Through his acclaimed performances, arrangements, and teaching, Dan Acsadi is a passionate advocate for both the guitar and the music of his native Hungary. Dan’s arrangements encompass art and folk music of the 18th through 21st centuries, innovatively expanding the guitar’s repertoire. He is firmly committed to the guitar as a versatile chamber music instrument, performing regularly with voice, viola, violin, flute, string quartet, and guitar ensemble. Beginning his musical studies at age six, Dan earned his M.M. from New England Conservatory (NEC) and B.A. from Cornell University, where he double majored in music and economics. He is currently pursuing the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at NEC with Eliot Fisk. Dan has previously studied with Pablo Cohen and John Hall, and has performed in the masterclasses of Manuel Barrueco, Leo Brouwer, Eduardo Fernandez, and Adam Holzman. Dan maintains a large and diverse teaching studio in the Boston area.

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Frank Wallace, guitarist, baritone, composer, has been recognized for his extraordinary talent not only as a player of the classical guitar and its ancestors, but also as a master of self-accompanied song. Wallace has received two Artist Fellowship Awards from the NH Council on the Arts (2001 and 2006). HIs compositions are published by Tuscany, Gyre, and in Guitar Review, Sound Board and Fingerstyle Magazine and he has four solo CDs on Gyre with many other Duo LiveOak recordings of new and ancient music on Gyre, Centaur and Musical Heritage Society. American Record Guide calls Frank Wallace's compositions “exciting, unpredictable, and fresh”. Fanfare magazine has dubbed him a composer with “an authentic expressive voice” who writes with a “high standard of musical interest” and performs with “flawless technical proficiency”. New music reviewers have also honored Wallace's compositions: NewMusicBox.org calls it “contemporary musical emancipation”.

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A long time member and trustee of the Boston Classical Guitar Society George Ward is a graduate of the Art Institute of Boston and works as a freelance book illustrator. He is an active board member and produces the BCGS quarterly newsletter and the Hingham Public Library Concert Series started in 1998. George and his wife Kit have two sons in college and live in the historic district of Lowell with their Blue Heelers, Tilly and Trevor.
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