Oct. 25, 2005 -- Classical guitarist Paul Galbraith will perform on Saturday, Oct. 29, at 7:30 p.m. in Fowler Center at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro as a benefit concert for KASU. 

Internationally renowned as a brilliant innovator of the classical guitar, Paul Galbraith has been working since the 1980s towards expanding the technical limits of his instrument, besides augmenting the quantity and quality of its repertoire. These efforts have already resulted in a series of critically acclaimed recordings of works by Bach, Haydn and Brahms, along with his own arrangements of folk tunes from various countries, all of which demonstrate the originality of his musical personality. 

By exchanging the traditional guitar for the eight-string Brahms Guitar, which he helped to develop, Galbraith found the ideal instrument with which to interpret the challenging Classical transcriptions from his highly personal repertoire.

Galbraith, a Grammy Award nominee, has been featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered” and on “Performance Today.” He resides in Brazil and tours with the Brazilian Guitar Quartet, of which he is a founding member.

Tickets are available through the ASU Central Box Office at (870) 972-2781, (888) 278-3267 or online at http://tickets.astate.edu. For more information, please call Todd Rutledge at (870) 972-2807 or e-mail at trutledge@astate.edu.

91.9 FM KASU is a 100,000-watt public radio station broadcasting from the ASU campus.