    |
New York City Classical Guitar Society Presents Hungarian Musician David Pavlovits in ConcertFriday, May 18, at 8 pm, at Christ and St. Stephen’s Church located at 120 West 69th StreetThe program will feature works by John Dowland, Miklós Rózsa, Isaac Albéniz, and Alberto Ginastera, and Pavlovits' own “Hungarian Sketches.” |
| tickets are available online at SmartTix.com
and by telephone at (212) 868-4444
For further information, please call (212) 977-8940 The Hungarian guitarist and composer David Pavlovits will appear in concert on Friday, May 18, at 8 pm, at Christ and St. Stephen’s Church, in a program of works by John Dowland, Miklós Rózsa, Isaac Albéniz, and Alberto Ginastera, and featuring his own “Hungarian Sketches.” The concert is sponsored by the New York City Classical Guitar Society.
Just three years after taking up the guitar at the age of 17, Pavlovits took honors at the 1993 Zory International Guitar Festival and Competition in Poland. Since then, he has received several such distinctions, including first prize at Hungary’s Esztergom International Guitar Competition (part of Europe’s oldest guitar festival), second prize at the Intenational Guitar Competition of Crete, and the Zoltan Kodaly Stipend for composers. He has toured internationally since 1994, drawing the highest praise for his playing and composition alike. The French magazine Cahiers de la Guitare has cited his “rarely heard mastery of sonority and polyphonic playing,” calling him “a highly individual composer and performer, with dramatic power and sensibility,” and Gazeta, Poland’s leading daily newspaper, has characterized him as “close to a genius.”
Thoroughly schooled in piano and composition as well as the guitar, Pavlovits holds a Ph.D. from Romania’s Academy of Music of Cluj. He is a member of the Faculty of Music at Hungary’s University of Szeged, and has conducted seminars in the German Department there on such topics as Beethoven’s piano and orchestral music and the musical background of Thomas Mann’s Doktor Faustus. |
