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Top Artists to Perform During Segovia Classical Guitar Series

EVANSTON, Ill. --- Northwestern University will celebrate the diversity of the guitar this winter and spring with the 2005-06 Segovia Classical Guitar Series, the Chicago area's only full season of classical guitar artists. The series will feature 19th and 20th century classics and flamenco music.

Supported by the Chicago Classical Guitar Society, the annual Segovia Series offers listeners five opportunities to experience a wide variety of guitar styles, either through individual concerts or a subscription series, as well as a special sixth concert featuring three of today's groundbreaking women guitarists.

All of the Segovia series concerts will be held at various venues on the Evanston campus, as noted below.

The first concert of the 2005-06 series featuring Spanish flamenco guitar virtuoso Paco Peña and the Paco Peña Flamenco Dance Company will be held at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10, in Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, 50 Arts Circle Drive. At the forefront of flamenco guitar performance, Peña has appeared before audiences around the world. Peña and his eight-member dance company will present an evening of evocative singing and dancing, rhythmic clapping and fiery guitar music. Concert tickets are $32 for the general public; $28 for senior citizens and Northwestern faculty and staff; and $12 for students. This concert is part of the Flamenco Festival 2006, presented by The Instituto Cervantes de Chicago.

The Waller and Maxwell Guitar Duo will be featured during the second concert in the series, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 18, in Lutkin Hall, 700 University Place. Heard in a wide variety of concert halls, festivals and radio broadcasts throughout the United States and Europe, Anne Waller and Mark Maxwell will celebrate 25 years of performing together during a recital of music for 19th century and modern guitars. The concert will include works by various composers including the Chicago premiere of Augusta Read Thomas' "Memory: Swells for Guitar Duo." Tickets are $16 for the general public; $13 for senior citizens and Northwestern faculty and staff; and $5 for students. A veteran of the Segovia Classical Guitar Series, Italian guitarist Oscar Ghiglia returns to Northwestern for his annual residency. Ghiglia will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 4, in Lutkin Hall. Ghiglia participated in Andrés Segovia's summer master classes in Italy and was later invited to assist Segovia's master classes in California. Ghiglia has established himself as a concert guitarist, a professor and an artist-in-residence. Ghiglia's program will include works by Bach, Giuliani, Turina and Mompou. Tickets are $19 for the general public; $16 for senior citizens and Northwestern faculty and staff; and $8 for students.

Grammy Award-winner David Russell will share his musicianship at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 15, at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall. A fellow of London's Royal Academy of Music, Russell won the 2005 Grammy Award for best classical instrumental soloist for his compact disc "Aire Latino." Russell's program will include works by Giuliani, Da Milano, Granados, Dowland and Mertz. Tickets are $19 for the general public; $16 for senior citizens and Northwestern faculty and staff; and $8 for students.

The music of Spain and Latin America will be performed by Texas-born guitarist Robert Guthrie, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 13, in Lutkin Hall. Since studying with Andrés Segovia and Jesus Silva at the North Carolina School of the Arts, Guthrie has toured throughout the United States, Spain and Latin America and has taught at Yale University, the Boston Conservatory and Southern Methodist University. His program will feature works by Hispanic composers De Murcia, Sanz, Sor, Torroba, Barrios, Garcia de Leon and Almeida. Tickets are $19 for the general public; $16 for senior citizens and Northwestern faculty and staff; and $8 for students.

Also scheduled to perform at Northwestern is the ensemble La Guitara, three of today's most prominent women guitarists, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 30, in Pick-Staiger Concert Hall. Coinciding with Vanguard Records' release of a compilation compact disc featuring 14 female guitarists of varied genres, this tour will team Grammy Award-winning classical virtuoso Sharon Isbin, innovative "genre stretcher" Patty Larkin and 25-year-old sensation Kaki King in an evening of solos, duets and trios.

Segovia Series subscribers will have a special opportunity to attend the March 30 La Guitara concert at a discounted price. Tickets for subscribers are $20 for the general public; $17 for senior citizens and Northwestern faculty and staff; and $8 for students. Non-subscriber tickets are $25 for the general public; $21 for senior citizens and Northwestern faculty and staff; and $10 for students.

Subscriptions to the five-concert series are $84 for the general public; $80 for Chicago Classical Guitar Society members, senior citizens and Northwestern faculty and staff; and $39 for students. Subscribers also receive first choice of available seats. The subscription deadline is Jan. 25.

For tickets, call 847-467-4000 or visit www.pickstaiger.com. For more information, call 847-491-5441.

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