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"--astonishing....astounding arrangements"---The New York Times

"--virtuosos in their own right, and together produce chamber music proper...close observance of each other's actions...a very tight performance."--Fanfare Magazine, referring to Wm. Anderson & pianist Joan Forsyth

"--the alert guitarist" ---The New York Times

"--The mirror-paneled recital room provided an apt visual metaphor for how such seemingly modest dimensions can trick the ear into an impression of vaster scale. Guitarist William Anderson brought both technical and expressive virtuosity to his accounts...a quasi-orchestral pallete of coloristic effects...deftly realized by Anderson as he shaped each entry with epigrammatic concentration." --- Thomas May, The Washington Post

"--Electrifying--New York Times

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Recent & Upcoming:

William Anderson & Cygnus perform Sandor Jemnitz' Trio, op. 33, for guitar, fln, vla at the Bard Festival, Sunday, August 15, 2010 at 1:30PM at Olin Hall.

Also at the Bard Festival--William Anderson was in the onstage band in Schrecker's Die Ferne Klang.

Anderson and Bodies Electric do the Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival, Thrusday, July 15 through July 17--works by Anderson, Loeb, Terry Riley, Peter Pindar Stearns, Terry Champlin, Allen Brings, Allen Shawn, William Anderson, Frank Brickle, and others.

July 9 at Mannes/New School Guitar Seminar--Anderson/Fader duo do Babbitt's Soli e Duettini, Wuorinen's Dodecadactyl and Hexadactyl, Anderson's Little Duo, Paul Lansky's Crooked Courante, and Frank Brickle's Genius Loci.

Anderson does tenor banjo in the Gatsby Suite by John Harbison with the Albany Symphony. May, 2010 (performance and recording)

Recital with flutist Sue-Ann Kahn at the Park-McCollough Estate in Bennington, VT--works by Anderson, Rochberg, Poulenc, Ibert, Mozart, Bach, and others.

William Anderson & Joan Forsyth's recording of the Wuorinen Sonata for Guitar and Piano has been selected by Art of the States for broadcast in 51 countries, and podcasts on the Art of the States website. Fanfare Mag. reviewed can be found HERE.

New Anderson Compositions in the works:
--*Ditha*, a chamber opera based n Adalbert Stifter's masterpiece,*Abdias*
--*Unexpected Reunion*, a setting of Johann Peter Hebel's famous work, the short story that inspired Hoffmann, Wagner, and others.

July 10 and 11, 2009--William Anderson & Joan Forsyth at the Warebrook Festival, doing Charles Wuorinen, Elliott Carter, Allen Shawn, and other works--Irasburg, VT

May 9 & 10-- Josee Garand Dance Company presents Josee Garand's *Mangrove*, for dancers with live solo guitarist performing music by Harold Meltzer, Miami, Florida--look out for the video, coming soon. The beautiful dancers are Lavonna Anthony, Lissy Jo, Karel Rodrigez, Nilder Santos, Sorgalim Villaurrutia, Madelynn Hagemann (May 9th) Priscilla Marrero (May 10th). [Four of the dancers defected from a Cuban dance company that was on tour in Mexico, just weeks before.]

More Mangrove Photos

May 1, 8PM at Advent Lutheran Church-- with Cygnus and Momenta String Quartet and sopranos Elizabeth Farnum, Julie Bishop, and Priscilla Smith present Matthew Greenbaum's *Nameless*

Unexpected Reunion--click for details

Nov. 6 and 7
Festival of New American Music, Sacramento
works by Meltzer, Babbitt, Wuorinen, Rokeach, Brickle, Pollock

Nov. 9
On the air with Sarah Cahill, in San Francisco, with Oren Fader, Joan Forsyth, Harold Meltzer.

December 12 8PM
Harold Meltzer's Virginal,
with Sequitur, at the Library of Congress

December 31, 7:30
Cygnus--Stone Soup
at Advent Lutheran Church

this program features the premiere of

Unexpected Reunion--a new work by William Anderson for sopranos, tenors, 16 guitars, violin & 'cello. This is a setting of Anderson's updated version of the famous story by Johann Peter Hebel. In short, a Pennsylvania anthracite coal miner is lost in the mine shortly before his wedding day. This story is sung by the sopranos. Meanwhile, 50 years of events transpire. The list of events is sung by the tenors, culminating in the extraordinary events of 2008! The sopranos finish the story, telling of the miner's body being found, preserved in iron vitriol. His bride, 50 years older, recognizes him, and wraps up her affairs.

Also on this program--Wuorinen's Dactyls for 1 and 2 guitars; Harold Meltzer's guitar solo, Doria Pamphili. Frank Brickle's newest work Genius Loci for mandolin & guitar, a companion piece for his Moericke setting, Denk es, O Seele. Terry Champlin's Harp of David, and other guitar ensemble music, tba.

This Hebel story was adored by Kafka, Wittgenstein, Walter Benjamin, and many others. Here are two articles that Benjamin wrote about Hebel:

Benjamin on Hebel I
Benjamin on Hebel II

October 18

Unison Arts, New Paltz
Picaresque--a program for solo guitar and harpsichord, with Joan Forsyth. Music by Manuel Ponce, including his fabulous Sonata for Guitar and Harpsichord, other works by Vivaldi, Rodrigo, Sor, Scarlatti, Bach.

Rodrigo's Fandango is The Quintessentially Picaresque work of the 20th C. Here is an excerpt--->

Here is Anderson's Grüne Heinrich:

The guitar you see here is one of the most remarkable instruments ever made. It was one of the late Thomas Humphrey's experimental models from 1987. Tom was a founder, or The Founder of Unison Arts, another legacy of his extraordinary devotion to the guitar. Tom is sorely missed. We love him very much.