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Interview with GFA winner Johannes Möller

Johannes-Moller-GFA

I know that you have participated in the GFA several times before, did that experience help you to do so well this time? Yes, It was the third time that I participated in the GFA and what I learned from doing it before was to really prepare the required and set pieces well. In the [...]

The London Guitar Studio

Juan

When I was studying at the Royal Academy of Music I supported myself by page turning and ushering at the Wigmore Hall. The favourite part of every shift, however, was walking down after the concert to the London Guitar Studio on Duke street. Juan Teijeiro was always a friendly face that let me try out [...]

An Interview with John Williams part 3

AP-L: You made a switch some years ago to Greg Smallman’s guitars. Can you tell us about that and your reasons for it, because I think it shocked a lot of people that you gave up playing Fletas after so long? JW: I first met Greg when he was still making guitars with Pete Biffen [...]

An Interview with John Williams part 2

AP-L: That leads almost directly to my next question – in your opinion, is the guitar an intrinsically harder instrument to play than the major classical instruments, the piano and violin, given that there is a relative shortage of established virtuosos? JW: The answer is no, on two counts. No instrument is more difficult than [...]

An Interview with John Williams part 1

Interviewer: Austin Prichard-Levy Published with the kind permission of Ron Payne John Williams needs no introduction to classical guitarists, or indeed fine music lovers the world over; since his debut at the Wigmore Hall in 1958, he has attained enormous popularity with his voluminous recordings in both the classical repertoire and with his rock group, [...]