Guitarist Gohar Vardanyan To Play At Milford Center For The Arts

Virtuoso guitarist Gohar Vardanyan returns to NEGS with a program of Spanish guitar music. Born in Armenia, she started her guitar studies with her father, before moving to the US and receiving her training at the prestigious guitar departments of the Peabody Conservatory and The Juilliard School studying with such guitar legends as Manuel Barrueco and Sharon Isbin. She has been on the cover of the Classical Guitar Magazine and performed throughout the Americas as a rising young star. Her performance at the Milford Arts Council will include virtuoso guitar music by Sor, Granados, Albeniz, Rodrigo, de Falla and Barrios. She will also give a master-class on the day of her concert at 2:00pm, at the Milford Center for the Arts.

NEGS guest guitarist series will continue on Saturday April 14, with Argentine guitarist Carlos Pavan. The season will close on Friday May 11, with its traditional fundraising concert this year featuring The Yale School of Music Guitar Department, under the direction of Benjamin Verdery. For details about the season please visit www.newenglandguitar.org.

The New England Guitar Society is established to create a nurturing environment for classical guitarists to meet, share ideas, perform, compose, teach and grow as musicians. Our goal is to increase the public interest in classical guitar, to ultimately create future players and audiences.

Gohar Vardanyan

Widely admired for her technique and artistry, Armenian guitarist Gohar Vardanyan has performed throughout the United States for numerous guitar societies, universities, and arts organizations, including the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, and guitar societies in Seattle, San Francisco, Houston, Miami, and New York City to name a few. She has appeared on National Public Radio in the United States and Radio Nacional in Argentina. Ms. Vardanyan has performed with the Juilliard Opera Center and as a soloist with the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra and Panama National Symphony Orchestra. She has also been a guest artist at the "Encuentro Internacional de Guitarra" in Panama, the Volterra Project in Italy, and the Hamilton International Guitar Festival in Canada. She has been featured on the cover of Classical Guitar Magazine. Guitar International Magazine has described her as "the complete package," "with a musicality and emotional quality . . . that one would expect from someone much older than the young wunderkind. Not only is she able to draw you into her performances with engaging musical interpretations, but she has the technical facility that is required of any concert level guitarist." Her playing has been described as "passionate," "evocative," and "virtuosic."

In addition to her performing career, Ms. Vardanyan is an avid teacher. She frequently teaches master classes and guitar technique workshops during her concert stops. Ms. Vardanyan is an author of four books from Mel Bay Publications with a fifth one of its way. She is an instructor on Strings by Mail's Lessonettes and Unexplored Repertoire Series on YouTube.

Ms. Vardanyan began studying the guitar in her native Armenia at the age of five under the careful guidance of her father, Vardan Vardanyan. At the age of eight, she gave her first public performance and also appeared on Armenian National Television. She was the first prize winner in the Armenian National Music Contest "Amadeus" and was accepted into the prestigious group, "New Names," for talented young musicians. She performed in numerous concert venues in Armenia, including Komitas Chamber Music Hall and the Small Philharmonic Hall. She went on to study with Antigoni Goni at the Pre-College Division of the JuilliardSchool. In 2001, Ms. Vardanyan studied with John Wunsch at the Interlochen Arts Academy. She was awarded the Young Artist's Certificate from Interlochen Center for the Arts and the Harold Randolph Prize in performance from the Peabody Conservatory.

Ms. Vardanyan holds a Master of Music Degree from The Juilliard School where she studied with Sharon Isbin, and a Bachelor of Music degree from the Peabody Conservatory of Music where she studied with Manuel Barrueco. She is also an alumna of the Aspen Music Festival and School.

Gohar Vardanyan is sponsored by Strings by Mail and plays on Royal Classics Recital strings.

Andrew has Suzuki and Childbloom Guitar training to teach children as young as 4. Currently, Andrew is a faculty member of the Northampton Community Music Center where he teaches Suzuki and Classical Guitar students. Andrew also uses Skype to teach guitarists from all over the world. He is the creator of the instructional video Classical Guitar for the Blues, Rock & Jazz Player available at TrueFire.com.

For tickets, go to www.milfordarts.org or call 203-878-6647, Tuesday- Friday 10-5. For more information about Gohar Vardanyan, please visit: http://www.goharvardanyan.com/.

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