| HUMANARTS:
Peter Clemente, Guitarist
 October,
2004—As part of the HUMANARTS series, guitarist Peter
Clemente, lecturer of music at Assumption College, will perform
on Sunday, October 17, 2004 at 2:00 p.m. in the Chapel of the Holy
Spirit.
Clemente will be performing works of Spanish and Latin American
composers in recital. The program will include solo classical guitar
works and arrangements by Manuel Ponce, Isaac Albeniz, Heitor Villa-Lobos,
Agustin Barrios, and Francisco Tarrega.
Peter Clemente was the first prize winner in both the Guitar Foundation
of America’s International Solo Competition in 1986 and the
Ovation Classical Guitar Competition in 1981. He also won second
prize in the International Guitar Competition of Puerto Rico in
1985, and was chosen by Segovia as a finalist in the Segovia Fellowship
Competition in 1984. Clemente has performed solo and chamber music
throughout New England and has completed successful concert tours
in California and the southwestern United States. He has been featured
live in concert/interview radio broadcasts on WGBH, Boston and KPFK,
Los Angeles, and in 1990, made his New York debut at Weil Hall with
soprano Katherine Emory. Clemente has been a welcome guest soloist
with many performing groups, including the Central Massachusetts
Symphony, Symphony Pro Musica and the Meliora String Quartet. He
was invited to record on the CD The Winner’s Circle,
which was released by the Guitar Foundation of America in 1994.
In 2001, Clemente released his first solo CD, entitled Serenade.
It features original compositions along with a variety of classics
and seldom-heard masterpieces.
A native of Massachusetts, Clemente studied the guitar with Richard
Provost at the Hartt School of Music, where he holds the distinction
of being the only guitarist to receive the prestigious Applied Music
Award for outstanding musical performance. Later training was with
David Leisner at New England Conservatory and with Neil Anderson
at the Boston Conservatory. Peter Clemente devotes considerable
time to teaching, and currently is on the faculties of Clark University
and Assumption College.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information
about this event, please contact Frank Corbin, director of HUMANARTS,
at 508-767-7508.
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