The Minneapolis Guitar Quartet also offers an exciting, virtuosic collaboration with flamenco dancer Colette Illarde. These productions feature Spanish composers Enrique Granados and Joaquin Rodrigo with music arranged by the MGQ and choreography by Ms. Illarde, highlighting both Spanish classical and Flamenco dance styles. (For programs with dance, see below.)

Sample Programs

* - composed for the Minneapolis Guitar Quartet

** - arranged by the Minneapolis Guitar Quartet

Program 1

Windy**-----------------------------------------------Astor Piazzolla(1921-1992)

Toccata in D, BWV 912**-------------------------------J.S. Bach (1685-1750)

Introduction and Allegro
Adagio and Fugue
Con discrezione and Fugue a la gigue

Six Pieces on Spanish Folksongs**------------Enrique Granados (1867-1916)

Preludio
Añoranza
Ecos de la Parranda
Vascongada
Marcha Oriental
Zambra
Zapateado

Minnesota Winter*----------------------------------------Jeff Lambert (b. 1977)
Chicago Summer*

Ghetto Strings*-------------------------------Daniel Bernard Roumain (b. 1970)

Harlem
Haiti

Cuatro Piezas**---------------------------------- Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999)

Caleseras
Fandango del ventorrillo
Plegaria de la Infanta de Castilla
Danza valenciana

Program 2

El Baile de Luis Alonso-------------------------Jeronimo Gimenez (1854-1923)

Sonata Op. 1, No. 9**--------------------------Archangelo Corelli (1653-1713)

Allegro-Adagio
Allegro
Adagio
Allegro

Three Finnish Pieces**---------------------------------Maria Kalaniemi (b.1964)

Tahdet Taivahalla
Skymningspolskan
Hermannin Riili

Danzas Argentinas**-----------------------------Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983)

Danza del viejo boyero
Danza de la moza donosa
Danza del gaucho matrero

Cuatro Estampas Andaluzas**-------------------- Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999)

El vendedor de chanquetes
Crepusculo sobre el Guadalquivir
Seguidillas del Diablo
Barquitos de Cadiz

Farewell to Stromness---------------------------Peter Maxwell Davies (b. 1934)

Voices from the Garden*--------------------------------David Kechley (b. 1947)

Grooves
Dance and Reflection
Lament
Awakening
Driving

Program 3

Sonata No. 1**-----------------------------------------Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

Adagio
Allegro
Largo
Vivace

Three Pieces**----------------------------------------Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)

Windy
Tango para una Ciudad, parts I & II

Elassomorph---------------------------------------Stephen Funk Pearson (b.1950)

A Scottish Fantasy*------------------------------------David Crittenden (b.1960)

Pictures at an Exhibition**--------------------Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)

Promenade
The Gnome
Promenade
The Old Castle
Promenade
Tuileries (Children Quarreling After Play)
Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks
Two Polish Jews, One Rich, The Other Poor
Promenade
The Marketplace
The Catacombs of Paris
With the Dead in a Dead Language
The Hut on Hen's Feet (Baba-Yaga)
The Great Gate of Kiev

Program 4

Cuban Landscape with Rumba----------------------------Leo Brouwer (b.1939)

Estampas----------------------------------Federico Moreno Torroba (1891-1982)

Bailando un Fandango Charro
Remanso
La Siega
Fiesta en el Pueblo
Amanecer
La Boda
Camino del Molino
Juegos Infantiles

Uarekena-----------------------------------------------------Sergio Assad (b.1952)

Fa*-------------------------------------------------------Bun-Ching Lam (b.1954)

Three Movements from "Iberia"**-------------------Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909)

Evocacion
El Puerto
El Albaicin

Ellis Island--------------------------------------------Benjamin Verdery (b. 1955)

Program 5

Narratives*-------------------------------------------------Leslie Bassett (b.1923)

March
Aria
Agitation
Supplication
Finale

Thrum*----------------------------------------------David Evan Thomas (b.1958)

Simply, with feeling-Allegrissimo
Broad and unhurried
With easy movement

Above the Green Night*----------------------------------------Edie Hill (b. 1962)

Blind Archers
Hour of Stars

46-41-KC(2000)----------------------------------------------------Robert Bowen

Forty-Six
The Only Tree in Cholame
Forty-One
Kettleman City (the Last Time I drove Across that Desert)

Armonia*------------------------------------------------Eleanor Hovda (b.1940)

Unbreak My Heart*--------------------------------------Anthony Gatto (b.1962)

Repertoire with Orchestra

Concierto Andaluz (25:00)-----------------------Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999)

Tiempo de Bolero
Adagio
Allegretto

Concerto RV 560** (10:00)-----------------------Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

Larghetto-Allegro
Largo
Allegro molto

Cantiga Variations* (22:00)--------------------------------Ian Krouse (b. 1953)

Fractal in One Movement on an Ancient Spanish Song

Concerto alla Barocco* (16:30)---------------------------David Hahn (b. 1956)

Allegro
Chaconne
Gigue

Program 1 with dance

Windy**--------------------------------------------Astor Piazzolla(1921-1992)

Toccata in D, BWV 912**--------------------------------J.S. Bach (1685-1750)

Introduction and Allegro
Adagio and Fugue
Con discrezione and Fugue a la gigue

Minnesota Winter*---------------------------------------Jeff Lambert (b. 1977)
Chicago Summer*

Danzas Argentinas**---------------------------Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983)

Danza del viejo boyero
Danza de la moza donosa
Danza del gaucho matrero

Harlem from Ghetto Strings*----------------Daniel Bernard Roumain (b. 1970)

Six Pieces on Spanish Folksongs**-------------Enrique Granados (1867-1916)

Preludio
Añoranza
Ecos de la Parranda
Vascongada
Marcha Oriental
Zambra
Zapateado

Choreography by Colette Illarde

Program 2 with dance

El Baile de Luis Alonso------------------------Jeronimo Gimenez (1854-1923)

Three Finnish Pieces**-------------------------------Maria Kalaniemi (b.1964)

Tahdet Taivahalla
Skymningspolskan
Hermannin Riili

Thrum*-------------------------------------------David Evan Thomas (b.1958)

Simply, with feeling-Allegrissimo
Broad and unhurried
With easy movement

Cuatro Piezas**--------------------------------- Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999)

Caleseras
Fandango del ventorrillo
Plegaria de la Infanta de Castilla
Danza valenciana

Choreography by Colette Illarde

Cuban Landscape with Rain-----------------------------Leo Brouwer (b. 1939)

Cuatro Estampas Andaluzas**------------------- Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999)

El vendedor de chanquetes
Crepusculo sobre el Guadalquivir
Seguidillas del Diablo
Barquitos de Cadiz

Choreography by Colette Illarde