CONTEMPORARY GUITAR CONCERTOS | GUITAR CONCERTO | CONCERTO FOR GUITAR AND ORCHESTRA
GUITAR CONCERTO
for guitar and orchestra
Duration:
21'30" minutes
Instrumentation:
Guitar solo, 2 flutes (2nd doubles Piccolo);
2 oboes (2nd doubles English horn);
2 clarinets (2nd doubles bass clarinet); 2 bassoons; 2 horns; 1 percussion; harp;
celeste; strings
Year Composed:
2010
Written For:
Luiz Mantovani
Commissioned By:
The Israel Sinfonietta Beer Sheva with funds from the Israel Ministry of culture and the Adele and John Gray Memorial Endowment Fund.
Premiere Performance:
16 October, 2010
Beer Sheva, Israel
Luiz Mantovani, guitar
Beer Sheva Sinfonietta
Doron Solomon, conductor
Program Notes:
The Guitar Concerto (2010) is the fruit of a long friendship with the Brazilian Guitarist Luiz Mantovani. As students in Boston, we frequently imagined how a new concerto for Luiz would sound. When Maestro Doron Solomon, himself an accomplished guitarist has approached me in regard to a new orchestral work for the Beer Sheva Sinfonietta, the guitar concerto idea was enthusiastically accepted.
The Concerto consists of four movements, interconnected. Few motives repeat themselves throughout the work, treated and colored differently from one movement to the other. The orchestra in a way, serves as is an extension of the guitar and not as a contrasting body.
Guitar Concerto was written for Luiz Mantovani and the Israeli Sinfonietta Beer Sheva; Doron Solomon; music director. It s commission was kindly supported by the Israel Ministry for Culture and Sport and by the Adele and John Gray Foundation.