Benjamin Verdery

Guitarist/Composer

Pequot Library and Music for Youth present Young Persons’ Concert featuring

Benjamin Verdery, guitarist, composer

 2 PM OCTOBER 1st • PEQUOT LIBRARY, Southport CT

MasterClass to follow concert

About Benjamin Verdery

Called “an iconastic player” by the New York Times, Mr Verdery has performed throughout Europe, North and South America and Asia, including at the Metropolitan Opera, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), 92Y Kaufmann Auditorium and guitar festivals around the world. He has performed and/or recorded with guitarists William Coulter, Frederic Hand, Leo Kottke, Paco Peña, Nano Stern, Andy Summers and John Williams, and vocalist Jessye Norman, among others.

Ben Verdery has been a guitar professor at the Yale School of Music since 1985. He has also taught at New York University, Manhattan School of Music, Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, and Centro Flamenco Paco Peña (Spain) and his own annual summer master class on Maui, HI.

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