Steven Seidenman Classical Guitarist from Germantown, MD

Steven Seidenman has been performing as a classical guitarist for over 35 years. His various concert venues have included the Montgomery County Arts Council, The Martin Luther King Memorial Library, Church of the Epiphany, The Mansion at Strathmore, Rockville Civic Center, The Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington, Lisner Auditorium, and Montgomery College's Guest Artist series. He performed twice for Maryland television. Steven was a winner of the Montpelier Recital Competition, one of two guitarists to have ever won in the competition's history. In 2011 he was invited to perform at the 8th annual Zihuatanejo International Guitar Festival in Southern Mexico (Zihuafest), representing the classic guitar among the diverse styles of guitar music presented at the festival. He has released three CD's of solo guitar music, and has made several guitar transcriptions of music by Bach, Mendelssohn, Vivaldi, Chopin and other composers. He has performed at weddings, anniversaries, receptions, corporate events, memorial services, and a variety of other special events, as well as community centers, libraries, universities, and charitable organizations. In addition to solo guitar repertoire spanning from the Renaissance through to the present, including music written for him, his repertoire also includes tasteful arrangements of vintage American standards, as well as works from the chamber music repertoire for guitar and flute, violin, and string quartet by composers such as Giuliani, Sor, Paganini, Berlioz, Boccherini, Bach, and Mozart, among others. Steven has also been teaching guitar for many years, and is currently on the faculty of Music and Arts Center and Expressions Music Academy. He also plays the ukulele.

• Leyenda | I. Albeniz
• Prelude | H. Villa-Lobos
• El Colibri (The Hummingbird) | J. Sagreras
• Una Lagrima | G. Sagreras
• Impromptu | M. Berkeley
• Prelude | A. Scriabin
• Fantasia | S. L. Weiss
• Prelude, Well-Tempered Clavier | J.S. Bach
• Bouree from B Minor Violin Suite | J.S. Bach
• Grand Solo | F. Sor
• To Malvina | J. K. Mertz
• Recuerdos de la Alambra | F. Tarrega
• Rossiniana | M. Giuliani
• Variations on a Theme of Mozart | F. Sor
• Bye Bye Blackbird | Ray Henderson
• Embraceable You | George Gershwin
• Someone To Watch Over Me | George Gershwin
• The Blue Room | Richard Rodgers
• You Took Advantage Of Me | Richard Rodgers