We’re excited to launch the Guitar Ensemble Support Fund!
This fund was created to support the needs of our Illinois Guitar Ensemble. This spring, our students have been invited to perform at the Mid America Guitar Ensemble Festival in Fort Wayne, Indiana—an incredible opportunity hosted by Purdue University Fort Wayne. Gifts to this fund will help cover travel expenses such as transportation costs, food, and hotel stays.
Your support makes this experience and others like it possible, and every contribution—big or small—truly makes a difference for our students.
About the Guitar Ensemble at Illinois:
The University of Illinois’ Guitar Ensemble is a chamber group that provides guitar students the opportunity to perform as a small guitar orchestra. Under the direction of Dr. Guido Sánchez-Portuguez, the ensemble focuses on original pieces, arrangements of, and new compositions commissioned exclusively for the group. Open to guitar majors, music majors, minors and non-music majors, the Guitar Ensemble is a great vehicle for guitarists to explore chamber and orchestral repertoire unavailable to the solo guitar, as well as cool and exciting popular music arrangements taken from various and diverse musical traditions.
