Concert Series

Aguado Guitar Concerts invites you to spend a memorable romantic evening with your sweetheart and let us entertain you! We are preparing a beautiful gala dinner and concert that will take place February 13 at 6:30 PM at Cafe Montmartre in the beautiful Lake Anne Village in Reston.

You will have a choice of three gourmet meals which you can enjoy to the LIVE classical guitar music provided by our members, including the Klasinc&Lončar Guitar Duo, Hart Wells, Maya Lončar, and more.

And then comes the highlight of the evening–a very fine young guitarist Jonathan Smith (jonathansmith.com) will be playing selections from this program:

Prelude from Partita No. 1 BWV 825, J.S. Bach
Tangerine –  by Victor Schertzinger
Valseana from Aquarelle – Sergio Assad
Yesterday – Beatles, arr. Takemitsu
Etude No. 8 – Regondi
Mallorca – Albeniz
Romance – Anonymous
Nuages – Dyens

Variations on Carnival of Venice – Tarrega
Carnavalito, Evocacion, & Joropo from Suite del Recuerdo – Merlin

Throughout the evening you will have a chance to take part in a silent auction and get some memorable and valuable items and experiences.

The price is $80 per person or $15o per couple and it includes gratuity and soft drinks, tea and coffee.

To buy tickets, call Cafe Montmartre at 703-904-8080 or

e-mail concerts1@aguadoguitar.org

We can’t wait to romance you!

Join us Sunday, May 24 for a fundraising concert featuring Adam Kossler.

Please join us Sunday, May 24, 2015 for a fundraiser concert featuring solo performances by Adam Kossler and duo performances by Dr. Kossler and Matthew Dunlap. Dr. Kossler has been a top prizewinner in a number of international guitar competitions, and he performs regularly as a solo artist, as a member of the NOVA Guitar Quartet, and with the Kossler Guitar Trio alongside his father Bill and brother John.

Dr. Kossler has been featured on many prestigious concert series including the John E. Marlow Guitar Series (Bethesda, MD), Isle Newell Concert Series (Appalachicola, FL), and the Seven Hills Guitar Series (Tallahassee, FL).

Sunday, May 24, 2015
6 p.m.
Community Lutheran Church
21014 Whitfield Place,
Sterling, VA 20165

Your generous donations to Aguado Guitar Concerts help us keep our concert series free and open to the public.

A big thank-you to all who attended last night’s Iván Resendiz concert. Click above to listen to his first piece, “La Huida de los Amantes por el Valle de los Ecos” from Leo Brouwer’s El Decameron Negro.

Last night’s program featured student performer Sean Murphy playing Prelude No. 1 by Heitor Villa-Lobos and Maryam Hajialigol & Steven Paredes together performing Maximo Diego Pujol’s “Milonga.”

The complete program was as follows:

El Decameron Negro (La Huida de los Amantes por el Valle de los Ecos) – Leo Brouwer
Inevitable – Eduardo Martin
Recuerdos de la Alhambra – Francisco Tarrega
Elegia – Johan Kaspar Mertz
Sonata III, BWV 1005 (Lento & Allegro assai) – Johann Sebastian Bach

– intermission –

Suite Colobiana No. 2 (Porro) – Gentil Montaña
L’ultimo Caffe Insieme – Simone Ianarelli
Kabalka – Orestis Kalampalikis
Sonata op. 47 (Scherzo & Final) – Alberto Ginastera

Join us Saturday, April 25 for an evening of classical guitar with Ana Vidovic.

Join us Saturday, April 25, 2015 as Ana Vidović returns to perform as part of the 2014-2015 Aguado Guitar Concert series. Ms. Vidović is an internationally-renowned guitarist originally from Karlovac, Croatia (near Zagreb).

Ms. Vidović’s concert comes at the end of the Aguado Guitar Concerts annual competition, and winners will be announced at the performance.

Saturday, April 25, 2015
7 p.m.
Community Lutheran Church
21014 Whitfield Place,
Sterling, VA 20165

Your generous donations to Aguado Guitar Concerts help us keep these concerts free and open to the public.

Join us Saturday, January 10, 2015 as Iván Resendiz performs as part of the 2014-2015 Aguado Guitar Concert series. Mr. Resendiz is an internationally-recognized guitarist originally from Mexico City.

Saturday, January 10, 2015
7 p.m.
Community Lutheran Church
21014 Whitfield Place,
Sterling, VA 20165

Your generous donations to Aguado Guitar Concerts help us keep these concerts free and open to the public.

Join us Saturday, November 1, 2014 as Jon Paul Yerby performs in the inaugural concert of the 2014-2015 concert series. Dr. Yerby is currently serving as professor of guitar at Utah Valley University and heads the guitar department at the Gifted Music School in Salt Lake City, Utah. Yerby is the founder of the Florida based non-profit, Seven Hills Guitar Series, and currently serves as President of the Utah Classical Guitar Society. In 2013 Yerby formed the Utah Guitar Trio with guitarists Tully Jefferson Cathey and Todd Woodbury.

Saturday, November 1, 2014
7 p.m.
Community Lutheran Church
21014 Whitfield Place,
Sterling, VA 20165

Your generous donations to Aguado Guitar Concerts help us keep these concerts free and open to the public.