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PML Concert Series

The PML Concert Series "stage" features area musicians for an upbeat morning of great music, light refreshments and delightful company. Join us!

This month's performance: Timothy Burris, Baroque Lute and Classical Guitar

NOTE: The PML Concert Series performances take place at Wescustogo Hall and Community Center, 120 Memorial Highway, North Yarmouth

Saturday, November 18

Three plus Three: Works for Baroque Lute and Classical Guitar

The first half of the program consists of works by three baroque lutenists: the Austro-Bohemian Jacob Büttner; the greatest of all lutenists Silvius Leopold Weiss; and the Belgian master Jacques de Saint-Luc. The second half will focus on three masters of the classical guitar spanning the years 1895 to 1978: Jacques Bosch--a Catalonian who moved to Paris, where he was known as the 'lion of the guitar'; Daniel Fortea, pupil of the great Franciso Tàrrega and founder of a music publishing house that is still in existence, the Biblioteca Forteana; James McGuire, whose three-part career has included college guitar teaching, composition of works he calls 'in the popular style', and that of a jobbing jazz guitarist.

Mr Burris has performed widely in Europe and the US. Regionally, he is the lutenist of BOOM, the Baroque Orchestra of Maine; he and cellist Raffael Scheck appear as the duo ScheckMate, performing music for cello accompanied by lute or classical guitar.

Ciaccona, the most recent of his nine CD recordings, includes his lute transcription of Bach’s monumental Ciaconna for solo violin.

A Fulbright alumnus, Mr Burris is a graduate of The Hague’s Royal Conservatory and holds a Ph.D. from Duke University. At the Royal Conservatory, Mr Burris studied lute with the world-renowned Toyohiko Satoh and guitar with the Uruguayan Antonio Pereira-Arias (who himself studied with Andrés Segovia).

A lute instructor at the Royal Flemish Conservatory of Music in Antwerp from 1990-96, he is currently on the faculties of the Portland Conservatory of Music and Colby College.