Guitar Conversations Podcast

My guest today is finger-style guitar legend Tommy Emmanuel. Tommy has been performing internationally for many decades. He has worked with many notable guitarists including Chet Atkins and Eric Clapton and is known for his high energy compositions and arrangements, especially those of The Beatles songs.

I had a great chat with Tommy about his beginning, classical guitar, Chet Atkins and lots more.

I hope you enjoy my conversation with Tommy Emmanuel.

Scott Tennant is an internationally recognized classical guitarist and teacher. He was a founding member of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet which has enjoyed a 30 year career and amongst many accolades is also known for his best selling guitar technique book called Pumping Nylon.

In my chat with Scott we talk about LAGQ, his teaching philosophies, recordings and some great travel stories.

I hope you enjoy my conversation with Scott Tenant

John Williams needs no introduction, he is a household name amongst guitarist and classical music lovers around. He has performed internationally for over 60 years having recorded some 200 albums, and thrilled and amazed audineces around the world with his dazzling technique, and incredible breadth of repertoire. His contribution to the classical guitar cannot be understated having inspired many generations of young people to learn the instrument.

I was thrilled to chat to John recently about his thoughts on guitar playing, teaching, the music industry, practice, guitars and much more.

Australian born Craig Ogden is one of the UK’s leading classical guitarists. He has recorded highly acclaimed CDs and has collaborated with some of Europes leading musicians including John Williams.

Vladmir Gorbach is a rising star of the classical guitar world. He has won numerous guitar competitions including the GFA in 2011.

William Kanengiser is an internationally renowned classical guitarist. A founding member of the award winning Los Angeles Guitar Quartet.

John Griffiths is a musician and musicologist specializing in vihuela and lute.

Tim Kain has had an enviable musical career. He was one of the first graduates in classical guitar in Australia, and after studying in England and Spain he began teaching at the ANU school of music. He gained a reputation as one of Australia’s leading classical guitar performers and teachers with many students going on to have success locally and overseas. Tim has also established many collaborations with notable international classical musicians and is very active performing and commissioning new works for the guitar.

In my interview with Tim we talk about his early professional years, his time at the ANU, crowd funding for Guitar Trek and his collaborations with John Williams. There are many topics we did not cover and I’m hoping we can get together again soon to have another very enjoyable chat.