Michael Chapdelaine
National Fingerstyle Guitar Champion, Michael Chapdelaine to Perform at Gig Performance Space
GIG Performance Space
1808 2nd St
Aug 18, 2018
7:30 PM UTC
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National Fingerstyle Guitar Champion, and UNM Guitar Professor Michael Chapdelaine will play his “Farewell to New Mexico” Concert at Santa Fe’s Gig Performance Space on 18 August at 7:30 PM. Admission $20. Tickets are available at the door or from . A former citizen of Santa Fe, (next to the Grant St. bridge) Chapdelaine just completed an international tour this season with 70 concerts in Europe and North America, as part of the guitar quartet, “International Guitar Night”. He also has a new CD dedicated to the great acoustic guitar innovator, Michael Hedges, called “Counterpoint Boundaries” and his program will feature music from this and his other 12 solo CDs of original compositions, popular music arrangements as well as traditional classical and Spanish guitar music. His teachers included Spanish guitarist, Andres Segovia.
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Michael Chapdelaine Biography
Michael Chapdelaine is the only guitarist ever to win First Prize in the world's top competitions in both the Classical and Fingerstyle genres; the GFA International Classical Guitar Competition and the National Fingerstyle Championship. He has twice won the coveted NEA Solo Recitalist Grant, and took First Prize in the Music Teachers National Association Guitar Competition. He also won the Silver Medal in Venezuela's VIII Concurso International de Guitarra "Alirio Diaz".
His Sonata Romantica CD, (now re-released as "Mexico"), is considered one of the definitive recordings for the instrument. Acoustic Guitar magazine wrote “…I have seldom heard a more beautiful album. Other young guitarists have excellent technique, but few have such style and musicality, and Chapdelaine's beautiful tone is the nearest to Segovia's that I can recall." Michael is Professor of Music and head of guitar studies at the University of New Mexico.
His teachers included the great Spanish maestro Andres Segovia.
Read MoreHis Sonata Romantica CD, (now re-released as "Mexico"), is considered one of the definitive recordings for the instrument. Acoustic Guitar magazine wrote “…I have seldom heard a more beautiful album. Other young guitarists have excellent technique, but few have such style and musicality, and Chapdelaine's beautiful tone is the nearest to Segovia's that I can recall." Michael is Professor of Music and head of guitar studies at the University of New Mexico.
His teachers included the great Spanish maestro Andres Segovia.
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