The Inland Empire Classical Guitar Quartet

Orange County Guitar Circle presents Members' Showcase on October 21, 2023, with several performers ranging in age and levels of guitar playing skills, including a performance by the Inland Empire Guitar Quartet playing Night on Bald Mountain.
Inland Empire Guitar Quartet: This is a group consisting of four guitarists.
Michael Cruz, Brian Edwards, Philip Henein, and Jonathon Valdez performed
"Night on Bald Mountain" by Modest Mussorgsky, who composed and
arranged music of favorites that people love, from great compositions from great film and video game theme composers.
Night on Bald Mountain, or Night on the Bare Mountain, is a series of compositions by Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881). Inspired by Russian literary works and legends,
Mussorgsky composed a "musical picture," St. John's Eve on Bald
Mountain, on the theme of a Witches' Sabbath at Bald Mountain on St.
John's Eve, which he completed on that very Night, June 23, 1867. Together with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Sadko (1867), it is one of the first tone poems by a Russian composer.
County Guitar Circle
Founded in 1967, Orange County Guitar Circle is a non-profit organization based in Orange County, California, dedicated to classical guitar, its history, and its repertoire.
The Orange County Guitar Circle has three primary goals:
1. We celebrate the classical guitar and its repertoire.
2. We educate our members and concertgoers about the players, composers, arrangers, instruments, instrument makers, and more than breathe life into this art form.
3. We advocate for the continued growth and development of the Southern California Guitar Community.
What does the Orange County Guitar Circle do?
The OCGC is proud to play host to world-renowned professionals and up-and-coming talents to share their musical gifts with fellow lovers of the classical guitar and its repertoire. We present nine recitals each year at Chapman University in Orange, California. Our nine recitals fall into one of three categories:
Featured Artists Recitals: The Featured Artists' Recitals provide opportunities for professional guitarists worldwide to share their talents with our community. Featured Artists in our series include the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet's Scott Tennant, Belgian-born virtuoso Jan Depreter, and the late French guitarist and composer Roland Dyens.
Members' Showcase Recitals: The Members' Showcase Recitals allow amateur guitarists in our community to perform. Performance opportunities in our Members' Showcase Recitals are available to OCGC members of all ages and skill levels. If you are a member and would like to participate in one of our Members' Showcase Recitals, please see our Home page for details.
Directors' Showcase: Each season's final performance is an opportunity for the OCGC Board of Directors to share their knowledge and passion for the classical guitar and its repertoire with the OCGC community.
SoCal Guitar Events: The OCGC provides a regularly updated calendar of classical guitar events throughout the region on our website. If you want to share your classical guitar event on our calendar, please go to our Southern California Events page and scroll to the bottom for details.
The OCGC provides a regularly updated list of classical guitar teachers in Southern California. If you are a classical guitar teacher in Southern California and would like to be one of our featured guitar instructors, please see the details at the bottom of our Teacher Directory page.
Whom does the Orange County Guitar Circle serve?
The OCGC is humbled to serve as a venue and resource for various music lovers.
The OCGC provides performance opportunities for touring professional musicians.
The OCGC offers guitar students, local public and private school guitar programs, and amateur musicians of all ages the opportunity to perform on a professional concert stage to a passionate and knowledgeable audience.
The OCGC hosts a forum upon which local guitar teachers may share their background and expertise to develop private teaching studios further.
The OCGC proudly serves all those with a passion for music by creating conventional and unique avenues to interact with the classical guitar, its music, and the greater Southern California musical community.