Styles Classical / Spanish • Jazz
Counties Cornwall • Devon • Dorset • Somerset
Biography
This Devon based Classical Guitarist was born in Liverpool in 1980 and took up the guitar at the age of ten under the tuition of John Byrne. He moved to Jersey in 1994 and began to attract attention as a talented young guitarist. The following year he was invited to perform a full solo recital at the Jersey Arts Centre - the youngest person ever to do so.
In 1995 he was offered a scholarship to study with Carlos Bonell, Professor of Guitar at the Royal College of Music. Between 1999 and 2003, he has been studying at the University of York and has taken numerous masterclasses at the Royal Northern College of Music.
He offers a wide variety of background music to suit any occasion from jazz standards and popular songs to more formal classical and spanish music.
His repertoire for solo guitar includes:
Villa-Lobos:
Five Preludes, Suite Populaire Bresilienne, Choros No 1,& Selected Studies
Enrique Granados:
La Maja de Goya
Tarrega:
Recuerdos de la Alhambra
Turina:
Rafaga, Fandanguillo, Soleares
Llobet:
Catalan Folk Songs
Barrios:
El Sueno en la Floresta, La Catedral etc.
Bach:
Selected lute suites
Lennon/McCartney:
Here, There and Everywhere, Imagine, She's Leaving Home, Eleanor Rigby
Jazz:
Aint Misbehavin, Take Five, Round Midnight and many others
