John W. Duarte

John William Duarte ( born October 2, 1919 in Sheffield, † December 23, 2004 in Manchester ) was an English guitarist, composer, music teacher and music critic.

Duarte studied from 1931 to 1935 at the Manchester Central High School and from 1936 to 1940 at the Faculty of Technology at Manchester University and worked until 1969 as a chemist. His only formal musical education consisted in lessons for jazz guitar with Terence Usher ( 1934-36 ). Until 1953, he joined as a jazz guitarist, and trumpeter - and - contra bassist, on.

From 1974 to 1993 Duarte served as Director of the Cannington International Guitar Summer School and Festival, after two years as director of the Bath International Guitar Festival. From 1996 he taught at Oatridge International Guitar Summer School and Festival. In addition, Duarte courses were in almost forty countries outside the UK.

Duarte wrote a regular contributor to magazines such as Music in Education, Guitar Review, Guitar International, Music & Musicians, Records and Recording, Performance and last book, music, concert and record reviews for the sound board. He also wrote more than 250 liner notes, including for the new edition of the complete recordings by Julian Bream at RCA. In the text accompanying the reissue of recordings Andrés Segovia from the years 1927 to 1939, he received a Grammy Award. Furthermore, he published interviews with well-known musicians such as Gidon Kremer and Anne- Sophie Mutter, John Eliot Gardiner, Julian Bream, Ton Koopman and Trevor Pinnock, Junghänel, Ravi Shankar, Alicia de Larrocha and Murray Perahia and wrote articles for the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

Duarte has written more than 150 original works for guitar or lute, of which more than a third are present as recordings, plus a number of adaptations and arrangements as well as music education works.

His sixtieth and seventieth birthday was celebrated with concerts at the Wigmore Hall in London, the celebration of his eightieth birthday was held at the Bolivar Hall. In 1990 he received from the Czech ambassador in London a silver medal for his services to English -Czech -Slovak and cultural relations. The Convention of the Guitar Foundation of America awarded him in 1999 with an award for his life's work.

Works

  • Nocturne and Toccata, 1954
  • Variations on a Catalan folk song, 1956
  • English Suite No. 1-7, 1963-99
  • Prelude, Canto & Toccata, 1968
  • Suite ancienne, 1969
  • Suite Piedmontese, 1970
  • Sonatina lirica, 1971
  • Sua cosa ( Wes Montgomery memorial ), 1972
  • All in a row ( of Webern 's ), 1973
  • Tout en ronde, 1973-74
  • Birds, 1977
  • Homage to Antonio Lauro (3 Valses ), 1979
  • Idylle pour Ida ( Ida Presti Homage to ), 1982
  • Americana, 1982
  • Variations on a theme of Stephan Rak, 1985
  • Musikones, 1989
  • Canción y Danza ( Homage to Ruiz- Pipo ), 1994
  • Variations on an Andante of Nikita Koshkin, 1997
  • Variations on an Italian folk song, 2000
  • The Memory of a Dance, op.64, for flute and guitar
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