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Four Corners Arts Center Presents, Concert: Grey Beards

The Four Corners Arts Center is pleased to
present “The Greybeards”.  On Sunday, June
1st  2:00 p.m. at The Meeting
House.  The concert will include music from around Europe composed by Blavet,
Handel, Telemann, CPE Bach, and Le Clair. 
Admission $ 15 in advance online or $20 at the door.  For more information or to purchase tickets,
please visit our website FourCornersArts.org.



The Greybeards have performing together since 2010 after first Will and
Glenn, and then Will and Mike, performed together in different groups. Our
first concert together was at the Meeting House and titled “Three Greybeards at
the Court of King Frederic the Great”. We had found our name. Since then we
have enjoyed performing together often. We also enjoy relaxing after rehearsals
with a scotch.



Mike Shand has studied traverso with Linda Marianiello,
Anne Briggs, Sandy Miller, and Wendy Rolfe. He has performed solo and in
ensembles in northern New Jersey, Newport, New
Bedford and Boston. Several years ago, he founded the Treaty Rock Consort and,
more recently, The Greybeards (please keep telling Glenn his beard makes him
look distinguished). Mike has performed on the Loring-Greenough House
concert series in Boston with Judith Conrad and in
Buzzards Bay with the Delight Consort. He was soloist with the Greater
Tiverton Community Chorus last December.

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After living in New Jersey for many years,
where he was a physicist and flutist, Mike and his wife, Nancy, returned home;
they live in Tiverton. He plays a traverso by Martin Wenner after an
Oberlander.



Glenn Giuttari, of Rehoboth Massachusetts and founder of
Harpsichord Clearing House, did undergraduate and graduate work in musicology
at Brown University and harpsichord studies with John Gibbons (Boston). Over
the last 40 years he has become well known in the early music field as a
harpsichord builder and technician with sporadic skirmishes into the
performance world.

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A long time ago, he served as Music
Department chair at Salve Regina University, and Organist and Choirmaster at
Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, Fall River. For 4 years he directed
Gilbert & Sullivan with Cabot Street Playhouse in Providence. He is
Co-founder of the Providence Singers - now one of the country's top community
choruses and founding director (14 years thru 2006) of Sine Nomine Chamber
Choir (based in Fall River).



Will Ayton, the son of missionary parents, was born in
Kansu, China and was educated in Taiwan and in the United States. He is a
retired Professor of Music from Roger Williams University in Bristol.  He has long had passions for early music and
composition. His compositions have been recorded by various groups including a
CD of his music “A Reliquary for William Blake” by the viol group Parthenia. He
has performed with a variety of ensembles. Will has degrees from Shenandoah
Conservatory of Music, New England Conservatory of Music, and Boston
University. He currently lives with his wife, Nancy in Providence RI.

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