Publications and Research

Musical and educational

Nineteen Gilbert and Sullivan Favorites Arranged for Classical Guitar, published by Mel Bay Publications Inc., June 2004: http://www.melbay.com/contents.asp?ProductID=20483

Guitar from Scratch (co-author with Christopher Norton), published by Boosey and Hawkes (1999): http://www.schott-music.com/shop/Sheet_Music/Guitar_other_plucked_Instruments/Guitar_Lute/Textbooks_Methods/show,11645.html

Academic articles

‘Denis ApIvor and his contribution to British opera and ballet’, Musical Times, 146 (Summer 2005)

‘Denis ApIvor and the classical guitar’, Guitar Review, 132 (Fall 2006)

‘Aural Training for Guitarists’, published in Classical Guitar (June to November, 1996)

Public speaking and conference papers

2009 - 2011, Ongoing speaking engagements presenting lectures and pre-concert talks (most recently for the Airedale Symphony Orchestra and the Leeds B’nai B’rith Society).

Dec 2010, ‘Experiencing musical composition in the DAW: the software interface as mediator of the musical idea’ delivered at the Art of Record Production Conference, Leeds Metropolitan University.

May 2010, ‘DAW Technology and the Student Composer’ delivered at the Forum for Innovation in Music Production and Composition, Leeds College of Music.

Jul 2009, ‘Britishness and the classical guitar after 1950: composers, performers and identity in the contemporary British guitar repertoire’ delivered at Galpin Society’s ‘Making the British Sound’ conference in Edinburgh.

Jun 2009, ‘Musical performance and the machine’ delivered at Coventry University National Music Performance Symposium.

Nov 2007, Lecture-paper given as part of a world premiere recital of song cycles by Denis ApIvor, St Mary’s Church, Craswall (near Hay-on-Wye).

May 2000, Leeds University Research Paper Lecture Series: Lecture on Denis ApIvor’s opera Yerma.