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 Jack Sanders
Guitar
Thatcher 6, (909) 621-8155,
sandersgtr@aol.com
Home Page:
www.sandersguitar.com
Expertise Profile
Soloist, chamber musician, pedagogue, and luthier, Jack
Sanders’ performances have included the Sitka Summer
Music Festival, Kapalua Music Festival of Hawaii,
Arrowhead Bach Festival, and solo appearances with
numerous orchestras, including the Illinois Chamber
Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Santa Fe, Modesto
Symphony, Orange County Chamber Orchestra and South
Coast Symphony. He has performed with the St.
Petersburg, Colorado, and Angeles string quartets, the
vocal group I Cantori, and the contemporary chamber
ensemble XTET. Radio appearances have included NPR’s
nationally broadcast “West Coast Live.”
In 1984 Jack Sanders formed a duo with violinist Clayton
Haslop which has since appeared at Guitar Foundation of
America Festivals, Merkin Hall in New York, the Oregon
Bach Festival and in concerts from Hawaii and Alaska to
Maine. The Haslop/Sanders Duo has toured for the
California Arts Council, and a 1988 tour of China included
the Shanghai Conservatory, where Mr. Sanders was the first
U.S. guitarist to appear after the Cultural Revolution.
The Duo has recorded for Centaur Records and Townhall
Records. A solo recording by Mr. Sanders featuring the
Preludes of Ponce, Villa-Lobos and Carlevaro was released
by Townhall Records in the Spring of 2000.
Mr. Sanders also performs with oboist Allan Vogel and
flutist Janice Tipton in the Valencia Trio which has
appeared at the International Music Festival of Costa Rica
and the Sedona Chamber Music Festival.
Equally at home performing music of all periods, he gave
the American premiere of Micio Mamiya’s Sacred Spells for
Guitar. Works written for him include Anthony Plog’s
Animial Ditties for guitar and narrator, Karl Kohn’s
Soliloquy, Tripartita, Concords (violin/guitar),
Colla
Voce (viola/guitar), Joseph Brennan’s Five Preludes, and
Frank Campo’s Two Studies (trumpet/guitar) which he has
recorded for Crystal Records. In 1996 he gave the first
performances of Las Folios D’España, a concerto by Louis
Moyse and in January 1999 he gave the U.S. premiere of
Raymond Luedeke’s Elemental Dances with the Colorado
String Quartet.
Recent activities included the premiere of Concords
III for cello and guitar, by Karl Kohn; solo tours
of Wyoming, Louisiana, and Massachusetts for the
Piatigorsky Foundation; a recital at the 2008 Guitar
Foundation of America Festival; and a chamber music
concert with members of the LA Philharmonic, sponsored
by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association. Upcoming
concerts in 2009/10 include Piatigorsky Foundation tours
of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
A three-time full scholarship student at the Banff Centre
of Fine Arts in Canada, Jack Sanders received his BFA and
MFA degrees from California Institute of the Arts. He has
been a member of the faculty of Pomona College since 1980.
His students have been prizewinners in the Tokyo
International Guitar Competition and those sponsored by
the American String Teachers Association, Redlands Bowl,
ARCO, KCET-TV, and the Ambassador Foundation. An
accomplished luthier, Sanders builds guitars and vihuelas,
and has taught guitar building courses at California
Institute of the Arts and Pomona College. In April 2009,
the San Francisco Conservatory of Music commissioned Mr.
Sanders to build two copies of a C. 1830 Rene’ Lacote
guitar for use by faculty and students. |
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