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Guitar Master Class with Rene Izquierdo

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Join us for a master class with award-winning guitarist and teacher Rene Izquierdo.

Tickets:
$25 to perform are SOLD OUT. Email to add yourself to the wait list


$10 to observe


Rene Izquierdo, a native of Cuba, graduated from the Guillermo Tomas, Amadeo Roldan Conservatory and Superior Institute of Art in Havana. In the United States, Mr. Izquierdo earned a Master of Music and an Artist Diploma degrees from the Yale University School of Music, where he studied with Benjamin Verdery. While at Yale he represented the university in an exchange program with the Conservatoire National de Musique et de Danse du Paris and worked with guitarists Olivie Chassain and Roland Dyens. Rene has appeared as a guest soloist and in chamber music concerts throughout the United States, Cuba and Europe. He has shared the stage with prestigious guitarists including Eliot Fisk, Benjamin Verdery and Jorge Morel, as well as renowned flutist Ransom Wilson, soprano Lucy Shelton, David Jolley and Paquito d’Rivera. Renowned composers such as Jorge Morel and Carlos R. Rivera have dedicated works to him.

Mr. Izquierdo is a recipient of numerous awards. He is a winner of the 2014 JoAnn Falletta International Guitar Competition, the Extremadura International Guitar Competition, the Schadt String competition, and the Stotsenberg International Guitar Competition, among others.

He is currently a professor of classical guitar at the Wisconsin State University in Milwaukee and an active solo performer and chamber musician.

Earlier Event: February 18
The New Lute Café—¡Escuche!
Later Event: March 11
Coffee Concert—Roads to Bach