Guitarist Antigoni Goni To Perform At Institute For Advanced Study

Guitarist Antigoni Goni will perform on March 26 and 28 at 8:00 p.m., and March 30 at 4:00 p.m., at the Institute for Advanced Study. The concerts, sponsored by the Institute’s Artist-in-Residence Program, will take place in Wolfensohn Hall on the Institute campus.

Recently described by Guitar Review as “one of today’s most compelling young talents,” the Greek-born artist has performed in many of the world’s famous concert halls, including Covent Garden, the Bolshoi Theater, and the Athens Meganon Hall. Goni has won seven international competitions, including the 1998 International Guitar Competition in Havana, where she received the prize for Best Interpretation of Latin American Music, and the 1995 Stotsenberg International Competition. She is now head of the guitar department of the Juilliard Pre-College Division, as well as an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.

“This concert is a wonderful opportunity to hear works composed by some of the most important 20th-century Spanish and Latin American exponents of the guitar,” says Institute Artist-in-Residence, composer Jon Magnussen. Included in Goni’s program are Leo Brouwer’s El Decameron Negro, Agustin Barrios-Mangor�’s Three Pieces, Joaqu�n Rodrigo’s Invocaci�n y danza, Sergio Assad’s Three Greek Letters, Federico Mompou’s Suite Compostelana, and Alberto Ginastera’s Sonata, Op. 47. The last, by Argentinian Ginastera, says Magnussen, “is widely considered one of the most substantial works in the repertoire.”

A concert discussion, at which Goni and Magnussen will discuss works on the program and Goni will perform musical examples, will take place on March 27 at 4:30 p.m. in the Institute’s Dilworth Room. The discussion is open to the public and no tickets are required.

Concert tickets, while free of charge, should be reserved. For information, or to reserve concert tickets, call (609) 734-8228.