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ANTHONY BEZ
Specialties Classical and flamenco solo and ensemble playing, improvisation and composition primarily on nylon string guitar. Strong reading skills and experience in all styles of music. Technique correction and cultivation of fundamentals.
Teaching Philosophy/Methodology My instruction is based on a balance of the student’s wants and needs. Beginners will be trained in classical guitar technique and music reading fundamentals. This is a great gift with which they can grow and evolve continually in any direction they choose. |
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More advanced guitarists, based on their desires,will be given the benefit of my experience to guide them through mutually chosen material that will work to their strengths while fording up their weaknesses. The student will then have access to repertoire that is enjoyable to play and perform while still being challenged to achieve more, technically and musically, until musical satisfaction is a regular part of their life. I often view my teaching and playing experience as healing and cultivating since it is a self nurturing process on the part of the student. I have had experience with this also as a Tai Chi instructor.
Education Private studies in guitar since the age of five. Private piano instruction beginning at age fourteen. Preliminary classical guitar studies with Fredric Lehrman beginning at age eleven. Music theory and three years as first trombone in the Power Memorial Academy Concert and Marching Bands. Continued study with noted performers and academics Alice Artzt, Stephen Bell, Frank Koonce, and Jorge Morel among others. Attendance and participation at numerous guitar and Bach master classes. Professional studies at Berklee College of Music, Arizona State University and Mannes College of Music. Study of the Sonata form with Athens Orchestra conductor Diamante Diamantopoulos. Improvisation studies with Paul Winter and David Darling.
Teaching Experience Anthony has been giving private instruction for over 30 years. As early as grammar school he has been giving demonstrations in music. He has given seminars and demonstrations in Renaissance and Flamenco guitar at Arizona State University. He was an instructor for many years at the Manhattan Institute of Guitar before presently teaching at the American Institute of Guitar for over eight years. His articles on Tao for the Guitar Player have appeared in Soundboard Magazine, the publication of the Guitar Foundation of America, and NYlon Review, the e-zine of the New York Classical Guitar Society.
Performances/Recordings Anthony has been performing locally since the age of nine in his church choir and as a folk accompanist. His solo debuts both as a guitarist and singer/accompanist were at St. Augustine R.C. Church in his pre-teens. He went on to perform in Alice Tully Hall yearly as first trombone with his High School Orchestra. Concurrently, while working at the Guitarerria Orozco in Manhattan he would perform privately on an almost daily basis for customers and for some of the world’s greatest guitarists. Locally, he was a fixture playing solo at poetry readings throughout the North Hudson area.
Known for accompanying flamenco dance classes at Carnegie Hall and playing at La Sangria, the premier flamenco club in New York in the 70’s, he has performed numerous times to college audiences here and abroad. He has been awarded the Medal of Merit from the Costa Rican Consulate for his performance to benefit the Rainforest Alliance. Anthony has been featured as Flamenco Dance Theater’s guest soloist and accompanist. He has performed at the Copacabana and numerous private clubs and functions with his jazz/nouveau/rumba flamenco ensemble.
He has also performed throughout the tri-state area with “I Giulari di Piazza” of the St. John the Divine Cathedral in New York City specializing in Medieval, Renaissance, and Southern Italian music. He appeared in the off-Broadway MCC Theater production of Sueño and in the Dicapo Opera production of La Vida Breve. Anthony premiered his original piece, Spirit Rocks, in collaboration with the Linda Diamond Dance Company in Woodstock in September 2000. He has participated in performance for TIPA (Towards International Peace through the Arts). He has performed in the homes of renowned artists, state legislators and diplomats. He is currently the musical director for the Actor’s Shakespeare Company Consort in Hoboken, New Jersey and a recipient of a Meet the Composer Grant.
His CD Holy Mountain of his own compositions has been featured on WNYC’s “New Sounds” and on Public Radio here in the United States and in Canada. He has just released a second CD Return to Mountain. Both CDs are available through the American Institute of Guitar.
Anthony's artist website can be found at www.taonote.com |
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