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Acclaimed guitarist Jamie Balmer continues the Chamber Series continues with at 9 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 25, at the Denmark Arts Center. Balmer will perform an afternoon of music for solo guitar, pairing 20th-century Latin American works with music of J.S. Bach. The program will feature Argentine composer María Luisa Anido’s folkloric masterpiece “Impresiones Argentinas,” as well as Bach’s magisterial “Chaconne.”

A dedicated musical collaborator and insightful soloist, Balmer has worked for over a decade with Orpheus Guitar Duo — a group lauded as “brilliant and wild thinking artists,” and “among the premiere ensembles that is defining 21st-century performance practice.” He has made several critically acclaimed recordings with Orpheus Guitar Duo. Among these are 2012’s “I Sing the Body Electric,” praised by one reviewer as “a milestone record” and featuring world-premiere arrangements of music by Cage, Satie, Silvestrov, Mompou, and Arvo Pärt, with the latter composer collaborating in the arrangement of his Spiegel im Spiegel for two electric guitars. He has premiered new works for guitar duo by Joel Roston, Joseph Ricker, and Thomas Schuttenhelm, and he teamed up with kinetic sculptor Arthur Ganson on the 2011 multimedia performance installation “Machines.” Balmer has also performed with clarinetist Ismail Akmuradov, archguitarist Peter Blanchette, and dancer/choreographer Ilya Vidrin. These wide-ranging collaborative experiences have provided an important creative complement to his work as a guitar soloist.

The Denmark Arts Center is an award-winning 501(c)3 cultural organization founded in 1994 in the rural community of Denmark. Housed in the town’s historic 1883 Odd Fellows Hall, the DAC offers year-round events and workshops in contemporary dance, theater, music and visual art to community members young and old. DAC is at 50 West Main St., Denmark. For more information, visit denmarkarts.org.

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