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Saturday, February 18 | 8:00 p.m. | AISD Performing Arts Center

HOME is the heart of our season. 

It is a celebration of nature, spirit and togetherness and features the premiere of THE ELEMENTS, a monumental new work created especially for our community by composer and guitarist Marek Pasieczny, ACG’s Artist-in-Residence.

Marek will be joined by the outrageously talented percussionist Thomas Burritt and Grammy-nominated cellist Bion Tsang as well as a massive orchestra of guitarists led by ACG’s Artistic Director Joe Williams with video projections by photographer Barry Stone.

In partnership with AISD performing arts, this performance will feature guitar students from Bedichek Middle School and Akins High School, the ACG Youth Orchestra and Chamber Ensemble, and young artists from UT Austin, UT San Antonio, and UT Rio Grande Valley.

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Event Details

• Date: Saturday, February 18, 2023
• Time: 8:00 P.M.
• Venue: AISD Performing Arts Center
• Website: https://www.austinclassicalguitar.org/event/acg-originals-home-with-marek-pasieczny-bion-tsang-thomas-burritt-guitar-orchestra/?event=31758

Ticket Information

• Cost: $15.00 - $75.00

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. Twenty 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.

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