Volume IV Issue VI
September 2012
September Newsletter
Special points of interest:
A&M Festival
Meeting
Garvin Class
Welcome to the
Greater Houston Guitar Guild!
Featured Artist
Guitar for Sale
Inside this issue:
Guild Information
1
A&M Festival
2
Meeting
2
Guitar For Sale
2
Garvin Class
3
Featured Artist
3
Alaska Pics
4
Guitar Builders
4
We are a not for profit
club on our 4th season. Our mission is to
support up-and-coming
classical guitarists (and
the occasional flamenco performers),
local and state guitarists, and of course,
whenever a famous
guitarist comes to
Texas, we are proud to
have them come
through our small
club. We are invoking
the 19th C Salon Concert atmosphere. The
listener can hear and
see everything up close
and personal. So far,
we have managed to
cover every one of our
categories. Our fall
season will start in September with a Meeting
led by Houston guitarist, Marc Garvin. We
will have a meeting
each month and are
currently working on
finding a performance
spot in order to host a
guest artist evening
concert.
Featured Artist:
Congrats to guild member and Classical
Minds Festival Assistant, Byron Goble for
accepting a full time
job as a German
teacher at Taylor High
School. He will also be
involved in the Music
Department.
Don’t miss TX A&M’s
Festival in October!
See info inside.
Valerie Hartzell, Director
Co-Directors: Jon Erickson, Aquiles Torres, Claudio
Zangirolami
Student Assistant: Andrew Smith
[email protected]
907-231-1109
http://www.valeriehartzell.com/ghgg.cfm
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The Texas A&M University International Guitar Symposium is being held from Oct. 24-26. The impressive artist
roster this year includes the Grammy-award-winning Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, Jorge Caballero, Dr. Andrew Zohn, the
Texas Guitar Quartet, Chad Ibison and flamenco guitar virtuoso Grisha Goryachev. In addition to evening and afternoon
concerts, there will be master classes taught by all festival artists. The event will host its biennial International guitar
competition, which is open to any guitarist, regardless of age, or nationality, who is not represented by major management. Repertoire for each round is free choice and pieces may be repeated at the performer’s discretion.
PRIZES
1st Prize: $1500 – Plus a return engagement to the 2014 edition of the Texas A&M International Guitar Symposium.
2nd Prize: $750
3rd Prize: $500
4th Prize: $250
For more information about the Texas A&M University Guitar Symposium and Competition please visit the official website: http://perf.tamu.edu/news/event-listing/?event_id=63
Please direct all inquiries to Dr. Isaac Bustos, Festival and Competition Director: [email protected]
Sunday, September 30th at 5pm: MEETING
Join your fellow guitar friends at a FREE meeting where participants will have a chance to learn new warm-ups or
techniques, perform partial or whole repertoire for a super friendly audience, and socialize with each other over
drinks and food. We ask that members bring either food or drinks to share. As of now, the meeting will occur at
Aquiles Torres’ home in the Katy area. Aquiles is a Venezuelan classical guitar builder and is offering his home to
the guitar community.
We are so lucky to have local guitar professor Marc Garvin lead the class. He will start the class with a 20 minute
warm-up/technique class before members perform. Performers can ask for Marc’s comments after they perform.
Think of this as a free master class! We ask that performers keep their time to no more than 12 minutes of playing
time.
PLEASE RSVP to Aquiles Torres: [email protected] or you can call 281-829-5417
$2000.00
Kenny Hill
2009 Hauser Model - Student guitar
640MM by 50MM neck
Spruce top
Indian Rosewood side and back
Ebony fingerboard
Contact Jordan (JB) Taylor at 832-244-2408 or
email at:
[email protected]
JB lives in the Katy area.
http://www.valeriehartzell.com/ghgg.cfm
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New Guitar Course with Marc Garvin!
Full Course Starts:
Tuesday September 11, 2012 from 7:30pm-8:45pm.
Course runs for 10 sessions (with a break on September 25th) and ends on November 20th.
Location of all classes:
"Fundamentally Music" 5110 Spruce Street, Bellaire, TX 77401 (Near the corner of S. Rice and Bissonnet. In the same center as Jax Grill).
