Classical Guitar Performance…

Join us on Saturday, September 22^nd at 4:00 for a performance on classical guitar by Taro Wayama and Thomas Foster.  They will be performing:

• Fly Away (2012) by Taro Wayama
• Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 (1722) by Johan Sebastian Bach

Prelude & Fugue 1 (1685-1750)

• from Chords & Thyme English Folksongs arr. Edward Flower

Barbara Allen

The Death of Queen Jane

My Last Farewell to Stirling

• Summertime (1935) by George Gershwin (1898-1937) arr. Toru Takemitsu
• Sonatina Transatlantique (1930) by Alexandre. Tansman (1897-1986) arr. James Smith                                           

Fox-Trot                                                                                                   

Spiritual/ Blues                                                                                   

Charleston

• Tonadilla (1959) by Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999)
• The Fool on the Hill by The Beatles arr. Leo Brouwer

Let me let them tell you a little bit about themselves --->

Taro Wayama is a Japanese born guitarist/composer. He is a winner of numerous competitions such as 1st place in the 2003 Aron Green/American String Teachers Association Guitar Competition and 2nd place in the Thailand International Guitar Competition. 

As a composer he received “Best Original Score” at the Los Angeles Movie Awards for an independent film, “Anne Jennings”. 

Taro is an active soloist and a chamber musician. He has performed in Japan, Thailand, Canada, and the US. He frequently collaborates with clarinet, flute and voice performing music from Renaissance through 20th Century and Folk/World music. 

Taro holds Masters and Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Southern California, where he studied with Pepe Romero, William Kannengiser, James Smith, Brian Head and Scott Tennant.

He has performed in number masterclasses by great guitarists such as Pepe Romero, David Leisner, Scott Tennant, Benjamin Verdery, Dusan Bogdanvic, Fabio Zanon, and William Kanengiser.

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Thomas Foster is a long time student of world-renowned guitar pedagogue Aaron Shearer. He holds a Bachelor of Music from the North Carolina School of the Arts and Master of Music from Appalachian University. He received his Suzuki certification under the tutelage of William Kossler and has developed a special guitar curriculum for children that is aligned with California State Educational Standards. 

Thomas has performed in master classes throughout the U.S. with Pepe Romero, David Russell, Assad Brothers, Ricardo Cobo, John Holmquist, Steve Arron, David Leisner, and Dusan Bogdanovic just to name a few. He has studied world music and jazz with Miroslav Tadic, David Oaks, Richard Smith, and Adam Del Monte. Recently he was one of four players selected to perform for John Williams at the Merida, Mexico Guitar Festival in 2004. 

Currently, he is completing his doctorate as a student of Prof. James Smith at the University of Southern California, Thornton School of Music. He has pursued doctoral minors in the areas of theory and ethnomusicology and has studied performance with the Pepe Romero, Scott Tennant and Bill Kannengiser.