Santa
Cruz Guitar Orchestra Fall Concert, directed
by Mesut Ozgen, Soquel, California, November 21, 2010
"Anatolian
Fantasy" with the Ozgen Trio: Music from
Istanbul and the Ottoman Court concert. St. Mary's by-the-Sea
Episcopal Church, Pacific Grove, California, October 23, 2010
"Anatolian
Fantasy" with the Ozgen Trio: Music from
Istanbul and the Ottoman Court, concert with flute, kemençe,
and guitar. Music by Prince Dimitrie Cantemir (Kantemiroglu),
Mesut Ozgen, Yalçin Tura, and David Evan Jones, as
part of the UCSC Friday Night Live Concert Series, University
of California Santa Cruz Music Center Recital Hall, Santa
Cruz, California, October 22, 2010
"Songs of the
Universe" New Music Works, Cabrillo College Music Center
Recital Hall, Aptos, California, March 6, 2010
"Guitarists' Attic" UCSC Classical Guitar Ensemble concert directed by Mesut
Özgen, University of California Santa Cruz Music Center
Recital Hall, Santa Cruz, California, March 3, 2010
"Guitars and Friends"
with William
Coulter, featuring music from Baroque,
Spanish, Turkish, and Celtic traditions for solo and ensemble
classical and steel-string guitars with special guests Patrice
Maginnis, soprano; Brian Staufenbiel, tenor; Greer Ellison,
flute; Deby Grosjean, violin, University of California Santa
Cruz Music Center Recital Hall, Santa Cruz, California, February 12, 2010
Concert with San
José Chamber Orchestra, Santa Clara,
California, December 20, 2009
Concert with San
José Chamber Orchestra, San Francisco,
California, December 19, 2009
UCSC Classical Guitar
Ensemble concert directed by Mesut Özgen, University of California
Santa Cruz Music Center Recital Hall, Santa Cruz, California, November 24, 2009
"Prince Cantemir"
concert with Lux Musica Ensemble at Smithsonian Museum, Sackler Gallery,
Washington, DC. June 13, 2009
"Prince Cantemir"
concert with Lux Musica Ensemble at Smithsonian Museum, Sackler Gallery,
Washington, DC. June 12, 2009
"Prince Cantemir"
concert with Lux Musica Ensemble at Smithsonian Museum, Meyer Auditorium,
Washington, DC. June 11, 2009
"Strings Attached"
concert with string quartet, music by Schubert, Granados,
Ozgen, And Boccherini, as part of the Santa
Cruz Chamber Players, Aptos, California, April 26, 2009
"Strings Attached"
concert with string quartet, music by Schubert, Granados,
Ozgen, And Boccherini, as part of the Santa
Cruz Chamber Players, Aptos, California, April 25, 2009
"The Natural Mandolin"
with Caterina
Lichtenberg, as part of the Santa
Cruz Baroque Festival, University of California
Santa Cruz Music Center Recital Hall, Santa Cruz, California, March 14, 2009
"Guitar
Peace" with UCSC Classical Guitar Ensemble
directed by Mesut Özgen, featuring world premiere of
a "Peace Trilogy Part One" by Erdem
Helvacioglu, University of California Santa
Cruz Music Center Recital Hall, Santa Cruz, California, March 11, 2009
"Guitar Summit"
concert with Teja
Gerken and Scott
Nygaard, at Freight
& Salvage, Berkeley, California, February 20, 2009
"World Guitar Night" concert, San Jose State
University, as part of the South
Bay Guitar Society Guitar Solo & Ensemble Festival,
San Jose, California, March 28, 2008
"Rhapsody for Guitar Orchestra," Z.o.o
Guitar Duo with UCSC Classical Guitar Ensemble, directed
and conducted by Mesut Özgen, featuring
ensemble works by Jack Vees, Christopher Pratorius, Richard
Charlton, J. S. Bach, Mauro Giuliani, Peter Curtis, Gioachino
Rossini, Phillip Houghton, and Gerald Garcia, University
of California Santa Cruz Music Center Recital Hall, Santa
Cruz, California, March 12, 2008
"Contemporary Latin American Classical Music,"
featuring Double Concerto by Astor Piazzolla with the Cadenza Orchestra, Holy Cross Church, Santa Cruz,
California, May 26, 2007
"Guitar-Keyboard Duo Concert" with Anthony
Newman, as part of the Palazzo House Concert Series,
Santa Cruz, California, April 25, 2007
"World of Guitar: 500 Years of the Plucked Strings
in Santa
Cruz Baroque Festival, University of California Santa
Cruz Music Center Recital Hall, Santa Cruz, California,
February 10, 2007
"Verdery Tribute Concert" in the Morse Recital
Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall, Yale School of Music, New
Haven, Connecticut, March 25, 2006
"A Tertio-Millenial Tribute" with Lux Musica
ensemble in Santa
Cruz Baroque Festival, UCSC Music Center Recital Hall,
Santa Cruz, California, February 4, 2006
"Double
Bill: Nylon, Steel, & Opera"
Mesut Özgen and William Coulter presenting solo
and duo guitar works by Özgen, Coulter, and O'Carolan, also
