Yelverton Guitar & Lute Concert on Monday

William Yelverton will perform a classical guitar and lute concert at 7:30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 16, in St. Luke’s Chapel on the Sewanee campus.

Admission is free and open to the public. The program will contain music from the Spanish and English Renaissance, a suite by G.F. Handel (originally for harpsichord), Brazilian choros, Spanish Flamenco and contemporary music from Russia, Brazil and the United States, including works by Koshkin, Gismonti and more. 

Yelverton is a as visiting professor of guitar at Sewanee while on sabbatical from Middle Tennessee State University. He has performed throughout the United States and in a dozen foreign countries. He is a prize-winner in the Guitar Foundation of America International Competition. Soundboard Magazine wrote that his exceptionally diverse programs of solo guitar and lute have “kept audiences spellbound.”