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Chilean-Croatian composer Franco Ferrera Cvitanović presents classical guitar album

Franco Ferrera Cvitanović
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croatiaweek
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Chilean-Croatian composer Franco Ferrero Cvitanović’s has presented his new album “https://www.croatiaweek.com/chilean-croatian-composer-franco-ferrera-cvitanovic-presents-classical-guitar-album/.”

The guitarists who participated on the album were Patricio Muñoz Quezada and Alexis Vallejos from Chile, Silvia Kopáčová and Karol Samuelčík from Slovakia, Ahmed Dickinson Cárdenas from Cuba, Thatcher Harrison from the United States and Ronald Núñez from Bolivia.

Guitar Hero: A seventeen-year-old Tiverton native makes his Carnegie Hall debut

Thatcher Harrison with his guitar.
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East Side Monthly
By
Karen Greco
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"How do you get to Carnegie Hall? In the case of Thatcher Harrison, win an international competition."

(Note: The article says that Thatcher Harrison was born in Tiverton, Rhode Island. While Thatcher did live in Tiverton for several years, he was actually born in Bradenton, Florida.)

Music Scholarship Winners Announced

Thatcher wins the 2018 Lillian B. Lamoureux Scholarship
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NBSO Newsletter
By
New Bedford Symphony Orchestra
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The NBSO is pleased to announce Orlando Montalvo Avalo (at left) and Thatcher Harrison (right) as our 2018 Lillian B. Lamoureux Scholarship recipients. NBSO President & CEO David Prentiss presented both young men with $1,000 scholarship checks (while our office mascot Franz Liszt looked on approvingly!)

Thatcher plays classical and jazz guitar as well as piano and plans to use his scholarship award to offset costs of his upcoming music college applications including expenses for on-campus auditions.

Meet the Dartmouth teen who chose guitar over public school

Photograph from Thatcher's Dartmouth Week Interview
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Dartmouth Week
By
Douglas McCulloch
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Thatcher Harrison remembers picking up a guitar and mimicking musicians he saw on TV when he was just three years old. That experience has influenced major life decisions for the now 15 year old, who will star in his own solo concert on February 11.

Harrison will only get two hours of stage time during the Paskamansett Concert Series at the Dartmouth Grange, and his goal is to cram as much variety as possible into his set. He started preparing a set list a several weeks ago, but it won’t be finalized until the day of the concert.

Q&A with Newport BridgeFest Artist Thatcher Harrison

Busking at Bowen's Playbill Featuring Thatcher Harrison
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What's Up Newp
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Ryan Belmore
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We first met Thatcher Harrison at the 2016 Art’s and Cultural Alliance of Newport County Annual Meeting earlier this year. The 14-year-old was among the entertainment for the evening at the Newport Art Museum, his performance left us a bit speechless.

Thatcher is returning to Newport very soon to participate in Newport BridgeFest, we caught up with him before his performance on Bowen’s Wharf…