Montreal Classical Guitarist 1
This Montreal Classical Guitarist is active as a performer and teacher in Montreal. He hold degrees from the University of Ottawa, the Hochschule fuer Musik Franz Liszt; Weimar, Germany and the Hochschule fuer Musik Koeln; Cologne, Germany. His teachers have included Bruce Holzman (USA), Patrick Roux (Canada), Thomas Mueller-Pering (Germany) and Zoran Dukic (Croatia). He has performed in Canada, USA, Germany, Netherlands, Czech Republic and Russia.
Montreal Classical Guitarist life
This Montreal Classical Guitarist life had an international character right from the be ginning as I was born to Canadian parents in the German city of Iserlohn at a British military hospital and delivered by a Chinese doctor. His father was a member of the Canadian Armed Forces and was stationed in nearby Soest at the time. Ironically, although Iserlohn is neither one of Germany’s better known nor prettier cities, it is now home to one of Europe’s largest classical guitar festivals. This Montreal Classical Guitarist spent the first two years of his life living in the small German town of Vollinghausen before they moved to Canada.
In Canada they moved to a different city every three to four years due to his father being in the military. He lived on both the Atlantic (Halifax) and Pacific (Vancouver) coasts and several places in between. They finally ended up in Ottawa where this Montreal Classical Guitarist graduated from high school and completed his undergraduate degrees at the University of Ottawa. During this time he also spent three years in the Canadian Military Reserves as a combat engineer and in addition to basic infantry skills received training in explosives, mine field clearance and bridge building. The highlight of this Montreal Classical Guitarist military career was being chosen to blow up a large truck with a bangelore torpedo, several thousand dollars worth of very high explosive.
Montreal Classical Guitarist degrees
In addition to earning his music degrees at the University of Ottawa, this Montreal Classical Guitarist relationship with the guitar took him to Tallahassee, Florida in the USA and Weimar and Aachen/Cologne in Germany. After completing his guitar studies he moved to the city of Leipzig, Germany where he lived and worked for four years. Before returning to Canada he also lived in Yaroslavl, Russia, and return there regularly to visit friends. One of the advantages of living in so many countries has been that this Montreal Classical Guitarist is now able to speak four languages, English (his native language), French, German and Russian.
The main reason this Montreal Classical Guitarist spent so much time in Yaroslavl is that he met my girlfriend Luba during my first stay in this city. Regretfully, Luba died in an accident in June, 2006 at the age of 26. He thinks Luba would have liked being on his website so he made a small tribute to someone who died too young but who enriched his life greatly in the short time he was priviledged to know her.
Education
1987 Secondary School Honour Graduation Diploma
Cairine Wilson Secondary School
Ottawa, Ontario
Ontario Scholar Award
1987-1991 Baccalaureate in Arts (May 1991)
University of Ottawa
Graduated Cum Laude
1994-1996 Baccalaureate in Music (May 1996)
University of Ottawa
Graduated Cum Laude
1997-98 Hochschule fuer Musik Franz Liszt Weimar
Artist Certificate
1998-99 Hochschule fuer Musik Cologne
Diplom Musiker
Primary Teachers (in the order in which he studied with them)
Bruce Holzman (Florida State University)
Florida State University
Peter McCutcheon (Université de Montréal)
The Canadian Encyclopedia
Université de Montréal
Patrick Roux (University of Ottawa)
University of Ottawa
Conservatoire de musique de Gatineau
Thomas Mueller-Pering (Hochschule fuer Musik Franz Liszt Weimar)
Wikipedia
Hochschule fuer Musik Franz Liszt
Zoran Dukic (Hochschule fuer Musik Cologne)
Wikipedia
Royal Conservatoire in The Hague
