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RichardSavino
Richard Savino's performances and recordings have been praised by critics throughout the world. In addition to repertory for the Baroque guitar, he has recorded the romantic guitar music of Johann Kaspar Mertz (Harmonia Mundi), virtuoso sonatas by Paganini and Giuliani with violinist Monica Huggett, and sonatas for flute and guitar with flutist Laurel Zucker. In 1998, Koch International released his recording of an extensive collection of 18th century guitar music from Mexico by Santiago de Murcia (4 Stars: Goldberg), which the Public Radio International program The World featured as its "Global Hit." In September 1999 Mr. Savino was the subject of a one hour special on the PRI program Harmonia.
His most recent recordings (2006-10) include The Essential Giuliani Vol. 1 (Koch), Music Fit for a King (solo baroque guitar music by Robert De Viseé and Françios Campion) Baroque Guitar Sonatas (1696) of Ludovico Roncallii (Dorian), ¡Zarzuela! Salir el Amor del Mundo (Dorian), and Los Reinos de Castilla (The Kingdoms of Castille) (Dorian). As a continuo player and accompanist, Mr. Savino has worked with some of the world's most important performers and is a principal performer with the Houston Grand Opera, New York Collegium, Portland Baroque Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Santa Fe Opera, San Diego Opera, Opera Colorado, Dallas Opera, and Glimmerglass Opera. He is a lecturer and instructor at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and a Professor of Music at CSU Sacramento where he has been the only music professor to receive "outstanding and exceptional" and "best" sabbatical awards. Mr. Savino instructors have included Andres Segovia, Oscar Ghiglia, Albert Fuller and Jerry Willard. He received his Doctorate from SUNY at Stony Brook.
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