Performance by Musician Jamie Monck
Institute 193 215 North Limestone, Lexington, Kentucky 40507
Jamie Monck is a classical guitarist based in Louisville whose practice is primarily working with composers to create new pieces. At Institute 193 he will be presenting a program of contemporary classical guitar music, with much of the music written for him.
From being a child banging on pots and pans with chopsticks to clamoring for attention on a plastic toy guitar, classical guitarist Jamie Monck’s music begins from a place of exploration and creativity. Monck’s expansive repertoire has been described by Eliot Fisk as, “Conquering not just Everest, but the whole Himalayan Mountain Range.” He is an advocate for pieces off the beaten path (and also the Bach Chaconne). Much of Jamie's repertoire seeks to explore musical structures and ideas that came before us in a way that invites both the performer and the listener to consider their past experiences and memories.
Recent performance highlights include appearances at the University of Louisville Guitar Festival, New Music Gathering, the 21c Guitar Festival, the Lexington Bach Marathon, University of Georgia, Tufts University, the Ball State University New Music Festival, Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago, and more.
Jamie follows in the footsteps of Segovia, Bream, Fisk, and others through his commitment to commissioning new works for solo guitar. At the 2022 University of Louisville Guitar Festival he premiered a new sonata by Javier Contreras, and a new piece by Andrew M Rodriguez. This spring, he will premiere award-winning Canadian composer Liam Ritz’s new “Four Bagatelles.”
His project “dark is a way,” is a collection of pieces for solo electric guitar composed for him by Gulli Bjornsson, Isaac Roth Blumfield, Yaz Lancaster, James May, Andrew M Rodriguez, and Cassie Wieland. The full recording of the project is now available on Bandcamp.
