June 10, 2012
Second Sundays Series: Texas Guitar Quartet
Sunday, June 10, 2012, at 4:00 PM
Co-Sponsored by New York City Classical Guitar Society and The Roger Smith Hotel
Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Avenue at East 47th Street
New York City (see map)
Tickets $15, cash only at the door. For reservations, email rogersmitharts [at] rogersmith [dot] com or call (212) 755-1400.
Forged in Austin as a graduate student group in 2005, the Texas Guitar Quartet has firmly established a reputation as the premier guitar ensemble in Texas. Members Isaac Bustos, Jonathan Dotson, Alejandro Montiel and Joseph Williams II have individually garnered acclaim and critical praise in international guitar competitions and as soloists on concert stages around the world. With their talents combined, they display a virtuosic command of the guitar quartet medium. As a group, TxGQ claimed first prize with “Special Merit” in the 2006 edition of the Brownsville Guitar Ensemble Festival and Competition, one of the few competitions of its kind in the United States. An avid supporter of Texas-based composers, the group has premiered new works by Andrew Dickinson, Alfredo Barros, and Mark Anthony Cruz, who in 2010 wrote “Agitato and Departure” for the quartet.
