Textures for Two Guitars - Steven Peacock and Gerry Van Wart-FR

Event date(s): January 31, 2024
Time(s): 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Category: Fredericton
Location: Fredericton

Classical guitarists Steven Peacock and Gerry Van Wart present Textures for Two Guitars: Works New and Selected, playing pieces ranging from baroque to 20th century, and a number of their own compositions. Both locals, they’ve worked with world class musicians across the country, and released over a dozen CDs between them. 

This pay-what-you-can concert will offer a range of delightful pieces to warm the heart and chase those winter blues away. 

Wed., Jan. 31 at noon at UNB’s Memorial Hall, presented as part of MusicUNB’s 2023-24 concert series and FROSTival. 

Read on for Steven and Gerry's bios. 

Classical guitarist, composer, and choral conductor Steven Peacock, based in Fredericton, NB, has performed as a soloist and accompanist in concert and recording engagements throughout Canada. His La libellule (Blue Milo, 2021), combining seven original works for solo guitar with baroque and 20th-century repertoire by seven other composers, is one of twelve CD releases. Keenly interested in ensemble work, he has worked extensively with flutists Sally Wright (The Green Bushes, 2010) and (in the United Kingdom) Jane Coulcher-Stoltenberg (Encuentro, 2000); sopranos Sally Dibblee, Angela Birdsell, and Wendy Nielsen; violinists Hyung- Sun Paik (Toronto Symphony) and Nadia Francavilla (currently Musician in Residence at UNB); violist Natalia Delacroix; bassoonist Yvonne Kershaw (Canciones y Leyendas: Songs and Legends for Bassoon and Guitar, 2005); percussionist Michel Descheênes; cellist Emily Kennedy; and guitarist Gerry Van Wart. Mr. Peacock teaches music theory and guitar history at St.Thomas University, and since 2005 has been Music Director at Wilmot United Church in Fredericton.

Fredericton-based classical guitarist Gerry Van Wart studied under Ako Ito and Henri Dorigny at the Conservatoire de Nice, from which he graduated with a Premier Prix and was also awarded a Grand Prix deVirtuosité by the jury of the Gil Craven Concours National de Musique. He also holds an ARCT in Guitar Performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music inToronto. He has been associated with Les jeunesses musicales for many years as a student, teacher and performer, has performed widely as a soloist and chamber musician, and frequently collaborates with guitarist Steven Peacock, with whom he has released Pavane in 2019, Luminosa in 2013, Milonga in 2003 and El Elegante: Dances for Two Guitars (music by Bartok, de Falla, Granados and Nardelli) in1997. His self-titled CD of solo works by Bach, Ponce, Bogdanovic, Milton Barnes and Richard Gibson appeared in 2007. Mr.Van Wart maintains a busy private teaching and soccer-playing schedule.

Building: Memorial Hall

Room Number: Auditorium