Old Westbury Gardens and Poetica Musica present “Two Romantic Guitars” featuring the Anderson/Fader Guitar Duo, guitarists William Anderson and Oren Fader. The duo will perform the Spanish Dances by Enrique Granados, Duos for two lutes by John Dowland, the Grand Duo by Joseph Haydn and more.
The concert is sold out but we will live stream the performance.
Rain date is Sunday, August 23.
This concert is supported in part the IBM Matching Grant program, and the Irene Levoy Foundation.
For the past 20 years the Anderson/Fader Guitar Duo has been heard in concerts, festivals and Master Classes throughout the US, Latin America and Europe, both as a duo and as members of the award-winning Cygnus Ensemble. Guitar Review magazine noted that “Anderson and Fader are expert chamber musicians with a perfect sense of timing, virtuosity and a sensitivity to nuance.” Reviewing the Duo's premiere performance of a commissioned work by Milton Babbitt, the NY Times reported that: "His melodies leap freely around the fret board, and his rhythms are complex and perilous. Yet Mr. Anderson and Mr. Fader played the work from memory, and gave an impressive account of it." The Duo champions the work of living American composers. Now based in New York City, the Duo has performed with many presenters and organizations, most notably with James Levine and the Metropolitan Opera Chamber Players at Zankel Hall and was in residence at the Library of Congress in the winter of 2012. Ongoing residencies include the CUNY Graduate Center and Sarah Lawrence College.
