| Saturday Mar 16, 2013 8:00 PM - Saturday Mar 16, 2013 10:30 PM | $15.00 - $20.00 |
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A Celebration of J.S. Bach, with Peter Blanchette, 11-string archguitar
Greater Boston House Concerts presents
An Evening with Peter Blanchette, 11-string archguitar
A Celebration of J.S. Bach's music for solo instruments ... and some surprises.
"Blanchette is an ace on this, his self-designed instrument."
Billboard Magazine
Music:
J.S. Bach from "Six Suites for 'Cello Solo", from "Three Partitas for Violin Solo" and from Partita for Flute Solo, BVW 1013
Music from Ireland and Scotland
All music arranged for 11-string archguitar by Peter Blanchette.
"... one of the most original and accomplished guitarists of his generation ..."
J. Falck, All Things Considered
A Q&A and reception with the Artist will follow the concert.
Seat Reservations are REQUIRED: http://gbhc3.bpt.me/
Seating is general admission. Free street parking
BYOB or wine
Greater Boston House Concerts is directed by Aaron Larget-Caplan. www.GBHConcerts.com
ABOUT
Peter Blanchette is the inventor of the 11-string archguitar. "Blanchette is an ace on this, his self-designed instrument." Billboard Magazine. His repertoire of unusual and internationally acclaimed arrangements and compositions spans from medieval to contemporary to ethnic, played in solo recital or with selected other instrumentalists to form the Virtual Consort.
A recipient of the MCC Artist Grant in Music Composition, Blanchette is a veteran performer of such high profile venues as NPR's "A Prairie Home Companion," and The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. His CDs receive heavy airplay on "Sunday Baroque," "The Thistle and Shamrock," and regionally on WAMC, WNYC, and WFCR. His classical/jazz concept recording, "Had Miles Met Maurice" (DORIAN #dor-93198) was selected by AudioPhile Magazine as a "Top 100 Jazz CD of 2001."
In 2011, he received New England Public Radio Foundation's Arts and Humanities Award for outstanding individual artist. As a composer, he has contributed to such television programs as HBO's "Sex and the City," USA Network/NBC's "Royal Pains," and PBS' "Inside the Tuscan Hills." Among other film work, Blanchette worked extensively with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer William Bolcom and director John Turturro on Turturro's film Illuminata.
"His updated film scores make the silents sing." Boston Sunday Globe.In the late 1990s, the Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts (MIFA) commissioned Peter Blanchette to compose scores to the Buster Keaton silent comedies "The General" and "The Navigator" which resulted in sell-out performances in venues around the Northeast. In 2009 Blanchette received grants from New England Foundation for the Arts "Meet the Composer," and the Northampton Arts Council to complete the trio of Keaton's masterpieces by composing a multi-instrumental score to the 1928 comedy, Steamboat Bill, Jr. which he premiered, along with master classes in film scoring, to resounding success at the Dingle Film Festival in Ireland in September 2009, and Amherst Cinema Arts Center in October 2009.
He is also the founder and Artistic Director of the critically-acclaimed Happy Valley Guitar Orchestra (hvgo.org), and holds a Master's Degree in Music Composition from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts and a Bachelor's of Arts Degree from Marlboro College in Marlboro, Vermont.
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LocationGreater Boston House Concerts (View)
21 Virginia St
Boston, MA 02125
United States
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