About

Kazuhito Yamashita first rose to international stardom performing entire symphonic works on solo guitar, redefining what’s possible on the instrument. Experience one of the great masters of guitar in the intimate Blanton Auditorium as he performs Castelnuovo-Tedesco's '24 Caprichos de Goya', pieces composed in response to a stirring collection of etchings by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya.

Event Details

• Date: November 11, 2018
• Time: 4:00 p.m.
• Venue: Blanton Museum of Art
• Website: https://www.austinclassicalguitar.org/tickets/international_series/

Ticket Information

• Cost: $10-65
• Phone: (512) 300-2247

Presenter Details

• Name: Austin Classical Guitar

Austin Classical Guitar (ACG) is the leading nonprofit organization dedicated to classical guitar in the United States. Founded in 1990, ACG currently presents close to 100 concerts annually through several diverse series, showcasing the world’s greatest guitarists along with local and regional talent, in performances reaching over 10,000 audience members each year. ACG also promotes lifelong learning in the arts through enrichment classes, adult community ensembles, the highly-acclaimed ACG Youth Orchestra, and beginning guitar classes.
At the heart of the organization’s mission is ACG Education, a program that was launched in 2001 in an effort to improve the quality of classroom-based guitar instruction in Austin schools. Seventeen years later, ACG’s education team is supporting for-credit guitar programs they have built in nearly 60 elementary, middle, and high schools throughout the Austin area, bringing high-quality, long-term arts education to nearly 4,000 students each week. The flexibility and comprehensiveness of ACG’s curriculum, which was published online in 2004 at GuitarCurriculum.com, has shown classical guitar to be a uniquely effective and engaging solution for under-resourced schools struggling to provide high-quality arts education for their students.

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