Sunday, October 26 at 2:00, Guitar in the Gallery presents Michael Partington, in concert at Gallery One, 408 N Pearl in Ellensburg, WA.
The award-winning British guitarist, Michael Partington, Guitarist, will present a program of classical guitar music at Gallery One, 408 N. Pearl St., Ellensburg, WA, on Sunday, October 26, at 2:00 pm. Suggested donation $10.
Michael Partington has performed throughout the USA, Britain, Canada, Russia and Scandinavia in solo recitals, and with orchestra and in chamber ensembles. He was the first guitarist to present a solo guitar recital in Seattle’s Benaroya Hall. Partington has also played concerts in Seattle’s Town Hall and Meany Theater, and in Austin, Los Angeles, New Haven, Phoenix, Portland, Reno, San Francisco, Vancouver, and many other venues throughout North America.
Partington’s concert in Ellensburg will feature pieces from his popular house concert program including sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti (a contemporary of J.S. Bach), music by 19th century German romantic composer Johann Mertz, Spanish dances by Isaac Albeniz, and Latin American composers such as Manuel Ponce, Jorge Morel, and Antonio Lauro. An active artist with GroupMuse, an organization dedicated to bringing classical music to informal home gatherings, Partington is known for his warm, conversational concert style as well as his technical command of the guitar. He is “one of those artists who possess a magic combination of a fluid technique with a wealth of musicianship,” according to Guy Traviss, of Classical Guitar Magazine.
PAST EVENTS: John Lenti will be playing his Theorbo and Baroque Guitar for Guitar in the Gallery on Sunday, April 6, 2025, at 2:00 pm, at Gallery One, 408 N Pearl St., Ellensburg, WA. Lenti plays music from the 16th to 18th centuries on Baroque guitar and Theorbo. The Baroque guitar is a small instrument usually strung with five double gut strings; the Theorbo (see photo below) can reach up to six to eight feet and includes 14 to 19 double strings (called “courses”). It is a very large Lute indeed! John Lenti has been much in demand as a soloist and chamber musician for early music concerts throughout the U.S. and in Europe.
Guitar in the Gallery Concert on Sunday, January 26, 2025, at 2:00 pm, at Gallery One, 408 N Pearl St., Ellensburg, WA. Chase away the winter blues with a concert of music from Spain and South America played by Ellensburg’s own John Paul Shields. Suggested donation $10. All are welcome! Happy New Year!
Guitar in the Gallery Update! Please join us in welcoming Michael Nicolella, Guitar in the Gallery, Sunday, October 20, 2024, at 2:00 pm. Admission by suggestion donation $10. Hope to see you there!
With a repertoire spanning from J.S. Bach and Domenico Scarlatti to Jimi Hendrix and Elliott Carter, Michael Nicolella is recognized as one of America’s most innovative guitarists. He has received wide critical acclaim for his performances, recordings and compositions. As a concert artist, Michael has performed throughout North America, Europe and Japan as solo recitalist, chamber musician and soloist with orchestra.
Nicolella blurs the lines between musical styles and disciplines. He is part of a growing trend in classical music to revitalize the role of the composer/performer. As a concert artist he frequently programs his own works for guitar in solo, chamber and orchestral settings. His most recent orchestral piece, “Flame of the Blue Star of Twilight” (for soprano, guitar and orchestra), received its premiere performance by the Northwest Symphony Orchestra with soprano Alexandra Picard.
Known for his creative programming, Michael has introduced electric guitar into his “classical” programs and extended the repertoire and audience of his instrument not only with his own compositions and transcriptions, but also by premiering and commissioning works by some of today’s most exciting emerging composers. Michael has premiered dozens of new works for classical and electric guitar in solo, chamber and orchestral settings. In reference to his abilities on the classical and electric guitar, noted guitar composer, scholar and critic John Duarte stated in an issue of “Gramophone” magazine that: “Others have ‘crossed the track’ in one direction or the other but none has done so with the technical and/or musical success as Nicolella, who,chameleon-like, achieves comparable distinction in both fields”.
Michael performs frequently with the Seattle Symphony. Most recently, he played the guitar part in Mahler’s Symphony 7 conducted by Tigran Arakelyan at the Northwest Mahler Festival 7:30 pm at the Shorewood Performing Arts Center, 17300 Fremont Ave, Soreline, WA
Thank you for a great 2023-24 season!
Guitar in the Gallery concert series presents:
JOIN US! SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 2024, 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
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
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.
October 12th and 13th, 2019
Mark Hilliard Wilson
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
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.
Neil & Tamara Caulkins 