Randall Avers 

University of Houston, Moores School of Music

and

the Immanuel and Helen Olshen TEXAS MUSIC FESTIVAL

Presents:

“Classical Minds” Guitar Festival and Competition
Texas Music Festival
Valerie Hartzell, Director
 Fernand Vera, Assistant Director
Robert Nejako, Coordinator

 
June 15 - June 20, 2010

Artists and Faculty:
Mary Akerman
Frank Koonce
Randall Avers
Anthony Glise
Duo Madriguera (Enric and Sabine Madriguera)
Kithara Duo (Olga Amelkina-Vera and Fernand Vera)
Patrick Lui
Dieter Hennings
Marc Garvin

VENDORS WELCOME!!
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Fernand Vera and Olga Amelkina-Vera

2009 Competition Winners: Click HERE

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CLICK HERE FOR THE 2010 COMPETITION APPLICATION

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By popular demand, we are pleased to offer a week of intensive study of the classical guitar.  Under the leadership of faculty members Frank Koonce, Randall Avers, Enric and Sabine Madriguera, Patrick Lui, Mary Akerman, Anthony Glise, Fernand Vera, Olga Amelkina-Vera, Marc Garvin, and Valerie Hartzell, participants will explore a rich area of repertoire with private lessons, master classes and Guitar Orchestra.  For tuition information, please download the application. We have created different package deals to meet as many needs as possible.  Competitions can choose this year to either participate in just the competition or in both the festival AND competition.  Competitors must submit a competition form and/or the festival form.  
Auditors are welcome; the fee is $35 and auditors may attend all late morning and afternoon events (bring your guitar if you want to join the Guitar Orchestra Class).  We will have signs up for the auditors in the lobby of the Moores School of Music.
The goal of this festival is to increase each student's sight-reading abilities, gain ensemble experience through the Guitar Orchestra Class and of course, reach individual goals through the private lessons and/or master classes.  There will be two Guitar Orchestras. One will be the Classical Guitar Orchestra Level 1 (advanced students and adults - 14 and above) and the other will be the Kindermusik Guitar Orchestra, directed by Patrick Lui.  Olga Amelkina-Vera will compose orchestra pieces for both the Kinder Orchestra and the Level 1 Orchestra.  All parts can be downloaded off the web site (please visit the site again when it has been updated), it is advised that students prepare their parts BEFORE the festival.  Please do not download a part until you have received your acceptance letter.  The letter will tell you which part to download (music is available below).  
The festival is open to guitarists of all ages and levels.

Private Classical Guitar lessons will be offered by Frank Koonce, Randall Avers, Enric and Sabine Madriguera, Patrick Lui, Mary Akerman, Anthony Glise, Fernand Vera, Marc Garvin, and Olga Amelkina-Vera.  Patrick Lui will give two 45 minute classes during the lesson time for students under 13 yrs old.  The Kinder Guitar Guitar Class will work on technique, solo pieces, and ensemble pieces. The Kinder Theory Class will focus on music theory, sight-reading, and composition. Only intermediate and advanced level students under the age of 13 will receive private lessons.

Lectures, short morning recitals (and by Marc Garvin and one by the festival students), and a lecture by Marc Garvin will occur in the morning after lessons.  Group Lessons for students under 13, and a Kinder Theory Class will take place each morning during lesson times.  In the past students wished there were activities going on while they waited for their lessons.  Students get a 30 minute lesson most days, so we planned some morning activities that are open to the students.  Note: Competitors may not be given as many lessons (of course, this is if the competitors choose to do the festival too).

Competition:
This Competition is open to legal U. S. residents only.

Prizes:

Division 1:
$800  First Prize - An Aquiles Torres guitar  
$400 Second Prize 
$250 Third Prize 

Division 2:
$500 First Prize 
$300 Second Prize
$200 Third Prize 

 Division 3:
$300 First Prize 
$200 Second Prize 
$100 Third Prize

Master classes:
Anyone interested in participating in master classes must receive approval by sending either a tape or cd with at least 10 minutes of music (both soloists and guitar ensembles are welcome).  We encourage intermediate and advanced students to participate.  Master classes will be given by Randall Avers, Mary Akerman, and Frank Koonce.  Beginners are encouraged to attend the master classes.  Students should arrive in June prepared with music scores for their master classes.  For more information, please contact Valerie Hartzell at (281) 395-9066 or email her at valeriehartzell@consolidated.net.
Competitors do have the option of participating in the master class but festival participants have priority.  Competitors will be given spots if available.

