In highly acclaimed performances he has recently
been featured at New York City's Weill Recital Hall/Carnegie Hall
(Aranjuez Series), where Sounboard Magazine wrote that “Imbued
with depth and passion, Marchionda played engagingly and with a
sense of drama...deftly played.” Lincoln Center, Trinity
and Saint Paul Churches. Elsewhere in the USA and Europe he has
been invited to perform at the Wigmore Hall, Kennedy Centre, Frick
Collection, Aspen, Cheltenham and Les Soirees Des Junies Music
Festivals; BBC Radio 3, National Radio of Spain, US National Public
Radio, the Royal Opera House, Oxford, Columbia, Yale, MIT and George
Washington Universities and the inaugural concert at the David
Josefowitz Recital Hall, (Royal Academy of Music - London). As
well as in Rome, Madrid, Granada, Athens, and Copenhagen. He “embraces
the Spanish idiom like a native...flying scale passages graced
with ease and style.. a true virtuoso” Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Being strongly committed to performing and promoting
contemporary music, Stephen has premiered many new works, including
those written for him by several internationally renowned composers.
Including Nicholas Maw's Music of Memory and Tango
from Sophie’s
Choice. Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s Today Too was premiered
with tenor Philip Langridge and flutist Sebastian Bell, a work
that was written for the trio. Recently he premiered his arrangement
for guitar and tenor of Henry Purcell's incidental music to Thomas
d’Urfey’s play A Fool’s Preferment. Of a recent
recording of the complete variations by Manuel Ponce for ASV/ London,
the DeutschlandRadio Magazine Berlin says: “With
this recording, Marchionda maintains his reputation as one of the
best masters
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Stephen is a graduate of Yale University's
School of Music, the Cleveland Institute of Music and was a protégé of
famed pedagogue Ricardo Iznaola. He was affiliated with the Royal
Academy of Music in London in 1991, where he received classes with
the celebrated guitarist Julian Bream. He has won many international
prizes including the Guitar Foundation of America's International
Solo, the Segovia International, and the Manuel de Falla.
In a special collaboration with Philip Langridge, he has recently
recorded music by Britten and Nicholas Maw (Chandos Records). This
is the premiere recording of Maw’s masterpiece "Music
of Memory" for solo guitar,and "Six Interiors for tenor
and guitar along with Britten’s "Nocturnal, after John
Dowland for Solo Guitar" and the "Songs from the Chinese" for
tenor and guitar.
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