Name: José Lezcano
Start: 2025-04-27T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-27T15:30:00-04:00
Location: Claremont Creative Center

José Lezcano

WCCMA was founded in 2008 as the Summer Concert Series at Union Church as an organization presenting outstanding musical performers. In the fall of 2011 SCSUC official adopted the identity of the West Claremont Center for Music and the Arts and expanded to include music and arts programs. Workshops are available in a variety of disciplines, and are offered for the general public and/or youth. We are committed to improving access to the arts by offering programs with no admission charge so that no one is excluded from participating based on financial factors.WCCMA provides professional perfomances and arts education; much of it with admission by optional donation. Programs are offered for youth and the general public of all experience levels.

West Claremont Center for Music and the Arts

Join us for a very special benefit concert with award winning guitarist Jose Lezcano. Works of Scarlatti, Bach, Stevie Wonder, and more.

Claremont Creative Center

Join us for a very special benefit concert with award winning guitarist José Lezcano. Works of Scarlatti, Bach, Stevie Wonder, and much more. Presented by the West Claremont Center for Music and the Arts, to benefit the Claremont Creative Center and community programs. Tickets: $25Help support the arts in Claremont!--------------------Described by Fanfare Magazine as “an excellent guitarist as well as an imaginative composer,” José Manuel Lezcano is Professor Emeritus of Music at Keene State College where he directs the guitar orchestra and Latin ensemble, and teaches guitar and courses in Latin American and Spanish music. He has also served recently as Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota at Morris. He has lectured throughout the state for New Hampshire Humanities on Ecuadorean indigenous guitar traditions, rituals, and mythology, and on the guitar in Latin America.He is a twice Grammy-nominated composer and performer who has performed for audiences on four continents. His programs featuring traditional and Latin American repertoire, and his own original compositions have taken him as recitalist, collaborative musician, and concerto soloist from Carnegie Recital Hall and the North-South Consonance Series in New York City to major venues and festivals in Cuba, Spain, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, China, Crete, Trinidad and Tobago, the Czech Republic and Germany. Born in Havana, Cuba in 1960, he earned degrees from Peabody Conservatory (B.M.), University of South Carolina (M.M.), and Florida State University (Ph.D. music theory). José has earned numerous awards, including first prize in the MTNA National Guitar Competition, the NH State Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship, NHMTA Composer of the Year (2002 &amp; 07), KSC Distinguished Research Award, and a Fulbright Award to Ecuador, where he performed as orchestral soloist and pursued research on indigenous guitar traditions. Jose’s scholarly publications include Latin American Music Review, Soundboard, and the Latino Encyclopedia. In addition to flute and guitar works published by Alry, his catalog includes two double concertos for flute, guitar, and strings (Poemas Concertantes, and Sojourners, published by Cayambis); a viola concerto premiered by Brett Deubner and the Astoria Symphony; four song cycles for the Barcelona Festival of Song, Sonata for cello and guitar (recorded by José and cellist Rebecca Hartka on the CD Coleurs); and two guitar concertos (Guitar Concerto no. 1, “Ecuadorean Landscapes,” and “Concierto Cubanero” for guitar and chamber orchestra, a work inspired by Cuban dance genres of the golden age). In October 2021, José performed as soloist with the Sinfonica Nacional de Colombia in “Concierto Cubanero.” <a href="https://www.joselezcano.com/" title="https://www.joselezcano.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.joselezcano.com</a>

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