Events
April 18, 2008
Philadelphia Classical Guitar Society
An Evening of Music for Voice and Guitar
Judith Bettina, soprano; James Day, guitar
Featuring the World-Premiere of New Words to You (2008)
by Eric Sessler (texts by John Ciardi)
And music by Franz Schubert, Diego Luzuriaga,
Matyas Seiber and Paul Lansky
Pre-concert discussion - 6:30pm; Concert - 8pm
Ethical Society of Philadelphia
Rittenhouse Square
Philadelphia, PA
For ticket information, please visit
Philadelphia Classical Guitar Society
Download Concert Flyer
Listen to the PCGS Podcast Interview with Eric Sessler
and James Day
Funded in part through Meet The Composer's MetLife Creative Connections program.
This project was supported by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency, through its regional arts funding partnership, Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA). State government funding for the arts depends upon annual appropriation by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. PPA is administered in this region by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. Additional support is provided by PECO.
RECENTLY RELEASED:
Night and Dreams:
Franz Schubert Lieder with Guitar
Robert Swensen, tenor
James Day, guitar
(Clear Note Publications, 2008)
Available at www.clearnote.net
Laurie Altman: On Course
Includes
Homage a Stravinsky for Instrumental Octet (2006)
performed by James Day and others
(Albany Records, 2008)
Available at www.albanyrecords.com
EARLIER THIS SEASON:
October 11, 2008 at 8pm
Faculty Recital
James Day, guitar, with special guest Judith Bettina, soprano
Paul Lansky: Preludes (2008, premerie)
James Lentini: No Boundaries (2008, premiere)
James Lentini: Westward Voyage (1999) Listen!
Diego Luzuriaga: Once Canciones (2002, selections)
Matyas Seiber: Four French Folk Songs
Mildred & Ernest E. Mayo Concert Hall
The College of New Jersey
Free Admission
Information: TCNJ Music Department; (609) 771-2551
November 9, 2008 at 3pm
Philadelphia Classical Guitar Society
Members' Concert
Including James Day performing
works by Lentini and Lansky
Settlement Music School, Philadelphia, PA
General Admission - $15; Student/Seniors - $12; Members - $10
Information: Visit www.phillyguitar.org
November 20, 2008 at 12:15pm
Conservatory at Nassau
Nancy Froysland Hoerl, soprano
James Day, guitar
Nassau Presbyterian Church, Princeton, NJ
Free Admission
Information: Visit Conservatory at Nassau
December 5, 2008 at 12pm
Art Gallery Concert
Nancy Froysland Hoerl, soprano
James Day, guitar
Free Admission
Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ
Information: Visit Rider University Art Gallery
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“Flawless!”
The News Reporter
Whiteville, NC
Bio
James M. Day is active as performer, scholar and teacher in Europe and the United States. His performances have included appearances at New York's Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center, SolarFest Performing Arts Festival in Vermont, The International Guitar and Lute Exposition in Vicenza, Italy, and St. James Piccadilly in London. His concerts have been broadcast on public television and radio in several U.S. locations, and he has received numerous awards for his performances, including a top prize in the 1995 Rantucci International Guitar Competition in Buffalo. Recent seasons include engagements in the U.S. with Harrisburg Symphony, Eastern Wind Symphony, Boheme Opera Theater of New Jersey, Car Music Project, Princeton Girl Choir, and Guitar Foundation of America International Convention in Los Angeles.
An avid promoter of new music, Dr. Day has collaborated closely with composers in the creation and performance of new solo and chamber works. His most recent collaborations include the world-premiere recording of Octet (2006) by Laurie Altman, featured in a recent recording on Albany Records (2008), and the commission of No Boundaries (2008) for solo guitar by James Lentini, funded by the Howard Hanson Institute for American Music and premiered in October 2008. World-premiere performances also include Donald J. Sparr's Guitar Quartet (BMI award 1996), Michael Kinney's Puppet Master (ASCAP award, 1999), Robert McMahon's Symbiosis for guitar and accordion (2000), Laurie Altman's Songs My Mother Taught Me (2005), and Paul Lansky's Preludes (2008). Recently, Day made the world-premiere recording of James Lentini's Westward Voyage (Winner, 2002 “Segovia” Competition, Spain) under the direction of the composer and slated for commercial release next year.
In the field of art song, Day's performances have been hailed as "very sensitive, technically and musically" by Soundboard (Journal of the Guitar Foundation of America). His recording, Night and Dreams: Franz Schubert Lieder with Guitar, with tenor Robert Swensen, was released by Clear Note Publications in August 2008. Additionally, Dr. Day has given scholarly lecture-performances on both historical and contemporary art song with guitar at Eastman School of Music, the Philadelphia Guitar Festival, College Music Society International Conference in Madrid and Northeast Conference in Princeton, the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart, Germany, and recently published an article on the subject in Soundboard.
Dr. Day received his Bachelor of Music degree at the North Carolina School of the Arts under Aaron Shearer and Gerald Klickstein, and his Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music under Nicholas Goluses. In addition, he has pursued advanced studies with Oscar Ghiglia at both the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Italy, and at Incontri chitarrstici in Gargnano, Italy. As a student he performed in master classes of some of the world’s greatest virtuosi including Pepe Romero, David Russell, Paul O’Dette, and William Kanengiser. Currently, he is Director of Guitar Studies at The College of New Jersey and Artist Faculty at Westminster Conservatory of Rider University and The Lawrenceville School. Most recently, Dr. Day held a three-month residency as guest artist teacher at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst and Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt, Germany. Currently, he lives in Morrisville, Pennsylvania with his wife, Jeremi, and children, Rhyana and Auden.
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Listen
Listen to the PCGS Podcast Interview with Eric Sessler
and James Day
James Lentini (b. 1958)
Westward Voyage (1999)
First Prize 2002 “Andrés Segovia” Composition Competition, Granada, Spain
(Studio recording under direction of the composer, 2005)
Robert Y. McMahan(b.1944)
Symbiosis for guitar and accordion (2000)
with Robert Y. McMahan, accordion
(Recorded live, in concert, City University of New York Graduate Center, December 2005)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Partita in A minor (BWV 1013), arr. J. Day
Bourée Anglaise
(Recorded live, in concert, The College of New Jersey, October 2005)
Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996)
All in Twilight (1988)
Dark
(Recorded live, in concert, The College of New Jersey, October 2005)
Frank Martin (1890-1974)
Quatre pieces brèves (1933)
Prélude
(Excerpt from James Day's compact disc recording
Modernist Masterworks for Guitar: Music of Martin,
Villa-Lobos, Ponce & Poulenc, Princeton: Minimal, 2002)
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“Terrific performance
...expressive and convincing...
beautifully done!”
James Lentini
Composer
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