Milwaukee Classical Guitar Society
Thatcher Harrison
November 1, 2025
Grisha Goryachev
February 20, 2026
Raymond Mueller
November 22, 2025
Grisha Goryachev
Friday, February 20, 2026 7:30 P.M.
Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts
Brookfield, WI
A native of St. Petersburg, Russia, Grisha Goryachev is renowned for his extraordinary musical sensitivity and technical virtuosity in both classical and flamenco styles. Grisha is one of very few guitarists in the world who is reviving the tradition of solo flamenco guitar in a concert setting that was practiced by legendary flamenco masters.
Since coming to the United States, Mr. Goryachev has continued his lifelong love affair with flamenco while deepening his involvement with the classical style. His repertoire now includes classical solos, chamber music and guitar concertos and more than six hours of flamenco solos by such composers as Paco de Lucía, Vicente Amigo, Manolo Sanlucar, Rafael Riqueni, and others.
As the flamenco repertoire is for the most part unpublished, Mr. Goryachev has performed the somewhat incredible feat of transcribing entirely by ear from the recordings.
Grisha strives to keep alive older flamenco masterpieces that now exist only on records, by performing them in concerts. Grisha exposes the audiences to some of the best guitar compositions flamenco has to offer. Instead of merely copying, he creates his own interpretations of these masterpieces, using dynamics and tone colors usually associated with classical music.
The Milwaukee Classical Guitar Society Guitar Orchestra will perform a pre-event concert
Thatcher Harrison
Saturday, November 1, 2025 7:30 P.M.
Kingo Lutheran Church
1225 East Olive Street
Shorewood, WI
Thatcher Harrison is a guitarist and a composer. As a guitarist, he plays everything from classical guitar to jazz guitar, to fingerstyle guitar, to popular/rock guitar.
As a composer, he deftly combines influences from many genres of music to create pieces that satisfy both the heart and the mind.
Thatcher Harrison has won 20 prizes in regional, national, and international competitions, most notably 1st Prize at the 2021 Twents Gitaarfestival International Fingerstyle Guitar Competition, 1st Prize at the 2021 Pleven Guitar Festival Fingerstyle Guitar Competition, 1st Prize at the 2020 Boston Guitarfest Competition, 1st Prize at the 2020 Atlanta Festival Guitar Competition, and a winner of the 2019 National YoungArts Foundation Competition.
As a composer, Thatcher Harrison specializes in what he calls “classical fusion” composition: pieces based in classical composition and performance techniques, but with influences from jazz music, rock music, fingerstyle guitar music, film score music, and world music.
This a general admission event. Tickets will be available at the door starting at 6:30 P.M. or get advance tickets here.
Admission is $15. FREE for Milwaukee Classical Guitar Society members! ... become a member!
Raymond Mueller
Saturday, November 22, 2025 3:00 P.M.
Wisconsin Conservatory of Music
1584 North Prospect Avenue
Milwaukee, WI
Professor Emeritus Raymond Mueller will perform a program of solo classical guitar music at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music in the beautiful Helen Bader Recital Hall.