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Travis
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Guitar Concerto In D - Largo |
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Prelude No. 1, by Francesco Tarrega |
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Caracteristiquies By F. Moreno-Torroba - V. Albada |
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Caracteristiquies By F. Moreno-Torroba - II. Oliveras |
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Boppin |
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I’ve been playing for years. I started on the ukulele, because my hands were too small. |
At just 14 years old, Jack Kent Cooke Young Scholar and Young Artist Award recipient Travis is one of the nation’s most outstanding young musicians. Travis has been studying classical guitar for the past six years and was a featured soloist on From the Top, a national radio and television program.
A consummate performer who plays with the proficiency and confidence of artists many times his age, Travis has performed and competed at both national and international levels, winning first place in the Guitar Foundation of America’s first-annual National Youth Guitarist Competition in 2005, and competing as one of eleven semi-finalists in the Parkening International Young Guitarist Competition in 2006. Travis also garnered a $10,000 Davidson Fellowship in support of his portfolio titled Trails of Hope: The Importance of Adding New Music to the Classical Repertoire.
Travis dreams of traveling to Europe, learning two new languages, and performing Rodrigo’s Aranjuez Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic. “They may not sound like the most exciting things in the world, but for me, they are things that would be better than being able to fly,” says Travis.
Travis currently attends public high school in Oregon. With the support of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, Travis is taking advanced guitar lessons and will attend two prestigious summer programs in 2008: a guitar seminar at Mannes College at the New School for Music in New York, and the Guitar Foundation of America (GFA) International Convention and Competition in San Francisco, CA.