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Saturday, May 22

Austin Classical Guitar: 30th Season Finale

By KMFA 89.5, Staff Submission.

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AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR PRESENTS

UPCLOSE ONLINE: 30TH SEASON FINALE

Featuring Texas Guitar Quartet, Virtual Guitar Orchestra, Ex-Aequo, and Young Guitarists from Across Texas.

Saturday, May 22 at 8:00 p.m. | Online Concert

Austin Classical Guitar's 30th season finale is an energetic celebration of Spring. An orchestra of young guitarists from all over Texas will premiere new arrangements by living Black American composers. The Texas Guitar Quartet, long-time collaborators on some of ACG’s most ambitious projects (Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lodger, Persona, i/we, dream and together), will be dazzling live from the AISD Performing Arts Center.

ACG’s 30th season finale is created in collaboration with Ex-Aequo, Virtual Guitar Orchestra, and The Augustine Foundation.

The concert is free when you RSVP in advance, but donations to Austin Classical Guitar are welcome. You will receive a link to watch, plus a reminder and concert program in the days before the live stream begins.

RSVP HERE

Event Details

Ticket Information

  • Cost: FREE

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. Today, GuitarCurriculum.com and the teaching resources that accompany it are being used by hundreds of teachers throughout Texas and beyond, and ACG Education’s success in Austin schools is serving as a model for other communities around the world.

    In recent years, ACG’s services have expanded to include innovative education programs for Travis County youth who are incarcerated or on probation, as well as braille-adapted instruction for students at Texas School for the Blind & Visually Impaired. Through a partnership with Carnegie Hall, ACG offers the Lullaby Project, an arts intervention for new and expecting mothers facing economic, social and psychological challenges.

    With its groundbreaking education and social services, world-class concert presentations, a commitment to equity and inclusion in all of its programming, and the generous investment of thousands of supporters, ACG will continue to grow and pursue its mission to inspire all the people it serves with musical experiences of deep personal significance.