Norbert Dams, classical guitar

Saturday, June 27

8:00 pm

tickets at the door:  $12; students $5

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From Norbert's website:

Norbert Dams"As many of us way back in the sixties, I started strumming some chords on the guitar and to play pop music. Soon I fell in love with the magic of the sound of the guitar, so I studied guitar at the universities of Bremen and Berlin. Teaching is one of my passions and from 1973 - 1996 I was head of the guitar-departement of Musikschule in Walsrode. Since 1996 I've worked freelancing with the guitar for the guitar, founding my own guitar school. Opposite to many other guitar players, I started playing chamber-music before I concentrated more on solo playing many years later.  One of the combinations our guitar duo Die zwei Gitarren is still existing. Since the beginning in 1981 I am a member of the team of ZEVENER GITARRENTAGE, the oldest guitar festival in Northern Germany. 

I have performed in many European countries, either as a soloist, or in different chamber music projects.  For more than 25 years, we have worked with the guitar duo DIE ZWEI GITARREN together with Tilman Purrucker. One of my major interests is to study the music on period instruments, as the interpretation of a work gets a very fresh approach, once you change your "working tool". From time to time I also find the possibility to write music, but I don't consider myself to be a composer."

Norbert Dams has performed in many European countries. His recordings cover music from the Renaissance up to his own modern works. This concert will be performed on a period instrument and Dams will as well talk about the composers and their life and music.  Norbert, whose selflessness in promoting contemporary classical guitar music often includes some bold programming ideas, is the producer and founder of Daminus Records.

Norbert writes about the program for the concert:

Love and Tears:  Music from the Golden Age of the Classical Guitar in Paris and Vienna

Paris and Vienna were two major political, financial and cultural centers in Europe in the 19^th Century. The growing power of the middle-class due to the changes of the French Revolution (1789 - 1799) was a perfect foundation for the guitar, which turned out to be a most popular instrument among amateur musicians. They were fans of travelling virtuosos like Mauro Giuliani, Fernando Sor, Ferdinando Carulli...to mention just a few. 

The program will include works by Francesco Molino, Matteo Carcassi, Ferdinando Carulli, Anton Diabelli, Rudolf Süss, Kaspar Mertz (Vienna), Fernando Sor.