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All Stars Concert

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Today, April 4th!

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2 - 4 PM @ Canyon Theater, Boulder Library

Free parking on site. Doors open at 1:40 PM.

Program

Performers include Gabe Balogh, Toby Gallegos, Mark Limber, Ludo Michaud, Dan Palmer, Martin Ters, and others. Additional details available at Boulder Library Events.

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Free Concert - Donations Accepted

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Personae

Performers in order of appearance …

Daniel Palmer

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Daniel Palmer began guitar at the age of 14, playing rock and participating in the school’s jazz and pep bands. After a long break from serious playing, he returned to the instrument in his late twenties, playing in a band with friends before ultimately becoming enamoured of classical guitar in 2020. He is a student at a classical guitar academy and studies with renowned guitarists Sulaiman Zai and Simon Powis, whose guidance has shaped his approach to the classical repertoire. He also plays oud and other instruments. Outside of solo guitar, he enjoys jamming and has played in various duets and small ensembles. He has a background in economics, and is currently setting up a woodshop with hopes of building his first guitar.

Toby Gallegos

Toby

Toby Gallegos has been involved with the Boulder Guitar Society for over 30 years, serving as its president for the last 15 years.

Toby started playing guitar at age 15 and discovered classical guitar while in college. After a long layoff due to the demands of young adulthood, he picked up the guitar again in middle age. Felicity Muench was Toby’s most influential guitar teacher. Toby enjoys a variety of music genres from classical to blues to steel-string acoustic fingerstyle to rock to New Age to folk to bluegrass to Americana, to name just a few. Toby’s overarching musical philosophy is that lyrics are just a break between guitar solos.

Toby is an almost semi-retired business coach and tax advisor. He and Liane, his wife of 51 years, live in Lafayette. Toby also serves on the board of directors of A Child’s Song.

Martin Ters

Martin

Martin Ters is one of the founding members of the Boulder Guitar Society and for many years also attended meetings of the Denver Society. He has played guitar since the age of 10, and his life has been deeply connected with guitar playing, building, and repairing. Over the years, he has studied with teachers including Felicity Muench, Masa Ito, Ricardo Iznaola, Alfredo Muro, and currently Sulaiman Zai.

In 2005, Martin met the Czech composer, guitarist, and professor Milan Tesar of the Jaroslav Ježek Music Conservatory in Prague. Through frequent visits to Prague, the two often played music together and became friends. Martin brought many of Milan’s guitar pieces back to Denver and Boulder.

Martin remains active in the music scene, performing occasional recitals in local libraries, senior centers, and at guitar societies.

Ludo Michaud

Ludo

Born in Paris, France, Ludo Michaud started playing the guitar at the age of 6. After a few years of intensive practice with professor Maciej Glugla, he won the admission competition of the Regional Conservatory of Paris and studied in the class of Pedro Ibanez, while learning Jazz guitar in parallel.

Passionate about Audio and Video technologies, Ludo left the conservatory after graduating from it, to study Video Engineering in Valenciennes, on the French/Belgian border, and eventually joined an Austrian Video Streaming Engineering startup in its early days. This adventure led him to spend the past decade living in the Austrian Alps, Vienna, then Denver.

Between ski trips and hours of computer programming, Ludo started to build an ever evolving repertoire including Tarrega, Barrios, Jorge Morel, S.L Weiss, Villa Lobos, Ponce, as well as some personal jazz transcriptions of famous pop songs, while continuing to reflect on his musical approach and learn from the great guitarists of our time as he develops his own musical identity, sound and technique

Gabriel Balogh

Gabriel

Gabriel Balogh started playing the guitar at eleven years old, learning his way around the fretboard through improvising Blues and Rock. As a teenager, he discovered his love for classical music. Gabriel earned his Bachelor of Music degree from Metropolitan State University in 2022, followed by his Master of Music in Guitar Performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 2024. In 2014, he was awarded 1st prize at the Denver Classical Guitar Competition and has received top prizes in International competitions at the University of Denver, University of Louisville, Columbus State University, and University of Florida.

Gabriel has studied under instructors Joe McHugh, Alex Komodore, Jonathan Leathwood, Marc Teicholz, and David Tanenbaum, and has furthered is musical development through masterclasses with esteemed guitarists including Jason Vieaux, Thibaut Garcia, Xavier Jara, Paul Galbraith, Martha Masters, David Russell, and many others.

An enthusiastic transcriber for the guitar, Gabriel has contributed to the repertoire, with transcriptions of works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Albeniz, Granados, Scarlatti, C.P.E. Bach, and Johann Sebastian Bach.

He lives in Denver, CO and is actively engaged in both performance and teaching across the Front Range and currently serves as interim professor of Guitar at MSU Denver.

Mark Limber

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Born in Hawaii, Mark began studying classical guitar at age seven. An award-winning performer, he continued his musical studies through his graduate work in Mathematics, winning several competitions and performing as a concerto soloist while diversifying his repertoire to include jazz, rock, and bass guitar.

After a career at the intersection of technology and math, Mark has returned to the guitar as a full-time pursuit. Trading “work” for “play,” he now focuses exclusively on repertoire that brings genuine joy—prioritizing collaborative performance and the shared experience of ensemble music over the traditional requirements of the classical canon.

Aidan Wiley Lippke

Aidan

Aidan Wiley Lippke is an award-winning classical guitarist who has earned prizes at the Indiana University Classical Guitar Festival, Appalachian State Guitar Festival, and Domaine Forget Guitar Academy among others. He is currently pursuing an Artist Diploma at the University of Denver under Professor Jonathan Leathwood. He previously studied with René Izquierdo at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Stephen Aron at Oberlin Conservatory. He plays a 2018 Patrick Mailloux double-top guitar.

Sadie Zukowski

Sadie

A multi-instrumentalist whose musical journey began at age five —earned by proving she could read— Sadie has spent three decades in the classical world. Sadie started focusing on the French horn at the age of 13, and went on to study with Brad Gemeinhardt (Metropolitan Opera, principal) in NYC while at Columbia University. After performing horn professionally in numerous orchestral and chamber settings, Sadie still sings and plays recreationally with local bands and orchestras while pursuing a career in software. She has recently been learning the bass to anchor the sound of Duoet, a small jazz collaboration.

Mark Cole

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Mark Cole isn’t performing today but he’s the one who made all of today’s performances possible! The whole idea and execution of the All-Stars Concert came from Mark. He’s the creator, producer, director and cat herder that made this show a reality. Mark has been a player at our Open Stage Education segments and enjoys playing his own arrangements of songs everyone recognizes. He’s a model for starting with the music you love, getting involved and making a better society for all of us. Thanks Mark!

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Professionals

The Boulder Guitar Society would like to acknowledge its professional guitarist partners who have provided inspiration, guidance, and assisted in pursuit of excellence in all things guitar related. Some have academic appointments, some perform locally and/or on tour regularly, some teach music, some compose or arrange music. All have been long-standing, warm, supportive Friends of BGS: