Danza de Amor
Festival of Four features the amazing artistry of flutist Viviana Guzman and guitarists Richard Patterson, Marc Teicholz and Guillermo Rios.Band_Members: Richard Patterson, the founder of Festival of Four, brings 15 years of international concert experience to the group. His compositions had arrangements have been featured in films and television and on over 20 recordings. Trained in Spain, Mr Patterson is on the faculty of the college of Notre Dame and is the Director of the Omni Guitar Series in San Francsisco.Viviana Guzman is from Chile. Classically trained she joined the Festival of Four in 1995. An international virtuoso, Viviana earned her Masters degree from the Julliard School of Music and as performed with acclaimed orchestras all over the world.Marc Teicholz was classically trained at the Yale School of Music. An international award winning guitarist, he has appeared as the featured soloist in Russia, Portugal, Spain and the U.S. Mr. Teicholz is a faculty member of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.Guillermo Rios is the first Flamenco artist to ever be awarded the Ford Foundation Composition Grant. He has been performing around the world with Spain's leading Flamenco artists for seventeen years, and he brings a fiery, Latin flavor to the Festival of Four with his progressive Flamenco.