sedona news – Chamber Music Sedona is excited to host its first concert of its 42nd season, welcoming Grammy Award-winning guitarist Jason Viau to the stage on Sunday, December 8, 2024 at 3:00 p.m. Considered “one of the elite of today’s classical guitarists” (Gramophone), Viau performs a brilliant program for solo guitar, including works by Bach, Agustín Barrios, Pat Metheny, and more. The concert will be held at the Sedona Performing Arts Center, 995 Upper Red Rock Loop Rd., Sedona, Arizona.

Described by NPR as “perhaps the most precise and soulful classical guitarist of his generation,” Jason Viaud has performed from New York’s Lincoln Center to Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw to the Seoul Arts Center and is a brilliant, uncompromisingly accomplished artist. It has solidified its reputation as a Popular for his extensive repertoire of concertos, he has performed with numerous orchestras and with several notable conductors, including the Nashville Symphony Orchestra (Leshnoff Concerto) and the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra (Biel Six Sixteen). He is making his first recording.

Viaud’s extensive discography includes Bach Volume 2: Works for Violin, released on Ajika in 2022 and praised for his “eloquent and lively playing” (Gramophone) It will be. Additional releases in 2022 include “Shining Night” (Avee Records), featuring a duo with acclaimed violinist Anne Akiko Meyers, and Michael Fine’s “Concerto” with flautist Alexa Still. Del Luna” (Sony Classical), both of which received critical acclaim. Viau recorded Pat Metheny’s solo work, “Four Paths of Light,” for Metheny’s 2021 album Road to the Sun. Jason Viau won the 2014 Best Instrumental Classical Solo Grammy Award for “Play.”

A busy touring performer, Viaud has been invited repeatedly by notable series such as San Francisco Performances, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and Chamber Music Society of Philadelphia, as well as festivals such as Ravinia, Caramoor, and Music@Menlo. . He also continues to perform and record with the Escher String Quartet, mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, and other notable artists.

In 2011, Viau co-founded the guitar department at the Curtis Institute of Music (with David Starobin). He has taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music for 25 years, and his ArtistWorks online guitar school has hundreds of subscribers from around the world. Viaud plays a guitar made by Gernot Wagner and made in Frankfurt in 2013. Click here to learn more about Jason Viau. https://jasonvieaux.com.

For more information and tickets to the concert, or to purchase a 42 subscription to Chamber Music Sedona,^n.d. season, visit https://chambermusicsedona.org.