Susan McDonald presents The Aquarium

THE AQUARIUM: A Marine Micro-Ballet for Guitar and Sea Creatures

Guitarist and composer Susan McDonald combines original music, text and video to present the beautiful, humorous and eccentric residents of a saltwater aquarium. After years of touring throughout the world as a concert classical guitarist, Susan now turns her energies towards the creation of new works inspired by science, literature and history.

Ms. McDonald is more than a virtuoso guitarist with a technique that knows no difficulties, she’s a mature artist whose playing abounds with clarity insight, communicative warmth, unfailing musicality, and taste.

Rapidly becoming recognized as one of the most exciting new talents on the international music scene, Susan McDonald has given concerts in a wide variety of venues, from community colleges to Carnegie Hall Her audiences have ranged from the elderly residents of a Viennese nursing home to the President of the United States, and her music has been enthusiastically received in concert halls, outdoor festivals, universities, libraries, museum, and numerous other venues.

A native of Texas, Miss McDonald began playing the guitar at the age of seven. As a teenager she became the student of Pepe Romero, with whom she studied intensively in the United States and in Europe. Public appearances soon followed with concerts in Texas, Florida, California and New York. She has played concerts in South America, Europe, throughout the United States and in Canada, where in 1992 she did a residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts. She has played for radio and television broadcasts in the United States, Germany, Austria and Ecuador.

Her recording of the Carmen Miranda standard “Tico-Tico” was chosen by the German newspaper Welt am sonntag as one of the “Classical Top-Ten of the Week.” Susan McDonald has premiered works by many contemporary composers, including Edgar Cortes, Hampton Burt, Rodrigo Rodrigues, Myron McDonald, Paul Clancy and John King. Her second CD, The Cathedral, received three preliminary Grammy nominations.

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Promenade Series Season Tickets ordered before August 25, 2008 are just $60 for individuals and $175 for families. The season ticket includes all ten (10) concerts. After August 25 the Individual price is $70 and the Family price is $200.

Single ticket prices are: $12 adult, $10 senior, $6 child/student. Group tickets are also available for $8 each for groups of 10 or more.