About

A dedicated musical collaborator and insightful soloist, Jamie Balmer has recorded and toured extensively with fellow guitarist Joseph Ricker as half of the visionary guitar ensemble Duo Orfeo. With Orfeo, Jamie has concertized and recorded extensively. Jamie has premiered new works for guitar duo by Joel Roston and Thomas Schuttenhelm, and he collaborated with kinetic sculptor Arthur Ganson on the multimedia performance installation Machines. Jamie has also performed with clarinetist Ismail Akmuradov, archguitarist Peter Blanchette, and dancer/choreographer Ilya Vidrin.

His first album of solo guitar music, "American Threads," features major works by Frederic Hand, Frank Wallace, and Phillip de Fremery, as well as his arrangements of selections by Elliott Smith, Duke Ellington, Edward MacDowell, and Leonard Bernstein.

Music

Renaissance: Lute works of Dowland, da Milano, etc.
Baroque: works by J.S. Bach, Froberger, Weiss
Spanish repertoire of Tarrega, Albeniz, Granados, Segovia, Llobet, Mompou
Latin American works by Barrios, Lauro, Villa-Lobos, Brouwer, Maria Luisa Anido (her complete works)

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