Guitarist and Professor of Music Lawrence Zbikowski in Concert

Lawrence Zbikowski, classical guitarist and Professor of Music and Humanities in the College at the University of Chicago, performs in a Tea Time Concert on Thursday, April 5 at 4:30 p.m. in Fulton Recital Hall.

Zbikowski’s principal research interests involve applying recent work in cognitive science (especially that done by cognitive linguists and cognitive psychologists) to various problems confronted by music scholars, with a particular focus on music theory and analysis. His new book, Foundations of Musical Grammar (Oxford University Press, 2017), builds on research on fundamental aspects of human communication to explore the basis for the construction of meaningful musical utterances. Recent seminars have focused on meter and rhythm, theories of embodiment and their relationship to musical knowledge, and relationships between music and language. He also teaches analysis courses that deal with a range of music, which lately have focused on music of the 18th and 19th centuries.

In solo concerts Zbikowski has performed works by Augustin Barrios, Richard Rodney Bennett, Peter Maxwell Davies, Joaquin Rodrigo, Vicente Sojo, Domenico Scarlatti, Fernando Sor, Toru Takemitsu, and Heitor Villa-Lobos.

The April 5 concert program will include music by John Dowland, John Duarte, Franz Schubert, Hans Werner Henze, and Heitor Villa-Lobos. The concert takes place in Fulton Recital Hall at 1010 E. 59th Street in Goodspeed Hall on the 4th floor. Complimentary cookies and tea will be served before the concert at 4:15 p.m.; with music beginning at 4:30 p.m. Admission is free. For more information, visit music.uchicago.edu.