COMBO CONCERT tICKETS (friday & saturday)

Friday night tickets

Saturday night tickets

FRIDAY, JUNE 19 @ 7:30 pm

An Tran – Performer, Recording Artist, Educator
•Vietnamese guitarist, based in Chicago
•Guitar faculty at Roosevelt University of Chicago’s College of Performing Arts, the University of Illinois Chicago and Northern Illinois University
•Soundboard magazine’s list of “10 Rising Stars of Classical Guitar”
•Chicago Tribune’s list of “Recordings of the Year”
•Boston Globe: “ …subtle, graceful virtuosity”

Kithara Duo – Olga Amelkina-Vera & Fernand Vera
•Performed as duo or with symphonies throughout Europe, South America, USA
•Olga Amelkina-Vera – international award-winning composer
•Contributed to guitar duo repertoire through their transcriptions and arrangements
•Fort Worth Star Telegram: ““incandescent” and “hypnotic”
•Sarasota Herald-Tribune: “the discovery of the evening”

saturDAY, JUNE 20 @ 7:30 pm

Berta Rojas - Latin Grammy Winner, 2022 for  Legado
•3 Grammy nominations: Best Tango, Best Classical & Best Instrumental Albums
•Mesmerized audiences in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, 92^nd St Y, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, The Kennedy Center and with The Brussels Philharmonic.
•Golden Guitar Award by the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Milan
•Fellow of the Americas of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
•Associate Professor, Berklee College of Music

The Guitar Festival Orchestra
•Dr. Jay Kacherski, Conductor
•A collection of South American music chosen by Berta Rojas
•Participants – all Festival students and faculty