Exeter, NH (June 20, 2008)—The Friends of the Academy Library of Phillips Exeter Academy kick off another summer of musical concerts at its annual series, held in the Rockefeller Hall of the Class of 1945 Library. This year’s series consists of six free concerts, beginning at 7 p.m. All are welcome.    
 
Virtuoso guitarist Robert Squires debuts this year’s performances, with “Reinvention and Reconvergence: An Evening of Solo Guitar,” on Wednesday, June 25. His concert features musical selections Fantasia, by S.L. Weiss; Op. 6 #11, Allegro moderato in E min/E, and Op. 9, Theme and Variations from Magic Flute’s Oh Cara Armonia, by Fernando Sor; portions of J.S. Bach’s Movements from BWV 1006a Suite in E Major; several works by Isaac Albeniz, including Granada, Cataluna and Seville; and selections from the Beatles.

Squires has been an adjunct faculty member at Phillips Exeter Academy since 1979, and is a well-known guitarist throughout the greater Boston area.  He is also the former lead guitarist for Beatlejuice, the popular Boston-based Beatles tribute band.

The second concert on Wednesday, July 9, will present violinist Paul MacDowell and George Lopez on piano in “Music We Like to Play.” This performance features musical selections Sonata in E Flat Major, K.304 by Mozart; Sonata in C Minor, Op. 45 by Grieg; March from Love for Three Oranges, by Sergei Prokofiev; Melodie by C.W. von Gluck; and Estrellita by Manuel Ponce, among others.

MacDowell has been an adjunct music faculty member at PEA since 1991. He earned his master’s degree in music from Boston University, and since then has actively played with groups throughout New England as varied as the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Aerosmith.

Lopez is a featured global piano recitalist, soloist with orchestra, and is considered one of the best chamber musicians of his generation. He serves as an adjunct music faculty member at PEA.

The remaining Wednesday evening concerts will include a July 16 performance of the Paul Broadnax Quartet performing in the series’ third concert; “Music from the Scepter’d Isle,” with clarinetist Christine Fell and pianist Radmila Repczynski performing in the series’ fourth concert on July 23; the Tony Carelli Quintet, performing an evening of original and standard jazz compositions in the series’ fifth concert on July 30; and “Salut D’Amour,” the series’ sixth and final performance on August 6, featuring flutist Julia Scolnik, a 1974 alumna of Phillips Exeter Academy, and Sophia Scolnik-Brower on piano.

For more information, please call Academy Librarian Jacquelyn H. Thomas at (603) 777-3328 or visit the Academy Library’s events page at http://www.exeter.edu/libraries/4513_4521.aspx.

To see a pdf of the full summer program, please click here.