Prelude & Presto from Lute Suite No. 1 in E Minor: J.S. Bach

Prelude & Presto: J.S. Bach

Len Handler studied clasical guitar with Leonid Bolotine, William Matthews and Peter Lawrence, and composition with Frederic Werle’.  As a performer, Len was stage guitarist for the original Broadway production of the musical Man of LaMancha, and has performed as guitar soloist with the New York City Ballet, New York Shakespeare Festival, and NBC’s Mike Douglass Show and Midday Live.  Len toured nationally with the duo Herrick & Handler, and has been guitar accompanist for Lannie Kazan, Howard Keel, and Jerome Hines, as well as guitar soloist in productions with Charles Durning, Barbara Barrie, Ralph Waite and Jose Ferrer.  

As a composer/writer, Len’s compositions have been published by Polygram Music, Universal, Boosey & Hawkes, Theodore Presser, G. Schirmer and Famous Music.  Country music reviewer Kris Wilson reviewed Don Williams’ recent recording of Len’s “Harry & Joe” as “…one of the twelve best songs recorded in Nashville this year.”  A recent Emmy nomination for Best Original Song (“Fool’s Gold”) along with featured songs on network television dramas Guiding Light, Another World, and As The World Turns, have kept Len busy writing. Len’s song “The Last Day of Forever” was recently featured in the film The Crab Orchard, starring Ed Asner and Judge Reinhold.

On the classical front, Len’s Concerto For Guitar and Orchestra was premiered by Claude Monteaux and the Haydn Festival Orchestra, and his song cycle for choir and string quintet, “Forgotten Faces,” was premiered in the fall of 2007.

Multi-faceted, these days Len serves as Director of Music for Reader’s Digest Association. He lives in Connecticut with his wife Debbie, children Rachael, Alex and Aaron, and Beagle Tucker.


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Guitarist, composer, performer, producer, Lucas Maiorani is a Franco-Italian guitarist.
Trained at the Haute École de Musique in Lausanne with Dagoberto Linhares then at the Royal Conservatory of Liège with Adrien Brogna and Hughes Kolp, he obtained a Masters in interpretation and pedagogy. The many opportunities for representation in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Croatia, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Russia, give him a great experience of the stage.
On the wise advice of great masters like Roland Dyens, Rolf Lislevand or Scott Tennant, Lucas Maiorani develops a very musical, contrasting game; looking for various and colorful stamps. His audience describes him as a passionate and touching musician.
“An audience captivated by the harmony and the sharing of great musical emotions tinged with rich Latin, Brazilian and Iberian musical accents. »Le bien public (08/17/11)
His taste for chamber music has led him to work in numerous projects such as the opera by Hans Werner Henze: El Cimarrón, with Barna Cserháti, Catherine Goederman and Jonas Burton; or the guitar octet Dagoberto Linhares in adaptations by Praetorius, Ravel, Piazzola, Bernstein…
In 2020, his first solo album “  Guitarra Sudamericana ” is released, dedicated to Latin American compositions, as well as “ Django Project ” dedicated to guitarist Django Reinhardt in collaboration with Guillaume Lepoutre.
He founded the CBArts Productions Label which produces emerging artists with various influences.

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Prelude & Presto: J.S. Bach

LIH