Skaneateles Library
49 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Conducted by Ken Meyer, currently serving as a lecturer/affiliate artist at Hamilton College and Syracuse University, the 15+ members of the "guit-orchestra" are some of the knowers and lovers of the guitar in our community. The performance will feature festive holiday music for two, three, four, and more guitars. Fans of the series won't want to miss this love letter to the instrument and the people who play!

Skaneateles Library
49 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The LaLena-Marcondes Duo is a brand-new ensemble comprised of guitarists Anthony LaLena and Bernardo Marcondes. Driven by a mutual love for the guitar and the artistry of arrangement, the LaLena-Marcondes Duo arose from Anthony and Bernardo's desire to explore the innovative arrangements of piano music for two guitars by early-20th century guitarists, Miguel Llobet, Emilio Pujol, Alexandre Lagoya, and Ida Presti.

On their debut concert on the 2024 Summer@Eastman series, Anthony and Bernardo premiered a richly varied program featuring many of these historic pieces, including recently discovered arrangements of Manuel de Falla's El amor brujo and El sombrero de tres picos and their own reconstruction of Presti and Lagoya's lauded arrangement of Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune. They are currently embarking on their first recording project, which will celebrate these historic guitarists and feature the music of Debussy, Ravel, Falla, and more. As deeply curious musicians, they also include in their programs their own arrangements for guitar duo, as well as original compositions written for two guitars from the 19th century to today.

Skaneateles Library
49 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Classical guitarist Fredrik Jernberg has performed around Europe and America, both solo on his eight-string guitar, and with various chamber music groups. Fredrik grew up in Sweden and earned his Bachelor's Diploma in 2018 from Luca School of Arts in Leuven, Belgium. His studies with Belgian guitarist Raphaella Smits sparked his interest in the eight-string guitar. In 2021 he moved to Rochester to continue his music studies at Eastman School of Music in the studio of Nicholas Goluses. Having earned a Performer's Certificate in 2022 and a Master of Music diploma in 2023, Fredrik is currently a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts at Eastman where he holds a Teaching Assistantship, as well as a Teaching Internship at Eastman Community Music School. At Eastman, Fredrik has collaborated with both upcoming and established composers, and performed with celebrated ensembles, such as Musica Nova and the Eastman Wind Orchestra.

Skaneateles Library
49 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Kenneth Meyer, the national first-prize winner at the Music Teacher's National Association Collegiate Artist Competition, is regarded by The Washington Post as, "A thinking man's guitarist – he focuses on the inner structure of a piece...and plays with impressive gravity and power." The Buffalo News has called him, "Impeccably articulate with superb technique."?

Mr. Meyer's commitment to the cultivation and performance of new music has led to awards from the Barlow Endowment, the Argosy Foundation, and the Eastman School's Hanson Institute for American Music; interpretive instruction from Milton Babbitt, and premiere performances of compositions by among others, Natalie Draper, Leslie Basset, Edward Green, Andrew Waggoner, Gregory Mertl, Edie Hill, Kevin Ernste, Nicolas Scherzinger, Jesse Benjamin Jones, Donald J. Sparr, James Piorkowski and Robert Baker. His diversity as a musician has led to performances on mandolin, banjo and electric guitar with among others, the Syracuse Opera, the Syracuse Society for New Music and the Broadway touring production of the Who's rock opera, Tommy. ?

Previous concert tours include trips to Venezuela, Rome, Canada, Romania, Hungary, Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore. He has appeared in concerto performances with Symphoria, the Long Island Philharmonic, the Erie Chamber Orchestra, the Niagara Symphony Orchestra, and the Seattle Modern Orchestra. He has recorded for Innova, Frameworks, Albany, Summit, and Bridge.

His latest commercial recording, A Seeker's Song was released on the Frameworks record label and his book titled Diatonic Arpeggios for Classical Guitar is published through Mel Bay. Both are now available online.?

He holds degrees in Music Composition and Classical Guitar Performance from the State University of New York at Fredonia and Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the Eastman School of Music. He has served on the faculties of East Carolina University and SUNY at Fredonia and most recently held visiting professorships at the Eastman School of Music and SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music.

Currently, Dr. Kenneth Meyer serves as a lecturer/affiliate artist at Hamilton College and Syracuse University. He serves on the board of directors for the Great Lakes Guitar Society, the Classical Guitar Society of Upstate New York, and the Twisted Spruce Music Foundation. He also founded and directs the Mohawk Valley Childbloom classical guitar program in New Hartford.