Vendors welcome to Houston!!!  
Exhibitions will take place in Room 108 and 188 of the Moores School of Music Bldg. on the University of Houston campus.  These rooms are spacious enough for many vendors to comfortably showcase their guitars.  Also, vendors are welcome to bring music, strings, and any other materials they wish to showcase.  Forms must be sent in by May 28th.  Please download the form here: EXIBITORFORM



Faculty Artist Biographies and Pictures:

Valerie Hartzell began her classical guitar studies on a half-size Ramirez at the age of three.   At the age of six, she studied with maestro Alexandre Lagoya at the Académie Internationale d’Eté in Nice, France.  She has participated in master classes with several internationally acclaimed artists, including Ako Ito, Castellani-Andriaccio Duo, David Russell, and Elena Papandreou.
In 1991, Ms. Hartzell made her debut performing Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s “Concerto for guitar and orchestra” with the New Philharmonic Orchestra of Irving, Texas.  She made her international debut in San Mamete, Italy at the Festival del Piccolo Mondo in August 1994.  She has performed in Europe, Canada, the U.S. and has appeared on television in Nice, FR.  From September 29-October 5, 2002 she toured the Carolinas which promoted her first cd, Fuoco!
She has performed in many festivals, including the 'Close Encounters' Voice and Guitar Festival at University of Houston, the Eastfield College Guitar Festival and Competition in Mesquite, the first Classical Guitar Weekend Workshop at The Music Conservatory of Texas in Frisco, the Tennessee Festival at Middle Tennessee State University, the ECU Competition and Festival in Greenville, NC, the ‘Classical Minds’ Guitar Institute and Competition in Houston, TX, and the MANC Guitar Competition and Festival in Greensboro, NC.  In March of 2007, Ms. Hartzell performed with studio members of the Houston Grand Opera at the Rienzi Recital Series.

Ms. Hartzell has also performed for the NYCCGS at the Roger Smith Hotel, the Troubadour Series at Wofford College, The Charlotte Guitar Society, the Ft. Worth Guitar Guild, Arizona State University Guest Artist Series, Illinois State University Guest Artist Series (with singer Sandra Johnson as Duo Athena), Austin Classical Guitar Society Meeting, Appalachian University Guest Artist Series, Texas State University Guest Artist Series, and the Elon Guitar Society.
In August 2003, Ms. Hartzell was the first performer to win the  “K-Artist of the Month Contest” sponsored by Houston’s former classical station, KRTS, 92.1FM.  Additionally, she was a prizewinner at the Portland Guitar Competition, the East Carolina University Competition and Festival, and the Appalachian Guitar Festival and Competition.  Was has won 1st prizes at the 10th International Guitar Competition “Simone Salmaso” in Viareggio, Italy and at the Concours de Guitare Classique Heitor Villa-Lobos in Nice, France.
At the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University, Ms. Hartzell was awarded an undergraduate scholarship for the classical guitar and studied with Manuel Barrueco earning her Bachelor’s Degree in 1997.  She was awarded a Graduate Teaching Fellowship at Radford University with Robert Trent and was placed as Adjunct Faculty while studying for her Master’s Degree in Music.  She received her performance degree in May of 1999 and currently, she is Adjunct Faculty at the Houston Community College.  She keeps an active solo career and works in a professional duo with soprano Sandra Johnson, as Duo Athena and frequently is a judge at international competitions throughout the United States.  Many of her private students have placed and won national and international competitions.  Also, her private students have been accepted on scholarship to Schwob School of Music (University of Columbus), San Francisco Conservatory, University of North Texas in Denton, University of Texas at San Antonio, and Texas State University at San Marcos.
Valerie Hartzell is the creator and Director of the "Classical Minds" Guitar Institute and Competition at Moores School of Music, University of Houston and is the director of the Greater Houston Guitar Guild.
Ms. Hartzell plays a Greg Byers Guitar.







