura” in his performances. His programs offer a fascinating mix of the old, the new, the traditional, and the off-the-beaten path, according to a publicity statement.
Rubio has been featured in the Santa Barbara Fall Music Festival in California and the Beverly Hills Live! Concert Series.
He has appeared in numerous guitar festivals and performed in various colleges across the country, including New York, Indiana, California, Tennessee, Memphis and Virginia.
He
has also been a guest performing artist for guitar societies throughout the
U.S., including those in Philadelphia, St. Louis, Chicago, Upstate New York and
Orange County (California).
Rubio’s numerous engagements in the Midwest include the American Conservatory of Music, Bradley, Illinois Wesleyan and Millikin Universities, and Knox College.
He has been the featured concerto soloist with the Montecito and Pennsylvania Centre chamber orchestras, and his playing has been broadcast live on radio stations KFAC and KPFK in Los Angeles. In 1992 he was selected for inclusion on the Artstour Artist Roster of the Illinois Arts Council.
Rubio is especially active in the field of chamber music. As a member of the Avalon Guitar Duo he won First Prize in the 1985 GFA International Duo Guitar Competition. The duo has gone on to perform throughout the United States, and is featured on the compact disc GFA Winners Circle 1982-1993. Rubio performs frequently with Sweet, Fair & Wise, a trio of flute, tenor voice, and guitar. His eclectic background also includes three years as a member of the Digital Arts Consort, a MIDI synthesizer ensemble.
Rubio is a graduate of the University of California at Irvine, and holds both a Master of Music degree and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in classical guitar performance from the University of Southern California (USC). His private teachers include James Smith, Pepe Romero, and Frederick Noad, and he has performed in a large number of master classes.
A native of Southern California, Rubio is Associate Professor of Classical Guitar at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Prior to moving to upstate New York, he ran a very successful guitar program at Illinois State University.
For more information about the LCC concert featuring Douglas Rubio, contact the LCC Music and Dance Department by calling 721-5330. Office hours are Mondays through Thursdays from 8 a.m. to 12 noon and 1 to 6 p.m. and Fridays from 8 a.m. to 12 noon.
DOUGLAS RUBIO
Acclaimed guitarist in LCC concert
at Laredo Center for the Arts Oct. 8
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