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.

Paul Galbraith Plays Adagio by Mozart

Paul Galbraith plays the Adagio from Sonata K570 for piano by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). This comes via GuitarCoop and their great YouTube Channel. Galbraith is one of the great players of our time with superb performances and recordings of Bach,…

Oh Shenandoah for Easy Guitar (PDF)

Oh Shenandoah – American Folksong – Arranged for Easy Fingerstyle or Classical Guitar. Notation + TAB & Notation Editions, Fingering, PDF Download. The level is around Grade 3 or Easy / Early-Intermediate, 1st position chords with melody. This easy arrangement…

Isaac Bustos plays Prelude No. 3 by Villa-Lobos

Isaac Bustos performs Prelude No. 3 in A Minor by Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959). This comes via his great YouTube Channel. Audio and Video by Mark Bueno. 2013 Martin Blackwell Spruce doubletop guitar. Great performance by Bustos, filled with rubato and…

Fabio Zanon Guitar Masterclass

The legendary Fabio Zanon (one of my favorite guitarists) gives a brilliant masterclasses at the Moscow International ‘Guitar Virtuosi’ festival, 2017. This comes via the Russian Guitar Magazine on their YouTube. At first the translation pauses bothered me but actually…

Collectici Intim by Vicente Asencio

Collectici Intim by Vicente Asencio (1908–1979). Vicente Asencio was a Spanish composer and wrote Colletici Íntim in 1965 for Narciso Yepes. Asencio’s movements are based on ‘affects’: La Serenor (Serenity), La Joia (Joy), La Calma (Calm), La Gaubança (Delight), and…

Brouwer Etude No. 6 and Lesson

Leo Brouwer’s Etude No. 6 from Estudios Sencillos via my YouTube Channel.Sheet Music (complete etudes in one book) via amazon: Leo Brouwer Guitar Works Cuban composer Leo Brouwer’s Etude No. 6 from Estudios Sencillos. I play the study and then give a lesson…

Stephanie Jones Plays Adagio BWV 1001 by Bach

Stephanie Jones plays Adagio from Violin Sonata No. 1 BWV 1001 by J.S. Bach (1685-1750). This comes via Siccas Guitars and their great YouTube Channel and played on a 2012 Michel Brück guitar. Jones also plays in a quartet with some other great young…

Isaac Bustos plays Prelude No. 2 by Villa-Lobos

Isaac Bustos performs Prelude No. 2 in E Major by Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959). This comes via his great YouTube Channel. Audio and Video by Mark Bueno. 2013 Martin Blackwell Spruce doubletop guitar. Great performance by Bustos, filled with rubato and…

Lesson: Brouwer Etude No. 5 (Estudios Sencillos)

Lesson of the Week for Classical Guitar Leo Brouwer’s Etude No. 5 from Estudios Sencillos via my YouTube Channel.Sheet Music (complete etudes in one book) via amazon: Leo Brouwer Guitar Works Cuban composer Leo Brouwer’s Etude No. 5 from Estudios Sencillos. I play the…

Hanna Link plays Serenade by Gubaidulina

Hanna Link plays Serenade by Sofia Gubaidulina (b.1931). This comes via Siccas Guitars and their great YouTube Channel and played on a Francois Regis Leonard guitar. Great piece, and well played by this young artist. You can also see her perform in quartet with…

Instruments of Happiness – Tim Brady in Victoria

Instruments of HappinessArtists: Jonathan Barriault, Simon Duchesne, Marc-Olivier Lamontagne, Tim BradyLocation: Open Space – Victoria BCDate: Saturday, April 1, 2017, 8:00 pm More info and tickets: Open Space Electric guitarists Tim Brady, Jonathan Barriault, Simon Duchesne, and Marc-Olivier Lamontagne will present a concert that promises “to…

Henderson-Kolk Duo Play Marcello / Bach

Canadian guitarists Drew Henderson and Michael Kolk as the Henderson Kolk Guitar Duo play Henderson’s arrangement of Concerto for Oboe and Strings in D minor with the movements Andante e spiccato, Adagio, and Presto by Alessandro Marcello (1673-1747) with the arrangement based on J.S.…