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Helios Guitar Quartet

Presented by Grand Canyon Guitar Society at Coconino Center for the Arts

June 17, 2011

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Grand Canyon Guitar Society is proud to present Helios Guitar Quartet, an up and coming young guitar quartet from California. Grand Prize winners at the 2010 Pacific Guitar Competition, The Helios Guitar Quartet takes an innovative approach to using guitars for serious chamber music.



Drawing inspiration from the string quartet tradition, the Helios Guitar Quartet uses a variety of differently pitched instruments to extend the range of the ensemble. By including two unusual guitars, one a seven-string guitar allowing for lower bass notes, as well as a "soprano" guitar, restrung so as to give notes in a much higher register, this ensemble is able to explore distant extremes of pitch far beyond the scope of ordinary guitars. This expanded range has allowed the Helios Guitar Quartet to embark on their current project, Johann Sebastian Bach's monumental work The Well-Tempered Clavier, originally for keyboard, but here arranged for Helios by quartet member Michael Kudirka. The group has recently recorded the first book of The Well-Tempered Clavier for a two-disc set to be released in early 2011.