Classic Guitar Music by Dr. Istvan Szapudi. At 7: 30 p.m. Saturday Nights. No Charge. Call 396-5775 to make a reservation for your free transportation from hotel to the gallery.

Musical CV:

Name: Istvan Szapudi

Instruments:
-- guitar (main), violin, sharod, sitar, tampura, Hungarian flute

Interests:
-- jazz, free jazz, funk, ethnic and folk music, classical music

Studies:
-- Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore, (1992-1994)
  Classical Guitar under Nat Gunod
  Theory under Brunot Amato
  Solfege under Clinton Adams
  Attended Master Classes of Manual Barrueco
  Guitarrist of the Peabody Jazz Ensemble under the direction of David
Bunn

-- Regular at Jam Sessions at Fred Anderson's Velvet Lounge in Chicago,
  (1994-1997)

-- Lead violin in Vadkelet Ensemble in Toronto (1999-2001)

-- Forming String Theory in Honolulu (2008)

-- Leading Szapudi-Nagy-Gavaller Trio in Budapest (2009)

-- Seminar with Pat Metheny at the Vitoria Jazz Festival (2009)

-- Some of the people I had the privilege to share stage with over the
years in performances and jam sessions include:

  Ajaramu, Fred Anderson, Jim Baker, Gary Bartz, Billie Brimfield,
  David Bunn, Tony Bunn, Malachi Favors Maghostut, Von Freeman,
  Will Goffigan, Arthur Taylor