Peabody Guest Artist Concert: Atlantic Guitar Quartet

The acclaimed Atlantic Guitar Quartet performs. This concert is free and open to the public as part of the Summer Guitar Intensive; more information: https://peabody.jhu.edu/preparatory/ways-to-study/departments/guitar/summer-guitar/summer-guitar-intensive/

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About Atlantic Guitar Quartet

Founded in 2010, the Atlantic Guitar Quartet is a contemporary music ensemble dedicated to promoting the music of living composers. Through virtuosic performances, innovative programming and collaborations with other visual and performing artists, AGQ has broadened the repertoire for – and the definition of – the classical guitar quartet.

Each of the four members, Mark Edwards, Kevin Shannon, Zoe Johnstone Stewart, and Jonathan Zwi, have enjoyed extensive solo performing and teaching careers since receiving advanced degrees from the Peabody Conservatory. As a group, AGQ has performed as part of the Evolution Contemporary Music series and the Spring Stage Performances series, and at Salisbury University, York College of Pennsylvania, Harford Community College, and the Jordan Faye Contemporary Art Gallery. They have been artists-in-residence at the Engineers Club of the Garret-Jacobs Mansion in Baltimore since 2010. In addition to their performances, the quartet has also been invited to teach master classes and workshops at Salisbury University and the Mid Atlantic Guitar Ensemble Festival.

AGQ has been proactive in expanding the repertoire of the classical guitar quartet by commissioning new works. With major institutional support by the Presser Foundation and the Peabody Conservatory, AGQ has premiered pieces by American composers David Smooke, Christopher Gainey, and Ronald Pearl. These works, along with music by composer Olivier Bensa and Arvo Pärt, are featured on the quartet’s debut CD (released in November of 2013).

The quartet's other world premieres include performances of works by Joshua Bornfield (written for AGQ and commissioned by the Baltimore Classical Guitar Society), Lewis Krauthamer (in performance with Gene Young and the Peabody Camerata), Philip Ravita (by invitation of the Baltimore Composers Forum), Julien Xuereb, Alan Thomas, Aaron Silverstein, and Jerry Tabor (in a premiere recording).