Guitar
Jason Blair Lewis, Guitar
Jason Lewis is Melodia Mariposa’s very own Rising Star. This young artist returns to open the concert by performing his own guitar arrangement of J.S. Bach’s violin solo, Chaconne from Partita No. 2. He graduated from USC with degrees in Neuroscience and Classical Guitar, studying under Brian Head, and Scott Tennant and Bill Kanengiser of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. He now lives in his hometown of Chicago working towards his mission of taking music beyond the concert hall.
A brief mini-artist spotlight documentary from NPR’s From The Top about Jason’s life as a skateboarder, musician, and budding neuroscientist. Zebracamp
Tom Hynes, Guitar
Tom Hynes is a guitarist, composer, and educator based in Southern California. He is an Assistant Professor of Music at Azusa Pacific University and is the Director of Jazz in the Pines Students Clinic summer camp at Idyllwild Arts. Performance credits range from a tour of the Middle East and eastern Africa for the US State Department in 1996 to his long tenure with Kim Richmond’s Concert Jazz Orchestra. Tom’s compositions include numerous large jazz ensemble compositions, film music for the Smithsonian Museum, and chamber music for the Orange County Museum of Art.
Jason Yoshida, Lute, Guitar
Praised as “eloquent and serious,” in a Los Angeles Times review, Jason Yoshida specializes in solo and continuo performance on lutes and historical guitars. He has performed with groups including Ciaramella, Musica Angelica, Les Surprises Baroques, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and Los Angeles Opera.
Yoshida received a Bachelor of Music from UC Santa Barbara, a Master of Music in classical guitar, and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Early Music from the USC Thornton School of Music.
He is currently on the faculty of the Early Music Department at USC Thornton School of Music.
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