We invite you to join us for our Noon Concert Series held every Wednesday at Noon. Concerts last approximately an hour and we present many talented Bay Area performers in an intimate setting.
Wednesday, December 2 Noon Concert featuring Ryder Fitzpatrick, Classical Guitar
Program (there will be a 5 minute intermission)
Preludio De Adios……………….Alfonso Montes (b. 1955)
El Ultimo Tremolo………………….Agustin Barrios (1885-1944)
K. 27……………………………..Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Capricho Arabe…………………..Francisco Tarrega (1852-1909)
Torre Bermeja…………………….Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909)
~Intermission~
Macedonian Girl………………………Miroslav Tadic(b. 1959)
Natalia
Maria Carolina
Maria Luisa……………………………Antonio Lauro (1917-1986)
Introduction and Rondo……………Dionisio Aguado (1784-1849)
Los Caujiritos………………………..Ignacio Figueredo (1899-1995)
Ryder Fitzpatrick is a classical, Latin American and flamenco guitarist passionately devoted to the art of music. A seasoned and gifted performer; Ryder brings style, grace and artistry to his dynamic and lyrical performances. Raised in Santa Barbara, California by a musical and artistic family, his love of music began at an early age in his father’s sound studio. Ryder has grown up on the stage as a classically trained ballet dancer, performing from age 9 on. He began studying guitar as a complement to his dance musicality in grade school, quickly becoming a serious student by his early teens. Ryder studied with guitar professor William Redman at Santa Barbara CIty College for several years while preparing to transfer to university.
Ryder is currently a graduate student at the San Francisco Conservatory of music where he studies under a performance scholarship with guitar virtuoso Marc Teicholtz. In 2015 he graduated with a B.M. in Classical Guitar Performance from California State University of Northridge where he studied with John Dearman of the internationally renowned Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. While at CSU Northridge he was selected to receive the Richard Denner Memorial Scholarship, the Andres Segovia Endowment Scholarship and took first place in the Randy Rhoads Memorial Guitar Competition. When not practicing or performing, Ryder enjoys Argentine tango among other styles of dance as well as art, film and live performance entertainment.
Some of our past performers have been:
Ray Capiral, pianist, composer and teacher, graduated from University of California, Los Angeles, in 2009. He enjoyed an active career as a private teacher and gigging musician in L.A. for ten years before moving north, and has now resided in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2011. Currently, Mr. Capiral serves as the music director at Open Door United Methodist Church (Richmond) and pianist and organist at Mira Vista United Church of Christ (El Cerrito), and enjoys part-time work at Avenue Yarns in Albany. Between knitting, spinning at his spinning wheel, and playing the piano, one can assume Mr. Capiral is likely taking in the sights at Land’s End, wandering around Angel Island, or fantasizing about snowboarding in Tahoe.
Eric is a graduate of Stanford University and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. During his studies, he was the winner of the concerto competitions of both institutions. In 2013, he was awarded the prestigious Robert M. Golden Medal for outstanding contributions to the arts. As a composer, he won the Pacific Musical Society Composition Prize 2014, and his sets of children’s music have been programmed for over six years on the syllabus of the US Open Music Competition. His music has been performed by the St. Lawrence String Quartet, the Friction Quartet, his generous friends, and his adorable piano students.Eric also comprises one half of the notorious “Happy Dog” piano duo, with his piano partner, Nathan Cheung. For over a decade, they have performed four-hands originals, transcriptions, and classics alike with a focus on bringing humor and joy to the classical music world. In his spare time, he enjoys a good game of Go.
Taija Warbelow, originally from Fairbanks, Alaska, is the violist in the Bay Area based Friction Quartet. She studied at the Juilliard Pre-College with Toby Appel and at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with Jodi Levitz. Though bios are a necessary part of being a performer, she feels they are impersonal and would prefer for audiences to get to know her through her playing and by talking to her after the performance.
Bassist Eugene Theriault is a born and raised San Francisco native. He graduated with a B.M. from the Oberlin Conservatory and an M.M. from the San Francisco Conservatory, where he studied with Scott Haigh and Steve Tramontozzi, respectively. The performance of new music has been a part of his life since high school and he continues to be a strong supporter of contemporary music, performing most recently with the San Francisco Conservatory’s New Music Ensemble, Opera Parallele, and the Berkeley Symphony. He currently works as a freelance performer and teacher in the Bay Area, and enjoys playing a wide range of musics.
