Associate Professor of Guitar
Room 410, Broyhill Music Center
Phone (828) 262-6463
jamesdg@appstate.edu
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Dr. Douglas
James
Associate Professor of Guitar Room 410, Broyhill Music Center Phone (828) 262-6463 jamesdg@appstate.edu |
| Biography: Douglas James has appeared as a classical guitarist throughout the United States as well as in Europe and Mexico. He has been a featured recitalist at such notable venues as Italy's L'Estate Chitarristica sul Lago Maggiore , the Stetson International Guitar Workshop, Oberlin Conservatory, and New York's Carnegie and Merkin Halls. He has won top prize in the Arturo Toscanini Solo Guitar Competition (Italy), and twice has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Solo Recitalist Fellowship. James often features 19 th c. instruments in his performances of the Classical and Romantic literature, and plays regularly in a period guitar duo with the Italian guitarist Pasquale Rucco. Douglas James has three recorded three critically acclaimed CD's for the Cala Vista label. The first, Italian Romantic Music of the Early 19 th Century for solo guitar music was followed by two in duo with Pasquale Rucco, Early Romantic Music for Two Guitars and A Night at the Opera . Gitarr och Luta (Sweden) notes that "Douglas James' playing on the record is for my taste totally splendid. His enthusiasm to explore the early guitar repertoire is obvious, and he has an ability to use the old instruments to their full capacity, with all of their timbral possibilities. He plays intensely and sensitively with flow, ease and elegance." Classical Guitar (England) states "Douglas James clearly has a great deal of sympathy for this repertoire and a carefully worked out approach to its interpretation . . . everything is animated by concern for the life of the music on its own terms and in its own time. This is a welcome addition to the choice of 19th century repertoire played on genuine instruments of the time." Douglas James holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Arizona where he studied with Thomas Patterson. Dr. James is a former Chair of the Advisory Board of the Guitar Foundation of America, and directs the annual Appalachian GuitarFest. He can also be reached at his personal web site at www.douglasjamesguitar.com |
| Ensembles/Responsibilities: Guitar Ensemble and Applied Guitar |
| Sound Files: Fete Villageoise, op.20, by Guilio Regondi, from Italian Romantic Music of the Early 19th Century |
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