2025 Jerry Snyder GuitarFest

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• 2025 Jerry Snyder GuitarFest

  • Start
    1 Mar 2025
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    10:00 AM
  • End
    2 Mar 2025
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    4:00 PM
  • Location
    Evergreen Valley High School, 3300 Quimby Road, San Jose

  
  

  
  

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  Join the South Bay Guitar Society on March 1 - 2, 2025, for the 20th anniversary of our annual Jerry Snyder GuitarFest! Experience two days of masterclasses, performances, an open mic, a luthier display, and more. For for information, please visit https://sbgs.org/2024-Jerry-Snyder-GuitarFest

  Time: Saturday-Sunday March 1-2, 2025

  Location:  Evergreen Valley High School, 3300 Quimby Road, San Jose

  
  

  
  

  Contact: 408-915-SBGS

  
  

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• Masterclass with Professor David Tanenbaum

  • When
    1 Mar 2025
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    10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Evergreen Valley High School, 3300 Quimby Road, San Jose

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  Masterclass with Professor David Tanenbaum, San Francisco Conservatory of Music

  March 1, 2025, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

  Evergreen Valley High School, 3300 Quimby Road, San Jose

  Free registration required for the performer slots. Admission to audit the class is free. Please note that a parent or guardian must accompany performers under the age of 18 at all times, including during warm-up and the class itself.

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  The South Bay Guitar Society is pleased to present a masterclass with David Tanenbaum, chair of the guitar department at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Players will perform individually and receive feedback from Professor Tanenbaum in this educational event.

  
  

   

  
  

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• Guitar Virtuoso Petra Poláčková in Concert

  • When
    1 Mar 2025
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    7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
  • Location
    Evergreen Valley High School, 3300 Quimby Road, San Jose

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   Guitar virtuoso Petra Poláčková in concert

  with a Prelude performance by Lukas Lin

  With her extraordinary musicianship and virtuosity, Petra Poláčková has performed and led masterclasses at many prestigious festivals around the world, including in Bonn, Vienna, Prague, Paris, Madrid, Jerusalem, and across Australia.  

  Since 2010 she has been an organizer of the Guitar Festival Mikulov in the Czech Republic and in 2020 released her debut recording of music by German lutenist Sylvius Leopold Weiss, recorded on a nine-string romantic guitar.

  Poláčková studied at the School of Music in Pardubice in the Czech Republic with Prof Petr Saidl and received her university degrees with Prof. Paolo Pegoraro at Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz in Austria.

  She is teaching in Austria at the Franz Schubert Music School Fürstenfeld, the Johann-Joseph-Fux Konservatorium Graz, and Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg. She performs on a historical guitar by Domingo Esteso, courtesy of Gabriele Lodi, a classical guitar by Martin Šuk, and a nine-string romantic guitar by Jan Tuláček.
  

  Prelude performer Lukas Lin

  Lukas Lin is a student of Yuri Liberzon. 

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• Masterclass with Christopher Mallett

  • When
    2 Mar 2025
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    10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Evergreen Valley High School, 3300 Quimby Road, San Jose

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  Masterclass with Christopher Mallett, California Conservatory of Music

  March 2, 2025, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

  Evergreen Valley High School, 3300 Quimby Road, San Jose

  Free registration required for the performer slots. Admission to audit the class is free. Please note that a parent or guardian must accompany performers under the age of 18 at all times, including during warm-up and the class itself.

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  The South Bay Guitar Society is pleased to present a masterclass with Christopher Mallett, co-director of the California Conservatory of Music. Players will perform individually and receive feedback from Mallett in this educational event.

  Mallett is an American classical guitarist and educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Soundboard Magazine has described him as "Virtuosic," while the St. Louis Dispatch dubbed him a "trailblazer."  

  Mallett has performed at some of the country's finest concert halls, guitar societies, and festivals, including the Kravis Center in Palm Beach, Fla., the Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis, the 92nd St. Y in New York, the annual convention of the Guitar Foundation of America (GFA) in Indianapolis, the New York Guitar Society, the Austin Guitar Society, and the Cleveland Guitar Society, among others. He also performed throughout Asia Beijing, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand.

  Mallett's ensemble Duo Noire has been called "truly pathbreaking" by AllMusic, and the duo's most recent album Night Triptych was named one of the best classical albums of 2018 by both AllMusic and I Care If You Listen. Mallett has commissioned new works by over a dozen composers including Clarice Assad, Gity Razaz, Gabriella Smith, Courtney Bryan, Javier Farias, Ray Lustig, Mary Kouyoumdjian, and others. Using period instruments, Mallett recently recorded several videos of the music of 19th century African-American classical guitarist and civil rights activist Justin Holland for the Austin Marie Guitar Collection.

  Mallett has been on the faculty of the University of California Santa Cruz since 2016 as a lecturer of classical guitar studies. He has given lectures at the Juilliard School, the New York Guitar Society, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the South Bay Guitar Society, and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. In 2019 he joined the GFA's board of trustees. Mallett is the co-founder and co-director of the California Conservatory of Music with two locations in the San Francisco Bay Area and co-founder of the Peninsula Guitar Series.

  His students have received top prizes in international guitar competitions, including the GFA's Junior and Senior youth divisions, the James Stroud Competition, the Columbus Guitar Symposium, Boston GuitarFest, Domain Forget, YoungArts National Competition, and more. Several of his students have been invited to perform on National Public Radio's music program From the Top and its Tiny Desk video concert series.

  Mallett has been featured on the cover of Soundboard magazine and in Classical Guitar magazine, the American Suzuki Journal, and Acoustic Guitar magazine. Les Productions d'Oz recently published his arrangements as part of the GFA Spotlight Series.

  Website: https://www.christophermallett.com/ 

  
  

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• Masterclass with Guitar Virtuoso Petra Poláčková

  • When
    2 Mar 2025
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    11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Evergreen Valley High School, 3300 Quimby Road, San Jose

  Registration is closed

  
  

  Performer slots for this class are full. Admission to audit is free.

  Masterclass with Guitar Virtuoso Petra Poláčková

  Location: Evergreen Valley High School, 3300 Quimby Road, San Jose

  Directions

  The South Bay Guitar Society is pleased to present a masterclass with guitar virtuoso Petra Poláčková. Four players will perform individually and receive feedback from Poláčková in this educational event.

  Registration required for the four performer slots. Admission to audit the class is free. 

   

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