Guitar Concert

Josep Manzano

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLBMw7jYO1I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKBcuNXQOm4

JOSEP MANZANO

Born in Girona, he was initially self-taught on the guitar. He later studied with Luis Neras and Manuel Gonzalez. He obtained the Superior Title at the Liceo Conservatory of Music in Barcelona. Along with this he has also attended several courses on musical performance, particularly those with David Russell. He has performed numerous concerts and recordings for radio and television, as a soloist but also as part of a chamber group or larger instrumental ensembles. In addition to his performances throughout Catalonia and the Spanish State, has been invited to participate in various music and guitar festivals in countries like Mexico, Argentina, Perú, Italy, France, Germany, England, Bulgaria, Switzerland and Serbia, to give concerts and master classes or to be a member of a jury in competitions. Since the year 2000 he has played regularly with the flamenco guitarist Xavier Ballesteros, with whom he recorded a CD in 2004 of works by Albeniz, Granados and de Falla. Since the year 1998, he has been a member of the Dinosaurios, a poetry-music group, with whom he produced and edited a CD in 2005. He has toured with the Bulgarian flautist, Nicolai Yordanov. He recently worked with the flautist, Esteve Zulet, and the Joan Sadurní trio, playing the suites of Claude Bolling. More recently, in 2009, he has formed a new partnership with the English guitarist Carlos Garcia-Benitez with whom he has performed a number of guitar duo concerts in the last years. A CD “Five Centuries” with Carlos Garcia-Benitez have been released in early 2010. As a soloist he has recorded three CDs: "Tarrega and his legacy" (2002) with works by Francisco Tarrega, Emilio Pujol and Miguel Llobet, "Tarrega: The 35 Preludes and Studies" and “Melancolie-Guitarists composers from Girona”. He is guitar teacher at the Gironés School of Music in Girona, where he developed a wide teaching work. He is also founder of the Girona-Costa Brava Guitar Festival.

PROPOSTES DE CONCERT Currently can offer different concert proposals: "Popular music on guitar", "Guitarist Composers of nineteenth century from Girona", "Monograph Tarrega" or "Isaac Albeniz-Suite Española". At the request of festival or organizer can prepare a free program concert, using works of the various proposals.

“POPULAR MUSIC ON THE GUITAR” This concert will offer a tour of popular character pieces for the last two centuries, from fashionable dances in the 19th century, as the waltz or polka, pop themes from authors such as Santana and Clapton, from jazz or Latin music. FRANCISCO TÁRREGA (1852-1909) Cuatro piezas breves

- Preludio nº 5 en Mi Mayor - Adelita (Mazurka) - Estudio en forma de Minuetto - Pavana

JOSEP FERRER (1835-1916) El mensajero, Vals, op.55 JOSEP COSTA (1826-1881) Celebre-Vals ANTONIO ALBA (1873-1940) Emilia, havanera, op.13 JOAQUIN CASANOVAS (1862-1924) Colombina, polka MANUEL DE FALLA (1876-1946) Danza del molinero POPULAR CATALANA El cant dels ocells SCOTT JOPLIN (1868-1917) The entertainer DJANGO REINHARDT (1910-1953) Tears CONSUELO VELAZQUEZ (1910-2005) Besame mucho SEBASTIAN PIANA (1903-1994) Milonga sentimental STANLEY MYERS (1930-1993) Cavatina PAUL McCARTNEY (1942) Here, there and everywhere ERIC CLAPTON (1945) Wonderful tonight CARLOS SANTANA (1947) Samba pa ti Other pieces that could be part of the program: Milonga (Jorge Cardozo) Midnight Valse (Marcos Vinicius) Bonita (Juan Gaspar) Un peu de bossa (Domenico Ascione) Orfeo negro (Luiz Bonfa) Alluminium Blues (Johnny Norris) Before you accused me (blues tradicional) Scherzino mexicano (Manuel M. Ponce) Romance anónimo El condor pasa Tears in heaven (Eric Clapton)

“GUITARISTS COMPOSERS OF NINETEENTH CENTURY FROM GIRONA”

JOSEP MANZANO (1962) Preludio Romança JOSEP FERRER (1835-1916) Recuerdos de Montgri op. 1 (Capricho para guitarra)

El mensajero, Vals, op.55 De Noche en el Lago, op.14 (Fantasía con Variaciones)

BUENAVENTURA BASSOLS (1812-1868) Vals Fantasia nº 2 JOSEP COSTA (1826-1881) Celebre-Vals

Fantasia brillante sobre motivos de La Traviata de Verdi

“MONOGRAPH TÀRREGA”

FRANCISCO TÁRREGA (1852-1909) Four preludies

- nº 1 in D minor - nº 2 in A minor - nº 5 in E Major - Prelude (Una Lagrima)

Two Studies

- Estudio en forma de Minuetto - Estudio brillante sobre un tema de Alard

Four short pieces

- Adelita (Mazurka) - Pavana - Maria (Gavota) - Tango

Capricho Árabe

Recuerdos de la Alhambra Gran jota

“ISAAC ALBENIZ – SUITE ESPAÑOLA” ISAAC ALBENIZ (1860-1909) Suite española op. 47 (Granada, Catalunya, Sevilla, Cadiz, Asturias, Aragón, Castilla i Cuba)