Matthew Slotkin to Give Guitar Recital at CU-Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg, PA (10/03/2023) — Classical guitarist Matthew Slotkin will give a solo recital at Commonwealth University-Bloomsburg on Wednesday, Oct. 11, at 7 p.m. in Carver Hall, K.S. Gross Auditorium. The concert is free and open to the public.
The concert will include works by Spanish composers, including Isaac Albeniz and Manuel de Falla, and music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Francis Poulenc, and Heitor Villa-Lobos.
Director of the guitar program and associate professor of music at Commonwealth University-Bloomsburg, Slotkin has appeared in leading venues on six continents. He has given masterclasses at numerous institutions and festivals, including the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Northwestern University, Victorian College of the Arts (Australia), ESMAE (Portugal), National University of La Plata (Argentina), and the Alexandria Guitar Festival. His festival performances include concerts at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, the Walled City Music Festival, the Monadnock Music Festival, the Chautauqua Institution, the Guitar Foundation of America, and the World Saxophone Congresses in Croatia, Scotland, Thailand and Slovenia.
In addition, Slotkin has been involved in many classical guitar society concert series, including New Zealand (GANZ), Montreal, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Iowa, Northeastern Pennsylvania, and the Great Lakes. He has also been with prominent chamber ensembles, including the Atlantic Guitar Quartet, Cantata Profana, Dez Cordas, Duo Montagnard, Mallarme Chamber Players, Manhattan Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, and Metropolis Ensemble.
Slotkin has premiered numerous works by contemporary composers, including Olga Amelkina-Vera, John Anthony Lennon, Scott Lindroth, John Orfe, and many more. Soundboard magazine called him an "exceptional" player, and a recent concert review from the Classical Voice of North Carolina states that "Slotkin performed brilliantly."
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