Lectures, Workshops & Masterclasses

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Alternative Careers for the Classical Guitarist
A workshop demonstrating the different strummed and plucked styles of early guitars including an introduction to tablature and improvising on ground basses. Creating more professional opportunities by learning to play basso continuo will also be discussed.

Solving Problems Performing 19th Century Guitar Music
A lecture/masterclass about the performance practice of the classic /romantic repertory on the modern classical guitar.

The Guitar Family Tree
A lecture/demonstration about the geneology of guitar construction and development over the last 400 years including performed musical examples.

The Lute and Its Repertory
A workshop with a focus on how to play lute music on the modern classical guitar. The best way to solve the problems of arranging and transcribing both Renaissance and Baroque lute tablatures.

All workshops are 1-2 hours and include hand-outs and projections, etc…

Lecture/Recitals

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(including short performances)
Romantic Music for Sixteen Strings
The celebrated terz guitar and the prize-winning Scherzer ten-string guitar.

Elizabethan, Jacobean, Italian and Flemish Lute Duets
Renaissance music for 6-course and 8-course lutes

The Mandolino & Friends - Baroque, Rococo & Classical Music
Music for gut and wire strung mandolins including duets with continuo theorbo, archlute or baroque guitar