Oberlin Classical Guitar Association presents Alan Mearns In Concert

Guest guitarist Alan Mearns was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He began his musical studies with the classical violin at age 5, switching to the guitar at age 10. He moved to the United States in his late teens, where he studied classical guitar performance with Douglas James at Appalachian State University, earning the prestigious Fletcher Scholarship, then pursuing graduate studies with Stanley Yates at Austin Peay State University. His Bach transcriptions for the guitar have earned him enthusiastic acclaim. Mearns plays on a guitar by Zebulon Turrentin.

"Mearns’ virtuosic recording is a thrilling adventure for the hands and ears...reminding us of how exciting the guitar can be as a solo instrument when it suggests something greater than itself."—Jonathan Leathwood, Editor of Soundboard Scholar, journal of the Guitar Foundation of America

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Program:

Silvius Leopold Weiss (arr. S. Yates/A. Mearns) Prelude & Passacaglia, WL 33     

Frederic Chopin (arr. Mearns) Preludes No. 6 and No. 15, Op. 28

Isaac Albeniz (arr. Stanley Yates) La Vega  

Alan Mearns Oración

Manuel de Falla (arr. Mearns) Serenata     

Mearns Inishowan

Johann Sebastian Bach (arr. Mearns) Chaconne, BWV 1004