Exeter, NH (June 17, 2008)—The Friends of the Academy Library of Phillips Exeter Academy kick off the annual Summer Concert Series with virtuoso guitarist Robert Squires. The concert will be held Wednesday, June 25, 2008, inside Rockefeller Hall in the Class of 1945 Library, located on Front Street. It is free and open to the public, and begins at 7 p.m.  

The performance, “Reinvention and Reconvergence: An Evening of Solo Guitar,” will feature Fantasia, by S.L. Weiss; Opus 6 #11, Allegro moderato in E min/E, and Opus 9, Theme and Variations from Magic Flute’s Oh Cara Armonia, by Fernando Sor; portions of J.S. Bach’s “Movements from BWV” 1006a Suite in E Major; several works by Isaac Albeniz, including Granada, Cataluna, and Seville; and selections from the Beatles.

Squires has been an adjunct faculty member at Phillips Exeter Academy since 1979, and is a well-known guitarist throughout the greater Boston area.  He is also the former lead guitarist for Beatlejuice, the popular Boston-based Beatles tribute band.

Squires’ classical and classic rock performances have recently included the Bank of America Pavilion at Boston’s Waterfront last August, the Beauport Museum, and Cape Anne Historical Museum in Massachusetts. He has performed solo concerts for the Shoreham, the Vermont Conservatory and the Nahant Public Library, among others.

Squires has recorded at the famed Abbey Road Studios in London, England, with the Slovak Radio Symphony, the North Shore Philharmonic, the Essex Symphony Orchestra and with the Chamber Orchestra of Cape Ann. He enjoys writing and recording in his own private recording studio in Gloucester, MA. 

For more information, please call Academy Librarian Jacquelyn H. Thomas at (603) 777-3328 or visit the Academy Library’s events page at http://www.exeter.edu/libraries/4513_4521.aspx. For more information on other events, contact the Phillips Exeter Academy public events line at (603) 777-4309, or visit the Academy website at http://www.exeter.edu/. For directions to Phillips Exeter Academy, call (603) 777-4330. 

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Phillips Exeter Academy is a coeducational, independent preparatory school that was founded in 1781 and originated the system of instruction known as Harkness teaching in 1931. In the spirit of its charter to foster both goodness and knowledge, a Phillips Exeter Academy education will now be free to any admitted student whose family income is $75,000 or less. Committed to educational excellence, the school meets all demonstrated financial aid needs of its admitted students, making the Academy effectively “need blind.” The diverse student body comes from a wide variety of geographic, economic, racial and religious backgrounds approximately from 45 states, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands and 23 foreign countries.