Los Angeles Guitar Quartet Pre-College Guitar Masterclass

LAGQ Guitar Masterclass

Program
Etude, Op 10, No 3 Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Aanya Guthula, Aryan Shrivastava, Yassen Zhechev, Zoe Jovanovic

Spanish Dance #4 by Enrique Granados (1867-1916)
Atlas Erol, Inti Zometa Martinez, Edric Chun

Chasing Light Gary Eister (b.1952)
Andrew Lee, Brandon Lee, Quintin Muffly, Evelyn Shih

Bantu Andrew York (b.1958)
River, Rohaan, Sarina, Yarah

Gnossiennes after Eric Satie (1866-1925) Stephen Goss (1964)
Emilia Diaz Delgado, Kiran Lee, Campbell Muffly, Shiv Sitaram

SFCM Pre-College Guitar Faculty: Angelica Artelt, Scott Cmiel, Scott Gossage, Jon Mendle, Mark Simons, Ross Thompson

The Grammy Award-winning LAGQ is one of the most multifaceted groups in any genre. The LAGQ is comprised of four uniquely accomplished musicians bringing a new energy to the concert stage with programs ranging from Bluegrass to Bach. They consistently play to sold-out houses world-wide. Their inventive, critically acclaimed transcriptions of concert masterworks provide a fresh look at the music of the past, while their interpretations of works from the contemporary and world-music realms continually break new ground.

The SFCM Pre-College has earned a national reputation for providing outstanding musical training to young people. The early childhood program, for students as young as age 1, taps the natural desire for movement, that all children possess, to impart a deep responsiveness to music. As students gain experience, our curriculum integrates private lessons with small chamber music groups, a guitar orchestra, musicianship courses, weekly performance opportunities, and master classes with the guitar worlds finest international artists including Sergio Assad, Manuel Barrueco, Marcin Dylla, Judicael Perroy, William Kanengiser, David Tanenbaum, Meng Su, Benjamin Verdery, Jason Vieaux, and Andrew York.
As a result, our Pre-College students have won many regional, national and international awards, including the Christopher Parkening Competition, Guitar Foundation of America International Youth Competition, the James Stroud International Competition and many more. In addition our students have frequently been featured on the national public radio program From the Top and have appeared on the televised GRAMMY Awards show.
There is no expectation that our students pursue music professionally and many have attended the countries top academic institutions including Columbia, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and Yale and are now working as doctors, engineers, entrepreneurs, lawyers, scientists and in a wide array of other professions, while still making music a core part of their lives.

Students who have decided to pursue music professionally have been admitted to the finest collegiate music schools and conservatories in the world including the Curtis Institute, the Juilliard School, the Peabody Institute, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the University of Southern California, and are now distinguishing themselves professionally.

Such a comprehensive program can only thrive with robust institutional support and I am grateful that, thanks to the generosity of alumni parents and others, the Pre-College has a excellent scholarship program and no qualified student is denied needed financial support.

You can get more information about the San Francisco Conservatory of Music at our website: sfcm.edu