A native of Houston, Texas, Fernand Vera is a sought-after guitar soloist, chamber musician, and teacher.  He holds a Bachelor’s of Arts in Music from the University of St. Thomas and Masters of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in Guitar Performance and Music Theory from the University of North Texas, where he studied under Tom Johnson.  He has performed in master classes with well-known artists such as Pepe Romero, Ricardo Cobo, Simon Dinnigan, Lorezno Micheli, Roberto Aussel, and Antigoni Goni. Fernand has also studied privately with Houston-based Valerie Harztell, and explored the folk guitar tradition of South America during his three-month stay in Ecuador. 
Fernand was a prizewinner in the Rantucci Guitar Competition and Eastfield Collegiate Guitar competition (1st Prize-2008), and a finalist in the University of Texas at Dallas International Guitar Competition. His playing was hailed as “sensitive and poetic” by the renowned judges of the Rantucci competition. He has performed nationally and overseas, launching his European performing career in the summer of 2002, when he played a solo concert for Gomel Classical Guitar Society in Belarus. 
Fernand’s students have won prizes in several guitar competitions and performed recitals in the North Texas area. Fernand continuously contributes to the guitar ensemble repertoire through his numerous arrangements and transcriptions.  He is faculty at Collin County Community College in Plano, TX.
Fernand Vera is the assistant director of the 'Classical Minds' Guitar Festival at University of Houston. 














The only American-born guitarist to win First Prize at the International Toscanini Competition (Italy), Anthony Glise is a product of the Konservatorium der Stadt (Vienna) and New England Conservatory (Boston) with additional study at Harvard University, the Université Catholique de Lille (France), ARCUM (Rome) and the Accademia di Studi “L’Ottocento” (Vigevano, Italy). Anthony is also the only guitarist ever awarded the “IndividualArtist of the Year” by the Missouri Arts Council (2006) and has been awarded diplomas and performed at such festivals as Festival des Artes (Hautecombe), Ville Sable (France), ARCUM (Rome), the Nemzetközi Gitárfesztivál (Hungary), etc.  His traditional classical concerts often include 19th-Century works performed on a priceless 1828 Staufer Viennese guitar and US/European concerts with the avant-garde ensemble, The Nova Project, which feature his original compositions with classical / rock / jazz guitarist, Jason Riley (US). Past Nova Project guest artists include Japanese violinist, Ken Sugita (French National Orchestra-Lille), Kevin Gallagher (electric / classical guitarist - US), Jan Akkerman (rock guitarist - Holland) and Edwige DelleValle (’cellist - France). He has published articles extensively in The Soundboard (US), Guitar International (England) and Gitarre und Laute (Germany) and has acted as Artist-in-Residence and Touring Artist for numerous US state arts councils and similar European programs.

Anthony is author/editor of over 80 musical editions and books for the internationally-acclaimed publications, “The Anthony Glise Editions,” (Willis Music Company), “The Anthony Glise Urtext Editions” (Mel Bay Publications) and “The Original Compositions of Anthony Glise” (Ævia Publications-France).

He has performed and premiered his original compositions in New York (Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, etc.), Chicago (Dame Myra Hess Concert Series, etc.), Rome (Santa Maria degli Angeli), Vienna (Vienna International Center, etc.), Lille (Nouveau Siècle of the French National Orchestra, etc.), Esztergom (Hungary) etc.  Anthony’s CDs and DVDs have consistently received 5-star reviews in magazines including The Soundboard, Guitar Player Magazine, Gramaphone, Audiophile (US), Les Cahiers de la Guitare, Le Diapiason (France), Luster (Holland), Gitarre Aktuelle, Gitarre und Laute (Germany) etc. These recordings feature traditional works and original compositions (solo, chamber, choral, orchestral and ballet). His first album, Overview, was chosen as one of the year’s “Top-5 Classical Releases” by Vienna Life Magazine (Austria) along with recordings by Murray Periah and Leonard Bernstein.

In 2006 Anthony was elected to the board of an on-going project of the national French organization, Domaine Musique, to help develop better relations between French composers and feature film directors.  He is the only non-French ever invited to that prestigious assembly.

When not on tour, Anthony lives and teaches in the Flandres region of Northern France, part-time in the Black Forest region of Germany and in the US.  He directs both the St. Joseph International Guitar Festival (US) and the guitar festival, Six Strings and the Spirit held annually in Chartres, France, sponsored by the religious order, Communauté du Chemin Neuf.






