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Of Dr. Trent’s exciting
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Classical Guitar soloist, performer of chamber music
and concerti, Robert Trent has performed on the continents of North and
South America and in Europe. Dr. Trent performs on modern guitar,
Renaissance lute and on an original French guitar from the early 19th c.
and are production of a 10-string double-necked Romantic guitar of
Scherzer. In addition to his in solo recitals he performs regularly with
forte pianist Pamela Swenson (as
Duo Firenze). In past summers he and forte pianist Pamela Swenson
Trent have been in residence as performers and teachers in period
instrument performance at the “Accademia L’Ottocento” in Rome and
Verbania.He has appeared in chamber music recitals or concerti with The
Audubon Quartet and the Kandinsky Trio and the Philadelphia Virtuosi
Chamber Orchestra. He has been a first prize winner in numerous National
and International competitions including; the Webb National Guitar
Competition, the Masterworks Young Artist Competition and the chamber
music prize at the International Competition “Arturo Toscanini” in
Italy. Duo Firenze is the recent recipient of numerous awards including: unprecedented two Career grants from The Johns Hopkins University - Peabody Conservatory, two Faculty Development Grant from Radford University, twice from the Virginia Commission for the Arts. |
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| The first recipient of the
degree of Doctor of Musical Arts in guitar from the Peabody Institute of
The Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Trent is currently director of Guitar
and Renaissance Lute studies at the College of Visual and Performing
Arts of Radford University. He is a recording artist for Dorian Records©
as a member of Duo Firenze.
Their first Dorian CD is entitled “Italian Nocturnes: Early Romantic
Music for Guitar and Fortepiano (catalogue no: DIS80156). Recent tours have taken Dr. Trent to Sardegna (Italy), Russia, Brazil, Germany and France. Sought after as an expert in performance practice of the early nineteenth-century, he has contributed improvised cadenzas in the style of Fernando Sor to the “Complete Sonatas of Diabelli, Giuliani and Sor, Vol. 1.”, published by Mel Bay text (melbay.com) |
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| Committed to teaching as
well as performing, Dr. Trent, at the age of 21, was formerly director
of guitar studies at Westminster Choir College-Conservatory and Trenton
State College. In past summers he and Pamela Swenson Trent have been in
residence as performers and teachers in period instrument performance
practice at the "Accademia L'Ottocento" in Rome and Verbania. He was one
of fifty Fellows selected internationally to participate in the 1994
Aston Magna Academy. Dr. Trent is the first and only recipient of the Doctor of Musical Arts in Guitar at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University where he studied guitar with Julian Gray and Manuel Barrueco and lute with Ronn McFarlane. He is currently Director of Guitar and Lute Studies at Radford University in Radford, VA. Duo Firenze is the only early music ensemble and the only ensemble to include classical guitar, to have been invited to perform at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts as part of it's Millennium Series. Dr. Trent's debut CD with Duo Firenze, entitled Italian Nocturnes: Early Music for Guitar and Fortepiano, is on the Dorian Label (DIS 80156). This recording is distributed worldwide and has received accolades as far as the Asian continent. Duo Firenze is the only early music ensemble and the only ensemble to include classical guitar, to have been invited to perform at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts as part of it's Millennium Series. Dr. Trent's debut CD with Duo Firenze, entitled Italian Nocturnes: Early Music for Guitar and Fortepiano, is on the Dorian Label (DIS 80156). This recording is distributed worldwide and has received accolades as far as the Asian continent. |
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Education
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Links of Interest:
Links of Special Interest to Students:
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Courses taught by Dr. Trent
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