BGS Presents ...

Ethan Lorentz

October 26, 2026

Original compositions for six strings and eight

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Colorado-based guitarist Ethan Lorentz is a performer, composer, music educator, and scholar who has received acclaim as both a soloist, and a chamber musician. Ethan has a passion for expanding the guitar’s possibilities through performing new works and creating exciting new arrangements. These interests are evident on both of Ethan’s albums, “Gallery” and “Schubert Lieder on Guitar”. The former is an album of guitar/flute duos inspired by 20th and 21st century artworks (featuring multiple new commissions) performed by the Lorentz/Lopez duo, and the latter project features a new set of Schubert arrangements for solo guitar. Ethan performed these arrangements in a lecture recital for the Guitar Foundation of America’s annual convention, where he has also lectured on the music of Leo Brouwer for the Symposium of Guitar Scholars. Ethan regularly performs as a soloist, with the Lorentz/Lopez duo, and has performed with several other ensembles, including the Aspen Music Festival Orchestra, the Boulder Chamber Choral, and the Nebula Ensemble.

The program featured works by Dowland, Bach, Schubert, Scarlatti, Ponce, and Ethan’s own original compositions and arrangements on both 6 and 8 string guitars:

  1. Fantasia No. 7 by John Dowland
  2. Untitled piece by Ethan Lorentz
  3. Untitled 8-string guitar piece by Ethan Lorentz
  4. Prelude from BWV 998 by J.S. Bach Arr. For 8-string guitar Ethan Lorentz
  5. Der Lindenbaum by Franz Schubert Arr. For 8-string guitar Ethan Lorentz
  6. Wasserflut by Franz Schubert Arr. Ethan Lorentz
  7. Auf dem Flusse by Franz Schubert Arr. Ethan Lorentz
  8. Sonata Kp. 208 by Domenico Scarlatti Arr. Richard Wright
  9. Sonata Kp. 322 by Domenico Scarlatti Arr. Richard Wright
  10. Theme varie et Finale by Manuel Ponce

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