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Winter 2018 Pan Pipes

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PAN PIPES • WINTER 2018 • sai-national.org 4 N ational Arts Associate Christopher Kachian has performed throughout Europe, the Americas, South and Central America, and the Far East, as a recitalist, chamber musician, and concerto soloist. His American performances have included a significant number of works written in the last twenty-five years, many of them commissions. These include over thirty works for guitar, including 20 concerti. He has written Composer's Desk Reference for the Classic Guitar in consultation with over 25 composers, published by Mel Bay Publications. He has been heard on Minnesota Public Radio, National Public Radio, and American Public Media (including several appearances on A Prairie Home Companion). After earning the first Bachelor's Degree in Guitar Performance from the University of Minnesota in 1980, Kachian went on to earn a Master's and Doctorate in Guitar Performance there. His many music scholarships included a 1981 American String Teachers Association (ASTA) scholarship. Since 1984, Dr. Kachian has directed one of the largest guitar programs in the USA at the University of St. omas where he is professor of music. He has lectured on music of Europe, the Americas, the Twentieth-Century, the World, the United States, Film, Protest, Mathematics, and Guitar Pedagogy and Guitar Literature. He is the founder of the UST Music Business, Recording Arts, and Popular Music degrees. In 2001-2005, he served as Director of Guitar Studies for Minnesota Music Teacher's Association (MMTA), for whom he lead-authored and edited the nation's first comprehensive, multi-genre guitar pedagogy syllabus. In 2011, he wrote the film score for Per Bianca, which won Best Film at the Minnesota 48-Hour Film Festival and won a screening at the Cannes Film Festival. Notable premiere recordings include Conrad Susa's Carols and Lullabies (RCA 1995), David Baker's Images, Shadows and Dreams (Collins Classics 1996 and Clarion as Dance Like the Wind, Music of Today's Black Composers), Woodwind Music (Innova 1997), phoenix ensemble#1 (Valve-Hearts [Germany] 1998), Falls Flyer (10,000 Lakes 2002), Cyprus, First Impressions (Innova 2006), e J.S. Bach Sonatas for Gamba and Harpsichord for Guitar and Harpsichord by Chris Kachian and David Jenkins (2007), A Night in Vienna (10,000 Lakes 2011). With the Arpeggione Duo he has recorded Wanderer Sonata and Folklore (Ars Nova [Stockholm] 2006, 2009). Numerous other recordings of music ranging from blues to Christmas music are in his discography. Recent notable USA premiere performances are Astor Piazzolla's Double Concerto and Franz Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata. e ongoing series of Baroque concerts, with keyboardist David Jenkins, with the Society for the Doctrinal Affectation of Baroque Music, an early music ensemble and the Arpeggione Duo, a Stockholm- based cello and guitar duo specializing in new folk music, round out his concert career. He was initiated as a National Arts Associate by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Alumnae Chapter in 2012. 2018 CONVENTION Guitarist Kachian To Perform At Convention FOR MORE INFORMATION visit www.chriskachian.com 49TH NATIONAL CONVENTION "SAI - SO NEAR, SO DEAR" JULY 26-30, 2018 WESTIN KIERLAND RESORT & SPA SCOTTSDALE, AZ Register at: www.sai-national.org/2018-sai-convention.html

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