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X-WR-CALNAME:Music à la Carte: Cameron O'Connor\, guitar
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DESCRIPTION:Celebrate St. Paddy's Day with a mid-day music interlude\, feat
 uring Irish ballads and more!\n\nAward-winning and acclaimed as "stunning 
 and emotive" (Eugene Register-Guard)\, Cameron O’Connor enjoys a diverse
  career in solo\, chamber\, and contemporary music. Recent and upcoming hi
 ghlights include solo and duo recitals throughout Japan\; performing as a 
 guest artist at the Loyola Marymount\, Corvallis\, Siempre la Guitarra\, a
 nd Northwest Guitar Festivals\; chamber music and opera appearances with E
 ugene Opera and musicians of the Oregon Symphony in their Classical Up Clo
 se concert series\; as a chamber music soloist at the New World Symphony i
 n Miami (for which the South Florida Classical Review noted that he was 
 “especially effective in the quick and diabolical figures”)\; appearin
 g as a guest artist and performing duos with Sharon Isbin at the Aspen Mus
 ic Festival and School\; performing with Michael Tilson Thomas and the New
  World Symphony\; and appearing under the baton of Chinese composer Tan Du
 n in his Eastern-tinged Concerto for Six\, for which the New York Times no
 ted that “O’Connor fluttered on his guitar strings in a manner reminis
 cent of a pipa player’s technique.” He is furthermore a prizewinner in
  many international competitions\, including the Frances Walton and Tokyo 
 International Guitar Competition. O'Connor has performed in a dozen musica
 l productions on electric guitar\, banjo\, and mandolin\, and in early mus
 ic settings on the vihuela and lute. He was for years a member in a top-40
 s dance band whose repertoire ranged from Journey to Beyoncé. \n\nHis pla
 ying has been featured in films\, including James Franco’s Don Quixote a
 nd Scott Tennant's instructional classic Pumping Nylon\, as well as featur
 ed on radio programs like Seattle's Classical 98.1 KingFM\,  All Classical
  Portland (including an hour-long solo feature)\, American Public Media’
 s Performance Today\, and KPFK's Global Village. His recording of Michael 
 Lee's Unmasked (written for O'Connor) was chosen for Ablaze Record's Mille
 nial Masters\, distributed by Naxos. \n\nAs a composer\, O'Connor won the 
 2019 Keene State College Call for Scores\, the "Outstanding Winner" 2nd pr
 ize at the Changsha International Guitar Festival in China\, and is a fina
 list in the 2nd Portugal International Guitar Composition Competition (of 
 whose jury Leo Brouwer is a member). The Guitar Foundation of America (GFA
 ) recently commissioned O'Connor to contribute an arrangement to their Spo
 tlight series\, which seeks to further diversify the guitar repertoire\; t
 he resulting work\, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Impromptu II\, is now publis
 hed by Les Productions d'Oz in Quebec. His writing has also appeared in th
 e pages of the GFA's publication\, Soundboard.\n\nO’Connor was a full sc
 holarship recipient at CSU Northridge\, where he studied guitar with Ron B
 orczon and lute with Ronald Purcell\; The Juilliard School in New York Cit
 y\, where he studied with Sharon Isbin\; and at the USC Thornton School of
  Music as a guitarist under William Kanengiser\, while pursuing an emphasi
 s in music theory under Bob Moore. \n\nProgram:\n\n \n\nTwo Preludes      
         (J.S. Bach)\n\nBWV 1010\n\nBWV 998\n\n \n\nIrish Ballads\n\nLondon
 derry Air         (arr. Toru Takemitsu)\n\nWild Mountain Thyme     (arr. S
 cott Tennant)\n\nFarewell                       (John Doan)\n\nSo Long    
                     (Cameron O’Connor)\n\n \n\nPostcards from Spain\n\nC
 adiz                           (Isaac Albeniz\, arr. Bream)\n\nAndante lar
 go           (Fernando Sor)\n\nHomenaje                  (Manuel de Falla)
 \n\nHabanera                   (Ernesto Halffter\, arr. Azpiazu)\n\n \n\nF
 ree\, open to all.
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LOCATION:Memorial Union Building (MU)\, Main Lounge
SUMMARY:Music à la Carte: Cameron O'Connor\, guitar
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