Hello UUCS,

The wonderful Paul Grove will be performing for us this week on guitar. Come listen to his beautiful classical playing. I first met Paul years back, and we even played a jazz gig together. This week he will be gracing us with the pieces Avalokiteshuara by Lou Harrison and The Enchanted Sapphire by Joe Hooper.

Madeline
Music Director

BIO:
Dr. Paul Grove joined the inland northwest music community in 1995 while completing a doctorate degree in Russian music theory and guitar performance at the University of Arizona.

He completed a Ph.D. dissertation on the contrapuntal theories of Sergei Ivanovich Taneev and he has received awards and distinctions in several national and international guitar competitions including the Guitar Foundation of America Competition, the Stotsenberg International Competition, The Great Lakes Guitar Competition and the Norman Sholin Memorial Competition.

As a teacher he has mentored students who have received distinctions in several competitions including Guitar Northwest, the Wolff and Shaeffer Competitions at the University of Arizona and Musicfest Northwest. Most recently, he was invited to teach 18th-century counterpoint at Gonzaga University, and he teaches at Whitworth University.

As a performer, he has been a featured soloist with the Spokane Symphony, the Coeur d’Alene Symphony, the Gonzaga Symphony, the Northwest Bach Festival, the Northwest Sacred Music Chorale and other regional ensembles. He has toured throughout the United States, and has performed internationally in Russia, Brazil, India and Canada.