"a substantially gifted guitarist whose playing revealed equal portions of stylistic elegance and technical polish."
Baltimore Sun

"Vieaux opened ears with his rhythmic clarity and remarkable left-hand facility....He made the single guitar seem like a body of instruments at work in music full of the emotion of loss."
The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Jason Vieaux [was] nimble-fingered in a Vivaldi Concerto that was remarkable for its variety of colors."
Boston Globe

"Guitarist Vieaux excelled in its flamenco-style flourishes, ethereal high notes and spiraling passage work." [Villa-Lobos, San Diego Symphony]
San Diego Union Tribune

"Vieaux gave a cleanly played performance full of personality. This gentle concerto (it was a favorite of Mata's) gave the soloist plenty of opportunities to display his technical skill."
Fort-Worth Star Telegram/DFW.com

"His sense of colour, phrase shaping and beautifully expressive dynamics are remarkable. It is not easy, especially in a long fugue, to keep the listener with you...the playing displays consummate artistry"
MusicWeb-International.com

"Vieaux showed why he is among the most talented guitarists of his generation, a player whose effortless technique and fluidity gave the concerto a singing voice."
Tampa Tribune

"Allen Krantz's guitar concerto Songs of Innocence and Experience filtered Pacific Rim musics through Krantz's own American lens in a work so affable that with a charismatic interpreter like Jason Vieaux, it's bound to become standard guitar concerto repertoire."
Philadelphia Inquirer

"Jason Vieaux displayed dexterity in rapid passages, and a plaintive, singing tone during slower, more expressive moments."
[Villa-Lobos, San Diego Symphony]
San Diego.com

"The first thing one notices is his consummate technique, with a virtually flawless left hand and an almost total absence of the glistening sound of sliding fingers during position change. The technique is so secure that after five minutes one forgets about it and pays attention to matters of interpretation."
Buffalo News

"Vieaux lit into Jose Luis Merlin's "Suite del Recuerdo." His smooth phrasing and the dramatic pulsing swells he created on the low strings made this a tough act to follow."
The Washington Post

"...close to perfection...with a maturity, confidence, emotion and virtuosity which belie his youth..."
Soundboard Magazine

"Vieaux was first-class. One movement on Ponce's concierto del sur made me want to hear more of his work, such was the range of sounds he drew from his instrument."
New Zealand Herald

"Jason Vieaux has magic in his fingers... Vieaux gave an inspired and impeccably prepared recital before a large audience."
The Daily Gazette

"Vieaux shows why he flies above crowded field of classical guitarists" Buffalo News

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Critical Acclaim
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top photo credit: Tyler Boye

Jason Vieaux, guitar                                                                                                   

"among the elite of today's classical guitarists"
-Gramophone

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. Vieaux is devoted to a wide concerto repertoire and equally committed to imaginatively crafted recital programs. He enjoys a career that also features a variety of chamber music collaborations with forays into jazz and pop material.
 
Jason’s current recital programming features sets of Spanish pieces from his forthcoming CD, as well as works of J.S. Bach, Pat Metheny, Dan Visconti (written for Jason Vieaux), and Benjamin Britten (Nocturnal After John Dowland), in celebration of the Centennial of Britten’s birth.

Jason Vieaux's extensive concerto repertoire is on display this season and next in engagements with the Symhonies of Toronto, Houston, Edmonton, Spokane and Silicon Valley, among many others. This season also includes recitals in New York, Seattle and Philadelphia, a week-long festival with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, collaborative performances with the Escher String Quartet, with harpist Yolanda Kondonassis, and with bandoeon virtuoso Julien Labro. Jason has just finished another tour with the elite Curtis on Tour program, including concerts in Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Brazil.

Recent engagements have included include a return to the Caramoor, Peninsula and Music@Menlo Festivals; concerto performances with the symphonies of Buffalo, Charlotte, Richmond, Florida, Grand Rapids, Fort Wayne, Amarillo, Elgin, Santa Barbara, the Cleveland Pops and a tour of Japan with the Cleveland Orchestra; return engagements with the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, the guitar festivals of Hartford and Fort Worth, a Lincoln Center Series debut, as well as appearances in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, Toronto and Los Angeles and solo recitals in Seattle, Los Angeles, Denver, St. Louis, Dallas, Ft. Worth, Las Vegas, Cincinnati and Cleveland.

In demand as a concerto soloist, he has working with such conductors as Hans Graf, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Jahja Ling, Stefan Sanderling and Alasdair Neale and has toured Europe, Mexico, South America, Southeast Asia, the Far East, Australia and New Zealand.

Vieaux's latest CD is an all-Piazzolla recording with bandoneon virtuoso Julien Labro and A Far Cry chamber orchestra. His Bach: Volume I Works for Lute 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. His next CD is scheduled for release later this year.

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.

A highly sought-after teacher, in 2012 the Jason Vieaux Guitar Academy was launched in partnership with ArtistWorks Inc., an unprecedented technological interface that provides a one-on-one online study exchange between Vieaux and guitar students around the world. Vieaus is head of the guitar department at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and also serves on the faculty of The Curtis Institute of Music. In 2011, Jason and fellow guitarist David Starobin launched the new classical guitar department for Curtis, its first new program in two decades.

† The Escher Quartet appears by arrangement with Arts Management Group www.artsmg.com