Curtis on Tour

Faculty member of the Curtis Institute of Music and GRAMMY Award-winning guitarist Jason Vieaux, renowned violist and Curtis President Roberto Díaz, and emerging artists from Curtis perform a thrilling program for guitar and strings.

Vieaux, “among the elite of today’s classical guitarists” (Gramophone), is described by NPR as “perhaps the most precise and soulful classical guitarist of his generation.”

A violist of international reputation, Roberto Díaz, a teacher of viola at Curtis and former principal viola of the Philadelphia Orchestra, has already had a significant impact on American musical life. His recording of Jennifer Higdon’s Viola Concerto won the GRAMMY for Best Contemporary Classical Composition in 2018. He plays the ex-Primrose Amati viola.

Vieaux, Diaz and their accompanying student artists appear as part of the Nina von Maltzahn Global Touring Initiative of the Curtis Institute of Music.

Program:

Manuel DE FALLA | Suite Populaire Espagnole for cello and guitar

Solo guitar (works TBD)

Ástor PIAZZOLLA (transcribed: Julien LABRO) | Oblivion

ZHOU | Tian: Red Trees, Wrinkled Cliffs for guitar and string trio

Niccolò PAGANINI | Quartet in A minor, M.S. 42 for guitar and string trio

Venue: First Presbyterian Church, 1604 Arendell St., Morehead City, NC

Doors open 6:30 PM

Concert time 7:00 PM

Host or Publisher American Music Festival