DATE/TIME: Friday June 22 8:00
EVENT: VCM Summer Festival of Music Guitar Concert: Adam Holzman
VENUE: Alix Goolden Hall 907 Pandora Ave
TICKETS/ADMISSION: $18
INFO: 386-5311. www.vcm.bc.ca/sga.html
LINKS: www.vcm.bc.ca
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For more than twenty years, Adam Holzman, recording artist, concert
performer, soloist and educator, has been at the forefront of a
generation of guitarists. Born in New York City in 1960 Adam began the
guitar at the age of 7 as a student of his older brother Bruce and
continued his private study with Albert Valdes Blain and Eliot Fisk. He
returned to work with his older brother Bruce Holzman at Florida State
University where he received his Musical Degrees. In addition he
studied in the master classes of Oscar Ghiglia in Siena at the Academia
Musicale de Chigiana and at the Aspen music festival. Twice he was
chosen to perform in the historic master classes of the legendary
Andres Segovia.
Adam Holzman has received rave reviews from concert critics around the
world. He as been hailed as “...polished and quite dazzling,” by The
N.Y. Times. Mr. Holzman has performed at the prestigious Concertgebouw
in Amsterdam, distinguished New York venues such as Kaufman Hall at the
92nd St. Y, Merkin Hall, and Carnegie Recital Hall as well as in music
festivals and series from Miami to San Francisco and from Boston to New
Orleans. His extensive internationalperformances have taken him
throughout Europe, Canada, Mexico, Central and Latin America.
Mr. Holzman’s recording for the Naxos label have been critically
acclaimed (see Reviews). The first two are discs of the music of
Fernando Sor and have been called “...irresistible” by Gramophone
Magazine. Vol. I and II of the music of Manuel Ponce are also now
available. Of the Sonata for Guitar and harpsichord on Ponce Volume II
Classical Guitar Magazine (England) says “It’s a fine and substantial
work and here it receives the finest recording yet...”. His recording
debut, on HRH Records, is a collection of rarely or never before
recorded selections. According to The American Record Guide this
performance is “...so flawless he makes it all sound easy.” Of his
release of The Venezuelan Waltzes of Antonio Lauro the American Record
Guide had this to say: “The landmark recording was David Russell’s 1980
LP. Now, 20 years later, comes another masterly recording by Adam
Holzman: in many ways it raises the benchmark still further.” His
newest Naxos release is the Bardenklange, Opus 13, of Johann Kaspar
Mertz.
Mr. Holzman’s commitment to new music has led him to co-commission
Samuel Adler’s First Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra. He was the
first person to perform the music of Roland Dyens in North America and
he has also premiered works by composers Robert Helps and Stephen Funk
Pearson.
Adam Holzman is founder of the Guitar Department at the University of
Texas at Austin where, in addition to his active performing career, he
heads a thriving guitar studio. From 1992-1994 Mr. Holzman held the
title of “Maestro Extraordinario” given by the Universidad Autonoma de
Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico, where he served as artist-in-residence.
In 2001, Adam Holzman was awarded the Ernst von Dohnanyi Prize for
Outstanding Achievement from Florida State University and the Robert W.
Hamilton Fine Arts Award from the University of Texas.
Subject: VCM Summer Festival - Adam Holzman, guitar 
Thu Jun 21, 2007 10:53 pm