Anthony Glise on Guitar

MONTHLY MASTERCLASS
AT CAFE ACOUSTIC (ST. JOSEPH, MO)
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
PRESS RELEASE IS BELOW — PLEASE PASS ALONG THE INFORMATION

Free Guitar Masterclass
Café Acoustic (2605 Frederick Ave., St. Joseph, MO)
Date: Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Time: 8:00 PM – Close
Professors: Jason Riley, Anthony Glise (Missouri Western Guitar Professors-BIOS BELOW)
Performers: Missouri Western Guitar Majors -
Free coaching also open to local guitarists (bring your own guitar)
Sponsor: Café Acoustic and the St. Joseph International Guitar Festival & Competition
Contact: Café Acoustic: (816) 671-1141
Missouri Western Music Department: (816)271-4420

The public is invited to this season’s second free Guitar Masterclass at Café Acoustic, 2605 Frederick Ave., Wednesday, October 18, beginning at 8:00 PM to close, featuring guitar majors from the music department at Missouri Western State University, sponsor of the St. Joseph International Guitar Festival & Competition (May 15-20, ‘07).

In addition, local guitarists are invited to bring their guitars and receive a free coaching from the Missouri Western guitar faculty. All ages and musical styles are welcome.

The Masterclass will be taught by Jason Riley (head of the commercial guitar program) and Anthony Glise (head of the classical guitar program), who is the 2006 recipient of the Missouri Arts Council’s award as “Individual Artist of the Year,” presented at the State Capital by Governor Matt Blunt.

A Masterclass is an open music lesson where students perform for an audience and are then coached in front of the audience by a professor on various musical subjects including technique, stage presence, anatomy, historical performance practice and musicianship as well as discussions on career development, management, recording and publishing contracts, etc.

The Masterclasses are planned on a monthly basis at Café Acoustic and each Masterclass offers the public a chance to hear upper-level guitar students and watch the coaching process.

These free public Masterclasses are part of the community outreach program of the St. Joseph International Guitar Festival and Competition.

In it’s fifth year, the St. Joseph International Guitar Festival is one of the largest and most respected guitar festivals in the US and has previously featured some of the world’s leading guitarists from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Costa Rica, Cyprus, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Malaysia, Nicaragua, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Uruguay and throughout the US. (see: http://www.MissouriWestern.edu/guitarfestival/).

Commercial endorsement for the festival competition prizes include support from Marshall Amplification (London), Wegen Picks (Holland), Fondazione Araniti (Italy) and US firms, Mel Bay Publications, LaBella Strings, Ransomed Productions and Audio Technica Microphones.

For information about the free Masterclass, contact Café Acoustic at (816) 671-1141.

Information about the Missouri Western Guitar Program is available from the MoWest Music Office, 271-4420.

For Information about the free Masterclass and Professors, see:
http://www.cafe-acoustic.com/
http://www.AnthonyGlise.com/
http://www.JasonRiley.com/

Dear Friends,
As many of you know, I am a spokesperson and enthusiastic supporter of the Missouri division of Volunteer Lawyers & Accountants for the Arts (VLAA) with whom I have had nothing but positive experiences for nearly 10 years.

I wanted to pass along information that (thanks to VLAA initiative and the support of various funding organizations) VLAA is offering a series of career development seminars for musicians, artists, etc., during October and November for only $10 per session.

The seminars are in St. Louis, but if enough of us from Northwest Missouri are interested in attending I’m sure we can arrange car pools, overnight group rates at a motel – whatever is necessary to get artists from NW Missouri to these seminars.

VLAA consists of some of the top professionals in the business who have a sincere commitment and unparalleled expertise in the legal, commercial and developmental aspects of the arts – areas where we artists are often terrifyingly underdeveloped and areas that are virtually never addressed at other “fluff” conferences that cost infinitely more and offer infinitely less.

If you have any intention of developing an active AND lucrative career in the arts, I would strongly suggest that you consider attending these seminars! Attached is a PDF regarding the seminars. Please feel free to forward this information to anyone else you think would be interested and feel free to call me at home in the US if you have any questions.

Sincerely,
Anthony

VLAA Seminar Information (PDF)

American-born classical guitarist, composer and author, Anthony GLISE has just signed a recording contract with AME records in France.

The record deal is for 3 CDs to be released during the 2006-07 season with an option for additional CDs in subsequent concert seasons including solo, chamber and concerto discs.

The first CD is slated for release this December and is titled “Virtuoso Variations for Guitar.” The CD features compositions from the Renaissance through the 21st-Century including a new recording of Glise’s own “Variations on Folias d’España” which is highlighted (along with free MP3 soundbites) on the Dutch website:
La Folia – A Musical Cathedral

The second CD, to be released in April, 2007, is being recorded in Lyon, France by Glise with noted British tenor, Timothy Watson. That recording features various 19th-Century Viennese works for voice and guitar performed by Glise on a period Johann Georg Staufer guitar built in 1828 – one of only 7 of this type of Staufer guitars known to exist. A majority of these compositions had been lost but were recently discovered by Glise at various State Archives in Vienna, Austria.

Glise had been bound by a highly restrictive record contract with a New York label for the past 10 years and with the lapse of that contract, his recording output is expected to surge dramatically over the next several years.