Guitar Laureate Series: Royshan Mamedkuliev

Rovshan Mamedkuliev was first prize-winner at the prestigious Guitar Foundation of America Competition in 2012, and now stands as one of the world's most exciting young instrumentalists. He has constructed a program with several themes. Iberian music is represented by Falla, Albeniz and Turina, and by two of the titans of guitar playing, Miguel Llobet and Francisco Teírrega. He also includes music by his Azerbaijani compatriot, Fikret Amirov, whose folkloric-influenced music is another thematic link. The kaleidoscopic Just How Funky Are You by Andrew York and Leo Brouwer's An Idea explore the guitar's contemporary vitality.