Faculty Artist Series: Luther College’s Peter Lingen to perform faculty guitar recital February 7

Guitarist Peter Lingen will perform a faculty guitar recital Saturday, Feb. 7 at 4 p.m. in the Noble Recital Hall of the Jenson-Noble Music Hall on the Luther College campus.

The program is open to the public with no charge for admission.

The program features contemporary guitar music by English composers Sir William Walton and film composer Stanley Myers.
   
Also on the program is “Tango en Skai” by Roland Dyens of France, “Homenaje a Toulouse-Lautrec” by Spanish composer Eduardo Sainz de la Maza, and the guitar music of three Brazilian composers: Sergio Assad, Paulo Bellinati and Heitor Villa-Lobos.

Lingen teaches guitar and lute at Luther.

He first studied guitar at the McPhail School of Music in downtown Minneapolis, then with Albert Bellson in St. Paul and with Jeffrey Van at University of Minnesota in the bachelor of fine arts program.
From 1973–1978 he taught guitar for the Schmitt Music Company in Minnesota.

In the fall of 1979 he began teaching at Luther, while teaching guitar at several colleges and universities in Winona and Minneapolis, Minn.
He has been living in northeast Iowa and teaching exclusively for Luther College since 1990.

Peter Lingen performs guitar, lute and viola da gamba literature and has composed and arranged numerous works for guitar. His “Romance” for violin and guitar was published in 1979 by Cavata Music Publishers (Music of the Americas). In 1995 his “Hymns of Reverence” for flute and guitar was published by ALRY Publications, Etc., Inc.

He has also composed music for voice and guitar, viola and guitar, flute and guitar, works for piano, and a string quartet. His arrangements of Greek music for guitar and mandolin have been recorded with singer Maria Zouves.