LEISNER, DAVID

David Leisner is an extraordinarily versatile musician with a multi-faceted career as an electrifying performing artist, a distinguished composer, and a master teacher. Regarded as one of the world’s leading classical guitarists, his superb musicianship and provocative programming have been applauded by critics and audiences around the globe. He is a featured recording artist for the Azica label, with highly acclaimed solo recordings of Bach, Villa-Lobos, contemporary music, Mertz and Schubert, and his own compositions. Other chamber music recordings are on the Telarc, Koch and Etcetera labels. David Leisner’s recent seasons have taken him around the United States, including his solo début with the Atlanta Symphony, a major tour of Australia and New Zealand, and débuts and reappearances in Japan, the Philippines, Germany, Hungary, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Ireland, Britain, Italy, the Czech Republic, Greece, Puerto Rico and Mexico. An innovative three-concert series at Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall included the first all-Bach guitar recital in New York’s history. He is a regular at the Santa Fe, Vail Valley, Bargemusic, Bay Chamber and Angel Fire Chamber Music Festivals. David Leisner is also a highly respected composer noted for the emotional and dramatic power of his music. His Dances in the Madhouse, in both its original version for violin and guitar and as an arrangement for orchestra, has received hundreds of performances. A distinguished teacher as well, he has served on the faculty of the New England Conservatory and is currently co-chairman of the guitar department at the Manhattan School of Music.

For more information, please visit David Leisner’s website.

HOVHANESS: Khrimian Hairig / Guitar Concerto / Symphony No. 60	8.559294