Fábio Zanon Concert
Fábio Zanon Concert
The superb concert at Americas Society that inaugurated The New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes presented an exquisite repertoire of Brazilian guitar classics.
The 2014 New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes opened with a June 24, 2014 evening concert with guest artist, Brazilian classical guitarist Fabio Zanon, at the Americas Society on Park Avenue in New York. The event was sponsored by the MetLife Foundation and featured as part of the Music of the Americas Concert Series.
The concert was held within two rooms just beyond the grand marble staircase inside the 1909 home that had originally been the residence of New York financier Percy Rivington Pyne. The audience sat in folding chairs set up between two salons decorated with padded yellow and cream French silk striped fabric walls and draperies set into 10-foot tall windows with wrought-iron balconies overlooking Park Avenue. The high ceiling overhead features oval medallion plasterwork insets with oil paintings of cherubs and pastoral scenery and a glimmer of sconce crystals along the wall directs one’s attention to the more brightly lit chandelier in the main room where, on this occasion, Fábio Zanon sat upon a raised dais. On the wall behind him, a portion of the audience sat framed within shadowy rows reflected inside an enormous, antique Federal-era mirror.
Brazilian-born Fábio Zanon studied at the Universidad de São Paulo and the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he is currently appointed as Visiting Professor of Guitar. He won both the GFA and Tárrega competitions in 1996 and has since claimed numerous accolades for his concerts and recordings....
