Jared Ball

Here is my friend and student Jared Ball. He has been studying with me for about a year. Before switching to the guitar, he played violin. He is working on a nice study by one of my favorite composers, Fernando Sor for the upcoming recital. I can't wait to hear it once he gets it under his fingers.

Joe Bradley

Here is my friend and student Joe Bradley playing two pieces from the Noad method. Henry Purcell's Minuet and Greensleeves (anonymous) Joe has been studying with me for about 3 1/2 years. He is a great musician and also plays the flute and he has just taken up the bass guitar. He will soon be graduating to Sagreras Book No 2.

Paul Mamangakis

Here is my friend and student, Paul Mamangakis Playing Leccion 8 from Julio Sagreras' method Book 2. He has been studing with me for 3 years. If you are really up on your Sagreras, you might notice that he has written in a repeat with a clever passage the brings him back to the more animated section of the piece as well as revising the second and final ending. This is typical of how he approaches music. He likes to put his own touch on it....I applaud this trait in him.

Llobet's El Noi de la Mare

Here is a recording I made on 11/1/09 of the genius guitar composer, Miguel Llobet's El Noi de la Mare. It is amoung a set of Catalan folk tunes that Llobet arranged in a very creative and harmonically adventurous way in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Llobet was the most celebrated of the pupils of the great Francisco Tarrega. His fingerings are remarkable in that he payed almost no mind to the difficulty of the fingering in order to produce the most pleasing sound. His transcriptions are unmatched in there attention to detail and clever manipulation of the guitar using every idiomatic tool that was known to exist on guitar in his time.