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| An Evening of Guitar with David Leisner |
| Western Hills Methodist Church, 7:30 pm |
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| One of the world's leading classical guitarists, his superb musician ship and provocative programming have been applauded by critics and audiences around the world. Celebrated for expanding the guitar repertoire, Leisner has composed new works and tirelessly works to preserve neglected musical gems of the past. |
DAVID LEISNER is an extraordinarily versatile musician with a multi-faceted career as an electrifying performing artist, a distinguished composer, and a master teacher. He has been acclaimed as "a triple-threat performer" by The New York Times and a "serious, exploratory and imaginative musician" by The Boston Globe.
David Leisner's recent seasons have taken him around the US, including his solo debut with the Atlanta Symphony, a major tour of Australia and New Zealand, and debuts and reappearances in Japan, the Philippines, Germany, Hungary, Switzerland, Austria,
Sweden, Denmark, Ireland, the U.K., Italy, Czech Republic, Greece, Puerto Rico and Mexico. An innovative three-concert series at Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall, included the first all-Bach guitar recital in New York’s history. In the US, he has
appeared on concert series in such notable venues as Boston's Jordan Hall and Gardner Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Spivey Hall in Atlanta, Royce Hall in Los Angeles, the Folly Theater in Kansas City, St. Francis Auditorium in Santa Fe, and New York's Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, 92nd St. Y and Symphony Space.
David Leisner is currently co-chairman of the guitar department at the Manhattan School of Music and taught at the New England Conservatory for 22 years. His lively master classes have been featured at such institutions as the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal Northern College of Music, Graz University, Yale University, USC, the Cleveland and Peabody Institutes of Music, San Francisco and Cincinnati Conservatories, and many schools and music festivals around the world. Mr. Leisner is a graduate of Wesleyan University. Primarily self-taught as both guitarist and
composer, he briefly studied guitar with John Duarte, David Starobin and Angelo Gilardino and composition with Richard Winslow, Virgil Thomson, Charles Turner
and David Del Tredici.
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