APSU guitar professor to present free concert to Clarksville community
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. 鈥揇r. Stanley Yates, Austin Peay State University professor of music, will present a recital of solo guitar music at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 30, in the Mabry Concert Hall in the APSU Music/Mass Communications Building. The concert is free and open to the public.
Yates鈥 program will include selections from his critically-acclaimed transcriptions of music by Bach, Vivaldi and Alb茅niz; Venezuelan music by Antonio Lauro; and a recent work based on Indian ragas written by Dutch composer Annette Kruisbrink.
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. 鈥揇r. Stanley Yates, Austin Peay State University professor of music, will present a recital of solo guitar music at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 30, in the Mabry Concert Hall in the APSU Music/Mass Communications Building. The concert is free and open to the public.
Yates鈥 program will include selections from his critically-acclaimed transcriptions of music by Bach, Vivaldi and Alb茅niz; Venezuelan music by Antonio Lauro; and a recent work based on Indian ragas written by Dutch composer Annette Kruisbrink.
Yates is known for his best-selling music editions and internationally-acclaimed Bach recording, along with his widely published scholarly articles. These articles have been published in 10 languages. He has also established an international performing career, performing throughout the United States and Europe, as well as in Australia, Asia and South America. He is featured in the standard reference work, 鈥淭he Classical Guitar: Its Evolution, Players and Personalities Since 1800鈥 and 鈥淚nstrumental Influences: Reflections on the Classical Guitar from the Instrument鈥檚 Most Influential Performers and Pedagogues,鈥 and he has been described by the Journal of the Guitar Foundation of America as 鈥渙ne of the leading pedagogues of our era.鈥
During his time at APSU, Yates has received the Hawkins Award for Scholarly and Creative Achievement, a Distinguished Artist Award from Bergen College in New Jersey and an APSU Presidential nomination for the Robert Cherry Outstanding Teaching Award. That is a national teaching award sponsored by Baylor University.
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