Rising Star Concerts (NEW)

In an effort to help talented young artists who are on the onset of their performance careers develop their careers, Aguado Guitar Concerts is happy to offer an opportunity to give a public concert sponsored by Aguado Guitar Concerts – a Rising Star Concert. This opportunity is available to young artists not over 30 who do not have a fully established performance career. Aguado Guitar Concerts will provide the artists a concert fee, a chance to perform in the Community Lutheran Church Sanctuary, a printed program, and include their concert in the advertisements on its mailing list. The artists are expected to participate actively in advertising their concert and recruiting their audience. Young artists are welcome to submit their applications to Aguado Guitar Concerts Director at concerts1@aguadoguitar.org. The application needs to include a bio and a professional CD or a live video recording of a previous concert. Artists can submit their application for the 2025/2026 season.

Django Klumpp

We are excited to present Django Klumpp as the next artist on our Rising Star Concert Series.

Classical guitarist Django Klumpp has captured audiences internationally with “soulful and sensitive” playing, and remarkable technical prowess displaying “rapid fingers, extended technique, and the ability to display several layers of sound at the same time” (MU’s “The Flashlight”). Based in Rochester, NY, Django completed his master’s degree with a Performer’s Certificate in Guitar at Eastman School of Music under instruction of Dr. Nicholas Goluses, and has spent subsequent years performing and competing around the country. Outside of performing, Django is a dedicated instructor, teaching applied guitar methods and lessons to students at Nazareth University, and directing local community guitar lessons and classes through Penfield Guitar School, where he collaborates with students and musicians of all ages, levels, and styles. 

In this program, Django has focused his craftsmanship on the guitar into a couple different areas: highlighting magnificent 19th and 20th century original works for the guitar with pieces by J.K. Mertz, Leo Brouwer, and Sergio Assad, and also pushing the harmonic and technical limits of the instruments with idiosyncratic works like Gary Ryan’s “Benga Beat,” and arrangements of familiar pieces by Chopin and The Beatles.