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Join us for a pre-concert lecture in the hall at 7:15 PM with Risa Carlson, BCGS Vice President.

The Beijing Guitar Duo’s “interpretative skills and cross-cultural flair,” and their “passionate sensitivity that seems to animate the space between the notes” (Baltimore Magazine) has impressed the public since their New York debut at Carnegie Hall.

PROGRAM:

Prelude, Fugue, and Variations by Cesar Franck

Petite Suite by Claude Debussy

Dolly Suite by Gabriel Fauré

INTERMISSION

Valses Poéticos by Enrique Granados

Bajo la Palmera and Castilla by Isaac Albéniz

Tango Suite by Ástor Piazzolla

Also praised by Classical Guitar Magazine as “having the star potential to serve as inspiration for new generations of guitarists to come,” the Beijing Guitar Duo, comprised of Meng Su and Yameng Wang, has performed around the world in the most prestigious venues such as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Palau de Música in Barcelona, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, and the National Theatre in Beijing. In the 2023-2024 season alone, they will perform in New York, Philadelphia, Dallas, Fort Worth, St. Louis, Akron, and Austin, in addition to their concert and residency in Baltimore.

Their debut CD Maracaípe, received a Latin-GRAMMY nomination for the titled piece dedicated to them by Sérgio Assad. Their Bach to Tan Dun recording was highly praised for the world-premiere recording of Tan Dun’s Eight Memories in Watercolor and their recording in trio, China West, with Maestro Barrueco includes the China West Suite by renown composer Chen Yi arranged for guitar trip. This concert celebrates the release of their third duo recording with music by French composers Fauré, Ravel, Couperin, Frank, Debussy.

Artist website: BeijingGuitarDuo.com

Meng Su is the recipient of the 2022 Mary Sawyers Baker Prize for music by the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance and the William G. Baker Jr. Memorial Fund.

The Beijing Guitar Duo and Meng Su are on Maryland State Arts Council’s touring roster.

BCGS programs are supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Maryland State Arts Council, The Citizens of Baltimore County, the Arts Council of Anne Arundel County, the Augustine Foundation, the Cape Foundation, the D’Addario Foundation, the Guitar Center Music Foundation, the Nora Roberts Foundation, the Puffins Foundation, the Savarez Foundation, the William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund, creator of the Baker Artist Portfolios, www.BakerArtist.org, and individual donors and members. Thank you.

This performance and residency is supported in part by the Maryland State Arts Council touring grant. Visit them at msac.org.

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