Las Vegas Academy Advanced Guitar Ensemble

What: Las Vegas Academy Advanced Guitar Ensemble
When: 1/25/2013, 1:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Where: 1:00pm> Front of school/404. 1:10pm> 404/Auditorium. 1:51pm> 603/Auditorium. 2:00pm>Auditorium. 3:45pm>School/Aud/404. 4:30> Auditorium. 6:00pm>Courtyard/404. 7:00pm>Auditorium

On Friday, January 25th at 7pm in the Correia Middle School auditorium, Bill Swick

and the Las Vegas Academy Guitar Orchestra will be performing a concert open to

the public. Ticket cost is $5.

The Las Vegas Academy Advanced Guitar Orchestra under the direction of Bill Swick

is a ten-time Grammy award winning school. The program is the recipient of the

Gibson Music Education Award and has been recognized as one of the top three high

school guitar programs in the nation. Members of this ensemble have been featured

at three NAMM conventions, two MENC Conventions, and numerous national guitar

festivals.

Prior to the concert, Mr. Swick will present a workshop created for music teachers

who are actively teaching guitar or for those who are inspired to start a new

program. Attendees will gain valuable knowledge of classroom guitar pedagogy

from this nationally renowned educator, performer, and Grammy winner.

Bill Swick currently chairs the music department for the ten-time GRAMMY award

winning Las Vegas Academy and is the guitar task force chair for Clark County

School District, the nation's fifth largest public school district. Mr. Swick services 62

secondary guitar programs representing 5,700 guitar students.

The guitar curriculum developed by Mr. Swick includes over 20 volumes of edited

repertoire tailored for beginning students and college music majors, and over 400

guitar ensemble arrangements. The lessons in his classroom guitar editions have

been developed with the intent to take remedial beginners to advanced stages of

music reading and improvisation.

Many of his graduates from the Las Vegas Academy have been place in major

conservatories and music colleges receiving full scholarships. The program he

has developed at the Academy is arguably one of the leading public high school

programs in the United States.

For more information on the concert or workshop, please contact Ina Soliz at