Strings of My Heart
Rescheduled for Saturday, March 31, 2012 - 4:00pm
Soloist: Steven Dearing, Guitar
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Marriage of Figaro Overture
New American Overture - "July 4th at Gettysburg" (USA Premier) Concierto de Aranjuez for Guitar and Orchestra Symphony No. 1 in G Minor |
Mozart
Daniel Sutton Rodrigo Kalinnikov |
About Steven Dearing
Classical guitarist Steven Dearing grew up in Windsor Ontario, Canada. He began his guitar studies at the age of 21 after being a self-taught electric guitarist. He is frequently heard across the US and Canada, and made his European debut in 2002 with 8 concerts across the UK.
Dearing is both an accomplished solo guitarist and chamber musician, and can be heard performing with faculty at the University of Windsor, and with his wife Abha, an award winning soprano and flutist.
Steven released his first solo guitar CD in December 2010. It is receiving international attention, and critics are saying:
…a rewarding set of engaging 20th-Century contemporary works played with charismatic musicianship and clean technique.”
… a notable one devoted to 20th-Century music, turning out a strong performance, both technically and emotionally…he plays with feeling-and fire
Steven has been nominated Outstanding Classical Instrumentalist by the Detroit Music Awards, won a number of competitions and scholarships, and has appeared on Canadian and American public radio and television. He currently serves as the Guitar Instructor at the University of Windsor, and he runs a small studio out his Farmington Hills home. Steven tours extensively with his wife Abha Dearing who form the Dearing Concert Duo, a multi award winning classical guitar and voice duo, who tour throughout the US, Canada, and Europe. They have recorded 3 acclaimed CD’s featuring works from the classical guitar and voice literature as well as the classical guitar and flute literature. They were honored to perform for past Prime Ministers of Canada and India.
Steven received his Bachelors Degree in Music Education in Canada and a Master’s in Classical Guitar Performance in the US. He has studied under several guitarists including Jeffrey McFadden, William Beauvais, Dominic Bertucci, Michael Stockdale, and John Holmquist, and has performed in master classes with David Russell, Manuel Barreuco, Jason Vieaux, and Fabio Zanon.
Dearing is both an accomplished solo guitarist and chamber musician, and can be heard performing with faculty at the University of Windsor, and with his wife Abha, an award winning soprano and flutist.
Steven released his first solo guitar CD in December 2010. It is receiving international attention, and critics are saying:
…a rewarding set of engaging 20th-Century contemporary works played with charismatic musicianship and clean technique.”
… a notable one devoted to 20th-Century music, turning out a strong performance, both technically and emotionally…he plays with feeling-and fire
Steven has been nominated Outstanding Classical Instrumentalist by the Detroit Music Awards, won a number of competitions and scholarships, and has appeared on Canadian and American public radio and television. He currently serves as the Guitar Instructor at the University of Windsor, and he runs a small studio out his Farmington Hills home. Steven tours extensively with his wife Abha Dearing who form the Dearing Concert Duo, a multi award winning classical guitar and voice duo, who tour throughout the US, Canada, and Europe. They have recorded 3 acclaimed CD’s featuring works from the classical guitar and voice literature as well as the classical guitar and flute literature. They were honored to perform for past Prime Ministers of Canada and India.
Steven received his Bachelors Degree in Music Education in Canada and a Master’s in Classical Guitar Performance in the US. He has studied under several guitarists including Jeffrey McFadden, William Beauvais, Dominic Bertucci, Michael Stockdale, and John Holmquist, and has performed in master classes with David Russell, Manuel Barreuco, Jason Vieaux, and Fabio Zanon.
About Daniel Sutton
Composer of New American Overture - "July 4th at Gettysburg"
Young American Composer Daniel Sutton is one of the upcoming talents of his generation. Audiences worldwide with great enthusiasm are hearing his symphonic, chamber, solo, and vocal works, numbering over thirty at present. In July of 2005 his Brass Quartet, Communion, part 1 received its world premier in Germany by members of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Wild Nights, for soprano, cello, and piano was premiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Germany) in March 2001. In April 2000, the New American Overture (July 4th at Gettysburg) was premiered by the Magdeburg Symphony Orchestra under the baton of American conductor Carol I. Crawford to critical acclaim. Two vocal works, the Five Songs on Texts by Attilio Bertolucci, for lyric soprano and piano, and thePoems from Issa, for mezzo-soprano and piano, were premiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in November 1999. Also premiered at the Deutsche Oper were the Escapades, for piano (played by the composer). In December 1999, Sutton’s song The Bells
Some of Sutton’s well known solo piano works are the Toccata-Fantasy,Four American Preludes on a Third, and Sea Nocturnewhich were performed by the composer while on tour throughout Europe, South America, Australia, the Caribbean and the South Pacific in 1996 through 1999. Also in 1998 the two art songs Amore a me... and Torrente, from Five Songs on Texts by Attilio Bertolucci were heard on SFB public radio in Berlin performed by Soprano Abbie Furmansky and accompanied by the composer.
