Concerts on Saturday evenings at 7:30 pm,
Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall
Master classes and workshops the following Sunday mornings at 10:00 am
A series of free concerts, on Saturday afternoons at 2:00 pm, at the beautiful Chapel Space at Good Shepherd Center, in the Wallingford area of Seattle. Plenty of free parking too!
Please join on Tuesday, November 19th, 7:00 pm, at the Phinney Neighborhood Center, Room #5, for the Seattle Classic Guitar Society 2024 Annual All-Members Meeting, featuring a performance and presentation of Stringstories, a celebration of plucked instruments from around the world, by Andre Feriante! This is free to attend, with a free parking lot on site. No pre-registration is required.
Using his own carefully curated instrument collection, Andre Feriante takes the audience on a journey through time and place with the guitar and its many relatives. Andre's presentation and performance will highlight the history of the guitar while also exploring the cultures represented by the relatives of the guitar around the world. Following the presentation will be a Q&A with Andre and a reception.
Everyone is invited to the meeting and concert, including all SCGS members as well as anyone who would like to enjoy the music and presentation, learn more about the SCGS, meet the SCGS Board members, and hear about upcoming events and future plans for the Seattle Classic Guitar Society.
For more information about the Seattle Classic Guitar Society and membership, please click here.
Location: Phinney Center Blue Building, top floor
6532 Phinney Ave N, Seattle, WA 98103
Parking lot, ADA access/elevator
Stringstories by Andre Feriante
Stringstories is a multicultural journey featuring stringed instruments from around the world.
It's a celebration of the guitar and its related instruments, ancient and modern.Some of the instruments you might hear include the tar or the setar from Persia, the Turkish oud, the zhongruan from China, the charango or ronroco from Peru/Bolivia, the harp guitar, ukuleles, the nylon stringed banjo, baroque guitar, renaissance lute, shamisen from Japan . . .
Andre composes music for these instruments, sometimes in the traditional style, sometimes approachin, the instrument in a new and modern way, improvisation is a big part of his musical expression.
Andre Feriante is originally from Italy where he studied classical and flamenco guitar. He studied with Andres Segovia in a Madrid master class in 1983. In the 1990s he began composing for guitar and has developed a signature sound blending classical, flamenco and Brazilian elements. For the past forty years he has performed full-time in the US and internationally. Andre began exploring new instruments, beyond the guitar 12 years ago. It started with the ukulele and slowly grew, not knowing it would turn into a multi-instrument production.
Using his own carefully curated instrument collection, Andre Feriante takes the audience on a journey through time and place with the guitar and its many relatives. Andre's presentation and performance will highlight the history of the guitar while also exploring the cultures represented by the relatives of the guitar around the world. Following the presentation will be a Q&A with Andre and a reception.
