Gilbert Biberian with the Omega Players on the South Bank, London Gilbert Biberian A Memorial Concert in Celebration of his 80th Birthday  Saturday 24 February 2024 St Andrew’s Church, Montpellier Street, Cheltenham GL50 1SP, 7pm The Programme features music composed or arranged by Gilbert Biberian Oración, On Harmonics, Romance, March no. 1 and no. 2, Midsummer’s Day, Arie Antiche, Pavane, Pearl, Four Waltzes November Leaves, December Frosts, October Sunsets, Bitter – Sweet, The Sephardic Songs Paxaro D’Hermozura, La Rosa Enflorece, Ven Querida, Ven amada, Durme, Durme, Six H ..read more

Online Concerts From 2022 Saturday 16 July 2022: Baltimore, MD: JULIAN BREAM: RECORDED LIVE CONCERT: 17 October 1967. Peabody Conservatory, first aired on ‘Music in Maryland’, WBJC classical radio, with host Jonathan Palevsky. Listen. Saturday 3 September 2022: London: THE GRIGORYAN BROTHERS: THIS IS US: A MUSICAL REFLECTION OF AUSTRALIA. Elgar Room, Royal Albert Hall, 1pm. Details. Blog >>>>>——————–<<<<<< Still Available from 2021 Saturday 30 January 2021: London: GEORGE TARLTON. Kings Place, 6pm. Stream. Sunday 31 January 2021: Drongen, Be ..read more

There are an impressive number of radio programmes throughout the world dedicated to the classical and flamenco guitar, some exclusively focusing on classical guitar, and some include the guitar. These offer an opportunity to listen not only to newly released recordings but also some very special historic recordings. They often include live interviews with the guitarists and sometimes with composers. Sebastián Domínguez: De Segovia a Yupanqui I start with one of the oldest programmes from Buenos Aires: Sebastián Domínguez and Fabio Caputo established the weekly programme De Segovia ..read more

Writing about the classical guitar has been an important part of my working life for decades – for Classical Guitar magazine, and 30 years on, still continuing with the monthly Gendai Guitar. In this blog, I want to share my excitement at meeting up with Lance Bosman, an inspiring music writer from a pre-Internet time, where music print journalism was an important and essential part of our lives and our conversations. Lance Bosman is someone whose work I read and learned a lot from in my student days in the 1980s, when I would eagerly await the publication of each monthly issue of Guitar Inte ..read more

Olga Pericet: La Leona © Paco Villalta Flamenco Festival London opened at Sadler’s Wells last week with Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras presenting her latest show Alma – bringing together her two loves: flamenco and bolero. The guitar is always a fundamental part of all flamenco and Flamenco Festival 2023 is featuring Rafael Riqueni, Niño Josele, Miguel Angel Cortés with José María Gallardo del Rey, as well as the essential guitarists in all the dance performances. The fundamental role of the guitar in flamenco is especially acknowledged in Olga Pericet’s La Leona – (the lioness) – referring ..read more

Happy International Women’s Day! CELEBRATING some of the very inspiring women working in music Starting with the Argentinian lutenist and guitarist Evangelina Mascardi. Here she is performing JS Bach’s Suite in G minor, BWV 995 on lute: Although she was born in Buenos Aires, she has remained living and working in Europe, since she came to study with Hopkinson Smith at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. Evangelina Mascardi teaches lute at the Conservatorio Antonio Vivaldi in Alessandria, Italy. And while we are in Italy, congratulations to Lena Kokkaliari on publishing the 200th issue of th ..read more

Paul Fischer and I spent the COVID-19 lockdown working together on his autobiography, Against the Grain: An Instrument Maker’s Journey, and I am pleased to say that it is finally published! With Paul in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire and me in North London, we did our writing and editing via long telephone calls and emails. Our initial idea of something much more modest grew to incorporate his early family history, his apprenticeship as a harpsichord maker with Robert and Andrea Goble, a long stint in the army in the 11th Hussars, and then a return to instrument making working with David Rubio ..read more

The duo of Slava and Leonard Grigoryan will be performing in the Elgar Room at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday 3 September 2022, presenting their new project called This Is Us: A Musical Reflection of Australia The 18 compositions which they have written for the project, celebrating the 20th anniversary of National Museum of Australia, were inspired by 18 personally selected objects from the vast collection at the Museum, tracing Australia’s diverse and complex history. The duo have internationally established reputations as performers of classical, jazz and contemporary music, and they use ..read more

The guitarist and composer Laura Snowden has made arrangements of three Christmas Carols – Silent Night, In the Bleak Midwinter and Away in the Manger, which are available in both music score (and TAB) for purchase until Christmas at: Christmas Carols. Most importantly, she is donating all the proceeds to the Gold from the Stone Foundation’s Christmas Dinners Project, a charity which provides care leavers, aged 18–25, with a memorable Christmas Day – this year through online activities and deliveries. The scores are available as as a pack of three Christmas Carols ..read more

We owe a debt of gratitude to the French guitarist Thibault Cauvin, whose energetic enthusiasm for his performing projects has not only pleased his audiences throughout the four corners of the earth where he travels to give concerts – reaching audiences well beyond the traditional classical music aficionados – but also for attracting the attention of the Cuban composer, conductor and guitarist Leo Brouwer. During lockdown, Thibault Cauvin has been revisiting Leo Brouwer’s two series of 30 ‘Estudios Sencillos – Simple Studies’ – simple only by name! making a video recording of one each day. Thi ..read more