Fletcher’s latest release, Peter Fletcher plays Baroque Music for Guitar (2008) on the Towerhill Recordings label, also received high praise. Fletcher’s many radio and television appearances have included Storyline on the Turner Broadcasting System (TBS), Fox- Affiliate WAGA-TV’s “Good Day Atlanta,” NBC Lima News WLIO in Ohio, KCSC in Oklahoma City, and Long Island’s Public Radio WLIU.
Reviewing the recording for The American Record Guide, Steven Rings wrote, “the works all sit very nicely on the guitar, and Fletcher's performances are taut and incisive, counteracting the common tendency to play Satie's music like sleepy New Age." In September 2005 Centaur Records released Peter Fletcher plays Erik Satie, an all-Satie project featuring Fletcher's guitar transcriptions. Fletcher is one of the finest and most accomplished guitarists now appearing before the public.” The American Record Guide wrote about Peter Fletcher: “He has a strong technique, a consistent tone, and a bold interpretive imagination.” And the New York City Classical Guitar Society’s Nylon Review said simply: “Mr. Fletcher believes in expanding the rather limited guitar repertoire by transcribing music from other instruments, and programming new works. In addition to playing standard works for classical guitar, Mr. Leisner has created a set of highly idiomatic guitar compositions whose tactile and open-string effects evoke the work of the great Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos.Ī versatile and in-demand artist, Peter Fletcher performs over 100 concerts every year.
Fletcher will also perform Prelude and Ritual from Four Pieces by New York-based guitarist and composer David Leisner. Martin’s brilliant illustrations along with English translations of Mr. The program will include a selection of Mr. Brondel is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music. Fletcher will be accompanied by a narration of Satie’s French texts by Daniel Brondel, Associate Director of Music at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. Written in 1914 but not performed until the early 1920s, “Sports et Divertissements” was originally scored for piano. Tickets are $20 and $30 may be obtained at the Carnegie Hall Box Office, from CarnegieCharge at 21, or online at French composer Erik Satie collaborated with illustrator Charles Martin to create “Sports et Divertissements,” a series of miniatures, each of which was composed to accompany a sketch depicting various sports and pastimes. ~ Pavane of the Sleeping Beauty and Empress of the Pagodas (From Mother Goose Suite) ~ Sports et divertissements (transcribed by Fletcher)
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