Frank Koonce is internationally acclaimed as a performer, teacher, and writer. He holds degrees from the North Carolina School of the Arts and from Southern Methodist University, studying first with Jesús Silva and then with Robert Guthrie. In 1974-75, he was a Fulbright Scholar and performer in Italy where he studied with Sergio Notaro and Alirio Diaz.
Mr. Koonce's creative output includes an authoritative guitar edition of Johann Sebastian Bach's complete solo lute works and the world-premiere recording in English of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's "Platero and I" for narrator and guitar (Summit, DCD 1002). He has also recorded an album entitled "A Southwest Christmas" with the Phoenix Bach Choir (Soundset, SR 1005) and is featured in a live concert video with the renowned composer/guitarist, Nikita Koshkin (Mel Bay 99231VX). As a founding partner of Soundset Recordings he has helped produce other classical compact discs, including a premiere recording of works by Alan Hovhaness with the Korean Broadcasting System Symphony Orchestra and the first two recordings of Nikita Koshkin.
A Professor of Music, Frank Koonce has directed the guitar program at Arizona State University since 1978. He was Director of "Guitar Festival 1987" an international event jointly sponsored by the Guitar Foundation of America and the American String Teachers Association, and has since served as Chair the GFA Advisory Board. He is an active performer, with recitals to his credit in England, Korea, Macedonia, Taiwan, China, Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Mexico, Spain, The Czech Republic, Austria, and throughout the United States.






Mary Akerman is a winner of the prestigious Guitar Foundation of America Competition, the Casa de Espana of Puerto Rico Competition, and also won a medal in the Concours International Radio France. She has taught master classes at several festivals in the United States and abroad, and she has performed with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Atlanta Festival Singers and on NPR’s Performance Today. Recently, Akerman was elected chairperson of the advisory board for the Guitar Foundation of America. She also plans to start work on a recording project over the next few months. Akerman is an assistant professor of guitar at Kennesaw State.

Akerman first developed an interest in playing classical guitar at the age of 13 when her father brought home an LP of Andres Segovia, who Akerman considers the “father of modern classical guitar.” One of the highlights of Akerman’s tutelage was when she had the privilege of taking a master class from Segovia, who was 94 years old at the time. Akerman also studied classical guitar at the University of Georgia and Florida State University. 

She is currently on faculty at Kennesaw State University.






When 17-year old Randall Avers captured second prize in the prestigious Guitar Foundation of America's International Competition in 1991, he became the youngest finalist in the competition's history and earned immediate recognition as one of America's top young guitar players. He has gone on to earn seven additional awards in international competitions including the Guitarists of Leadership and Distinction Competition (G.O.L.D.), the Yamaha Music Competition, and the XXème Concours Internationale de Guitare Rene Bartoli.
Avers has performed in festivals and concerts throughout North America, Europe, Africa and in the Middle East. In 1998, he was selected to be an Artistic Ambassador of the United States and toured North Africa and Egypt teaching, lecturing and performing American Jazz and classical music.
Away from the concert stage, Avers is an instructor, lecturer, arranger and composer. His collection of guitar duos, “Twelve Silly Songs for Twelve Silly Strings”, co-composed with Rami Vamos, has been performed internationally by various artists including the Newman-Oltman Duo. VISTAS, his 1996 solo recording debut, has received praise from both critics and musicians. His second solo recording is due to be released this year.
Avers began his musical studies at age 6. He obtained degrees at the Oberlin Conservatory (BM) and the University of Arizona (MM). Prior to obtaining his MM, Avers attended the Conservatoire Nationale Supériere de Musique et de Danse in Paris, where he became the first American to receive first prizes in both classical guitar and chamber music. He has also studied at the North Carolina School for the Arts, University of Akron, and Walnut Hill School for the Arts affiliated with the New England Conservatory.  He is a recipient of the Theodore Presser Award and the Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship.
"Avers is one of the most impressive artists I came across in the last few years."
-Sergio Assad, Latin Grammy winner 
"MAGIC... unusual depth and versatility for a young man in his twenties."
-Tunisia News, Tunisia (1998)














Enric Madriguera is director of the guitar studies program and professor of aesthetics studies in music at UT Dallas. Enric participates frequently in international festivals of music in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. Has recorded C.D.s for Encore Gold Label in the United States with the titles “Old World/New World” and “Guitarra de las Americas (Guitar of the Americas).” The UT Dallas production of Voz y Guitarra features works by Ernesto Cordero and John Duarte as recorded by soprano Kathryn Evans with Enric Madriguera. During the academic year 2007-08, Enric performed and lectured in Ecuador, Spain, Mexico, and the United States. During 2009 he has performed and lectured in Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and the United States. Enric is director of the guitar section of the Festival of Chamber Art, Madrid, having the opportunity to lead U.S. students musically and academically in Spain. Prof. Madriguera is in residence at the School of Arts in Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico as a Fulbright Lecturer during the fall of 2009.

