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"Vieaux is a guitar hero of a different kind....Vieaux has technique to spare, but also brings to bear passion and flair. And he only has two hands, though it frequently sounds like more”.
San Antonio Express, October 2011

Jason Vieaux, one of "the youngest stars of the guitar world" (New York Times) is expanding the definition of the classical guitarist and changing the face of guitar programming, building a devoted audience and fan base along the way. His reputation for putting his expressive gifts and virtuosity at the service of the music produces an active schedule of solo, chamber and concerto appearances around the US and abroad.

During the 2012-2013 season, Jason’s recital programming will feature sets of Spanish pieces from his forthcoming CD, as well as works of J.S. Bach, Pat Metheny, and Benjamin Britten (Nocturnal After John Dowland), in celebration of the Centennial of Britten’s birth.

His current touring season includes a return to New York to appear with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, a recital at the Caramoor Festival; concerto performances with the symphonies of Richmond, Buffalo, Fort Wayne, Amarillo, Elgin and Santa Barbara, among others; return engagements for the Peninsula Festival, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, the guitar festivals of Hartford and Fort Worth, the Museum in St. Petersburg; collaborative performances with the Escher String Quartet, with harpist Yolanda Kondonassis and with flutist Gary Schocker; and national tours with the elite Curtis on Tour program.

Jason's 2010-2011 season included a return to New York for his Lincoln Center Series debut, as well as appearances in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, Toronto and Los Angeles. He performed the Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez with the Charlotte Symphony, continuing his string of concerto performances that include his premiere of the guitar concerto by renowned composer Jerod Impichchaachaha' Tate (“Nitoshi Imali”). Other recent engagements include a Florida Orchestra debut, a “Carte Blanche” Series spot on the Music@Menlo Festival, and solo recitals in New York, Seattle, Los Angeles, Denver, St. Louis, Dallas, Ft. Worth, Las Vegas, Cincinnati and Cleveland.

Vieaux performs regularly as concerto soloist, working with such conductors as Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Jahja Ling, Stefan Sanderling and Alasdair Neale. He has toured Europe, Mexico, South America, Southeast Asia, the Far East, Australia and New Zealand.

A highly sought-after teacher who has heads the guitar department at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Vieaux joins the faculty of The Curtis Institute of Music in the fall of 2011 to create a new classical guitar department with fellow guitarist David Starobin. This will be Curtis' first new program in two decades.

Vieaux's latest CD is an all-Piazzolla recording with bandoneon virtuoso Julien Labro and A Far Cry chamber orchestra. Slated for release in October 2011, the Piazzolla CD follows his Bach: Volume I Works for Lute which hit #13 on the Billboard Classical Music Chart the first week of its release. Also on the Azica label, Images of Metheny is a disc of Vieaux's masterly re-creations of music by Pat Metheny, the American jazz guitarist/composer. Metheny, after listening to this landmark recording, declared: "I am flattered to be included in Jason's musical world”. Among his other CDs, Sevilla: The Music of Isaac Albeniz, was rated one of the Top Ten Classical CDs of 2003 by both The Philadelphia Inquirer and Cleveland’s Plain Dealer.

Current tour programs include: e/Merge celebrates the ways music and ideas emerge from the work of past masters; Folk Influences is a collaboration with the Escher String Quartet † and explores the folk inflluence on composers from Boccherini to Bartok and Piazzolla; The Spanish Spirit features common threads in the diverse music of Scarlatti, Sor, Merlin and Metheny; and Dream Travels, with flutist Gary Schocker is a set of evocative program music inspired by legends, dreams, and memory.

Jason Vieaux began guitar studies at age eight with Jeremy Sparks in Buffalo, and continued at The Cleveland Institute of Music with John Holmquist. He is the youngest First Prize winner in the history of the GFA International Guitar Competition, a Naumburg Foundation prizewinner, and a recipient of The Cleveland Institute of Music's Alumni Achievement Award. He is Head of the Cleveland Institute of Music Guitar Department.

† The Escher Quartet appears by arrangement with Kirshbaum Demler & Associates, Inc., www.kirshdem.com