Journey in Sound, Sight, and Color.
Guitarist Gordon Kreplin is a concert and recording artist, photographer, and teacher. Critics have hailed his performances as ” masterful, transcendent, organic, and limpidly beautiful.” Throughout his artistic career, Gordon has found common elements of rhythm, form and color in music, imaging and poetry. These passions have shaped an artistic curiosity that reveals itself in the music and photography found here.
Ascencion Recordings is dedicated to producing, presenting and performing creative works. Since 1995, our products have included concerts, music recordings and compositions, and art photography. We are fortunate to call Williamsburg VA home.
Ascencion Recordings Inc. is a NC corporation formed in November 1995.
Ascencion Recordings seeks to reach the widest possible audience through creative works of musical performance, recordings, compositions and teaching.
Our principals are Gordon Kreplin – guitarist and lutenist – and Cathy Pescevich Kreplin – flutist, pianist, music director.
Early in 1995, Gordon Kreplin and (then) Cathy Pescevich embarked on a journey to produce their first joint project: classical guitar recording “Bach in Brazil.” In November of that year, Ascencion Recordings was born, a music production company dedicated to the recording and distribution of audiophile classical recordings. Over the ensuing years, Ascencion Recordings grew quite a bit. Location recording services, concert performances, “The Art Place” gallery, “Ascencion Photography” fine art and portrait photography studio, and Ascencion Music Academy music school all were creative offspring.
From 2010-2016, Ascencion Music Academy grew into an independent studio music school dedicated to excellence in music teaching and learning on the Outer Banks, and to music as community service. The school boasted nine teachers offering a wide range of instruments and styles, plus a robust young children’s music program. Our teaching legacy lives on as Barefoot Music Academy in Kill Devil Hills.
We offer private online coaching and lessons in guitar, piano, flutes and recorders, voice, music theory and composition.
Ascencion Recordings has re-mastered its audiophile recording catalogue to today’s listening standards. “Bach in Brazil,” was re-released in June 2021 followed by “Memories of Compostela” in September of 2021. “Bach in the Americas” and a single release of the fugue from J.S. Bach’s First Violin Sonata BWV 1004 came next, both in 2022. Releases of new works for classical guitar are in the works.
In addition to our music recording, teaching and performance, we published a work of literature in May 2021: “Passion and Grace.” The Photography and Poetry of Gordon Fox Kreplin.” In progress is a follow-up work of literature and companion piece to “Memories of Compostela.”
Would you like to talk with us about our work? Please contact one of us: Gordon Kreplin 252-207-3868 gfkreplin@icloud.com or Cathy Pescevich Kreplin at 252-955-0706 cathy@ncmusicteachers.com. Home is now Williamsburg VA. We appreciate calls, letters, emails and visits!