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KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – Popular classical guitarist David Burgess, just back from a seven-city European concert tour, will make his second concert appearance in Lake County on Sunday, Feb. 12.
The concert, presented by Clear Lake Performing Arts, will take place beginning at 3 p.m. at Galilee Lutheran Church on Soda Bay Road in Kelseyville.
In his last appearance here more than a dozen years ago, Burgess brought down the house with his polished technique and flamboyant style and his folksy narratives about his choice of music – especially the music of Spain and Latin America, with particular emphasis on Brazil.
Now a resident of North Carolina, he has since performed around the world to universal acclaim, as well as recording for CBS Masterworks, the Musical Heritage Society, Tritone and Athena Records.
A former student of all-time guitar master the late Andres Segovia, he has won prizes in major competitions in New York, Mexico City, Toronto and Munich.
Since he has spent much of the last decade in Brazil rediscovering guitar music from that nation's past, his program will be weighted toward compositions from some of its finest composers and guitarists including Garoto, who appeared with Carmen Miranda, and also became a favorite of such musical luminaries as Duke Ellington and Art Tatum.
Others are Raphael Rabello, who recorded with virtually every major Brazilian artist of the late 20th century, and Yamandu Costa, who is recognized as today's finest Brazilian guitarist, as well as the late Antonio Carlos Jobim, the best-known composer of Bossa Nova.
Burgess has an encyclopedic knowledge of the guitar, from its earliest inventions in medieval Spain to the present, and shares that knowledge with his audiences, especially guitarists and students of guitar.
Youthful players in particular can always count on answers to their questions about the instrument – made especially easy at the CLPA-sponsored concert where youths under 18 are admitted free.
General public admission is $25, while CLPA members are $20.
Membership forms will be available at the door, with discounted admission applicable to the Burgess performance.
Most CLPA concerts take place at Lakeport's Soper-Reese Community Theatre, but a conflict in performance dates required changing to another venue, with the Galilee Church graciously offering their picturesque facility.
The church is located at 8860 Soda Bay Road, just half a mile south of the former Konocti Harbor Resort.
CLPA President Ed Bublitz urged those planning to attend to arrive a little early, to assure best seating, since space is limited. and seats are assigned on a first-come, first-served basis.