featuring The Rehearsal, a new chamber opera by
David Evan Jones at University of California Santa Cruz
Music Center Recital Hall, January 30, 2005
"New
Dimensions in Classical Guitar" Mesut Özgen and
friends in a multimedia performance at the Mello Center
for the Performing Arts, as part of the 2004 season Artists
in Residence Performance Series of Pajaro Valley Performing
Arts Association in Watsonville, California (For links to
the featured articles go to Reviews),
March 13, 2004
"New Dimensions
in Classical Guitar" Mesut Özgen and friends in
a multimedia performance at University of California Santa
Cruz Music Center Recital Hall, as part of the 2003-04 UCSC
Arts & Lectures season, March 5 and 6, 2004
"Chamber Music Fall Concert," recorder and guitar
music, Music Center Recital Hall, University of California,
Santa Cruz, December 3, 2003
"Spanish Folk and Baroque: Fandangos," solo and guitar-harpsichord
duo performances, Santa
Cruz Baroque Festival, Holy Cross Church, Santa Cruz,
California, May 11, 2002
"Italian Folk and Baroque: An evening in Old Italy" La
Tarantella Fresca, ensemble performance (basso continuo),
Santa
Cruz Baroque Festival, Music Center Recital Hall, University
of California, Santa Cruz, April 20, 2002
"Folkie
Classical Guitar" Mesut Özgen and friends perform
solo and ensemble classical guitar music from American,
Spanish, Argentinian, Turkish, and Greek folk traditions.
Guest artists: Linda Burman-Hall, harpsichord, Kathleen
Purcell, flute, Ariela Morgenstern, mezzo-soprano, Shelley
Phillips, oboe, Barry Phillips, cello, Nancy Lingemann,
castanets, John and Nancy Lingemann, tango dance,Music Center
Recital Hall, University of California, Santa Cruz, February
20, 2002
"Echoes from the Old Country" with Shelley and Barry Phillips,
Santa Cruz Chamber
Players, CA, February 2, 2002
"Echoes from the Old Country" with Shelley and Barry Phillips,
Santa Cruz Chamber
Players, CA, February 3, 2002
"2001: A Guitar Odyssey" solo and duo guitar music with
Benjamin Verdery and Mesut Özgen, featuring the UCSC Guitar
Orchestra, world premiere of Pick and Roll for guitar orchestra,
saxophone, two violins, and basketball player by Benjamin
Verdery. Read more about the concert program on "Sentinel."
Review of the concert on "City
on a Hill Press." Watch the
video clips. Music Center Recital Hall, University of
California, Santa Cruz, May 2, 2001
"Bravo Beethoven!" in Santa
Cruz Baroque Festival (Carulli/Beethoven Variations
op.169 for 19th century guitar and fortepiano with Linda
Burman-Hall), Holy Cross Church, Santa Cruz, April
21, 2001, KUSP 88.9 FM broadcasted on Sunday, May
6, during "Foglift" with host Roger Emanuels
"Festival of Contemporary Music: April in Santa Cruz"
(world premiere of Three Baroque Miniatures for guitar and
harpsichord by Paul Nauert, with harpsichordist Linda Burman-Hall),
Recital Hall, University of California, Santa Cruz, April
18, 2001
"Seher-Traditional Music from Turkey and India,"
Ihsan Özgen (kemence), Deepak Ram (bansuri), Mesut Özgen
(classical guitar), Debopriyo Sarkar (tabla), Julia Morgan
Center for the Arts, Berkeley, California, November
18, 2000, KUSP 88.9 FM broadcasted on Friday, March
6, 2001, during "A Classic Example" with
host Dale Owen
"Cantemir with Ihsan Özgen (Classical Crossroads),"
(kemence, baroque flute, baroque violin, viola da gamba,
harpsichord, lute, historical guitar, percussion), Recital
Hall, University of California, Santa Cruz, as part of the
2000-01 UCSC
Arts & Lectures season, November 12, 2000
"Guitar 2000," Recital Hall, University of California,
Santa Cruz, February, 2000
UCSC Wind Ensemble and UCSC Guitar Orchestra concert, "Something
Old and Something New," Recital Hall, University of
California, Santa Cruz, December, 1999
Viola-guitar performance with Polly Burkholder, Sesnon
House, Cabrillo College, Aptos, California, June,
1999
"Baroque Ensembles in Orfeo," Organ Hall, Arizona
State University, Tempe, April, 1998
ASU Faculty Ensemble and Guitar Ensemble Concerts, 1994-1997
"A Schubertiad: Celebrating his 200th Birthday,"
Organ Hall, Arizona State University, Tempe, February,
1997
"Baroque Ensembles in Dido and Aeneas," Organ
Hall, Arizona State University, Tempe, May, 1995
Yale Guitar Ensemble, Sprague Hall, New Haven, Connecticut,
1991-1994
Voice-guitar Concert with Jerald Siena, New Haven, Connecticut,
November 11, 1993
Concerto op. 99 no. 1 by Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Gran Teatro,
Cordoba, Spain, July, 1989
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