Mark Small and Steve Lin Guitar Duo

Concert
Friday, Feb 1, 2008 at 8pm
Salt Lake City Recital Hall

Master Class
Saturday. Feb 2, 2007 at 6:30
1121 East 200 South
signup: 364-7431

Biographies

Mark Small
As one half of the Small-Torres Guitar Duo, Mark Small has released six CDs of sacred and classical guitar music and received three nominations for Pearl Awards. The Small-Torres duo has performed throughout America on television and radio and has appeared with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir on three occasions.

Small has composed classical, jazz, pop, and sacred music for chorus, wind ensemble, orchestra, piano, and guitar. A piece he arranged for the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet was featured on the group's 2004 album Guitar Heroes, which won a Grammy Award this in February 2005 for "best classical crossover album." Small’s solo guitar piece “Mississippi Revisited” won second place in the VIII International Composition Competition of the Corfu Festival held in Corfu, Greece, August 2005. The work will be published by Clear Note Publications in October 2005. Small has published several other titles with Mel Bay Publications and written a book for Berklee Press.

Small holds bachelor's and master's degrees in classical guitar performance from New England Conservatory and California State University, Fullerton. He has studied composition at Berklee College of Music, where he currently works as editor of Berklee Today magazine.

Steve Lin
Steve Lin has performed for audiences throughout the United States, Taiwan and Italy in solo and ensemble engagements. His extensive repertoire spans from the Renaissance to Latin American, and he is also an advocate of contemporary music, active in commissioning new works for the guitar.

In 2007 Steve released his debut CD for VGo Recordings, Eliot Fisk Series Vol. 1, a joint effort with guitarist Joseph Williams II and La Bella Strings. His second CD will feature a program of the works of Agustín Barrios and Antonio Lauro.

Steve has received many prizes at major competitions, including Boston GuitarFest, East Carolina University Guitar Competition and Boston Classical Guitar Society Competition. He has appeared at many guitar festivals, including Yale Guitar Extravaganza, L'Accademia Musicale Chigiana, ChitarraImperia Festival, and Stetson Guitar Workshop. He has also premiered many new works including those of Nomi Epstein, Joseph Johnson, Matthew McConnell, and Colin Stack.

In 2005 Steve founded Boston Guitar Project and became the assistant director of Boston GuitarFest. The Project is deeply involved in community outreach and has been successful in creating new audiences for the guitar. Boston GuitarFest has become the flagship guitar even of Boston.

Steve is currently a doctoral candidate at New England Conservatory studying with Eliot Fisk. He earned his M.M. at Yale School of Music and his B.M. at NEC. His teachers have included Oscar Ghiglia, Lorenzo Micheli, Wei-Ren Chuang, Ronald Purcell, Ronald Borczon and Ben Verdery. A present, Steve teaches privately in the Boston area. During his free time he enjoys cooking and playing table tennis.