Live Wires: Music for Electric Guitars and Electric Cello

The final concert of the 2015-2016 season of Kent State University’s Vanguard New Music Guest Artists Series will feature music for electric cello, electric guitars, and electronics, presented by Live Wires. The Live Wires new music group consists of composer Arthur Hernandez, electric cellist Jeffrey Krieger, guitarist and composer Matt Sargent, and guitarist and composer Thomas Schuttenhelm. The concert will be presented on Saturday, April 30 starting at 7:30 P.M. in the Carl F. W. Ludwig Recital Hall, Center for the Performing Arts, Kent State University. Admission will be free.

The program will begin with Fantasia Variations on “O Nata Lux” for two electric guitars, composed in 2014 by Thomas Schuttenhelm. Janus, for electric guitar and electric cello, composed in 2012 by Arthur Hernandez, will be followed by a second work by Thomas Schuttenhelm, Analog Angels Inside the Digital Devil, for electric guitar and electric cello, which was composed in 2014. The program will continue with Matt Sargent’s 2014 composition a thin line to draw us together, for two electric guitars, electric cello, and hand-built electronics. The final piece on the program will be Old Badman for electric cello, composed by Arthur Hernandez in 2011.