More than Music: Live Jukebox!

It was a huge pleasure to be invited back once again to the More than Music team, with Loh Jun Hong and Abigail Sin, for their latest installment, the Live Jukebox! The Jukebox concept is a really interesting one, whereby the audience gets a ‘menu’ with descriptive keywords and you vote for what you feel like …

8th Crown Guitar Workshop & Festival 2017 – Bigfork, Montana

It's been wonderful to be back at Bigfork, Montana for the second time to attend the 8th Crown Guitar Workshop & Festival 2017! Really happy to be back again, and it's been great to see old friends again, particularly in the classical guitar class, along with new additions to the group, including our faculty for …

1st prize at 34th Volos International Guitar Festival, Greece!

Absolutely honoured to have won the 1st prize in the open category of the 34th Volos International Guitar Festival here in Greece! It's been such a huge pleasure to have made so many new friends here, and I've really enjoyed the whole experience here. I've learnt so much by watching the various masterclasses and concerts, …

Award-winning recording! Salvador Brotons: Complete Works For Flute, Vol. 1

Hey everyone! I'm absolutely thrilled to announce that back in August 2015, I was invited by my good friend Roberto Alvarez to record the Three Divertimenti for flute and guitar by Spanish composer Salvador Brotons for his CD! It has since been officially released, and today the CD has received an award from the Global Music …

Charity Concert – Church of St. Peter & St. Paul, Kings Sutton

Earlier this week, on Thursday the 8th of June, we had the huge pleasure of giving a charity concert for a very meaningful cause, for the charity 'Save the Children', at the Church of St. Peter & St. Paul, Kings Sutton. We had quite a varied programme, with Bach, Diabelli, Debussy, Handel-Halvorsen, Ysaye, Dowland & …

Cello & Guitar Recital – Little Slyfield

A huge privilege and honor to have performed at Little Slyfield last night!!! This was our final concert as part of our set of cello and guitar recitals around the area. We did a very similar programme to the other recitals, with Falla, Dodgson and Schubert, with the addition of 2 more Schubert/Mertz Lieder to …

Cello & Guitar Recital – St. Martin’s Church, East Horsley

Another great cello and guitar recital with Frankie at St. Martin's Church in East Horsley! Prepared a programme of Falla's Seven Spanish Songs, Bach's 1st Lute Suite and Schubert's Arppegione Sonata, with an extra encore of a song by Robert Schumann! What a great audience, everyone was so appreciative, which made it so much fun …

Cello & Guitar Recital – Church of the Good Shepherd, Tadworth

A huge thank you to everyone who came to our recital last night! Frankie and I enjoyed ourselves so much playing for all of you! It was such great fun, looking forward to coming back! Next stop, East Horsley! We'll be playing at St. Martin's Church on the 3rd of June at 7PM. It's free admission, …

Brouwer, Williams & Goss talk Brouwer

On Thursday, the 27th of April, 2017, I was very fortunate to have attended a very interesting talk by some of the greats of the guitar world, Leo Brouwer and John Williams, mediated by Stephen Goss, at the Instituto Cervantes in London. It was great to see the three of them on the same stage, talking …

Picnic’s over!

Mission accomplished! It's been such a wonderful experience to being able to perform the Singapore premiere of the Picnic Suite by Claude Bolling! Roberto Alvarez on the flute, Kseniia Vokhmianina on the piano, Tony Makarome on the double bass and Ramu Thiruyanam on the drums. An amazing opportunity to have worked with such amazing musicians. …