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LARRY SNITZLER gave his first classical guitar recital at age 18.
Since then he has traveled to 18 countries, giving hundreds of performances
of solo recital, concerto, and chamber music. He has been a featured artist
at many conservatories and international music festivals where, as well
as performing, he has given classes and made presentations in three languages.
Mr. Snitzler began studying the guitar with Sophocles Papas at age 16,
after hearing a recording of Andres Segovia. Three years
later, Mr. Papas asked Segovia to listen to his pupil, following which
the Spanish Maestro invited young Snitzler to attend his master classes
at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Italy. Thus began a relationship that
was to last some twenty-five years. For the next five years, Larry Snitzler
was part of a small band of students who literally traveled the world
to be a part of the special master classes offered by Andres Segovia whenever,
and wherever, he found time for them. (Among the other members of this
group were to be found Carlos Barbosa-Lima, Oscar Ghiglia, Michael Lorimer,
Aldo Minella, and Chnstopher Parkening.) During this same period,
he also studied with the French guitar duo ofAlexandre Lagoya and Ida
Presti at the Academie d'Ete, in Nice, France.
In 1967, Larry Snitzler moved to Paris, France for a period of eight years.
There, he studied music theory and interpretation with Nadia Boulanger,
and began to concertize throughout much of Europe, Africa, and the Middle
East. While in Paris, he also studied with guitarist Oscar Ghiglia and
composer Jean Catoire. He continued to benefit from the personal
advice and counsel of Andres Segovia, until the Maestro's death
in 1987.
In July 1986, he was invited to Los Angeles to give a concert in honor
of Andres Segovia, as part of a special celebration for the 93
year-old artist who was giving master-classes at the University of Southern
California.
Larry Snitzler is a member of The Washington Guitar Quintet, a group that
specializes in North and South American and Jazz-oriented music, whose
other members are: Charlie Byrd, Phillip Mathieu, Jeffrey Meyerriecks
and Myrna Sislen.
Mr. Snitlzer has premiered or been the dedicatee of works by Gilbert Biberian,
Stephen Douglas Burton, Jeffrey Meyerriecks, Guido Santorsola, Glenn Smith
and Ralph Turek. Mr. Snitzler's own compositions have been described as,
"beautifully formed, immediately attractive music," by Joseph
McLellan, chief music critic for the Washington Post.
He was long associated with National Public Radio as an on-air host, performer
and freelance music producer of various programs and series such as Guitar
Notebook, Concert Guitar with Larjy Snitzler, and SEGO VIA!
(Now part of the collection of the Museum of Broadcasting.) He
is a former contributing editor of; and has written extensively for, the
prestigious Guitar Review. His writing occasionally appears
in other national and international music journals as well. He is a former
co-chair of the Music Advisory Panel of the National Endowment for the
Arts, and has been a music consultant to the National Gallery of Art.
In 1983, he was invited by Radio France to be an adjudicator for the Concours
International de Ia Guitare. He has lectured extensively at the Smithsonian
Institution, and has appeared on the Sunday at the Met lecture
series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Larry Snitzler records for the Concord concerto label as a member of the
Washington Guitar Quintet. He is presently preparing a series of three
solo albums.
Sample Program
Variations on "Gua'rdame las Vacas", (1538) Luys de Narvaez
Andante Largo, Opus 5, No.5 Fernando Sor
(1778-1839)
Three Pieces Francisco Tarrega
I Marieta, (Mazurca) (1852-1909)
II Manria, (Gavota)
III Danza Mora
Suite Castellana Federico Moreno-Torroba
I Fandanguiflo (1891-1982)
II Arada
III Danza
Preambulo and Fughetta Manuel Ponce
in the style ofAlessandro Scarlatti (1882-1948)
Trans. By John Marlow
* Intermission *
Mazurka Mexandre Tansman
(1897-1986)
Estudio sin Luz Andres Segovia
(1893-1987)
Three Preriludes Heitor Villa-Lobos
I in a-riinor (1887-1959)
II in e-niinor
III in e-niinor
Two Pieces Isaac Albeniz
Mallorca, (Barcarola), Opus 202 (1860-1909)
Torre Bermeja, (Serenata), Piezas Caracteristicas, Opus 92 - N. 12
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