Finger Lakes Guitar Quartet

The Lake Placid Sinfonietta is excited to announce its 2024 in-school Education Program featuring the Finger Lakes Guitar Quartet, a group of professional musicians based in the Finger Lakes and Saratoga region.  The day will also include a public performance at 5:00 PM at St. Eustace Church in Lake Placid.  This year’s in-school music education program is sponsored by a grant from the Glenn and Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foundation.  

Following their day in the schools, they will perform a recital at St. Eustace Church, 2450 Main Street, Lake Placid. This public performance will take place June 3 at 5:00 PM, and be followed by a meet the artist reception. There is no admission charge for this performance, but free will donations that support the in-school music program will be gratefully accepted.

The Finger Lakes Guitar Quartet is the union of four veteran guitarists, Joel Brown, Sten Isachsen, Brett Grigsby and Paul Quigley.  The group’s repertoire spans several centuries and includes music that was written for and premiered by them.  FLGQ recently appeared with the (Grammy Award winning) Albany Symphony (New York) in the world premiere of Evan Mack’s Forever Wild for Guitar Quartet and Orchestra.  They have performed for the Cleveland Classical Guitar Society, the Great Lakes Guitar Society, for the Mid-Hudson Valley Guitar Society, at the Hudson Valley Community College Guitar Festival, for the Upstate New York Classical Guitar Society, as well as numerous colleges, festivals, and performing arts venues.