Bradford Werner

Bradford Werner

Bradford Werner is a classical guitarist and music publisher from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He originally created this site for his students at the Victoria Conservatory of Music but now shares content worldwide. Curating guitar content helps students absorb the culture, musical ideas, and technique of the classical guitar. Bradford also has a YouTube channel with over 94,000 subscribers and 13 million views. He taught classical guitar at the Victoria Conservatory of Music for 16 years and freelanced in Greater Victoria for 20 years and now dedicates much of his time curating content online and helping connect the classical guitar community. See more at his personal website.

FretBuzz Interview: Jason Vieaux

Fret Buzz is a youth division blog via the Austin Classical Guitar Society. Their tagline is “By young guitarists, for young guitarists.” You can see their videos on the ACGS YouTube channel. We had a chance to sit down with…

Spotlight: Agustín Castilla-Ávila, composer

Here’s an interview and some media by composer Agustín Castilla-Ávila. He was interviewed by guitarist and organizer Angelito Agcaoili.  Agustín was kind of enough to submit this article for the site. I’ve enclosed some additional photos and videos as well so you can…

SoloDuo play Piazzolla

I’ve been waiting for a high quality video of the Tango suite for awhile so this was a welcomed find. Lorenzo Micheli & Matteo Mela play in a duo called: SoloDuo.

Bach's Table of Ornamentation

Baroque Ornamentation on Classical Guitar

A lesson on Baroque ornamentation from Scott Morris. As he says, this is a good jumping point and introduction to ornamentation. The video was made via Guitar Salon International. He’s playing the Sarabande from Bach’s unaccompanied flute partita, BWV 1013.…

Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring by Bach & Lesson with PDF for Classical Guitar

Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring by Bach for Guitar

Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) – PDF sheet music arranged for classical guitar, from Cantata BWV 147. Comes with both a notation-only edition and a tab edition. The level is intermediate (Grade 4). YouTube Lesson…

Denis Azabagiс plays Blues by Dusan Bogdanoviс

Denis Azabagiс plays Blues by Dusan Bogdanoviс. Great performance despite the ill placed camera angle. Azabagiс is such a clean and musical player. Rarely is there a player who has so much control wrapped in a musicality of excellent phrasing and sensitive articulations.…

Kaori Muraji Plays Invocacion y Danza by Rodrigo

Japanese guitarist Kaori Muraji plays Invocacion y Danza by Rodrigo. According to her Wiki “she is the first Japanese artist to have signed an exclusive international contract with Decca Music Group.” Does anyone know much more about Kaori Muraji? Nice…

Fernando Sor Studies Op. 60

Here’s my edition and the free sheet music facsimile edition of Fernando Sor’s (1778–1839) Studies for Guitar Op. 60. He called it something along the lines of “Introduction to the Study of the Guitar in Twenty-five Progressive Lessons. It’s for…

Goran Krivokapic plays Ginastera ‘Finale’

Goran Krivokapic plays the finale of Sonata for guitar, Op. 47 by was an Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera (1916–1983). This sonata was written in 1976 for Carlos Barbosa-Lima. I didn’t know this but among his notable students were Ástor Piazzolla! Not sure…

Joachim Tielke Guitar ca. 1695–99

Guitar, ca. 1695–99Joachim Tielke (German, 1641–1719)Wood, ivory, ebony The Baroque guitar is similar in shape and body to earlier guitars, but is typified by five double courses of strings (which appeared as early as the late fifteenth century). From about…

Thomas Viloteau plays Fuga by M. Ponce

Great performance of this wonderful work by Mexican composer Manuel María Ponce (1882–1948). French Guitarist Thomas Viloteau plays Fuga on la Folia @ Gitaarsalon Enkhuizen Manuel María Ponce 8 december 1882 — 24 april 1948) was a Mexican composer .Voici…

Masterclass with John Williams

Russell Neville in Masterclass with John Williams. I love William’s style of teaching and his super down to earth opinions. We need more this attitude today! Video Link – Part One: Link – Part Two: