| Credits: A tremendously versatile guitarist and composer, who is equally at home performing music from the classical guitar repertoire, playing Brazilian music, jazz, avant-garde chamber music or baroque concertos. Style: A wide and flexible repertoire including Classical, Jazz, Latin American, easy-listening background music and more. Available as a soloist, or part of a duet / trio. Biography: He is a graduate of the City of Leeds College of Music (GCLCM - Jazz, Contemporary and Popular Music) and of Trinity College of Music (University of London MMus - Performance and Related Studies). He was a wide variety of experience in classical guitar music. As well as playing at weddings, he offers solo and ensemble performances, formal recitals and 'Lunchtime concerts'. | | 
Having studied the piano from an early age, and later both classical and electric guitar, he began his undergraduate studies at Leeds as an electric guitarist. Influenced strongly by guitarists Ralph Towner and Egberto Gismonti, he became fascinated by the possibility of using the classical instrument and its technique for playing improvised music and elected to transfer to study classical guitar. For the remainder of the diploma course he studied under the College's classical guitar professor Dr Graham Wade, the Segovia scholar and biographer of Rodrigo. While at Leeds he also studied North Indian classical music for a time with highly respected sitarist Dharambir Singh. He graduated in 1993 with prizes for guitar performance and composition, and was awarded the Ricordi prize for musicianship in 1992 and 1993.  Having studied the classical guitar in the context of a jazz diploma course, he now felt the need to spend some further time specializing in classical repertoire, and decided to move to London in order to study at Trinity College of Music with guitarist and composer Gilbert Biberian.
Biberian's own music frequently combines a rigorous classical approach with Turkish and other middle Eastern traditional influences, and was a source of much inspiration in attempting to comprehend a varied musical background. In 1994 he graduated from Trinity with the University of London's Masters' Degree and was also awarded that year's chamber music prize. | | While a student He also took part in master classes with John Mills, Benjamin Verdery and Paulo Bellinati, and in 1992 he attended the Cordoba Festival, where he studied with Cuban composer and guitarist Leo Brouwer. In addition to concert performances, he has played at a large number of weddings, receptions and other events. As soloist and as an ensemble guitarist, he has performed at venues throughout the UK, including St Martin in the Fields, St James' Piccadilly, the Barbican Centre, Cheltenham Town Hall and Oxford's Holywell Music Room. Festival performances have included Bath International Guitar Festival (1997, 1998, 1999), Ludlow Festival (1998), Hebden Bridge Festival (1998, 1999), Edinburgh Festival Fringe (1998) and the Cheltenham Festival of Literature (2000). He has also performed with others artists. These include saxophonist Rob Hall, sitarist Dharambir Singh, music-theatre company the Clod Ensemble, baroque orchestra the Georgian Camerata and the British Youth Opera. He is also active as a guitar teacher, working for the music schools in London and Hertfordshire. His teaching activities have also included leading workshops, conducting ensembles and composing numerous pieces for the student repertoire. | Repertoire: A variety of programmes are available featuring either mixed or specialised repertoire is available, and he is happy to play specific requests. | Formal recital repertoire:A variety of programmes is available featuring either mixed or specialised repertoire. Composers featured in previous programmes have included: Baroque and classical music - J.S.Bach, G.F.Händel, Mauro Giuliani, Fernando Sor, Isaac Albéniz, Francisco Tárrega, South American music - Dilermando Reis, Astor Piazzolla, Garoto, Ary Barroso, Paulo Bellinati, Heitor Villa-Lobos, João Pernambuco, Egberto Gismonti, Marco Pereira | Weddings and other special occasions:For special events, - "tailor-made" programmes of the bride's choice. Enjoyable background music with a very broad repertoire. Music by classical composers including J.S.Bach, G.F.Händel, Francisco Tárrega, Isaac Albéniz and Fernando Sor. Latin-American music by Antonio Lauro, João Pernambuco, Astor Piazzolla, Antonio Carlos Jobim and others. Jazz and Broadway classics including the music of George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern and many more... |
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