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David Franzen
Concert- Friday, December 3rd, 2010 at 8 PM
Concert Venue: First Congregational Church
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cwObCLS8bs
David Franzen was the first classical guitarist to win the North Carolina School of the Arts
(NCSA) Concerto Competition, an event open to all orchestral instrumentalists. Consequently, he performed as soloist with the NCSA Symphony and became eligible for the NCSA
International Music Program. During the summer of l989, he toured Italy, and Germany, and performed 45 concerts, both as soloist and in chamber ensembles.
In 1991 he
collaborated with Aaron Shearer of the North Carolina School of the Arts in the music interpretation section of the method book series, ”Learning the Classical
Guitar.” Mr. Franzen plays all passages and pieces on the accompanying recording. Besides Mr. Shearer, his teachers include James Kline, Ian Mitchell and Scott Kritzer
and Bryan Johanson.
In l992 he was the winner of the Northwest Guitar Festival Competition in Boise, Idaho. He has performed as guest soloist with the Winston
Salem Symphony performing Joaquin Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez,The Portland State University Chamber Orchestra performing Vivaldi’s Concerto in G Major for two
mandolins (assisted by guitarist Kristen Waligora),The Oregon State University performing the Aranjuez Concerto, the Vancouver Symphony performing the Tedesco Guitar Concerto
in D.
In September 2001 he joined the Oregon Symphony Orchestra in a concert where original Latin songs some of which were co-composed by Franzen/Raphael and arranged
for Orchestral Accompaniment by Norman Leyden were performed in a collaborative concert given by “Pepe and the Bottle Blondes”and the Oregon Symphony.
In
2003 Franzen was a semifinalist in the Guitar Foundation of America international solo Guitar Competition in Merida Mexico.
David Franzen is currently on faculty at
Portland State University, where he teaches private lessons and ensemble classes.
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