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介绍：Benjamin Verdery has been described by Guitar Review Magazine as "An American original; an American master." Since his 1980 New York debut with his wife, flutist Rie Schmidt, he has led an exciting and varied musical life. His recordings include: Bach: Transcriptions for Guitar (GRI); The Mask (New World Records) performing Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Romancero Gitano, Op. 152 for chorus and guitar; Reverie: French Music for Flute and Guitar (Schmidt/Verdery Duo, Sony Classical); John Williams Plays Vivaldi (Sony Classical) performing Vivaldi箂 Concerto in G Major for Two Mandolins; Some Towns and Cities (Sony Classical), Ride the Wind Horse: American Guitar Music (Sony Classical) and The Enchanted Dawn (Schmidt/Verdery Duo, GRI). Benjamin has also been a featured artist on two recent releases for the Windham Hill label. In 2001, Benjamin Verdery released Ben Verdery Ufonia (with his ensemble of the same name), and Soepa: American Guitar Music (a follow up to Ride the Wind Horse).As a performer, Benjamin Verdery has performed in many countries, including the International Guitar Festival in Havana, Cuba; Festival International de Agosto, Caracas, Venezuela; Theatre Carr?in Amsterdam; Chichester Cathedral, England; Bad Urach Schubert Festival in Germany; the 92nd Street Y, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Metropolitan Opera, New York and the Ambassador Theater in Los Angeles. He has recorded and performed with such diverse artists as Frederic Hand, Leo Kottke, Anthony Newman, Jessye Norman, Paco Pe馻, Hermann Prey and John Williams. He regularly performs with flutist Rie Schmidt in the Schmidt/Verdery Flute and Guitar Duo as well as with Celtic guitarist William Coulter in Bill and Ben. Mr. Verdery has had several composers write music for him, including Daniel Asia, John Anthony Lennon, Ingram Marshall, Anthony Newman, Roberto Sierra, Van Stiefel and Jack Vees.
A prolific composer, in recent years Benjamin Verdery has turned his attention to crafting unique extended works for large guitar ensembles. Benjamin箂 Scenes from Ellis Island, for guitar orchestra, has been extensively broadcast and performed at festivals and universities in America, Canada, New Zealand and Europe and the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet performs it on their CD Air and Ground (Sony Classical). Pick and Roll was premiered in 2000 at the UC Santa Cruz Contemporary Festival, written for multiple guitars, saxophone, violin and basketball player. Mr. Verdery is currently composing another work for guitar orchestra, commissioned by the Tidewater Classical Guitar Society in Virginia. Many of his chamber and solo compositions have been performed and published in recent years. Workshop Arts published the solo works from his recording Some Towns and Cities. The recording includes fifteen original compositions, and won the 1992 Best Classical Guitar Recording in Guitar Player Magazine. The following year, Benjamin Verdery founded his own band Ufonia, composing music for guitar, flute, oboe, bass, and percussion. Ufonia began touring in 1993 and released its first album in 2001. And in 1996, John Williams recorded Mr. Verdery's duo version of Capitola, CA for Sony Classical.Since 1985, Mr. Verdery has been the chair of the guitar department at the Yale University School of Music. Benjamin Verdery is in great demand as an instructor, teaching classes at the Paco Pe馻 Centro Flamenco in C髍doba, Spain, the Classical Guitar Festival of Great Britain at West Dean, England, the National Guitar Summer Workshop in Connecticut, and his annual summer master class on the island of Maui, Hawaii. Workshop Arts (distributed by Alfred Music) has released Mr. Verdery箂 book, Easy Classical Guitar Recital as well as his instructional video The Essentials of Classical Guitar (nominated for Best New Instructional Video by Music and Sound Retailer, 2000). For three years, Benjamin has been the Artistic Director of the Yale Guitar Extravaganza, a one-day guitar conference featuring guitarists and artists in concert and lectures.April, 2002Mr. Verdery seemed to have all the talent and skill to put him in the first rank of today's guitarists.
THE NEW YORK TIMESSecond International Guitar Festival, Singapore, 9/2001:
One of the most memorable moments in his concert was when he played Bach箂 Cello Suite No. 6 with his eyes closed almost all of the time. I never realized that Bach could sound so good; this was the best performance of Bach I have ever heard.
Terence Choo, CLASSICAL GUITAR ?ENGLAND (2002)Verdery's hands move with a fluid ease that is beautiful to see and even more beautiful to hear.
THE MILWAUKEE JOURNALBenjamin Verdery fascinated the audience with his wide repertoire, and cheerful smile and gestures.
GENDAI MAGAZINE (Tokyo Japan)Enthusiasm, heart and great musicianship, we are all the richer for the artist currently known as Ben Verdery.
CLASSICAL GUITAR - ENGLAND Charged with a great passion for playing music, Verdery's love for his art instills his live performances with a rare exuberance. Audiences are moved by both his artistry and his obvious delight in performing.
MAUI NEWS (Hawaii)Mr. Prey and Mr. Verdery brought an affecting sweetness and intimacy to this greatly lyrical music. (Schubert's Fr黨lingsglaube)
NEW YORK TIMESVerdery was then joined by John Williams for three duets. Their perfect rapport made splendidly evident from the start in the Williams arrangement of the theme and variations from `Brahms First String Sextet', which they played as with a single mind.
THE GUARDIAN (London)Here is a musician who knows what he wants and where he wants to go, and has the fiery technique to get him there. This kind of music making is exhilarating.
ST LOUIS POST-DISPATCHVerdery belongs to a group of younger American guitarists who do not see such a clear division between popular music and classical music, and who have achieved a high technical standard in order to further develop the original American music tradition. Appropriately, his program looked like this: Prince and Jimi Hendrix - next to Bach and Janacek, next to his own compositions.
BONNER RUNDFSCHAU (Bonn Germany)Benjamin Verdery is without a doubt a great guitarist possessing an astonishing technique.
CORDOBA TIMES (Spain)Cascades of guitar notes rippled with unbelievable clarity in the fire and fleetness of Rodrigo's two outer movements. Verdery is safe at any speed. The soloist even met the challenges in the famed `Adagio'.
PACIFIC MAGAZINE (CA) (with the Santa Cruz Symphony, JoAnn Falletta, conductor)The second half of the concert was a sheer joy. Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Guitar Concerto in D, Op. 99, was beautifully performed by Verdery, who captured all its fire and lyricism.
THE WASHINGTON POST (with The Handel Festival Orchestra)This was a great day led by a master teacher, patient, sensitive, musical, funny and wise.
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