Image: Ottorino Resphigi by Becker & Maass / Marie Boehm - Scanned from the frontmatter of the vocal score of La campana sommersa (Copyright 1927), published by Bote & Bock in Berlin. | Public Domain
This festive occasion features Joey Malvinni on classical guitar and Eric Valinsky on piano. Joey will play La Catedral by the Paraguayan composer Agustin Barrios Mangoré as well as arrangements of works by Debussy, Ravel, and Poulenc and of the famous Shaker hymn, “Simple Gifts”. Eric will play the excerpts from Ottorino Resphigi’s Ancient Airs and Dances that Resphigi arranged for piano and a rendition of Mozart’s Sonata in A major, K. 331, which he plays in a style of which Mozart would hopefully approve.
A reception follows the concert, open to all.
Program Details
- 1. Balletto detto “Il Conte Orlando” – Simone Molinaro (1599)
- 2. Villanella – Ignoto (Anonymous – fine del Sec. XVI)
- 3. Gagliarda – Vincenzo Galilei (155?)
- 4. Italiana – Ignoto (fine del Sec. XVI)
- 5. Siciliana – Ignoto (fine del Sec. XVI)
- 6. Passacaglia – Lodovico Roncalli (1692)
from Ma mère l’Oye (Mother Goose)
arr. J. Hyman
The Performers
Joseph Malvinni, from Santa Barbara, began classical guitar studies at age four with his father. Already a virtuoso player, he has honed his performance level in masterclasses and recitals throughout the US and Europe, including the Chigiana (Siena, Italy), Mozarteum (Salzburg, Austria), Eliot Fisk International Seminar (Granada, Spain), Boston GuitarFest, Cleveland Guitar Festival, Baltimore Classical Guitar Society and Pepperdine University. He has played for some of the world’s greatest living maestros of the instrument, including Eliot Fisk, Oscar Ghiglia, Rene Izquierdo, Leo Brouwer, Manuel Barrueco, Meng Su, Benjamin Verdery, Jason Vieux, Phillip de Fremery, David Tanenbaum and Joaquín Clerch. Joseph was the winner for the Santa Barbara Youth Symphony Concerto Competition which led him to solo with the Santa Barbara Symphony at the Granada Theater. He won first prize at the Latin American Guitar Festival, second prize at the Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation, and second prize at the URI Guitar Festival; he was also a finalist at the Stroud Competition.At the young age of 10, Joey was a finalist at Boston GuitarFest and the Christopher Parkening Junior Competition. Joey is a graduate of Dos Pueblos High and was a member of the Engineering Academy. In his school, Joey was a founding member of the Coding club and led his coding team to win first place in an International Hack-a-thon.
Joey, currently a college freshman, is a proud recipient of the Parkening and Regents scholarship at Pepperdine University and studies classical guitar with Christopher Parkening. Joseph is honored to play for the Santa Barbara Music Club, whose scholarship has been a major supporter of his playing since he was seven years old.
A native Manhattanite, Eric Valinsky has, for more years than he would like to admit, maintained dual careers in computer systems architecture and music. He was educated at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the University of Illinois, finally achieving his DMA in music composition from Columbia University. He studied composition with Walter Aschaffenburg, Salvatore Martirano, Jack Beeson, and Darius Milhaud; piano with Sara Crawford Drogheo and Emil Danenberg; and conducting with Harold Farberman. While living in Los Angeles, he became music director and composer-in-residence for The Storie-Crawford Dance Theatre Ensemble. Returning to New York, he served in a similar capacity for Danny Buraczeski’s Jazzdance, Uris Bahr and Dancers, and The New American Ballet Ensemble as well as composer-in-residence for The Rachel Harms Dance Company, Opera Uptown, and the Dance Department at City College of New York. He is currently Music Director for the American Dance & Music Performance Group and moonlights as founder and partner of Inlineos LLC, a strategic Internet consulting company.
