Guitarist Adam Holzman returns to LCC Sept. 23
Noted guitar educator also to offer master class
Classical guitar aficionados who enjoyed the sounds of classical guitarist Adam Holzman during a special concert in 2003 will be thrilled to know that the international performing and recording artist is returning for another exciting concert engagement on Friday, Sept. 23 at Laredo Community College.
The
event, sponsored by the LCC Music and Dance Department and the Texas Commission
on the Arts, will start at 7:30 p.m. in the Guadalupe and Lilia Martinez Fine
Arts Center theater on the LCC campus near downtown.
As part of his visit to the Gateway City, students and interested persons will have an opportunity to learn from Holzman during a master class on Saturday, Sept. 24 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the Martinez Fine Arts Center, room 102. Holzman is the founder of the Guitar Department at the University of Texas at Austin where, in addition to his active performing career, he heads a thriving guitar studio.
Admission to both events is free and open to the community.
Dr. Cain Budds, instructor of guitar studies at LCC, said that the college is pleased to welcome Holzman to Laredo for a second time.
“Laredo Community College looks forward to hosting Adam Holzman in concert,” Budds said. “Students and community are fortunate to have a second opportunity to listen to an incredible performer and pedagogue as Dr. Holzman.”
Holzman, winner of five major international competitions, will perform music from renowned classical guitar composers, including the classic Italian masterpiece “Capriccio detto ‘Il Gran Monarca,’” by Pietro Paolo Melii, “Cancion y Danza” by Spanish composer Antonio Ruiz-Pipo, Domenico Scarlatti’s “Three Sonatas,” and Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Cello Suite #3.”
The program also will include the pieces “Tryptych” by Mark Cruz, Sergio Assad’s “Three Greek Letters” and Augustin Barrios Mangore’s “Opus 8 #3,” “Villancico de Navidad” and “Opus 8 #4.”
Holzman is the first prize winner of the 1983 Guitar Foundation of America Competition held in Canada. He also received the bronze medal during the Third Toronto International Guitar Festival in Canada.
Holzman has earned rave reviews from concert critics around the world. He has been hailed as “polished and quite dazzling” by The New York Times.
The noted classical guitarist has performed at the prestigious Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, distinguished New York venues such as Kaufman Hall, Merkin Hall, and Carnegie Recital Hall and music festivals and series from Miami to San Francisco and Boston to New Orleans. His extensive international performances have taken him throughout Europe, Canada, Mexico, Central America and Latin America.
Holzman’s recordings for the Naxos label have been critically acclaimed. The first two are discs of the music of Fernando Sor and have been called “irresistible” by Gramophone Magazine.
The artist’s commitment to new music has led him to co-commission Samuel Adler’s first Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra. He has also premiered works by such composers as Robert Helps and Stephen Funk Pearson.
From 1992 to 1994, Holzman held the title of “Maestro Extraordinario,” given by the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico, where he served as artist-in-residence.
In 2001, he was awarded the Ernst von Dohnanyi Prize for Outstanding Achievement from Florida State University and the Robert W. Hamilton Fine Arts Award from UT.
Holzman currently resides in Austin with his wife, Carolyn, and their son, Benjamin.
For more information about the concert, contact the LCC Music and Dance Department at 721-5330.
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