Scott Kritzer, Performer
Scott Kritzer, the Performer
Scott Kritzer’s consummate commitment to technical excellence as the solid structure beneath an unparalleled sense of musicality brought him over two decades of accolades from audiences and critics alike, in concert halls in San Francisco, Frankfurt, Vancouver, B.C., Los Angeles, Sapporo, Washington, D.C., Munich, and New York. He has been featured in Japan’s Guitar Magazine, London’s Classical Guitar Magazine and Guitar International as well as in Soundboard Magazine of the Guitar Foundation of America and Guitar Player Magazine in the United States.
Mr. Kritzer has performed concerts in London’s prestigious Wigmore Hall, Lutheran Hall and Sapporo, Japan, and is often found performing on series that have included Itzhak Perlman, Ivo Pogorelic, Cecelia Bartoli and the Emerson and KRONOS String Quartets. In 1996 Mr. Kritzer was chosen by Oregon Senator Mark O. Hatfield to represent the entire state of Oregon in a special performance at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
As a graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Mr. Kritzer studied with Michael Lorimer and Aaron Shearer and in master classes with Eliot Fisk, Leo Brouwer, Abel Carlevaro, Alirio Díaz, and Grammy Award Winner David Russell. He also attended master classes taught by Luciano Pavarotti, Gustav Leonhardt, Yehudi Menuhin, and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, and worked privately with pianist Alicia de Larrocha. After graduation Mr. Kritzer was chosen as an assistant to Mr. Lorimer in a year-long master class in North Carolina where he also gave a special tribute performance for the late Andres Segovia.
Hailed a “champion of the living American composer”, by David Maclaine of The Willamette Week, Mr. Kritzer has premiered newly commissioned works for guitar in virtually every major US city.
He has also served as Artistic Director to one of America’s oldest and most popular contemporary chamber groups, The Third Angle Ensemble. Kritzer has also performed with the Oregon Symphony as well with the The Sunriver Music Festival Orchestra, the Cascade Festival Orchestra and the Coos Bay Festival Orchestra.
Since 1996, Mr. Kritzer teamed up with coloratura soprano and star of European Opera Janet Chvatal with Voice & Guitar – The Chvatal/Kritzer Duo, performing throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, transforming audience with their unique romantic style.
Chvatal is well-known as a “enchanting sensual songstress” for her performances in Vienna for two years as Christine in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera, and opera and concert halls across Europe and North America.
Kritzer recorded “Classical Guitar Christmas” for Miramont Records, and with Ms. Chvatal on “Songs of the Americas” and “In the Blue Hour” as works for voice, guitar and orchestra. You can purchase these here, or through Miramont Records
