Throughout his career Christopher Parkening America's preeminent classical guitarist has had the opportunity to perform with many of the world's leading artists and orchestras. This folio Duets and Concertos contains many selections from those collaborations and features a wide range of musical pairings which show the guitar at its versatile best: voice and guitar guitar duets chamber music and concertos. All of the pieces included here have been edited and fingered for the guitar by Christopher Parkening and to quote Christopher himself ???No compromise has been made in requirement of technique. All of these pieces are suitable for performance by the virtuosoguitarist.??? This folio contains 35 transcriptions.

for Classical Guitar. The author's intent while arranging these carols was to maintain their traditional flavor while making them idiomatic for the guitar. They are intended for guitarists with intermediate to advanced technique, and are ideal for performance at intimate gatherings as well as the concert stage. Standard classical guitar notation and symbols are used throughout. Includes access to online audio.

Clive Carroll is probably the best and most original young acoustic guitar player and composer in Britain. This DVD showcases his astonishing musicality and skill on the guitar. His compositions display his superb sense of rhythm along with his unerring feel for pace. Stylistically Clive’s compositions rove eclectically and brilliantly through and across genre boundaries. This DVD features over seventy minutes of his engaging playing you won’t want it to end! Tunes include: The Kildimo Set Promise Of Spring Snake Bite Boogie Carroll’s Farewell (For Chris Berry) Aerial Discoveries Asturias J. Dowland Medley: Preludium / The Frog Galliard Canco DelLladre (Catalan Folk Song) Black Nile Angels Of Light One Loch Nagcaor Castle Combe Traditional Set Jiffi Jam and Clonlara.

For 25 years Bill Staines has traveled North America delighting audiences at festivals folksong societys colleges concerts clubs and coffee houses. He has become one of the most popular singers on the folk music circuit today-from 1990-1993 he performed over 200 concert dates annually. This collection includes 48 of his favorites from 'Autumn Waltz' to 'Yellowstone Winds.'

The composer says: For years, my fellow guitarists have been asking me to compose a solo classical guitar piece that reflects that most American of musical styles?the blues. Their prodding was the motivation for Periwinkle Memories; the inspiration for the piece, however, really came from a maestro of extraordinary skill, and a teacher of even more extraordinary patience, Elias Barreiro, my guitar teacher at the University of New Orleans. I have always tried to emulate in my performances the beauty of his interpretations, and to fuse in my compositions the power and emotion of the blues. The name, Periwinkle Memories was a serendipity. I was struck by the light purplish-blue hue of the periwinkle, and soon learned the history of the funnel-shaped flower (Vinca minor.) Though it now grows wild in parts of the United States it is native to Australia, some consider it an invasive weed, most admire its extraordinary beauty. Common herbicides won?t kill it. The periwinkle is too vigorous and hardy for that. And now it is not merely a begrudged part of the American landscape, it is a vibrant part of the American landscape, elegant, stubborn, and nearly native. Like the blues. And like that young recalcitrant student Maestro Barreiro worked so hard to mold so many years ago. Ogden Nash said, ?One man?s remorse is another man?s reminiscence.? Periwinkle Memories is a celebration of Maestro Barreiro, and of both facets of that adage in me. Carlos Barrientos was born on June 25, 1954 in Tela, Honduras. He began his formal music studies at the National Music Conservatory in Guatemala City, Guatemala C.A. His training with Maestro Elias Barreiro, Director of Guitar Studies at Tulane University, was supplemented with Master Classes with Manuel Barrueco, Leo Brouwer, Juan Mercadal, Michael Newman, Tommy Tedesco and Carlos Barbosa-Lima. He studied composition under the tutelage of Dr. Jerry Sieg, University of New Orleans, and Dr. Roy Johnson, Florida State University. He consulted with Michael D. Martin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Music, Albany State University, Albany, GA in the creation of a recordings library that reflects Western Art Music and American Jazz for the students at Albany State University. The New York Premiere of the First Movement of his Second Guitar Sonata was dedicated to and performed by Classical Guitarist Maestro Carlos Barbosa-Lima in 2003 at Carnegie Hall. At the request of U.S. Senator Bob Graham one of his compositions, Si Tu Te Vas (If You Go Away), was included on a recording to promote The Everglades Trail. In 2004, at the American Church in Paris, France the World Premiere of his Romance for Flute and Guitar was performed by the award-winning Serenade Duo, flutist Michelle LaPorte and guitarist Gerry Saulter. He has performed with such legendary musicians as Herbie Mann, Donald Byrd and Debbie Reynolds, led an on stage Renaissance Trio in a University of New Orleans production of Shakespeare?s Twelfth Night, and played incidental music for their production of Bertold Brecht?s The Good Woman of Sichuan. He has performed Carulli?s Guitar Concerto in A, Leonard Bernstein?s West Side Story and Marvin Hamlish?s A Chorus Line with the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra and Okaloosa-Walton Community College, Niceville, FL, and with the Southern Art Music Ensemble, a Jazz/Latin Fusion Sextet, including an Honors Convocation in Atlanta for Mr. Ted Turner. He has been a guest performer with the Albany State University Jazz Ensemble at The Fletcher Henderson Jr., Macon and Atlanta Jazz Festivals, and played the banjo in the Albany State University /Albany Symphony?s co-production of George Gershwin?s Opera Porgy and Bes