What you will learn in the course:
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Anatomical awareness to facilitate excellent guitar playing
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Fundamental exercises to improve technique and overall ability
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Basic classical guitar technique (you don't have to want to play
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classical music exclusively)
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Chord playing and rhythms
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Many styles of music will be covered.
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A maximum of 15 students in class.
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The class is for adults and teenagers 14 and older.
Total price for the course is $250 plus books and supplies (about $50 - $75).
Contact: [email protected]
Featured Artist:
Byron Goble (b. 1985) was born near Kassel, Germany which he claims as his second home.
He grew up in Sugar Land, Texas and began his formal musical training at an early age with
the violin. As a member of the Fort Bend Boys Choir of Texas, he made multiple international
concert tours and has appeared with the Houston Symphony, the English Symphony Orchestra,
and the Mexican Symphony Orchestra and has performed in honor choirs at the ACDA and
TMEA conventions. In 2000, Goble was a featured soloist at the University of Houston,
Moores School of Music Sing-a-long Concert of Carmina Burana by Carl Orff. From 20002004, he was a member of the award winning Stephen F. Austin High School Honors Band
and Drum-line.
In 2005, Byron began his study of the guitar with Valerie Hartzell. Goble is a graduate of
Texas A&M University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Music with a minor in German.
At A&M, he studied guitar with Dr. Isaac Bustos and composition with Dr. Peter Lieuwen.
Byron was a finalist and prizewinner in both the 2011 and 2008 Texas Music Festival
‘Classical Minds’ Guitar Competitions as well as the 2007 Eastfield Collegiate Guitar Competition. He has performed in master classes for renowned artists such as Pepe Romero, Adam
Holzman, Grisha Goryachev, and Bob Guthrie.
In February of 2009, Byron was invited to perform as a soloist on the opening concert of the Fourth Annual Guitar Orchestra
Workshop in Plano, Texas where he served as an assistant faculty member.
More recently, Mr. Goble conducted the premier of his work, Amazonas, which he composed for the 2012 Texas Music Festival
– ‘Classical Minds’ Youth Guitar Orchestra. Goble was also a founding member of the Texas A&M Guitar Quartet, which won
second prize at the 2010 University of Texas — Brownsville Guitar Ensemble Competition. In addition to performing and competing, Mr. Goble maintains a studio of guitar and percussion students, is the Festival Assistant to the annual ‘Classical Minds’
Festival and is a member of the Guitar Foundation of America, Mu Phi Epsilon-Professional Music Fraternity, and the Texas
Music Educators Association. Mr. Goble heads the German Department at James E. Taylor High School in Katy, Texas where
he also assists with the band and drum-line.
To contact Byron for an event or for private lessons, email at: [email protected] or call him at 832-452-7572.
Visit his web site: http://byrongoble.com/
One of the few remaining orcas from the
Valdez oil spill. Due to the chemicals of the
spill, this pod of whales cannot reproduce.
Eagle River Nature Park
Guild Members Jennifer Grassman & Jason Greenberg
have posted their Music Video of Grassman's "The Haunting" from her CD "Serpent Tales & Nightingales." To
watch the video go here:
http://youtu.be/26B_t9VAYo4
Congrats to the successful video! Enjoy!
jennifergrassman.com/fr_home.cfm
Guitar for Sale, Guitar Builders & Dealers
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Aquiles Torres from Venezuela lives in Katy, TX.
Want a custom built guitar? Now you can meet
and work with your luthier in your own town of
Houston! Aquiles is a member of The Guild of
American Luthiers. For more information on this
master builder, go to http://www.atorresguitars.com/
or email him at [email protected]
Another master builder lives in the Clear Lake area.
Michael Surrency has at LEAST a year waiting
period, so contact him soon! Michael has built
many classical and flamenco guitars for local classical guitar teachers in town including Andrea Cannon, Valdemar Phoenix, Valerie Hartzell, and many
more!
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Shadowfax Guitars, handcrafted steel string, classical, and archtop guitars by Matthew Jacobs: 917-499
-2112 or [email protected]
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Marchione Guitars, handcrafted concert classical
guitars, flamenco guitars, archtop guitars, and much
more! For more information go to: http://
www.marchione.com/
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Need a guitar? Texas Guitar Gallery has fine instruments from Costa Rica, Mexico and Europe.
Contact Claudio Zangirolami for more information:
281-578-7700 or email him at [email protected]