If you would like to participate in or audit a masterclass, please email the society.
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Masterclass: Alexandra Whittingham (Main Artist Series)
Saturday September 13, 10:00 AM
Room 113, Perez Hall, University of Ottawa (50 University Private)
Masterclass: Anne-Frédérique Gagnon (Young Artist Series)
Sunday November 2, 11:00 AM
Location TBA
Masterclass: Jorge Caballero (Main Artist Series)
Sunday January 25, 11:00 AM
Location TBA
In the span of a decades-long career, Peruvian born guitarist and composer Jorge Caballero has accrued wide recognition as one of the most important guitarists in history, being the recipient of several international awards, and performing in recitals, chamber music and as a soloist around the world.
Critics from international newspapers and guitar publications have praised Mr. Caballero’s depth of musicality, as well as his technical mastery when tackling the unique difficulties of his concert repertoire. Aside from the standard guitar literature he performs –which spans centuries of music from the Renaissance until the present, Mr. Caballero is notorious for adapting and performing masterworks originally written for piano or orchestra, among which we find Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, Dvorak’s New World Symphony, Debussy’s Children’s Corner Suite and Alban Berg’s Piano Sonata Op. 1 to name a few. One critic in Italy referred to Mr. Caballero as “standing on top of the repertoire’s Mount Everest,” while the New York Times called him “a masterly guitarist” with “chameleonic timbres.”
Since his first solo recital at age thirteen, Mr. Caballero has given numerous concerts throughout the world, including performances at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall and the Library of Congress, and as a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, New York’s Chamber Ensemble and Turkey’s Presidential Symphony. He has also collaborated with the Mendelssohn and the Miró String Quartets, with Soprano Theresa Santiago and flautists Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson and Carol Wincenc.
As of 2021, Mr. Caballero has been appointed to the Guitar Faculty at the University of Toronto in Canada. He is also part-time faculty at Kean State University in the United States, and Honorary Professor at the National University of Music in Lima, Peru.
Masterclass: Maya Farrell (Young Artist Series)
Sunday March 22 11:00 AM
Location TBA
Workshop: Mastering Sight-Reading with Simon Farintosh, DMA
Sunday April 26, 11:00 AM
Location TBA
Simon Farintosh draws on his years of experience teaching sight reading at the post-secondary level, as well as his doctoral studies on the subject, to offer a workshop designed to help guitarists of any level develop more confidence and fluency in their sight reading.