Noah Getz

Program:
Original compositions including the following:
1. Treseros Son by Noah Getz
2. Desde todo el silencio (From All the Silence) by Javier Farias
3. Canta el Huayno (Sing the Huayno) by Javier Farias
4. Encelado by Noah Getz
5. African Dance Suite by Noah Getz
I. Kiganda
II. Lament
III. Morocco
Biographies:
Hailed as a “highly skillful and an even more highly adventurous player” (Washington City Paper) with “virtuosity, sensitivity, and beauty of tone” (Fanfare), Noah Getz has performed and lectured worldwide, including appearances at the Melbourne Recital Centre, Carnegie Hall, The Royal Conservatory of Brussels, The Polish Woodwind Festival, the Degollado Theater in Guadalajara, Mexico, and the Zero Point Festival in Prague, Czech Republic. His premiere of in every way I remember you at the National Gallery of Art was acclaimed as “spectacular and wonderfully provocative” (Washington Post). In 2016, Grammy-Award winning composer Stephen Hartke wrote Willow Run, a new concerto for saxophone which Getz premiered at Oberlin Conservatory and the Cleveland Museum of Art. An avid chamber musician, Getz is a member of the National Gallery New Music Ensemble, Zohn Collective, and Interference/Intermedia, and has performed with The 21st Century Consort, PostClassical Ensemble, the Empyrean Ensemble, and members of the International Contemporary Ensemble. He received a first-round Grammy nomination with the New Hudson Saxophone Quartet. He is a Musician-In-Residence at American University.
Composer Javier Farías has led a prominent musical career writing extensively for the guitar in varying genres ranging from solo classical and electric to full guitar ensembles as well as other instrumental combinations. Farías’ music has been hailed by Classical Guitar Magazine as “top class” and “outstanding…bracing and evocative,” by The Washington Post as “haunting, lyrical, and intense,” and by Gramophone as “excellent.” His catalogue is representative of Farías’ devotion for the guitar in addition to his ability to write chamber music with diverse instrumentation, for full orchestra and concertos, jazz ensemble, choral music, as well as with choice instruments such as the bandoneón, flamenco guitar, electric guitar, and charango. Javier Farías has been honored by having his music performed and recorded by some of the main exponents of the guitar such as Eliot Fisk, Ben Verdery, David Tanenbaum, Joaquín Clerch Díaz, Gabriel Bianco, Eduardo Isaac, Emanuele Segre, José Antonio Escobar, Ricardo Cobo, Carlos Perez, Andy Summers-legendary rock guitarist of The Police, and premier jazz-fusion guitarist Mike Stern.