Berta Rojas Brings Artistry to Lebanon Valley College
March 8, 2010
Berta Rojas, a world-famous classical guitarist, is coming to Lebanon Valley College (LVC) on Saturday, March 20 at 7:30 p.m. Her performance, which is
free and open to the public, will be in LVC’s Lutz Recital Hall of the Blair Music Center. Known for moving easily from classical to other musical genres, Rojas has sold out performances at both the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and the South Bank Centre in London. Originally from Paraguay, she has toured Europe and Asia, and also has appeared at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York.
Praised by The Washington Post as a “guitarist extraordinaire,” and by England’s Classical Guitar Magazine as “Ambassador of the Classical Guitar,” she has been recognized as a Fellow of the Americas by The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Rojas holds a master's degree in music from Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory.
In 2004, she opened the International First Ladies Summit in Paraguay with special guest Hillary Rodham Clinton. Rojas is committed to supporting South American artists, and has served as the artistic director for several competitions, including the Cardozo Ocampo Competition in Paraguay, the Ibero-American Guitar Festival in Washington, D.C., and the John and Susie Beatty Competition. She is Paraguay's ambassador of tourism and a professor of guitar at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
