Faculty Guitar Recital Sept. 12 in Kemp

Date: 9/5/06
Contact: Marc Lebovitz

School of Music Professor Angelo Favis will present a solo guitar recital which will include a U.S. premiere at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 12, in Kemp Recital Hall at Illinois State University. Admission is free and open to the public.

Favis will begin his recital with Bach's Sonata in E minor, BWV 1034, followed by "Suite Compostelana" by Frederico Mompou, Sonata by Atanas Ourhouzounov and "Hatinggabi" (Midnight) by Antonio Molina.

Then Favis will perform "Lulay" Variations by Philippine-American composer Bayani Mendoza de Leon, the first U.S. performance of the work. de Leon, who was born in Manila in 1942, is a composer, conductor and arranger as well as a poet, short story writer and ethnomusicologist with a master's degree in avant-garde music from the University of California.

The Paulo Bellinati work, "Jongo," will conclude the recital.

Favis is a doctoral graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, Favis has been a prizewinner in many competitions and has been an active performer of solo and chamber music in the U.S. and abroad.

Among his career highlights were being featured at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center with the Little Orchestra Society of New York, and as one of six performers chosen to play in a special master class taught by acclaimed British guitarist Julian Bream in New York.