Sabine Madriguera hails from Berlin, Germany.  She holds a master’s degree from the Hochschule fuer Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin and is the Director of Guitar Studies at Collin College in Plano, Texas. Her student ensembles were awarded first prizes in the competition at the UT Brownsville Guitar Ensemble Festival and Competition. Sabine Madriguera is also a member of the Advisory Board to the Allegro Guitar Society. Since the fall of 2005 Sabine is the first director of the Guitar Orchestra for Cross Timbers Youth Orchestra (CTYO).

In 1996, Duo Madriguera was formed together with her husband Enric. Since then the duo has enjoyed an active regional and international performance schedule. They have been featured at international festivals in Austria, the Czech Republic, Mexico, Peru, and Spain. Duo Madriguera has performed in prestigious halls like the Sala Manuel Ponce in Mexico City and the Teatro Villa de Madrid, for the Sociedad Espanola, the guitar society of Madrid. In 2003 the duo released their first CD on the Plano based Encore label. In 2009 the duo embarks on a four-city tour of Peru co-sponsored by Partners of the Americas and the U.S. Embassy. The City of Dallas, Office of Cultural Affairs has awarded Sabine as well as the duo several grants to underwrite performances and arts projects in Dallas.

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Dieter Hennings Yeomans's musical endevours span from new music on guitar to early music for lute, baroque guitar, and theorbo. Mr. Hennings has been a soloist with Canada’s New Music Concerts Ensemble, Eastman BroadBand Ensemble, Eastman School Symphony Orchestra, the University of Arizona Philharmonia, and the Orquesta Juvenil de Sonora, Mexico. Mr. Hennings has won several prestigious competitions including the 2008 Aaron Brock International Guitar Competition, 2005 Eastman Guitar Concerto Competition, the 2002 Villa de Petrer, Alicante (Spain) International Competition, the 2001 Portland Guitar Competition, among others.
Mr. Hennings is an active proponent of new music, particularly that of Latin America, having recently worked with composers Mario Davidovsky, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Juan Trigos and Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon. Mr. Hennings has recently premiered works by composers Jake Bancks, Wes Matthews, John Aylward, Beth Wiemann, Hebert Vazquez, Luca Cori, Juan Trigos and Scott Worthington. He recently performed Synchronisms no. 10 for guitar and tape for Mario Davidovsky in a concert dedicated to the composer's work. Mr. Hennings has received grants from the Howard Hanson Institute for American Music and the Fondo Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes to commission and premiere contemporary works for guitar.
Recent engagements include concerts with pop-singer Natalie Merchant and baroque vioinist Monica Huggett as well as appearances at the Mexican Embassy in Rome, Festival SpazioMusica of Cagliari, Conservatorio de las Rosas in Morelia, Mexico, University of Chicago, Festival Internacional de Chihuahua, New York’s Joyce Theater, Julliard’s Paul Hall, and New England Conservatory. Mr. Hennings is a resident artist at the East Coast Composers Ensemble and the Eastman Broad Band Ensemble, with whom he maintains an active performing schedule.
In 2005 and 2007 he participated in the modern premieres of the baroque operas "Apollo and Daphne" and “La virtù de’stralli d’Amore” by Francesco Cavalli, both directed by Paul O'Dette. Mr. Hennings recently performed recitals on baroque lute and guitar at Milan’s Spazio Tadini, the Arizona Early Music Society and the Rochester Early Music Society among many others.
Current recording projects include an album of works by Silvius Leopold Weiss for baroque lute and the guitar works of composers Juan Trigos and Luca Cori. Recently he collaborated in a recording project with singer Natalie Merchant which also featured musicians like Winton Marsalis, Medeski, Martin and Wood, and producer Anders Levin.
Dieter Hennings received a Bachelor's degree from the University of Arizona School of Music in Guitar Performance in 2004. The following year he was awarded a Master’s degree in Early Plucked Instruments with world-renowned lutenist Paul O'Dette at the Eastman School of Music. He has recently completed the residency for his Doctoral degree in both Guitar Performance and Early Plucked Instruments at Eastman.
















