4pm Sunday, December 21 - Xavier Jara
- classical solo guitar
https://www.xavierjara.com/
Suggested donation $15 - 20
Arts on Lafond at Zion Community Commons
1697 Lafond Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55104
Xavier Jara is an American guitarist of international acclaim. In 2016, he won the coveted First Prize of the Guitar Foundation of America International Concert Artist Competition, which awarded him a sixty-concert tour. The tour covered North and South America, including a concert at Carnegie Hall.
A native of Minnesota, Xavier studied with Alan Johnston at the MacPhail Center for Music in Minneapolis until 2011, when he moved to Paris, France, completing his Bachelor’s Degree at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. He received 1st place in a number of international competitions including the Viseu International Competition (2014), the Boston Guitarfest (2014), the Gargnano, Italy Competition (2015), the Ciudad de Coria Competition (2015), and the Tokyo International Competition (2016).
In 2016, Xavier returned home to the United States to win the GFA’s prestigious Rose Augustine Grand Prize, and in 2020, Xavier earned his MM from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He continues to perform around the world and joined the United States Guitar Orchestra as a soloist in 2022 on their tour of Spain. As a teacher, he previously served as the Adjunct Professor of Guitar at California State University Fullerton, and recently taught the Spring 2022 semester at the University of Louisville, conducting and performing in Javier Farías’s Arauco with the U of L guitar ensemble.
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