Tampa, Fla. – Hillsborough Community College (HCC) will host award-winning classical guitarist Jay Kacherski live in concert at the Dale Mabry Campus Student Services Auditorium on Friday, October 13, at 7:30 p.m.
General admission tickets are $20. Current HCC students, faculty and staff can attend for free with Hawk ID and advanced reservation.
For tickets, please visit hccfl.edu/guitar-series. For more information, please email hccguitarseries@hccfl.edu or call 813.853.5672.
The HCC Guitar Series is sponsored by the Dale Mabry Student Government Association.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
“Vituosismo” and “technical dominance” are the words used by the press to describe American guitarist, Jay Kacherski. A native of New York, Kacherski has performed around the world as a soloist and member of the Grammy nominated Texas Guitar Quartet. He has performed at distinguished music festivals and venues such as the Festival International de Guitarra de Taxco, Mexico, the Florida Guitar Foundation, the Brevard Music Center, Round Top, the New Orleans International Guitar Festival, the Austin Classical Guitar Society and the International Guitar Art Festival in Shenzhen, China.
He has also collaborated with Grammy-winners and nominees such as the chamber choir Conspirare, Chilean flutist Viviana Guzman, the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet and renowned American composer Libby Larsen.
Jay Kacherski is currently on the guitar faculty at Loyola University of New Orleans, the University of New Orleans and McNeese State University, as well as NOCCA, the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. He has presented at music conventions and festivals throughout the U.S. and is often invited to adjudicate at national and international competitions. As a teacher, his students have been finalists and winners of international solo and chamber music competitions and recipients of scholarships for continued study.
Kacherski is the Artistic Director of the Houston Classical Guitar Festival and Competition and the Loyola Guitar Festival in New Orleans as well as the Director of the Francis G. Bulber Youth Orchestra Guitar Program. His academic studies include a doctor of musical arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin, a master of music degree in guitar performance and literature from the Eastman School of Music and undergraduate degrees from Florida Southern College where he graduated with honors.
Hillsborough Community College serves more than 43,000 students annually at its five campuses located throughout Tampa Bay. For more information, visit hccfl.edu.
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