Javier De Los Santos Presents ‘The Classical Guitar in Jazz’

• WHAT: Javier de los Santos, classical guitar
• WHERE: Moss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall
• WHEN: Monday, March 17; 7:30 pm
• ADMISSION: $10 adults, $8 seniors, $5 students
• INFORMATION: Box Office at 970-248-1604

CMU Music Faculty Javier de los Santos will present an evening of classical
guitar music on Monday, March 17th at 7:30 pm in the Recital Hall of the Moss
Performing Arts Center. The recital will feature the Concerto for Classical
Guitar and Jazz Piano Trio, a contemporary piece written by Claude Bolling in
1975. De los Santos will be joined by fellow CMU faculty Arthur Houle, piano,
and Darin Kamstra, drums, along with Waylon Jordan, bass.

Claude Bolling is a renowned French jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and
actor. He is noted for a series of "crossover" collaborations with classical
musicians like cellist Yo Yo Ma, violinist Pinchas Zukerman, trumpeter Maurice
Andre, and the Greek/Italian classical guitarist Alexandre Lagoya for whom he
composed the Concerto for Classical Guitar and Jazz Piano Trio. Bolling
incorporates Spanish ideas into the guitar part, moving his piano in and out of
the jazz rhythms with an easy continental elegance. The unusual meter and
juxtapositions of the "Hispanic Dance" movement may remind listeners of Dave
Brubeck's famous experiments in odd meters, and the "Serenade" movement makes
delicious use of a bossa nova groove.

Javier de los Santos began his formal music studies in 1998 in Guitar
Performance under Francisco Javier Muro Guevara at the Unidad Académica de
Música de la Universidad Autóoma de Zacatecas (UAMUAZ) in the State of
Zacatecas, Mexico. In 2006, under the guidance of Mr. Eric vanDiver Nohe, Javier
earned his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Guitar Performance at CMU. Javier holds a
Master of Music Degree in Guitar Performance from the University of Denver's
Lamont School of Music studying with renowned Maestro Ricardo Iznaola.