5th New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes to feature International array of World-Renowned Performers and Teachers

The 5th New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes: El Maestro/ Tradition of the Masters will take place at Mannes College of Music in New York City June 29 ?July 3, 2005, featuring five days of intensive study and performance opportunities in New York City.

For full details, artist bios, links, accommodations, and application form, please visit the seminar website:

www.mannes.edu/guitar

Special early discount of $100 extended to March 31 only for readers of NYlon Review.

The focus of the 5th New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes seminar will be pedagogy in the guitar world, and will pay tribute to Bruce Holzman, teacher of many of America's top competition winners, concert artists, and university professors. The seminar brings together a distinguished faculty of international and New York-based guitar masters and guest speakers:

Bruce Holzman

Eliot Fisk
Ricardo Cobo
The Newman & Oltman Guitar Duo
Ricardo Iznaola
Stephen Robinson
Lily Afshar
Adam Holzman
Michael Chapdelaine
William Carter
Leo Welch
Roger Allen Cope
Matthew Dunne
Arthur Kampela
Oren Fader
Mariano Aguirre
along with luthiers Thomas Humphrey and William Kramer-Harrison
and Mannes Techniques of Music Faculty Joel Lester and Christopher Park

Activities will include:

Master Classes
Student/Faculty Performances
Ensemble Coaching
Performance Practice: Baroque Ornamentation for Guitarists
Trends in Pedagogy: Source Materials for Effective Teaching and Learning
Training For Facility: A Workshop In Technical Awareness
Jazz Arrangement Techniques for the Classical Guitarist
Deja-vu All Over Again: Approaching Repetition in 19th-Century Musical Forms
Guitar Makers and their Secrets
The Value of Informed Performance: Historical & Theoretical Study of Repertoire
Baroque Interpretation: Bach's Violin Music for Guitarists
Bruce Holzman Award Ceremony and Panel Discussion
World Premiere Performances

New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes is open to college, graduate, and high school students, professional teachers and performers, and classical guitar lovers of all ages seeking to broaden their musical horizons.?Participants in past seminars have come from throughout the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, United Kingdom, Japan, Korea, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, the Philippines, Australia, and New Zealand.

The New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes is made possible in part with generous support from Mel Bay Publications, Inc., the Augustine Foundation, and by a grant from The D묨ddario Foundation for the Performing Arts with support from J. D'Addario & Company, Inc.?

Presented in cooperation with Robert Olmsted Recordings, New York City Classical Guitar Society, Florida State University, Columbia University, the Americas Society, Guitar Salon International, Quality Hotel on Broadway, and Classical Guitar Alive!

New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes
150 West 85th Street
New York, New York 10024
Telephone: 212-580-0210, ext. 4883
E-mail: mannesguitar@newschool.edu
www.mannes.edu/guitar