Festival Schedule
Sponsored by:
The Augustine
Foundation
The D'Addario Foundation for the
Performing Arts
Guitar Center
John P. McGrath Fund, Long Island
University
Past Festival Web sites:
Guitar Festival '98
Guitar
Festival '97
Guitar Festival '96
For information on master classes, workshops and
tickets, contact the C.W. Post Music Department at (516) 299-2475 or
post-music@liu.edu
David Starobin
David Starobin's career as guitarist, producer of sound recordings, and educator, has earned the native New Yorker prominence in the world of classical music. A leading advocate of contemporary music, Starobin was awarded Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Career Prize and was honored by Harvard University's Fromm Foundation for "his commitment to the music of our time". In Spring, 1999, he will be the recipient of the Peabody Conservatory Distinguished Alumnus Award. During the past 25 years, more than 300 works have been composed for and dedicated to Starobin, a body of work which has virtually re-defined the repertoire of the late twentieth century guitarist. Among the long list of composers who have written for Starobin are Elliott Carter, George Crumb, Poul Ruders, Mel Powell, Jonathan Harvey, Robert Saxton, Barbara Kolb, Richard Wernick, Roger Reynolds, Gunther Schuller, Milton Babbitt, Per Nørgård, Lukas Foss, and Mario Davidovsky.
David Starobin founded Bridge Records, Inc. in 1981, and with his wife, Becky Starobin, has overseen the production of a critically acclaimed catalog of compact disc releases. Writing of his motivation for founding Bridge, Starobin cites "the need to create a wide-ranging forum for repertoire and performance... a home for the exceptionally interesting and challenging personality - performer and composer alike." In addition to producing new recordings for Bridge, Starobin has been co-producer of the award-winning series of historical recordings - "Great Performances from The Library of Congress".
David Starobin began his guitar studies at age 7, with Manuel Gayol, and later went on to study with Albert Valdes Blain and Aaron Shearer. Graduating from the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, MD. Mr. Starobin is currently the chairman of the guitar department at the Manhattan School of Music, and is the holder of MSM's Andres Segovia chair. David Starobin's latest solo CD is the recently released Newdance (BRIDGE 9084), a disc of dance pieces composed for Starobin by 18 composers.
Bridge Records, Inc.
200 Clinton Avenue
New Rochelle, NY 10801
Tel: (914) 654-9270
Fax: (914) 636-1383
