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KSU Faculty Guest Recital:

Matthew Dunne, guitar

Wednesday, March 14, 20128:00 pm

Dr. Bobbie Bailey & Family Performance CenterPerformance Hall

Seventieth Concert of the 2011-2012 Season

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Program

Twenty Miniatures for Guitar Matthew Dunne

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FromJazz Etudes for Guitar Matthew Dunne

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3 (ballad)6 (blues)

9 (for Roland Dyens)

Matthew Dunne guitar and composer

Matthew Dunne, guitarist and composer, was the 2008 winner of the Tobin Grand Prize forArtistic Excellence from the Artist Foundation of San Antonio. He has performed and taughtthroughout the United States and Mexico in both the c lassical and jazz genres. The San Antonio

Express News has called his playing beautiful...elegant, well crafted and sophisticated Hereceived the DMA degree in guitar performance, jazz emphasis, from The University of Texasat Austin, the first guitarist to receive this degree, and the MM degree from Florida State

University. Since 1992, he has been on the music faculty of the University of Texas at SanAntonio. He is a frequent collaborator with the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, having composedmusic for three consecutive LAGQ CDs on Telarc, including the GRAMMY winning Guitar

Heroes. William Kanengiser has recorded several of hisJazz Etudes on his GSP recordingClassical Cool, and more recently The Cavatina Duo recorded his compositionEleno, Kerko

Eleno on their Cedille CD The Balkan Project. He also composed the set piece for the 2005

Guitar Foundation of America Competition,Appalachian Summer, which has since beenrecorded on Naxos by the GFA winner Jerome Ducharme. Matthew has recorded three CDs;

Forget the Alamo, a collection of his compositions for jazz quintet;Music in the Mission, a

classical guitar CD recorded in Mission San Jose,; and The Accidental Trio, with jazz vocalistJoan Carroll and accordionist Mark Rubinstein, Matthew directed the Southwest Guitar Festivalin San Antonio biennially from 1995-2009. This festival has included collaborative projects

with many arts organizations in San Antonio, including the commission and world premiere ofSergio AssadsInterchange for Guitar Quartet and Orchestra, and has garnered considerablecritical acclaim and international recognition.

Program notes

I composed the Twenty Miniatures for Guitarin the summer and fall of 2009, as a result ofwinning a grant from the Artist Foundation of San Antonio. Most of my prior works for guitarwere commissioned by virtuoso performers and ensembles. Consequently, I wanted to write

some music that many guitarists could play, including serious students, as well as professionals.

My inspiration for this work has been the few sets of very high quality short compositions forguitar composed in the 20th century, especially the 24 Preludesby Manuel M. Ponce and the 20

Estudios Sencillosby Leo Brouwer.

As it turned out, theMiniatures are a little longer and possibly more technically challenging

than either the Ponce or Brouwer short pieces. I found it invigorating to try to write short,accessible pieces that have musical depth and focus, The compositional style of theMiniaturesreflects my jazz influences, interest in harmonic development, and admiration for implied

counterpoint. I have tried to stay quite focused with regards to textural and rhythmic settings,relying on those to provide continuity while allowing melodic and harmonic development to

provide variety. There are bits of milonga, jazz waltz, folk music, even a touch of celticinfluence. The set concludes with a theme and four variations, which explore differing moods

on the same harmonic form.

TheJazz Etudes for Guitarwere among my first compositions for classical guitar and formed

the basis for my doctoral treatise. They are intended to be stylistic explorations of various a reasof jazz, many in which the guitar has played a significant role, and a re loosely in chronological(historical) order from ragtime to pieces dedicated to contemporary guitarist/ composers who

are likewise influenced by jazz.

#2 begins with an excerpt from a Django Reinhardt solo guitar composition simply titled

Improvisation that I transcribed from one of his recordings. I then composed a tune typical of1930s era jazz based loosely on the Reinhardt composition. #3 is a very typical AABA formballad and uses some common chord progressions found in the works of any number of

American popular song composers whos works have become jazz standards. However, mytextural and harmonic embellishments are a little less typical. #6 is a blues with a fewchoruses or variations. Jazz musicians are often most adventurous in the more common forms

and settings like the blues, and my piece does have a few unusual turns, as well as some familiarmotives. #9 is dedicated to Roland Dyens, combining an improvisatory opening section with aBrazilian influenced tune and some overtly guitaristic writing not unlike something Roland

might have included in his own wonderfully imaginative compositions.

The Twenty Miniatures for Guitar(book/CD combo) andJazz Etudes for Guitarare

published by GSP Publications in San Francisco.

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