All Things Six Strings

Aaron and Rick discuss Aaron's new CD release "A Guitar Holiday" as well as The Lullaby Project and, as always, other guitar-related topics.

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Rick talks with guitarist, educator, producer, and radio host Jim McCutcheon about his beginnings as a musician, love of science, and his teaching...including his stint as, the then, 6 year old Martha Master's guitar teacher.

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Listen to four specially selected works from David's recordings, discussions about each work and, of course, all things six strings!
Guest:
David Leisner
An extraordinarily versatile musician with a multi-faceted career as an electrifying performing artist, a distinguished composer, and a master teacher.

“Among the finest guitarists of all time”, according to American Record Guide, David Leisner’s career began auspiciously with top prizes in both the 1975 Toronto and 1981 Geneva International Guitar Competitions. His recent seasons have taken him around the US, including his solo debut with the Atlanta Symphony, a major tour of Australia and New Zealand, and debuts and reappearances in China, Japan, the Philippines, Germany, Hungary, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Ireland, the U.K., Italy, Czech Republic, Greece, Puerto Rico and Mexico. An innovative three-concert series at Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall included the first all-Bach guitar recital in New York’s history, and currently he is the Artistic Director of Guitar Plus, a New York series devoted to chamber music with the guitar. He has also performed chamber music at the Santa Fe, Music in the Vineyards, Vail Valley, Crested Butte, Rockport, Cape and Islands, Bargemusic, Bay Chamber, Maui, Portland, Sitka and Angel Fire Festivals, with Zuill Bailey, Tara O’Connor, Eugenia Zukerman, Kurt Ollmann, Lucy Shelton, Ida Kavafian, the St. Lawrence, Enso, Escher and Vermeer Quartets and many others. Celebrated for expanding the guitar repertoire, David Leisner has premiered works by many important composers, including David Del Tredici, Virgil Thomson, Ned Rorem, Philip Glass, Richard Rodney Bennett, Peter Sculthorpe, Osvaldo Golijov, Randall Woolf, Gordon Beeferman and Carlos Carillo, while championing the works of neglected 19th-century guitar composers J.K. Mertz and Wenzeslaus Matiegka.

A featured recording artist for Azica Records, Leisner has released 9 highly acclaimed CDs, including the most recent, Arpeggione with cellist Zuill Bailey, and Facts of Life, featuring the premiere recordings of commissioned works by Del Tredici and Golijov. Naxos produced his recording of the Hovhaness Guitar Concerto with Gerard Schwarz and the Berlin Radio Orchestra. Other CDs include the Koch recording of Haydn Quartet in D with the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and Hovhaness Spirit of Trees for Telarc with harpist Yolanda Kondonassis. And Mel Bay Co. released a solo concert DVD called Classics and Discoveries.

Mr. Leisner is also a highly respected composer noted for the emotional and dramatic power of his music. Fanfare magazine described it as “rich in invention and melody, emotionally direct, and beautiful”. South Florida Classical Review called him “an original and arresting compositional voice.” Recent commissioners include the Rob Nathanson for the New Music Festival at UNC Wilmington, Cavatina Duo, baritone Wolfgang Holzmair, Arc Duo, Stones River Chamber Players (TN), Fairfield Orchestra (CT), Red Cedar Chamber Music (IA), and the Twentieth Century Unlimited Series (NM). Recordings of his works are currently available on the Sony Classical, ABC, Dorian, Azica, Cedille, Centaur, Town Hall, Signum, Acoustic Music, Athena and Barking Dog labels. The Cavatina Duo’s recording of his complete works for flute and guitar, Acrobats (Cedille) was released to exceptionally strong reviews. His compositions are mostly published by Merion Music/Theodore Presser Co., as well as AMP/G. Schirmer, Doberman-Yppan and Columbia Music.

David Leisner has been a member of the guitar faculty at the Manhattan School of Music since 1993, and also taught at the New England Conservatory from 1980-2003. Primarily self-taught as both guitarist and composer, he briefly studied guitar with John Duarte, David Starobin and Angelo Gilardino and composition with Richard Winslow, Virgil Thomson, Charles Turner and David Del Tredici. His book, Playing with Ease: a healthy approach to guitar technique, published by Oxford University Press, has received extraordinary acclaim.
Website: www.davidleisner.com

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Tim and Dad join guitarist Adam Levin for a virtual CD Release Party. We discuss his newest CD "21st Century Spanish Guitar, Volume 4," listen to three of the cuts and talk about, well, all things six strings!

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Hosts Rick and Tim have a great conversation with Bill Clements, owner of The Rosewood Guitar. We talk about the history of The Rosewood, its owners, the teaching staff, Bill's personal guitar collection...the flood, the gas explosion, the plague, and, of course, all things six strings.

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Rick and guest Mark Wilson discuss his monumental year-long project "Midnight Confessions." Mark recorded one work each day for a solid year. Find the videos on YouTube.

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David Leisner, Chair of the Guitar Department at Manhattan School of Music, discusses the salient points of his book "Playing With Ease" published by Oxford University Press.

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Don Hlus, Classical Guitarist | Music Educator | Career Coach returns to ATSS for a discussion of his new program Classical Guitar Career Masterclass "Create a Sustainable Career Doing What You Love"

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Rick talks with Elizabeth C.D. Brown, head of the guitar department at Pacific Lutheran University.

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The superb guitarist and composer Carlos Rafael Rivera talks with Rick and Tim about his journey from guitarist to film composer. His guitar works have been recorded by many guitarists and his film scores can be heard in the Netflix series "Godless" and the newly released "Queen's Gambit."

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