Guitar Perspectives

I’ve been commissioned to write a new piece of music for solo guitar as part of the University of Melbourne’s Guitar Perspectives award. It’s very exciting to get this opportunity, and even better is that it’s got me dusting off my classical nylon string guitar to help write it. This guitar is very special, as it was made specifically for me by luthier Simon Ramsey back in 2010 thanks to a generous grant from Anita and Mark Ramsey. I’m trying out some different tunings too, to see if we can come up with something different - I’m usually a standard tuning kind of guy, so this will be interesting.

Simon Ramsey Acoustic Guitar, made for CP in 2010.

The piece will be premiered later this year, so I’ll update when there’s date set for the performance, which will likely be in Melbourne.