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.

Slava Grigoryan has been performing since mid 1990s. He was signed to Sony Music Label at age 19 after winning a major prize at the Tokyo International Guitar Festival.

Doug De Vries is an Australian music icon, having performed, recorded and composed professionally for over 30 years in the fields of Jazz and Brasilian guitar.

In part 2 of my interview with Lenny we chat about life on the road, mentorship, competitions, and technical workouts.

My conversation today is with guitarist Leonard Grigoryan. Leonard has forged a career as both a solo guitarist and as a member of the internationally acclaimed duo the Grigoryan brothers with his brother Slava. They have toured every part of the globe and have recorded a number or ARIA award winning albums.

Alongside being an exceptionally talented classical guitarist, Leonard also composes for guitar, performs in a number of cotemporary/fusion groups and records regularly as a session guitarist in the Melbourne music scene.

In this episode we talk about;

• Cruise ships
• His guitar background
• the business side of the guitar
• performing and touring with Slava
• His solo album recording in Norway
• The new Grigoryan Brothers album-