Sunday Concert Series begins Oct. 14 in St. Charles

The St. Charles Public Library will kick off its annual Sunday Concert Series at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 14, with a performance by renowned guitar virtuoso Fareed Haque and soprano AnDréa James.

This current collaboration, born of Haque and James' shared interest in classical Latin music, has inspired them to select and arrange gems from the Spanish repertoire.

This program will include works by Sor, Granados (revised by Haque), and Obradors (arranged for guitar and voice for the first time ever by Haque).

Haque, whose ethnic heritage is Pakistani and Chilean, is a graduate of Northwestern University and, since 1989, has been on the music faculty of Northern Illinois University, where he teaches jazz and classical guitar.

Haque has performed and recorded with a virtual who's-who of the jazz and classical music worlds. Television appearances have included WTTW's "Art Beat" and "Chicago Tonight," "Ben Sidran's New Visions," his own "Lonesome Pines" special on PBS, and on BET cable jazz programs.

He is a multiple award winner from Downbeat Magazine, and in 2009 was voted Best World Guitarist by Guitar Player Magazine.

James completed her Master's Degree in Vocal Performance at Northern Illinois University, where she received the Outstanding Graduate Student award (2014-15) and was a winner of the NIU Philharmonic Concerto Competition (2015).

Over the past 10 years, she has held many different teaching, accompanying, conducting and directing positions at churches and schools, and is a member of the St. Charles Singers.

Since 1981, the library has featured a variety of musical performances. The public is invited and the concerts are free.

The St. Charles Public Library is at One S. Sixth Ave. in St. Charles. For more information, visit www.scpld.org or call (630) 584-0076.