2024/2025 Performances:
September 28, 7 PM, Cultural Arts Center, Sliver Springs, MD
November 21, 5 PM Virginia Music Educators Association Conference, Norfolk
December 7, 3 PM, Reston Regional Library
more to come
THE 2024/2025 LOUDOUN YOUTH GUITARS ARE:
| Brandon Lee |
| Vihaan Gadkari |
| Pearl Coogan |
| Ian Luces |
| Dheer Negandhi |
| Isabella Anderson |
| Ethan Ignacio |
| Tanvi Nare |
| Kennedy Wells |
| Isaac Oh |
| Anush Devkar |
| Prithvi Senthil |
| Chase Mulholland |
| Advit Meda |
| Nayab Usman |
| Nidhish Chinta |
| Anjali Pheng |
| Aarush Deshpande |
| Parth Jaiswal |
| Andrew Stevens |
| Rohan Sunil |
| Mihir Nimkar |
| Kareem Toufaily |
| Archit Mukherjee |
| Zoe DuPree |
| Maya Ishak |
| Sheldon Hong |
| Kate Yoo |
| Violet Sandoval |
| Tanya Campos-Castillo |
| Mia Gupta |
With William Kanengiser at Marlow International Concert Series
Loudoun Youth Guitars is one of the most accomplished and renowned youth ensembles in the metropolitan area. The ensemble is led by its founder – Dr. Miroslav Lončar and by his wife Dr. Nataša Klasinc-Lončar. Over the fourteen years of their existence, Loudoun Youth Guitars have performed at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, the Marlow International Concert Series, the Croatian Embassy, the National Institutes of Health, the Barns at Rose Hill, the Composer Society of Montgomery County, Loudoun County Public Libraries, Washington College, Salisbury University, Shepherd University, and more. Loudoun Youth Guitars is composed of some of the most talented and accomplished middle-school and high-school students from Loudoun County. The ensemble presents a concert season that includes a holiday concert, a concert at the NIH, a Mother’s Day concert at Barns at Rose Hill, and a concert at the Croatian Embassy. Additional performances may be scheduled.
Auditions for the 2024/25 Loudoun Youth Guitars will be held on Wednesday, September 11 and Thursday, September 12, at Park View High School, Room 723. New and returning students are required to audition. Please, sign up for a slot and prepare the requirements listed below. Don’t forget to cancel your audition if your plans change so others can use your slot.
Audition Requirements:
1. Play a short solo piece of your choice, or an excerpt from a longer one, or a part from an ensemble piece. Your selection should not be longer than 2 minutes and it needs to meet the following requirements:
Students are required to play a piece from standard classical guitar repertoire that was learned using standard music notation.
Guitar 1: Approximately 20% of the piece or more needs to include notes in the 10th Position or higher.
Guitar 2: Approximately 20% of the piece or more need to include notes in the 7th Position or higher.
Guitar 3: The piece needs to include melody, bass, and accompanying notes but doesn’t have to go past the 4th Position.
Guitar 4: The piece can be in either one or two parts and it doesn’t have to go past the 2nd Position.
2. Prepare the scales required for the part you are auditioning for. Please, refer to the attached charts for required fingerings!
| Guitar 1: | Click here! |
| Guitar 2 | Click here! |
| Guitar 3: | Click here! |
| Guitar 4: | Click here! |
3. Sight-read in the appropriate positions.
The director reserves the right to assign the parts based on the needs of the group.
LYG will practice on Wednesday nights, 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Park View High School. First practice will be September 18th. There will be a mandatory meeting for all students and parents on September 18th at 6:30!
Click HERE to sign up!
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