Paul Galbraith

Paul Galbraith (* March 1964 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish classical guitarist. He developed a achtsaitige guitar playing posture and an alternative for the classical guitar.

Life

Galbraith spent the first years of life in Scotland and Malawi, before the family moved to London. There he took over seven years of piano lessons began at the age of eight years playing the guitar. Even after the return of the Elfährigen to Edinburgh he led the lessons continued on both instruments. He gave his first concert at age twelve in 1976, his first concert with orchestra at the Chetham's School of Music in Manchester in 1980.

In 1981, Galbraith took part in some competitions with success in part, as the first " Segovia International Guitar Competition " in Kent, on the occasion of the Andrés Segovia previously told him personally a great artistic future in the " Young Musician of the Year" by the BBC and the " Esztergom International Guitar Festival " 1983.

Galbraith developed a growing dissatisfaction with the classical guitar posture and experimented with alternative attitudes, first with crossed legs sitting on the floor, then with a cello -like " stinger " at the bottom edge of the shell and later with an attached under the " sting " resonance box.

Early 1990s saw Galbraith in the search for an adequate arrangement for guitar Johannes Brahms ' Variations on an Original Theme Op. 21a " the possibilities of achtsaitigen guitar. He let himself make an appropriate instrument with extended range in the bass and treble in the English luthier David Rubio. This, among other things, web and collar assembly of Orpheoreon based, instrument became known as " Brahms guitar ".

Since 1996, Galbraith and his family live in São Paulo.

Discography

  • French Impressions, 8 -string guitar, Delos, 2006.
  • In Every Lake the Moon Shines Full, 8 -string guitar, Delos, 2001.
  • Lute Suites of J. S. Bach, 8 -string guitar, Delos, 2000.
  • Paul Galbraith Plays Haydn, 8 -string guitar, Delos, 1999.
  • Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for unaccompanied The violin, 8 -string guitar, Delos, 1998 ( nominated for the Grammy Awards)
  • Introducing the Brahms Guitar, 8 -string guitar, Watercourse, 1996.
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