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Who We Are - Officers
James Reid, President
Ryan Nitz, Treasurer
Diana Schaible, Secretary
Sue Schaible, Vice President
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“Reid is a Northwest treasure who deserves more national attention.”
Moscow-Pullman Daily News
“Reid brought a nice elegance to the music with very clean ornaments and quiet squeak-free playing.”
Seattle Classic Guitar Society
On the recording Sounds of the Bard:
“James Reid performs the pieces very well. This is a clear, closely recorded CD with some very pleasant moments.”
Classical Guitar Magazine
On the recording Higher Ground:
“The classical guitar has seldom had a more elegant steward, and here Reid performs a rich array of classical and contemporary pieces.”
Canon Press
James Reid, President of IGS, has performed hundreds of times throughout the United States and Canada appearing in concerts for guitar societies, colleges and universities, and for arts councils. He has also been a featured artist at numerous festivals including the Sun Waves Guitar Festival in Miami, the Portland Guitar Festival, Guitar New Orleans, The Guitar and Lute Institute, The Elkhorn Festival, and the Fairbanks Summer Music Festival. In addition, his music has been aired on many public radio and television broadcasts in the west. Mr. Reid is the founder of the Northwest Guitar Festival and from 1978-2020 was the director of the guitar program at the University of Idaho.
Mr. Reid’s solo recordings that have been favorably reviewed both here and abroad. He has commissioned works by Bryan Johanson, Andrew York, Maximo Diego Pujol, and Gwyneth Walker. In addition, he performs classics of the guitar repertoire by composers such as Mertz, Giuliani, Bach, and Sor. Mr. Reid has three times given presentations at international guitar festivals; on the music of Abel Carlevaro, on the music of Maximo Diego Pujol, and on the music of Bryan Johanson. In 1998, he was the recipient of a grant from the University of Idaho Research Council to record the music of the 19th century virtuoso-composer Johann Kaspar Mertz. In September of 1999 his recording, Sounds of the Bard, was featured on National Public Radio’s Performance Today program. In 2007, Mr. Reid released his CD, Birds. Regarding the CD, Soundboard said “the gem of the album is Four American Folk Songs written for the artist by Gywneth Walker. This work is in the same vein as Robert Beaser’s Mountain Songs but is much less hard edged, providing one of the most successful treatments of American songs I have heard.” In retirement James Reid continues to perform as part of the Spokane Guitar Collective.
Ryan Nitz, Treasurer of IGS, is a Boise, Idaho-based guitarist who has performed throughout North America. He has appeared with the Boise Philharmonic, Palouse Chamber Orchestra, Boise State University Chamber Orchestra, Opera Idaho, Arizona Contemporary Music Ensemble, Washington State University Festival of Contemporary Art Music, and at the University of Alaska Anchorage Guitar Symposium, among others. He is a founding member of the Boise Guitar Quartet, and the Anchorage, Alaska-based Borealis Guitar Quartet.
Ryan is on the faculty of the Boise State University Department of Music and holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Arizona State University, Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from Boise State, and a Master’s degree in Information Resources & Library Science from the University of Arizona.
Diana Schaible, Secretary of IGS is originally from Idaho Falls, Idaho. She is an award-winning guitarist, flutist, and music educator based in Tucson, Arizona.
She received a Bachelor's degree in Music Performance from the University of Idaho in 2011, and received her Master's degree in Music Performance at the University of Arizona in 2013. Diana has won prizes in classical guitar at several music festivals, including MusicFest Northwest in Spokane, San Francisco Bay Area Guitar Competition, and 1st prize at the Sierra Nevada Guitar Competition. She has performed internationally on both flute and guitar in Canada, Mexico, Ireland, and the United States.
Diana performs for the Healing Arts Program at the Tucson Medical Center, while also working as an Arts Integration Specialist for Tucson Unified School District's "Opening Minds through the Arts" program, and maintaining a private teaching studio.
Sue Schaible, Executive Director of IGS, is the founder of the Idaho Guitar Society. She serves as Vice President of IGS. While having been a certified teacher in business education, she maintains a variety of musical interests.
Sue has played classical guitar for twenty years, has performed with the Gallatin Guitar Ensemble in Montana, and is also teaching guitar privately. She currently hosts and performs with an Idaho Guitar Society Ensemble in Idaho Falls.
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