A virtuoso pianist, Sutton regularly performs his own unique piano works as well as works of the standard repertoire. Recently he gave concerts of Liszt’s transcriptions of Beethoven’s 1st and 3rd Symphonies along with his own transcription of Beethoven’s Egmont Overture. In summer 2002, he continues this cycle by giving performances of Liszt’s transcriptions of Beethoven's 4th and 5th Symphonies along with his own transcription of the Coriolan Overture in Bayreuth. He has won many competitions and honors including prizes in the distinguished Joanna Hodges International Piano Competition in Palm Springs and the Magues Piano Competition in Cincinnati. He gave his Carnegie Hall debut at Weil Recital Hall in 1996. He has performed extensively as a soloist, chamber musician, vocal accompanist, and soloist with various orchestras.
Sutton attended The Juilliard School as a scholarship student of Josef Raieff and teaching assistant. During his years at Juilliard he made his debut as a composer with the performances of his chamber works Homage to Machaut,The Magic Theatre, and Golden Pears of the Earth. Sutton went on to receive his Doctorate from the Manhattan School of Music in 1995.
Among his most recent projects have been the completion of the new musical CamouflageChips. In 2001 he was a musical consultant on Roman Polanski’s Oscar winning film, The Pianist. In January 2002, mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung gave the world premiere of Sutton’s Six Songs on Poems by D.H. Lawrence at Weill Recital Hall. In 2003 he wrote and recorded the soundtrack to the Mini Pictures film A Small Place. His brass quartet, Communion, Part 1 was premiered in Germany in August, 2005 by members of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.
He presently resides in Berlin with his wife, soprano Abbie Furmansky and son Joshua.
Some of Sutton’s well known solo piano works are the Toccata-Fantasy,Four American Preludes on a Third, and Sea Nocturnewhich were performed by the composer while on tour throughout Europe, South America, Australia, the Caribbean and the South Pacific in 1996 through 1999. Also in 1998 the two art songs Amore a me... and Torrente, from Five Songs on Texts by Attilio Bertolucci were heard on SFB public radio in Berlin performed by Soprano Abbie Furmansky and accompanied by the composer.
A virtuoso pianist, Sutton regularly performs his own unique piano works as well as works of the standard repertoire. Recently he gave concerts of Liszt’s transcriptions of Beethoven’s 1st and 3rd Symphonies along with his own transcription of Beethoven’s Egmont Overture. In summer 2002, he continues this cycle by giving performances of Liszt’s transcriptions of Beethoven's 4th and 5th Symphonies along with his own transcription of the Coriolan Overture in Bayreuth. He has won many competitions and honors including prizes in the distinguished Joanna Hodges International Piano Competition in Palm Springs and the Magues Piano Competition in Cincinnati. He gave his Carnegie Hall debut at Weil Recital Hall in 1996. He has performed extensively as a soloist, chamber musician, vocal accompanist, and soloist with various orchestras.
Sutton attended The Juilliard School as a scholarship student of Josef Raieff and teaching assistant. During his years at Juilliard he made his debut as a composer with the performances of his chamber works Homage to Machaut,The Magic Theatre, and Golden Pears of the Earth. Sutton went on to receive his Doctorate from the Manhattan School of Music in 1995.
Among his most recent projects have been the completion of the new musical CamouflageChips. In 2001 he was a musical consultant on Roman Polanski’s Oscar winning film, The Pianist. In January 2002, mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung gave the world premiere of Sutton’s Six Songs on Poems by D.H. Lawrence at Weill Recital Hall. In 2003 he wrote and recorded the soundtrack to the Mini Pictures film A Small Place. His brass quartet, Communion, Part 1 was premiered in Germany in August, 2005 by members of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.
He presently resides in Berlin with his wife, soprano Abbie Furmansky and son Joshua.
*Music is subject to change.*