Kithara Duo  (Fernand Vera and Olga Amelkina-Vera) was formed in 2002. They have been invited to perform as guest artists by numerous Texas organizations and festivals, most notably Foundation of Modern Music (Houston), Col Canto (Houston), Voces Intimae (Dallas),  “Classical Minds" Guitar Festival at the University of Houston Moores School of Music, Fort Worth Guild Music Festival, Mesquite Guitar Festival, and live on "The Front Row," a program on Houston's classical radio station KUHF 88.7.  Kithara Duo are the creators and directors of the annual Guitar Orchestra Workshop in the North Texas area. They currently reside in Denton, TX.

Accolades for the duo from the University of Texas at Brownsville Guitar Ensemble Festival:

"… an absolutely beautiful sounding duo!"

"A real pleasure to hear--wonderful uniformity of articulation and phrasing.  A first rate duo."

"Rhythmic vitality and a light and facile approach."

“A fine, expressive performance.” 

“[Kithara Duo] wove a dreamy spell in Piazzolla’s Lo Que Vendra.”
--Dallas Morning News








Marc Garvin has appeared with Cecilia Bartoli and the Houston Grand Opera, the Pittsburgh Symphony Chamber Music Ensemble and in performance with Luciano Pavarotti and the Houston Symphony.  He has performed at Washington D.C.'s Kennedy Center and has toured as a soloist and ensemble member throughout Canada and the United States.  As a frequent performer with the Houston Ballet, he has performed as a soloist in the American Premier of Christopher Bruce's "Ghost Dances".  He is also the recipient of Solo Recitalist and Duo Recitalist Grants from the Texas Commission on the Arts, where he performs throughout the state.  As a recording artist, Marc Garvin’s first solo album was released in 1993 to wide praise and critical acclaim. 
As a graduate with a degree in music from Carnegie-Mellon University, Marc Garvin has placed a high emphasis on music education.  He is an artist on the roster of Young Audiences of America, and was an active teaching artist for the Texas Institute for Arts in Education.  As a classical guitar instructor, Mr. Garvin has been on the faculties of Carnegie-Mellon University, San Jacinto Jr. College, Houston Community College and Houston Baptist University.  He currently teaches classical guitar students in his private studio. 
His course, “Designing Your Future in the Business of Music" has helped many students of music and professional musicians prepare for successful careers in the music field.  A large portion of this course is instructive in the area of personal finances for musicians. 
Additionally he has lectured widely to music teachers in a course entitled “Power Principles For Achievement In Teaching Music.”  This lecture is designed for music teachers to improve their teaching abilities, motivate themselves and their students, and attract new students.



Robb along with our dogs, Ernesto Tamayo (who did a concert in Houston in 11/18/05) and myself

After graduating from Virginia Tech, with a degree in Geophysics, Robert Nejako began immediately working in the seismic processing industry.  He has worked for Ensign Geophysics before coming to Fairfield Industries, now FairfieldNodal, as a processing analyst in the Marine Processing Department.  He has processed 3D and 2D surveys from raw field data through post migration finished product.  These projects consist of both single and multi-streamer acquisition projects, as well as ocean bottom cable (obc) surveys.  He is experienced with velocity analysis, Kirchhoff migration, noise removal, multiple removal, and various parameter testing.  Earlier experience also includes spectral balance/broadening and deconvolution.

Robb’s FairfieldNodal processing experience includes working with numerous projects in the Gulf of Mexico and Novia Scotia.  He also has processed surveys from offshore Egypt, U.A.E., Vietnam, and Siberia.

Robb is a member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) and the Geophysical Society of Houston (GSH), as well as an active member in the Virginia Tech Alumni Association.

Robb is married to director, Valerie Hartzell, and has been monumental in organizing the ‘Classical Minds’ Guitar Institute since it’s birth six years ago.  Robb has been made officially the coordinator of the annual ‘Classical Minds.’

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