Sunday, February 8 at 7:30 pm
Calvary United Methodist Church, 801 South 48th Street
International Guitar Night
Diego Figueiredo (Brazil), Andrew York (US), Maneli Jamal (Iran/Canada) and Brian Gore (California)
"One of the most important showcases for contemporary guitar" -- San Francisco Chronicle
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International Guitar Night, North America’s premier mobile guitar festival, has featured the best performing guitar composers from around the world since 1995. Each tour, IGN founder Brian Gore invites a new cast of guitar luminaries to join him for special evenings of solos, duets and quartets that highlight the virtuosity and diversity within the world of acoustic guitar. Since the beginning, audiences have cherished the friendly informal ambiance of the performances. Participants have relished the chance IGN affords to express reverence for one another, and to collaborate rather than compete with one another.
Brazilian Diego Figueiredo's music is a fusion between jazz, bossa nova and classical whose phenomenal technique, interpretation, and emotion has created an explosion of adoring fans and concert goers. The winner of several international competitions, Diego has performed in over forty countries around the world. He is also a noted producer, arranger, orchestrator, and multi-instrumentalist.
Andrew York is one of today’s most visible and innovative classical guitar composers. A 16-year member of the Grammy-winning Los Angeles Guitar, Andrew also has an extensive background as a solo jazz guitarist, studying with jazz legends Joe Diorio and Lenny Breau. He studied in Spain and at the University of Southern California, where he was the only graduate in the school’s history to twice receive the Outstanding Alumni of the Year Award.
Maneli Jamal was born in Iran and has lived in Belarus, Germany, USA, and Canada), moving twenty times by the time he was 18. He early gained a rare musical maturity, transforming his nomadic life experiences into musical movements using extended guitar techniques. Few acoustic guitarists share Jamal's balance of power and sensitivity or the breadth of his ideas. His rhythmic concepts can be alternately short and dense, or explored carefully through several movements, resulting in wins at music competitions around the world. His artistic and musical also contributed to his unique story-telling approach. He has performed all over the world, including tours in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Mexico, Europe and Africa.
San Francisco "guitar poet" and IGN organizer Brian Gore is gaining a reputation as one of the most interesting and influential performers of "the next generation" in finger style guitar. A musical romantic, his lyrical, understated compositions draw inspiration from myth and modern literature, integrating classical and percussive techniques that display what the Los Angeles Times calls "a characterful bounce and spaciousness all his own."
