Benjamin Verdery (born 1955) is an American classical guitarist, composer and teacher.[1][2][3] Verdery has performed at venues including Carnegie Hall, Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Opera, and Wigmore Hall (London).[4][5][6] He has played and recorded with a wide range of classical and other musicians, including guitarists William Coulter, Leo Kottke, Paco Peña, Andy Summers and John Williams, vocalist Hermann Prey, composer Anthony Newman, and his wife, flutist Rie Schmidt.[7][2][8][9][10][11]New York Times classical music critic Allan Kozinn described Verdery as "one of the guitar’s grand individualists" and "an iconoclastic player," known as much for his devotion to new music and transcriptions of Jimi Hendrix songs as for inventive interpretations of Bach.[12][13][14] As of 2021, Verdery had released 19 albums and been featured on several others.[15][8][16] He has taught at the Yale School of Music since 1985.[17][16]
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^Kozinn, Allan. "The Rare and the Hendrix at Mannes College's New York Guitar Seminar," The New York Times, July 7, 2006. Retrieved November 3, 2021.
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^ abDonahue, Thomas (ed.). Benjamin Verdery: A Montage of a Classical Guitarist, Lanham, MD: Hamilton Books/ Rowman and Littlefield, 2018. Retrieved November 3, 2021.
^Yale School of Music. Benjamin Verdery, People. Retrieved November 1, 2021.
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