Leon Foundation offered Third Classical Guitar Concert for Father’s Day will Benefit Peruvian Children

http://leonfoundation.blogspot.com

Dr. Joyce Leon-Gomez presented the Leon Foundation’s third “Classical Guitar Concert”, and BBQ offered for Father’s Day in benefit of Peruvian children.
Matthew Grasso a well-known guitarist in Sacramento performed in this private event. Matthew is a classical guitarist, composer, arranger, musical instrument innovator, and improviser who began playing guitar at age twelve. He attended the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and complemented this training by studying the classical music of North India at the Ali Akbar College of Music. Matthew performs on an extended 7-string guitar, 25-stringed raga guitar, and a 14-note octave just intonation guitar. The extended 7-string has an additional bass string and 22 frets on the first-string.
As a composer, Matthew has contributed works for solo guitar, guitar ensemble, chamber works for guitar and strings, women's choir, music in just intonation tuning, and his Guitar Concerto for Extended 7-String Guitar and Orchestra. His music has been set to dance and film, and receives commissions from many artists.
Matthew performs and lectures throughout Northern California. He was a featured soloist with the Camellia Symphony, Solano Symphony, Davis High School String and Symphony Orchestra, American River College Orchestra, Solano County Youth Symphony and Auburn Symphony Chamber Players under the baton of the late Maestro Michael Goodwin. His recordings include six CDs: Intimate Settings (1995), Echoes of a Lake (1999), Moussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition (2001), Music for the Extended 7-String Guitar (2006), The Five Deadly Talas (2008) and Past, Present, Future (2010). In addition to recordings, Matthew has published, “Playing the Extended 7-String Guitar" in Mel Bay's Guitar Sessions, as well as his own compositions and transcriptions.
Currently Matthew Grasso is on the faculty at Sacramento City College, American River College, California College of the Arts, and he teaches privately. He has designed college courses in the area of North Indian and western music, and resides in Davis, California. He has demonstrated exceptional guitar mastery and by playing the exotic Spanish music of Joaquin Rodrigo “El Concierto de Aranjuez” listeners have been astounding.
Matthew brought his delightful classical guitar music selections to El Dorado Hills on Saturday, June 15th to entertain guests celebrating Father’s Day and to raise money for the Leon Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in Sacramento, California with the main objective to provide technology to underprivileged Peruvian children. The Foundation works from the United States and representatives travel to Peru to donate computers and educational supplies. President and Founder of Leon Foundation, Dr. Joyce Leon-Gomez says “the donations that Leon Foundation receives go 100% toward the support of Peruvian children education.”
http://leonfoundation.blogspot.com