Guitar Quartet performs classics and Beatles

The Fredonia Guitar Quartet will perform music by the Beatles as well as classic fare at its next performance on Thursday, April 13 at 8 p.m. in the Juliet J. Rosch Recital Hall. Admission is free and open to the public.

The concert will include “Five Renaissance Pieces,” featuring a trio of Claude Gervaise selections as well as works by Nicolaus Ammerbach and Pierre Passereau; the andante portion of Haydn’s “Sinfonia No. 1;” Leo Brouwer’s “Tocatta;” arrangements of such well-known Beatle songs as “She Said, She Said,” “In My Life,” “Taxman” and “Norwegian Wood;” and Joaquin Turina’s “Seguidilla,” “Invocacion” and “Zambra.”

The Guitar Quartet is composed of SUNY Fredonia students David Kluge (senior, music education; from Penfield, N.Y.), Eric Pearson (senior, music education; from Jamestown, N.Y.),  Aaron Stadler (junior, music performance; from Rochester, N.Y.), and John Hausmann (senior, music education; from Erie, Penn.).

SUNY Fredonia Professor of Guitar James Piorkowski (read more about him) is director of the quartet.

Read more about the Fredonia School of Music student ensembles.