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 100,000 subscribers and 14 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.

Aaron Larget-Caplan Plays Fujii

Boston based guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan playing a selection from Keigo Fujii’s Hagoromo. This comes to us via Guitar Salon International and their YouTube Channel. Here he’s on a 2008 Oscar Trezzini spruce-top at the Guitar Salon International showroom in Santa…

Review: Music of Bret Williams

Music of Bret WilliamsBuy from Artist Website: bretwilliamsmusic.comBuy or listen on Amazon: Music of Bret WilliamsCopyright: 2014 Bret Williams Musicians:Bret Willaims (guitar)Mark Dover (clarinet)Matt Aprea (violin)Marc Schmeid (Bass) Track Listing:  The Gravity of Ms. Peters You’ll Tear Your Dress African…

Canarios by Gaspar Sanz

Canarios by Gaspar Sanz (1640-1710). PDF sheet music for classical guitar. Comes with both a notation-only edition and a tab edition. See link below. Gaspar Sanz Collection – PDF Sheet Music These popular works by Gaspar Sanz (1640-1710) originate from his Instrucción de…

Josh Moore plays Drei Tentos by Henze

Josh Moore plays Drei Tentos (1958) by German composer Hans Werner Henze (1926–2012). Henze wrote quite a few works for guitar which is amazing since he is such an important composer and didn’t play himself. Bream is to thank for…

Victoria Guitar Trio Play Godin

Some clips from a recent concert I played in with my buddies from the Victoria Guitar Trio on March 22, 2015. These movements are from a multi-movement work named On Poetics written for us by Scott Edward Godin. This is just four of…

The Vihuela: History and Style by Clive Titmuss

This is a guest post by Clive Titmuss  Previously published on Classical Guitar Canada. Make sure to visit his website to see more of his work and recordings. All images provided by Clive Titmuss (click to enlarge). See image credits at end.…

Guitar as Choir by Frank Wallace

This is a guest post by composer & guitarist Frank Wallace. In my article Loud, or Robust?, I mentioned performing Narváez in a 12th century church. It was magical. It was transformative. I heard every voice of a four-part texture as…

Review: Nowhere Found by Sean Hayward

Nowhere Foundby Sean HaywardBuy or listen to samples on BandcampArtist Website: haywardsound.com Musicians: Sean Hayward – guitarsZephyr Culbertson Adee – bassJan Purat, Lorna Saxton, Zachary Ragent – violinsIttai Rosenbaum – piano Sean Hayward is a composer, guitarist, and recording engineer…

Luke Trimble & Stephan Kane Play Granados

Luke sent me this yesterday which is perfect as today is the anniversary of Granados’ death. The Kailua Guitar Duo (Luke Trimble & Stephan Kane) play Intermezzo: from the Opera Goyescas, by Spanish composer Enrique Granados (1867–1916). Here’s a blurb…

Macyn Taylor plays Merrily Kissed the Quaker

Not classical but charming playing in this little period concert series. Macyn Taylor plays Merrily Kissed the Quaker arranged by Pierre Bensusan. Via Bruce Petros on his YouTube, also see Petros Guitars, here’s the quote: “This is the third piece…

Jérémy Jouve plays Toccata de Lucia by Duplessy

French guitarist Jérémy Jouve plays Toccata de Lucia by Mathias Duplessy. Clean and quick playing with such smooth phrasing, Jouve is awesome. Available on the album “Cavalcade” coming out in April or May. If you don’t know Jouve he has…