Author: Simon

A passionate and expressive style coupled with a formidable technique has garnered attention for Simon Powis as a talented soloist, chamber musician and innovator. Growing up in Sydney, Australia Powis began his studies at...

Cristiano Porqueddu was born in Nuoro and began studying classical guitar at the age of seven under the tutelage of his father. He attended different Masters and specialist courses all over Europe to study...

Christopher Mallett is gaining recognition as one of America’s promising up and coming classical guitarists whose style has been called “Mesmerizing” by the Oberlin Review. Mallett began teaching himself to play guitar at the...

Heike Matthiesen is one of Germany’s leading guitarists whose virtuosity and spirited performance, coupled with a charismatic stage presence, are regularly highlighted by the press. Born in Braunschweig, she received comprehensive musical training on...

Mr. Leisner’s career as a guitarist began auspiciously with top prizes in both the 1975 Toronto and 1981 Geneva International Guitar Competitions. In the 1980s, a disabling hand injury, focal dystonia, interrupted his performing...

Daniele Lazzari was born in Italy in 1972. He devotes himself to classical music performing in Italy, Hungary where he actually lives, and often abroad. Though he took a classical guitar in his hands...

Dimitris Kotronakis was born in Heraklion, Creta (Greece), in 1973. His studies on classical guitar begun when he was at the age of seven, and were completed under guidance of Vassilis Kanaras in 1992,...

Born in Liverpool, Steven took up the guitar at the early age of 5. In 2003, Steven successfully auditioned for a place at the Junior Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) in Manchester, where...

Eric Henderson began playing guitar at age six. At age thirteen his teacher took him to Los Angeles to attend a Concert by the great Spanish guitarist Andres Segovia. His teacher arranged a private...

Born of an artistic family – his father and grandfather both famed painters, his mother an accomplished pianist – O.G. had to choose between a path strewn with brushes and colours and a world...