Faculty Guitarist Favis to Present Sept. 25 Recital in Kemp

School of Music Professor Angelo Favis will present a solo guitar recital at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 25, in Kemp Recital Hall at Illinois State University.  Admission is free and open to the public.

Favis will begin his recital with Prelude, Fugue, & Allegro, BWV 998, by J. S. Bach.  With fellow faculty member and violinist Sarah Gentry, he will perform “Asphalt Gypsy” by Paul Richards, “Milonga” from “Quintessence” by Jurg Kindle and Sonata 46 by Anthony Lanman.   Favis then will play Sonata for Guitar by Miklos Rozsa and Variations on a Catalan Folk Song by John Duarte.

Favis is a doctoral graduate of the Manhattan School of Music and a prizewinner in many competitions.  He 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.