We're very excited to have Pablo Cohen with us this month. He is Assistant Professor at Ithaca College in Music Performance, School of Music, and Latin American Studies.
" Grand class
and enlightened emotion..."
These are the words
that Les Cahiers de la Guitare used to describe the playing of
Pablo Cohen upon his debut recital at the Salle Cortot in Paris in 1991.
"Fluid and delicate shape" wrote the Philadelphia Inquirer in reviewing
his rendering of Giuliani's Concerto for Guitar and Strings with the Concerto
Soloists Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. At his debut at the Ho-Am
Hall for Performing Arts in Seoul in 1990, the Korea Times praised
him as "one of the foremost South-American guitarists."
More recently, he
had the distinction of recording the premier of Carlos Guastavino's Jeromita
Linares with the Camerata Bariloche chamber orchestra of Argentina
for Dorian Records. Gramophone, Nov. 95 gave it "a cordial recommendation:
outstandingly fine playing of a repertoire few of us know." Cohen's transcriptions
of Chick Corea's Children Songs along with music by "third stream" composers,
represent an exciting new direction for classical guitar in the 1990s.
An engaging performer,
Cohen has participated in solo, ensemble, and orchestral concerts in the
United States, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Festival
appearances have included Philadelphia's Mozart on the Square, the Festival
Casals in Puerto Rico, the Carrefour Mondial de la Guitare in Martinique,
The Geneva International Festival, and Musickfest '95 in Betlehem, Pennsylvania.
"In short, Pablo Cohen is an outstanding classical player...the kind of
artist the festival would do well to find more often." (Morning Call,
Allentown PA).
Note: this is the second Tuesday of the month due to the Tommy Emmanuel concert in Syracuse on May 6th. See you there and bring a friend.
