Jason Vieaux to Perform at Bridgehampton Music Festival

Celebrated guitarist Jason Vieaux will join flautist Marya Martin, violinists Frank Huang and Ani Kavafian, violist Ettore Causa, cellist Clive Greensmith, pianist Shai Wosner, percussionist Ayono Kataoka, and mezzo-soprano Rachel Calloway for an evening of chamber music on Wednesday, August 14 at 7:30pm, part of theBridgehampton Chamber Music Festival. Vieaux, described as "among the elite of today's classical guitarists." (Gramophone), will be opening the concert with selections from Robert Beaser's Grammy-nominated Mountain Songs for Flute and Guitar. The piece consists of eight songs based on traditional Appalachian folk melodies, modifying their modal-tonal structures and rhythms but never varying too far from the original source.

The rest of the program will include Prokofiev's Sonata for Two Violins, a modernist work that explores interweaving melodies, Fauré's Piano Quartet No. 1, and two works of vocal chamber music: Brahms's Zwei Gesänge for mezzo-soprano with viola and piano, and George Crumb's Night of the Four Moons, inspired by the Apollo 11 moon expedition in 1969.

About guitarist Jason Vieaux:
Guitarist Jason Vieaux is expanding the definition of what it means to be a classical guitarist and changing the face of guitar repertoire, building a devoted audience and fan base along the way. Vieaux is a musician noted for virtuosic and stirring performances, imaginative programming, and uncommon communicative gifts. He has performed as concerto soloist with over 50 orchestras, including Cleveland, San Diego, Ft. Worth, Santa Fe, Charlotte, Buffalo, Grand Rapids, Kitchener-Waterloo, Richmond, Chautauqua Festival, and Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. His solo recitals have been featured at every major guitar series in North America, as well as many of the important guitar festivals in Asia, Australia, Europe, and Mexico. Vieaux's appearances for Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Music@Menlo, Strings Music Festival, Grand Teton Festival, and the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players have forged his reputation as a first-rate chamber musician and programmer. And his passion for new music has fostered premieres of works by Dan Visconti, David Ludwig, Jerod Tate, Eric Sessler, José Luis Merlin and Gary Schocker.

In the fall of 2011, Jason Vieaux inaugurated The Curtis Institute of Music Guitar Department with guitarist David Starobin, and he has been Head of the Guitar Department of the Cleveland Institute of Music since 2001, a position he continues to hold. He is also affiliated with Philadelphia's Astral Artists, with which he gives annual outreach concerts. In June 2012, Jason Vieaux launched the Jason Vieaux Classical Guitar School from ArtistWorks. This revolutionary online school, the first of its kind for classical guitar, gives students of any age, ability, or location an unprecedented level of access to studies with Vieaux through ArtistWorks' Video ExchangeTM accelerated learning platform. For more information, visit www.jasonvieauxschool.com.

Jason Vieaux continues to bring important repertoire alive in the recording studio. A new Azica Records album of solo guitar encores is planned for a 2013 release. Among his 11 commercial albums is an Azica disc of Astor Piazzolla's music with Julien Labro and A Far Cry Chamber Orchestra. Bach: Works for Lute, Vol.1 hit No. 13 on Billboard's Classical Chart after its first week and received rave reviews by Gramophone, The Absolute Sound, and Soundboard. Images of Metheny features music by American jazz legend Pat Metheny, who, after hearing this landmark recording, declared: "I am flattered to be included in Jason's musical world." Sevilla: The Music of Isaac Albeniz made several Top Ten lists the year of its release. Vieaux's albums and live performances are regularly heard on radio stations across the country, and his work is the subject of feature articles in print and online around the world every year, including in such magazines asAcoustic Guitar, MUSO, and Gramophone, and on NPR's "Deceptive Cadence" music blog.

Vieaux is a member of the Advisory Board of the Guitar Foundation of America (GFA). His primary teachers were Jeremy Sparks and John Holmquist. In 1992 he was awarded the prestigious GFA International Guitar Competition 1st Prize, the event's youngest winner ever. He is also honored with a Naumburg Foundation top prize, a Cleveland Institute of Music Alumni Achievement Award, and a Salon di Virtuosi Career Grant. In 1995, Vieaux was an Artistic Ambassador of the US to Southeast Asia, concertizing in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, India, Bangladesh, Myannmar, and Nepal. Jason Vieaux is represented by Jonathan Wentworth Associates, Ltd. For more information, visit www.jasonvieaux.com.

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