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The 溏心vlog免费B站 Guitar Festival<\/a> will include six concerts over its four days, Oct. 20-23, on and around 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Kingston Campus. For guitar students and aficionados, there will also be numerous master classes, workshops and lectures \u2013 along with the annual Rising Stars Virtual Guitar Competition. Last year\u2019s competition winner, Chinnawat Themkumkwun from Thailand, will perform on Thursday, Oct. 20, at Pump House Music Works, 1464 Kingstown Road, South Kingstown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The festival has become a mainstay in the state\u2019s cultural scene, Levin said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019m a firm believer in the statement \u2018if you build it, they will come,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s been the case year after year, as we\u2019ve expanded this guitar festival from a single-day event to four jampacked days featuring world-class artists from every geographical point on the planet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Along with festival regulars like Rohde, Borg, Levin and Reuven, this year will feature many newcomers \u2013 including Caballero, called the \u201cfemale voice of the Spanish guitar\u201d by Opera World magazine; McKee, who can make his steel-string guitar sound like a full orchestra; Kibbey, whose been tagged the Yo-Yo Ma of the harp; Shaheen, whose work on the oud runs from Arab sounds to jazz to Western classical styles; and Cuban-American coloratura superstar soprano Eglise Gutierrez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For the first time, the festival will feature new works by two composers, including the festival\u2019s first composer-in-residence, Eduardo Morales-Caso of Cuba and Spain. Levin met Morales-Caso while living in Spain as a Fulbright scholar almost 15 years ago. \u201cI\u2019ve championed his solo and chamber music for 15 years,\u201d said Levin. \u201cI\u2019ve dreamt of an opportunity to celebrate his guitar catalog, and this year\u2019s festival seemed like the ideal setting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Two compositions by Morales-Caso will get their world premiere Thursday, Oct. 20, at 7:30 p.m. at the Pump House. His piece for violin and guitar will be performed by Levin and his Duo Sonidos partner, violinist William Knuth, and his piece for three guitars will be performed by Levin\u2019s trio, The Great Necks, which includes Rohde and Borg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Concerto Night, Saturday, Oct. 22, at 8 in the 溏心vlog免费B站 Fine Arts Center, Morales-Caso\u2019s Concerto de la Herradura for guitar and orchestra will have its U.S. premiere, with Levin as the soloist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That night will also feature newly commissioned pieces by Israeli-American composer Avner Dorman \u2013 a double concerto for mandolin, guitar and string orchestra with Levin and his Duo Mantar partner, Reuven, and the Narragansett Bay Symphony Orchestra, directed by Kristo Kondakci.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For Levin, the night will be one of three performances during the festival. All three of his ensembles will feature works from recent or upcoming albums, and he and Rohde will perform alongside soprano Eglise Gutierrez Saturday afternoon, Oct. 22, at 4:30 in St. Augustine\u2019s Church on Lower College Road of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Kingston Campus. On the final day of the festival, The Great Necks will perform with Kibbey on harp and Reuven on mandolin at 4:30 p.m. in St. Augustine\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cUsually I’ll perform once at the beginning and then focus on the festival. But instead my performances became dispersed throughout the festival this year,\u201d he said. \u201cIf I survive this guitar festival it will be like that scene in \u2018Conan the Barbarian\u2019 when Arnold Schwarzenegger raises his sword up high in victory.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The festival will again be completely hybrid allowing fans to attend concerts, master classes, workshops and lectures in-person or virtually. Ticket packages<\/a> range from active virtual or in-person participation, which includes two master classes and all festival events, to a four-day auditor pass. There are also day passes and tickets ranging from $10 to $25 for individual concerts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2022\/09\/Caballero.jpg\")
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