Marsyas Productions Presents Austrian Classical Guitarist Yvonne Zehner

Marsyas Productions presents Austrian guitarist Yvonne Zehner, collaborating with New York-based musicians for a 1-day guitar festival on Friday, November 2, 7:30pm at Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater, Symphony Space (95th & Broadway). Come to any number of Sets beginning at 7:30, 8:15 and 9pm.

"Her empathy and expressiveness, coupled with the ease of her playing and the skill behind it, created a wonderful symbiosis that touched not only guitar lovers." - Salzburger Nachrichten, writing about Yvonne Zehner -

In each set, Ms. Zehner will be preceded by outstanding musicians and ensembles whose work deserves our utmost attention, including guitar duo Tom Torrisi & Daniel Conant, the NYC Guitar Orchestra's principals Jason Sagebiel, Peter Argondizza, Matt Kaplan, Federico Diaz, violin & guitar duo Yerin Kim and John Bogan, and soloists Kyle Miller and Samuel Rubinstein.

Ms. Zehner will join guitarist William Anderson and soprano Sharon Harms in the premiere of Frank Brickle's setting of Catullus 101, a memorial piece for Brickle's teacher Milton Babbitt.

The evening culminates in a performace of Terry Riley's Y Bolanzero, with Yvonne Zehner collaborating with the Queensboro Guitar Orchestra.

Yvonne Zehner studied at the Mozarteum with Eliot Fisk in her native city of Salzburg. Further studies took her to Montivideo, where she worked with Abel Carlevaro, and to Siena and the legendary Oscar Giglia. For the last 15 years Ms. Zehner has emerged as dynamic force, performing around the world, and actively transforming the music scene in her home base of Austria & Southern Germany. She is co-director with Christina Schorn of the Halle Guitar Festival, established 2007. With Silvan Wagner she founded the series Phoibos - Zeitschrift für Zupfmusik, published twice a year since 2008, and based in Passau. She is a member of the Gunnar Berg Ensemble, Trio Collage, and the Ensemble Mobile. Concertizing has taken her all over Europe and to China, Taiwan, and Brazil. This event is her New York debut.

Ms. Zehner brings to New York music of several composers she has championed, including Agustin Castilla-Avila is from Spain, now based in Salzburg where he is a celebrated pioneer of music in 36-tone equal temperament; Marios Joannou Elia, from Cypress, has created audiences in the tens of thousands through innovated projects such as Autosymphonic.