After having won 17 first prizes at the most prestigious international guitar competitions and having been awarded a number of audience and orchestra prizes additionally, Polish guitarist Marcin Dylla has just now received his 18th trophy: On October 21, 2007 he got the gold medal of the ‘Guitar Foundation of America International Competition’ in Los Angeles which can be considered as the most important guitar contest around the globe.
Cecilia Rodrigo, daughter and executor of the legendary Spanish composer and creator of the ‘Concierto de Aranjuez’, Joaquin Rodrigo, has chosen Marcin Dylla to perform the world premiere of a lately discovered new guitar work by her father entitled ‘Toccata’ (1933) on June 1, 2006 at Reina Sofia Museum of Modern Art in Madrid.Among his most recent highlights rank an exceedingly successful tour of the United States in September and October 2007 performing Rodrigo’s ‘Concierto de Aranjuez’ in a number of concerts with the Fort Collins Symphony under Wes Kenney and the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra and the Riverside Symphonia under the baton of Mariusz Smolij. "The biggest bang of the evening was as a result of the performance by the guest artist, Marcin Dylla, a Polish, by way of Germany, guitarist. He performed the Concierto de Aranjuez penned by the Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo.
While the piece is recognized as a classic blend of the guitar and orchestra, Dylla plays his instrument as a six-string orchestra, in and of itself. This guitarist is one of the most formidable and talented instrumentalists to have graced the Heymann Performing Arts Center stage in some time. The man simply gathered the audience into his musical embrace and kept them there."
Ray Blum
THE ADVERTISER |
