Lunchtime Recital - Kevin Sherwin (guitar) - In the romantic style

Guitarist and conductor Kevin Sherwin is a soloist and leader of orchestral and choral ensembles, who infuses his active concert schedule with scholarly work in music performance practice. Mr. Sherwin’s extensive engagements as a guitarist include his debut at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, performances at the Great Music Series in San Diego, the Music without Borders Festival of Montreal, the Yale University Art Gallery, and concert tours across cities such as Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and states including Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Kentucky. As a concerto soloist, he has also performed major works including the Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez, Villa-Lobos Concerto, and Vivaldi Concerto in D Major, among others. He is also a co-founding member of the Musica Vera Duo with baroque violist Mark Bailey. Among his awards and honors, Mr. Sherwin was cited in 2016 by the Town of North Haven, Connecticut, for excellence in contributing to the musical arts. As well, he has received additional awards from the Guitar Foundation of America, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the Long Island Guitar Festival, and the National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts. In chamber music, Mr. Sherwin is a founding member of The Musica Vera Duo with violist Mark Bailey. As a conductor, Mr. Sherwin is Associate Artistic Director of The American Baroque Orchestra, and is an invited speaker at the University of Oxford, presenting "Conductors on early film: coordinating romantic-era orchestral expression."