ASHTABULA —
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church’s Great Music without Barriers fine arts series will present classical guitarist Nicholas Ciraldo in concert May 20 at 2 p.m. The concert is free and open to the public.
Nicholas Ciraldo is a leader among his generation of American classical guitarists. He has won awards and reached high levels at several prestigious solo competitions, including the Tredrez-Locquemau International Guitar Competition (France), the Gaetano Zinetti International Chamber Music Competition (Italy), the GFA Solo Guitar Competition (USA), the Portland International Guitar Competition (USA), and the MTNA Guitar Competition (USA).
Ciraldo has enjoyed numerous solo, chamber, and concerto performances throughout the United States, Europe, and South America, playing in such venues as America’s Jordan Hall, Germany’s Berliner Dom, Brazil’s Teatro José Maria Santos.
Ciraldo has collaborated with diverse performing artists, including harpist Franziska Huhn, flutist Thomas Robertello, guitarist Eliot Fisk, trumpet player Brian Shaw and the Quadrivium Guitar Quartet.
Ciraldo performs regularly with his wife, flutist Rachel Taratoot Ciraldo, in the Ciraldo Duo. Their past concert venues include the National Flute Association Convention, the Pelican State Chamber Music Series of Baton Rouge, the Christ Church of Pensacola and the Escola da musica e bellas artes do Parana, Brazil.
Ciraldo has held diverse positions with several arts organizations. He was artistic director of the Boston Classical Guitar Society, vice president of the Austin Classical Guitar Society and founder of the Hammer/Nail Project, a program that links student composers with guitarists and shows how to write for the guitar in the most idiomatic way possible. He currently serves as faculty advisor to the USM Guitar Society and chair of the guitar division for the Mississippi Music Teachers' Association.
Ciraldo holds a bachelor of music from Indiana University, where he studied with Ernesto Bitetti and Luis Zea. He also holds a master of music with performance honors from the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied with David Leisner and Eliot Fisk. He holds a doctor of musical arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied with Adam Holzman and received the Freeman Fellowship. His most recent research involved the “1928 Manuscript” of the Villa-Lobos guitar studies.
Ciraldo will be joined in the performance of one piece by local pianist, Dr. Timothy Kalil. A meet the artist reception in the Guild Room will immediately follow the concert.
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church is located at 4901 Main Ave.
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