Xavier Jara was born in 1993. He started playing guitar at the age of 12. At 15 he began studying with Alan Johnston at the MacPhail Center for Music in Minneapolis, MN. In 2009, Xavier won 1st place in both the Schubert Club and Thursday Musical scholarship competitions. He has played numerous recitals associated with these competitions including a concert for Dr. Paul Wirth’s “Salon se Leve” concert series. In 2011, he won 1st place in the senior division of the prestigious Guitar Foundation of America Competition, as well as 1st place in the youth division of the Indiana International Guitar Competition. Currently, Xavier studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris in the class of Olivier Chassain. At the same time, he studies privately with Judicael Perroy. Since then, he has won 1st prize in the 2012 Andrés Segovia competition in Velbert, Germany, 1st prize at the Boston Guitarfest, 1st prize at the international guitar competition of Viseu (Portugal), 1st prize at the Sinaia international guitar competition in Romania and also preformed on the american national public radio program “From the Top”.
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Program:
John Dowland (1563–1626)
Two Fantasies
I. Fancy P5
II. Fantasia P71
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Concerto No.1 in D Major, BWV 972
Based on Vivaldi’s Op.3 No. 9, Violin Concerto (Arr. J. Perroy)
I. Allegro
II. Larghetto
III. Allegro
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968)
Variations Across the Centuries, Op. 71
Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909)
Dos Piezas
I. Córdoba
II. Cataluña
INTERMISSION
Jeremy Collins (b. 1986)
Snehurka and Elegy
Graeme Koehne (b. 1956)
A Closed World of Fine Feelings of Grand Design
Stephen Goss (b. 1964)
Labyrinth
Commissioned by the Augustine Foundation
Dusan Bogdanovic (b. 1955)
Sonata 3
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PRELUDE PERFORMANCE: The Jara concert will be opened with a prelude performance by Eric Junyang Wang, age 13, a talented guitar student at the California Conservatory of Music. For the past 9 years, Eric has been studying with Robert Miller at the Conservatory. Last year he won first prize at the San Francisco Bay Guitar Festival and Competition Youth Division I, and third prize at the Guitar Foundation of America International Youth Competition Junior Division. The South Bay Guitar Society uses prelude performances of 15-20 minutes at the start of our regular concerts to introduce audiences to promising young artists from our community.