The Village Trip Pre-Festival Weekend of Guitar: Albers, Wolpe & Brouwer

Exploring the role of Village composer Stefan Wolpe, his connection to the Bauhaus and Josef Albers, and work by his students Morton Feldman and Leo Brouwer. Featuring guitar soloists Daniel Conant, Matt Kaplan, Angel Blanco, and The Village Trip Guitar Orchestra.

Wolpe -- selections from Music for Any Instruments arranged by Sean Ferguson

Leo Brouwer -- Cuban Landscape with Rain
and various of Brouwer's iconic guitar solos

Morton Feldman -- "The Possibility of a new work for Electric Guitar" will be performed by Angel Blanco

TVT Guitar Orchestra

Guitar 1

Daniel Conant, Rianne Mision
Noam Beili, Delilah Higgins

Guitar 2

Pascual Araujo,
Matt Zlotkin, Jackie Ward

Guitar 3

Kyle Miller, Ryan Bagg
Adam Negrin, Whitney Hall

Guitar 4

Chris Rispoli, Sears Ferguson
John Chang, Maggie Craig
Ram Loste

Daniel Conant studied with William Anderson at Sarah Lawrence College, and later at Eastman and with Raphalla Smits at the Lemmens Institute / LUCA School of Arts in Leuven, Belgium. He has performed at the Staunton Festival in Staunton, VA, for the Ekmelic Festival in Salzburg, Interharmony Festival in Aqua Terme, and others.

Hika — Leo Brouwer

Presentimiento (Habanero) - Agustin Castilla-Avila

View From Bayonne Bridge at Night — David Saperstein

How the Grass Sounds — new solo for me by Kyle Miller

Poemas Armónico I, II, III