Guitar Sundays: John Muratore, Classical Guitarist, Performs at Portsmouth Music and Arts Center (PMAC)

Join us at PMAC, Portsmouth Music and Arts Center, for a free concert featuring highly acclaimed classical guitarist, John Muratore, who performs regularly as a solo recitalist, concerto soloist, and chamber musician.

As a solo artist, he has appeared extensively throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. He has collaborated with numerous chamber ensembles including Emmanuel Music, the Spectrum Singers, Chorus Pro Musica, Alea III, Boston Musica Viva, and Counterpoint. He has appeared as a concerto soloist with the Ridgefield Symphony, Vermont Symphony, and Symphony by the Sea under the direction of Jonathan McPhee.

John is actively working to expand the guitar repertoire and has worked to produce new solo and chamber works for the guitar with composers Daniel Pinkham, Scott Wheeler, Larry Bell, Roger Zahab, and Jon Appleton. The Boston Globe has described him as “a fleet-fingered and musicianly performer” and has characterized his playing as…”unleashing so many different varieties of tone and color in quick succession…a kind of aural iridescence.”

Mr. Muratore is on the faculty at Boston University, Dartmouth College, and is the coordinator of the guitar program at the All Newton Music School. John, whose live performances have often been featured on NPR, WGBH Radio’s Classical Performances has recorded for Albany, Pont Nuef, and Arabesque Records. His CD, Domenie, is a collaboration with accordionist Roberto Cassan. His critically-acclaimed solo CD, Shadow Box, has been hailed by Britain's Classical Guitar magazine as "a fine recording, with serious intent", and his Noël-A Classical Guitar Christmas, was listed by CD Baby as one of the top-selling Holiday-Classical albums for 2012.

This event is free and open to the public at Portsmouth Music and Arts Center at 973 Islington St., Portsmouth. Registration is not required but come early to secure a seat.