Music of Four Centuries: Classical Guitar Concert in the Reading Room with Peter Fletcher (Save your seat now!)

Join us on Saturday, April 11, at 2:00 PM in the Camden Public Library’s beautiful, acoustically immersive Reading Room for a free classical guitar performance from Peter Fletcher featuring masterfully performed classical arrangements transcribed for guitar from the Renaissance Period through the 20th century.

“Every time classical guitarist Peter Fletcher appears at Carnegie Hall, he has a packed house. Whether audience members are hearing him for the first time or were s enraptured by his technical skill and poised delivery that they’ve become diehard fans, Fletcher understands how to put together a repertoire that keeps audiences wanting more. And that is his genius.” – Fashion Reverie May 2015

RSVPs are now closed. You are welcome to still join us at the concert, though row seating is not guaranteed.

Peter Fletcher is a critically acclaimed American classical guitarist based in Detroit and New York City. His program features Bach’s Third Lute Suite and Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring; Prelude and Allegro by Spanish lutenist Santiago de Murcia; Variations on a theme by G. F. Handel’s “The Harmonious Blacksmith” by 19th Century Italian guitarist and composer Mauro Giuliani; Spanish guitarist and composer Francisco Tárrega’s extraordinarily beautiful Capricho Arabe; and three studies by Spanish composer Fernando Sor.

The concert will continue with Simple Gifts, a Traditional Shaker Hymn arranged for guitar by guitarist Christopher Parkening. Peter will also play a captivating work entitled Usher – Valse by Russian guitarist and composer Nikita Koshkin. Composed in 1984, this piece has taken inspiration from the short story The Fall Of The House Of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe. The concert will culminate with Spanish composer Isaac Albeniz’s Córdoba and Leyenda from Cantos de España, arranged by Fletcher from piano to classical guitar.

“Guitarist Peter Fletcher, on the other hand, keeps it blissfully simple…The balance of his program consists of piano music transcribed by Fletcher, but the music flows effortlessly from one instrument to another. Fletcher plays it all with a gracious virtuosity that makes for a very pleasing hour plus of unaffected musical poetry. – Fanfare Magazine Peter Burwasser”