JOIN US! SUNDAY, APRIL 21 AT 2:00 PM: Eli Schulle-Hudson, guitar, will be joined by Dr. Mehrdad Gholami, flute, for a concert of music by Cuban composer Leo Brouwer (celebrating his 85th birthday this year!), Emilia Guiliani-Guglielmi, Alexandre Schubert, and Toru Takemitsu. The performance will take place in the Evelith Green Gallery at Gallery One. Admission is by suggested donation of $10. All are welcome!

Join us for a new season of classical guitar music – Live! – in the acoustically fabulous third floor atrium at Gallery One, 409 N Pearl St., in Ellensburg, Washington (USA) on Sundays at 2:00 pm. Suggested donation $10.

Announcing our 2023/2024 season!

Sunday at 2, November 12, 2023: Mario Diaz playing South American favorites 
Sunday at 2, Februrary 25, 2024: Melissa Schiel, mezzo-soprano, with Tamara Caulkins, guitar, performing Spanish songs, Italian arias, and French chansons by Fernando Sor (1778-1839)
Sunday at 2, April 21, 2024: Eli Schille-Hudson, in concert!
Sunday at 2, June 2, 2024: The Caulkins Guitar Duo, playing new commissions including Dry Falls – a piece evoking the Missoula Floods

Past Concerts:

May 20, 2023: World Premieres in Soap Lake, WA

Tamara & Neil Caulkins

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Neil and Tamara Caulkins premiered Dry Falls – more on this fabulous new piece here in a 3 minute segment on Northwest Public Radio and in an hour-long interview with Scott Cowan at Explore Washington. We also premiered a “Toccata” by composer Michael Young who attended the concert. Thank you to all who attended this wonderful event!

The Caulkins have recorded two critically acclaimed CDs and pursued a rigorous concert schedule, including performances in New York, Calgary, Hong Kong, and throughout the Southeast and Pacific Northwest. The duo’s playing has been described as “altogether exciting!” (by Fanfare, New Jersey), “a striking debut album” (by Guitar Review, New York), and as “A well-matched team” (by Guitar International, Wiltshire, England). Their scholarly publications have been published in the US, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Germany. They studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid, Spain and hold Master of Music degrees from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

February 26-27, 2023

Oleg Timofeyev

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Timofeyev comes from a musical family, being the son of cellist Natalia Timofeyeva. He began his study of the classical guitar in the early 1980s under the tutelage of Kamill Frauchi, about whom he later produced a documentary film, Frautschi (Timofeyev & Gölz 2008). He holds an M.A. in Early Music Performance from the University of Southern California (1993), and a Ph.D. in Performance Practice fromDuke University (1999) (Timofeyev 1999). Since 1983 he has been performing early music on authentic instruments of the plucked family (lute, guitar). In 1989 his musical interests brought him to the U.S., where he studied with Patrick O’Brien, James Tyler, and Hopkinson Smith.

On Sunday, Feb. 26th, 2022, at 2:00, Oleg Timofeyev, master of the Russian seven-string guitar will be playing at Gallery One. Free to the Public – donations welcome.
 
On Monday, Feb. 27th, 2022, at 1:00, at the Recital Hall at Central Washington University, Oleg will present a lecture/demonstration, and at 5:30 pm, there will be a showing of his film on the Romani (“Gypsies”) in Russia/Soviet Union. All events are free to the public.

October 12th and 13th, 2019

Mark Hilliard Wilson

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Wilson brings joy and technical finesse to the listener while integrating music from diverse backgrounds and different ages with a compelling story and a wry sense of humor.  Performing regularly at festivals and concert series, Wilson has distinguished himself as a unique voice with programs that feature his own transcriptions of the well known and the obscure.  Wilson’s compositions for the guitar have been appearing on stages throughout the Northwest US and Canada for over 15 years.

All Ellensburg performances take place on Sunday afternoons at 2:00 in the Eveleth Green Gallery (third floor) of Gallery One, 408 Pearl Street in Ellensburg, WA.

All Soap Lake performances take place Saturday evenings at 7:00 in the Fire on Main gallery at 410 E. Main, Soap Lake, WA. The Soap Lake series receives support from Realty Executives.

November 16th and 17th, 2019

Scott Kritzer

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His consummate commitment to technical excellence as the solid structure beneath an unparalleled sense of musicality brought him over two decades of accolades from audiences and critics alike, in concert halls in San Francisco, Frankfurt, Vancouver, B.C., Los Angeles, Sapporo, Washington, D.C., Munich, and New York. He has been featured in Japan’s Guitar Magazine, London’s Classical Guitar Magazine andGuitar International as well as in Soundboard Magazine of the Guitar Foundation of America and Guitar Player Magazine in the United States.